Intro

Intro

I feel like I’ve finally crossed that bridge to the 21st Century. Let’s just say I’m a late adopter. I don’t even own a CD player. But it seems that everyone and her grandmother has a blog. It’s free, so I figured I’d blog too (I’m assuming blog can be used as both a noun and a verb). Not that there’s anything interesting that I have to say.
Notwithstanding the label "new", this century doesn’t seem all that different from
the last one. No amount of high-tech toys can eradicate the same ol’ human nature that plagues us. High-definition only shows our flaws even more clearly.

The way to correct the excesses of modern life is, I believe, to read (and since there is much in my life that needs correcting, I read as much as possible). Books, old and new, can tell us things about life, love, happiness, and truth that we would have a hard time figuring out on our own. It seems that the human race has been endowed with intelligence and insights as a whole with no single person having all the answers. This reminds me of St. Paul’s claim that the church is like a body with each member doing its part. Of course, there are also those who are paragons of poor thinking (your truly included). There are even those who dispense large doses of intellectual silliness under the guise of intelligence (me again). However, maybe we can all learn a little something from each other if we keep an open mind (I may not be able to learn much since I’ve been accused of having a closed mind).

So, I don’t really know what I’m going to be writing here; maybe a book review now and then (acknowledging that "review" is probably the wrong term. When I think of reviews I think of those 20000 word essays found in the the Atlantic Monthly (yes, you Christopher Hitchens) or the New York Review of Books). Maybe some really bad poetry (and when I say bad this is no exaggeration), or maybe just some, er, random rambings of a poor…well, you know.

P.S. errors in spelling, grammar, syntax, and punctuation are a regular occurrence for me. My apologies in advance.