It’s taken a bit of prodding from a number of people for whom I have deep respect, but I’ve decided it’s high time to get this blog going. I hope that you, my dear reader, will enjoy the musings put forth here, and I look forward to seeing where this goes. Much of this will be off-the-cuff, and I’m not a professional writer, but I hope to learn a lot by doing this.

The central tenet here, if such a thing exists, is that the farther right or left we venture, as both individuals and as society, the more separate from the truths humanity has evolved as important we become. The vast polarization of politics and religion in the last 10 years has driven a wedge into American society as parties further and further to the right lay claim to the truth. Jesus was unarguably liberal in his thoughts and actions, but the right has perverted his message of inclusion into a separatist vision that holds that anyone unlike them is the enemy. Fundamentalists of all kinds use the same tactic. We humans are an illogical bunch, and some feel a truly endangered species. We are in a regressive mode now, the general intelligence on the decline, and our bodies more corpulent than only a few decades ago. I see us at a precipice. We have got to take a step past superstition and fear and begin to understand what really matters.