It is my firm belief that one’s writing philosophy should be your uncensored opinion of how you go about every person’s dream of self-understanding and enlightenment. I believe that writing should be as pure as possible, only censored where it is required to avoid insulting your audience, unless you feel that is the only way you can get them to grasp your point. Writing is a chance for you to show your audience your opinion, and to open the door for informed discussion and for others to supply their ideas and opinions, thus continuing the cycle of knowledge sharing until the given topic, and all topics brought of during the discussion are exhausted, which if every person involved is in fact involved, should never happen.
The internet has opened a medium for millions of people to share and consume new ideas with their peers. I do however frown at those who, instead of providing useful material for discussion, simply abuse the anonymity of the internet to insult others, ruining their confidence and shutting down the cycle of knowledge that would otherwise have near infinite supplies of new ideas from millions of people (a brief but accurate description of the kind of person I am referring to is shown by John Gabriel’s “Greater Internet ****wad Theory”, which states that: normal person + anonymity + audience = ****wad). My point is simply that the internet provides an excellent tool for educated discussion, as long as people are willing to be civil and mature.
Through writing, you can identify with others, as well as yourself. By identifying with others, you begin to develop and opinion, or possibly evolve one that you have previously made. However, this is only made possible by people actually having an opinion, thus and environment of understanding and trust must be made to allow people the confidence to voice that critical first idea. From there, there is a near infinite realm of ideas that then have a chance to bloom and branch out to yet more ideas and topics, furthering everyone’s knowledge, both of a given topic and their own opinions of it and of themselves.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
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