Unintended Consequences

I started this blog primarily to blow off steam, but also in the hope that others could identify with my feeling that something is terribly wrong and unsustainable about modern life in the West. For more than two years I have pursued this theme across different realms such as politics, law, history, language, relationships, and common occurrences.

Despite the almost total lack of comments, a steady flow of readers keeps returning and displays habits that strike me as rather interesting. For one, they flock to posts that I put the least thought into, such as musings about dodgeball, daily nuisances, and sex. For another, they get enraged when I voice ideas and experiences they dislike. This demographic tips its hand through real-world behaviors that are hard to miss; Google Analytics isn't that powerful, but suffice it to say that I have angered people where I live as well as thousands of miles away.

In other words, the bulk of readers I've managed to draw here are 1) shallow; and 2) hypersensitive. This is clearly not what I intended. No matter, though, because I can continue to blow off steam while helping this audience to re-think a few things.

For the shallow folk, if I draw you here with talk of office trysts and childhood sports, just maybe you'll take a glance at other posts concerning fundamental matters that you otherwise might ignore. There is far more to life than working, eating, sleeping, defecating, and procreating. Pause for a moment to consider right and wrong, good and evil, freedom and slavery, and where on the spectrum modern life fits. Be a human, not a mollusk.

For the hypersensitive folk, get over yourselves. Your worldview is not holy writ; indeed, it has several gaping holes in it, and your anger at me is a measure of your own insecurity. America is not a free country. Government re-distribution of wealth for welfare, healthcare, birth control, the arts, or any other pet cause is robbery and tears the social fabric. America is far more misandrist than misogynist. Obnoxiousness is not strength. Vampire and zombie fiction are sub-literate crap. Adultery is a mortal sin. . . .  If you come here and get enraged at reading such sentiments, it's on you.