Beginning
The proper essay, the one I’ve been taught for years, always follows a standard pattern of development. Define your thesis, outline your argument.. As an English major, I’ve heard the same guidelines many times. I haven’t ever used them, though. The thesis was always the last thing to come to me, because I didn’t usually know where I stood on whatever issue I was arguing until I built built the logic trellises from point to point until it held up without weakness. What I had first was an evasive idea with lucid edges. A thought involving some loosely connected concepts and an emotional response. My intuitive processes would suggest that there was something graspable & worth articulating in that thought.
This is such an idea. Intuitive mechanisms are pulling me towards a collection of concepts that is worth annealing, writing them down from inarticulate clouds of concepts into transferable, digestible chunks, to be passed on to others. I don’t know the details, that is the purpose of writing it all out and building the links. I have an intention, that hopefully, through the use of the various examples and relevant items I post, will get through to you, the reader.
What I do know is this: my goal is to touch on a handful of topics, including creative processes, the viral quality of information, ideological immunization, persuasion, the absorption and integration of ideas, and the study of and possibility of creating agency enabling ideas.