My first sub-stack post will be an introductory post, my way of trying to make a difference and provide a place for discourse. Forgive me if my methods or writing style seem novice, because they are. I’m no writer, no reporter, and no trained interviewer. I am not a politician, nor do I have hopes to become one. My agenda is the truth, no matter the source. This doesn’t mean I’ll pretend to lack bias. I am a conservative/libertarian, but like so many other words in our times, it has lost it’s meaning. At its purest, I believe we live in a country worth both fighting for and improving. My bias is to believe that most progress comes from the fundamental freedoms that we’ve been guaranteed by our innate humanity or by God, for those of us that choose to believe. I am not ashamed of my bias, rather I wear it with pride.
We are now facing a juncture where truth can be treason and the loudest voices tend to attract the dwindling collective attention span. We find ourselves pitted against one another, hunting for clicks instead of truth. Tribalism is nothing new, only the temperament has made us quick to judge, quick to hate, quick to escalate to violence. Republican vs Democrat, Vaccinated vs Unvaccinated. Black vs White. It is easy to box ourselves in. Divide and conquer did not get it’s namesake for nothing. It is a tactic actively employed by the powers that be. To survive, I am asking you to avoid the tendency to paint with a broad brush. Had the great artists of our time forgone the finer brush strokes, we wouldn’t be admiring their fine attention to detail in museums across the globe. The devil is in the details, but so is the truth and we must face it head on. If not now, when?