There's no telling where these ideas come from. Often they feel like jolts from a worried Muse.
Recognizing patterns and connecting the dots has always been my thing but it's different now. Lately I feel like an antenna which is finally on the right frequency.
But I'm a radical skeptic so not everything makes it to the keyboard.
I love questions but distrust answers. Dirty, rotten answers. Most answers are opinions and opinions are like crazy relatives. We all have one and none of them are quite right.
What I'm saying is that I don't know the Truth and neither do you.
Perhaps at times I've been an adequate receiver, but with everything that's going on right now it's time for me to broadcast.
But why should you listen to me anyway? I don't know why anyone should unless they want their cherished worldviews challenged – not challenged by me but by facts that anyone can verify online.
It's like that line from the movie 'The Sixth Sense' where the boy says, "I see dead people."
Well I see dots (which are really facts reported by reliable sources) and connect them into what I hope are interesting new takes. I want to challenge you and make you think, not tell you what to make of it all.
Not much else about me matters here. Only that I've made all the common mistakes plus a bunch of mistakes that only an arrogant bastard like me could ever make. That's not a cutdown. Regardless of the consequences I think being an arrogant bastard suits me.
If you've made it this far you are hereby approved.