Beginnings are awkward, possibly because it's impossible to sit down to start yet another online magazine without being overwhelmed by the sheer number of extant blogs created by talented and knowleable people, that illuminate issues that the mainstream media and literary worlds bypass completely.
This blog is intended to be a discussion of the issues central to the ongoing effort to build a real civilization that might survive the towering threats of resource depletion and overpopulation, and the explosions of irrationality and violence that are inevitably triggered by increasing competition for space, resources, and cultural and political dominance.
Since my girlhood, I have felt that the early twenty-first century would be a watershed of sorts, the point at which the human species must either change the way we have done things for the past five thousand years of written history, or die. I passed my adolescence during the years of the peak of American power, prosperity, and prestige, and entered adulthood just as the United States passed that peak and entered into an era of economic deterioration and the realization that there might be limits to the incredible expansion of the past few thousand years, and especially to that of the past 500.
I am writing from my particular perspective, and while I strive for objectivity in my writing and in my life, I'm not pretending to be inclusive of all viewpoints and I am not a multiculturist . I am an artist and I am a libertarian, a feminist, an urbanist, and proceed from the belief that we owe everything in our society that is advanced, humane, and life-giving to the progress of Western Civilization for its philosphy of liberation and respect for the primacy and rights of the individual.
It is trendy among multiculturists to condemn it and declare it dying, but while every society has had slavery, oppression, and barbarity, only Western Civilization has promulgated a philosophy of liberation and achievement, and only within the shelter of such a philosophy can we hope to survive and transcend the rampant irrationality and violence that is sweeping the planet as we pass from the era of unlimited possibilities to one of shrinking resources and narrowing horizons.
All feedback is welcome. You don't have to be a Google blogger to contribute, and you may post anonymously. However, I reserve the right to block comments that I deem extremely inappropriate and offensive.
