So, I should probably explain what that previous post was about, right?
Firstly, some of you may have noticed that the PFLD archives have been….shortened. Quite considerably in fact. Yes, I am aware of this. I decided to delete many of the old posts. For one, they were not very good and two, I decided a break with the past is in order.
For the past few years, I have been allied with something that vaguely refers to itself as the liberal-left blogosphere. There were sound tactical reasons for it at the time. It was the Bush and Blair years…oh those dreary days of a long time ago. At that time, finding anyone who was willing to speak out against The Warlord and his pet Satrap was hard enough…and half of the people one did find were usually attacking them from even futher right, or a point of incomprehensibility entirely (ie, practically anyone posting on the BBC’s Have Your Say).
But I think it is time for such an association to come to an end. While I obviously still have some favourites from that general area of the blogosphere, especially the funnier ones, there are problems in continuing to assosciate with others. That’s not to say I’m still somewhere in that area in many of my views, only that I no longer see myself as part of that great internet tribe.
The thing is, as has increasingly become obvious to me over the years of reading such people is this: they really don’t like chaos very much. Oh sure, they flapped their hands at Bush and pretended to be insurgents, but as soon as the Boy Prince took over, they cheered, went back to flipping off Tories, and made some half-hearted criticisms of stuff that would have had them calling for Bush’s head. It’s all so…party political. And I really don’t like political parties.
I’m actually kind of finding this hard to explain, and I know I haven’t done an excellent job here. I think what I am trying to say is, though, that it is time for me to trailblaze my own, distinctive approach to world affairs and other matters. Time to stop worrying what a bunch of people who, after all, only pose as enemies of the system because their particular court faction isn’t currently in favour, might think of my more iconoclastic tendencies and dismissive attitude towards the mores and norms of these fair islands. They’re not really going to accept me anyway, so I might as well go ahead and say what I really think.
In short, it’s time for me to bring chaos back to the centre of my own thinking, and work from there. And maybe throw a few spanners in the works in the process. How this will actually turn out…I’m not sure. But it’ll be interesting to find out.
Catch you at the next post.
(Also, I am replacing some of my more mundane categories with more TV Tropes inspired ones, because they are always a crowd pleaser).
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