TFR

First of all, I need to thank Quad for giving me this space on his server, and using his amazing design/layout, which I feel can be truly productive for me.

Thank you, Quad! And please forgive me for being so impatient. ;p But I think you understand why.

For anyone who has faithfully read the free radical all these years, you know how I’ve acquired an edge about America, American culture, America’s polity. An edge of fear, really… I fear what this country is becoming, or has become.

I’ve spoken out, to be sure, but have often felt a solitary voice in the wilderness. I know that’s not true, though. I know how many friends and family of mine feel, how they resonate with what I have had to say or observe.

And yet clearly, that kind of shared sentiment isn’t enough. That’s not going to be nearly enough to thwart societal forces now arrayed against enlightened civilization. I know this is a sweeping claim, but I aim to help provide a coherent voice with which to define the reality we all face. Note: “to help provide” … which means, being involved in a grassroots, communitarian, effort. Not an individualistic, Quixotic, one.

This weblog is only one node among many (I hope!), in this effort.

The reality of American society and culture’s evolving is a complex one, to be sure, but through this weblog I hope to provide a coherent voice describing and framing that reality. And to provide a platform on which other clear-thinking people might speak out.

Next: a non-ideological stance.