Welcome
Well hello!
Welcome to my new blog site. I’ve decided to combine all my outputs into one venue; one-stop shopping as it were (well, not my Twitter account).
I think in multiple streams almost constantly. One week, I focus on one, but the next, another. Normally, this makes it look like I disappear periodically. An all-in-one site will let people know that I am over here, still doing ’stuff’. I won’t claim that any of these streams has any bearing on any other, but this will be the whole hoary conglomeration of them. (Well, at least when I’m not feeling creatively blocked.)
I have given up categorizing and naming for my health. I won’t speak to any concept that is named by others or name any myself (sorry, I’m not a biologist). What I will talk about are concepts. Not clear cut, ‘you can use them to divide things up’ kinda concepts, but the ‘messy, hairy idea spaces where, when you get close, you can’t tell where it is denser’ tangles of ideas.
I’ve really had a falling out with the idea of identifying categories in a vacuum followed by trying to fit every anecdote into them. Don’t even think of getting me to defend any of my ideas such that they can be used diagnostically; I’m not fighting that straw man. In fact, I’m planning on not fighting at all.
I have my ideas and you have yours. If mine can help you clarify yours based on my different perspective, great! If mine can’t be rectified with yours, that’s okay too; no harm means no fowl. I’m not here to convince you of anything and I hope you understand that I won’t tolerate anyone trying to convince me of anything in the public venue either. Those that must ‘take it public’ are actually trying to get attention in a larger audience; there are better places for that than here. (I will be happy to converse on convincing topics privately though. Drop me a line!)
I hope you find this a good kicking-off point and look forward to your patronage!
Fang Langford
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