Wednesday, July 02, 2003
(1:51 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Mission Statement
It is now time, and past time, for a Mission Statement for this blog. Inspired by Tom Tomorrow's musings on the topic, I would like to declare that I have no desire to be a link clearinghouse for the following reasons:
- Atrios and Cursor already do a fine job of that. (I hope and pray that Atrios will note that I have linked to his page and give me a plug, so that someone will actually read my blog. I enjoy reading and rereading my own writing, but it feels empty if no one else looks at it.)
- That would require me to form opinions based on "actual information." I prefer to make authoritative-sounding proclamations based on my own ideological biases, most of which are based more on personal annoyance than anything else. I'm sure this is what, for instance, Andrew Sullivan usually does, but in order to maintain his overpowering web readership and his unquestioned leadership in all matters pertaining to weblogs, he has to give a token gesture toward having looked through "actual information." Aside from this mission statement, there will be no token gestures on this site!
I propose, therefore, the following mission statement:
The Weblog will give me one more venue in which I can write short pieces on a variety of topics, including but not limited to extreme leftist ideology, theology, philosophy, psychoanalysis, literature, nanotechnology, constitutional law, sodomy, and the Smashing Pumpkins.
As a sub-mission statement, I propose the following:
Hopefully someone will stumble upon my weblog and be drawn to read my other stuff, on which I have spent a lot of time.
Thanks.
