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20-01-2009
Introduction
Welcome on board!
I am honoured with your visit and hope to be able to provide you with some information that may be covering one or more of your interests.
In future, this will be a place where you can find some critical notes about the way our society lives, handles problems (or doesn't) and the way national and international politics react (not) and interact.
What I finally want to reach with this blog, is mirorred in the site-adress. The way I want to do that, is step by step and my first goals aren't to high: just make a difference, that is positive in nature, for at least some people. :)
How this blog fits in this broader goal-defintion: In order to make the world a better place, it is necesarry to get, create and spread knowledge all over the world about things that essentialy are going wrong. (A philosophical debate about what is wrong and what is right will be adressed later on in this blog. Now I'll stick to the why-question) Without knowing what is wrong, you don't know what is in need of improvement. So giving constructive (!) critics and ring the alarmbell on every topic that you notice society seems to handle wrong, is I think a first and very fundamental step to the possibility of executing positive changes. But the problem is that as people we have limited resources of time and capacities and we can't be everywhere or see anything on our own, that's why it's important to have different peoples, with different history's, backgrounds, educational levels, life domains they are focusing on and different environments they are living in, perspectives. In this way, a problem where for instance most politicians are unaware of may capture some attention which will enhance the chance that the way to handle this issue (at home, or in a country or even the world) will be changed .
[All these statements above may sound very naive and simplistic, but the broader theoretical foundation I did ent my assumptions (or conclusions?) on I will discuss later on in this blog, as noted earlier.]
P.S.: No day more appropiate to start this blog then the day Obama becomes president of the United States!
