What to expect

This is an old blog with a new beginning. I started it in 2012, with a post about my adventures in the Canadian health care system after a painful skiing accident. After a few different ideas, I settled with the tagline “Politics is Personal” as it turned out to be the essence of just about everything I write about. Politics is personal and the personal is politics. We cannot escape it. The moment we talk about anything, we engage in some sort of politics, starting with the meaning of the words we use to the meaning of the universe. Thinking about it this way is not the ‘goal’ of my blog, but a recognition of my reality.

I started on Wordpress, then I moved to a hosted Wordpress site with my own domain name. Now I am starting on Substack for several reasons:

• I like the business model

• I like the simplicity and the consistency

• I like the community

• Eventually, I also hope to make a living here.

I have big plans that will take a while to take an established shape. My only problem with blogging as a way to communicate is its linear nature. I want to make the whole body of my work to be easily accessible, as I keep referencing subjects and points I made and talked about earlier. The world is a complex, interconnected whole and what is in our heads, must be a reflection of it. So should therefore be, this blog. The way I want to achieve this is by creating a structured, easily reviewable reference pages to all my posts. Also, from this point on, I will try to reference my writings not only with links in the text itself, but in endnotes as well. I will also hope to start using new features such as recorded readings of my post, Q&A chat sessions, possibly structured debates and live discussion. But you have to be patient.

I consider curiosity the essence of my personality. I want to know; I want to understand. I also had a rather messy life. I was born 5 months before Stalin died. I grew up in a communist Hungary, and after many life altering events, I emigrated when I was 27. I had many different jobs, relationships and interests, all of which does and will bubble up in this blog. Still, I am not the story. It is my place in the universe that is, because that is the place we share and need to talk about.

What you will find in my posts are philosophical musings, some serious anti-communist rants, attempts to connect principles to current events, a search for logic and morality, but most of all, connecting very personal experiences to the larger world of culture, economics and politics on all levels.

I would like to build a community. I would also like to join the existing community of writers whose work I like, appreciate and admire. I like very much Margaret Ann Alice describing it as her karass. I want to be part of hers, as I am looking for mine.

I would like to have you on this journey with me. WITH ME are the key words. I want to know what you think and I hope you will help me with the building and expanding, so:

• If you like what you see, click on the like button! 

• Whether you agree or disagree, I would like to know, so please comment!

• Most of all, help me to spread the word: SHARE! 
  Share on social media, share on any platform you have.
  Share with people you like, people you want to convince or people you just want to piss off.

Which leads me to my last point and the ultimate goal of this blog, best expressed by the following two quotes:

The only way to win the culture war is through the spreading of good ideas. Help me do that!

(The picture in the header above is from the Hanakapiai beach on the Kalalau trail of the Napali cost of Kauai Island in Hawaii. One of the most gorgeous hikes in the world.)