KEEPING PERSONAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL ON THE SAME PAGE ‘Curt, Why do you write both

KEEPING PERSONAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL ON THE SAME PAGE

‘Curt, Why do you write both personal and philosophical posts on the same facebook account?’

The answer is that we humans interpret things we dont understand through the lenses available to us, and the first lens we use is to judge the author. Because we seek out his intent, so that we can extrapolate his bias. Rather than spend the effort trying to understand his work.

I discovered quite early on, that people constructed a vision of me based upon my philosophical and political writing that was the polar opposite of my personality.

So, first, my work is truly inseparable from my life. And second, I find that the fact that I’m more than a bit silly, ‘humanizes’ the interpretation of my work, and intellectualizes people’s interpretation of me as a person.

Now, I’m not two months, almost three months late kicking off the Propertarian Institute (the software we’re building is a pretty difficult distraction).

And when that happens, I’ll separate the two streams of thought and post to my page and site FROM the Propertarian site. When it’s a good thing. But I have to let the editor have control of that. So FB for sketches and Propertarianism and the PI site for more thoughtful work.