About This Blog Itself

Basically this blog a continuation of my old blog, “An Outsider in Saul Alinsky’s World.” I decided to shift the focus of the title a bit from “Me against the world” to “Me against myself.”

An attempt at deeper thoughts, in other words.

The other blog was in many ways a “Here I Am, Right Now” type of blog. This one I want to do more thinking; while the same subjects will be commented on (namely whatever I’ve developed a long-time interest in) I hope to give better thoughts and make the longer reads worth the time spent in reading them.

My Political Beliefs:

I tend very much to the left on economic issues. If I could, I’d vote communist or socialist, even with their past. I’ve taken a bunch of grief over this statement on the cyberworlds over the years, but I stand by that statement, and by the leanings that buttress the above comment – especially the leanings.

However, every so often I snap severely to the right. I’ll see something that makes me worry, and I start raging like one of those right wing nuts.

It’s not an atavism, something from what I used to believe but don’t anymore. It’s not a hypocrisy, either., as my right leaning opinions usually involve important SOCIAL issues, whereas my left-leaning opinions involve important ECONOMIC issues.

Call it a contradiction is you wish, but it’s a part of my being which I won’t give up on.