To get started: a little about me and this blog.
This blog has only been used a handful of times over the past several years for me to express myself and what was important to me at the time. If you look through my history here, you will see posts with some of my old photography and opinions on topics in the realm of nursing. People don't really read this blog, so if this is your first time here and are wondering what the direction of this blog is...it doesn't really have one yet.
Over the past few years, I have found myself increasingly interested and involved in politics. I removed myself from most social platforms because of the controversy that I couldn't help but to involve myself with. The keyboard commentary was such that, had I not separated myself from it when I did, my real-life relationships could have been put in jeopardy. Now I limit myself to 140 characters on twitter and will start to put some of my bigger thoughts on this very unpopular blogging site that I have had open for 5 years or so.
First, I am a Christian, a husband, a father, a dog-lover, and a registered nurse in full-time anesthesia school. After all of that, I would consider myself a conservative libertarian. I believe in the constitution as it was intended when it was written and I believe that America is the greatest nation in the world because it is the only place that upholds those standards, values, and God-given rights in spite of the recent push for socialism and the degradation of personal liberty.
What you will find in this blog is my personal opinions about things that are happening in the news. I will be posting mostly about topics that I feel a certain amount of passion about or topics that I don't feel are being covered completely (the main-stream media does a GREAT job of only partially covering stories). Steven Crowder, comedian and political commentator from louderwithcrowder.com and crtv.com, recently talked about the Socratic method, which is based on asking and answering questions to stimulate critical thinking and to make ideas and underlying presumptions evident. This is in contrast to critical theory which aims to direct thinking by asking questions or providing information that leads to a predetermined answer. Much of the information that we are being given from the media is that from a critical theory philosophy, which will leave many questions unanswered. My goal is to use the socratic method to help myself (and y'all?) answer those questions and figure out how I feel about these issues for myself, rather than being told how to feel about them. That being said, you will probably not find many answers here...because I don't have them all...yet!! Bwahaha! Kidding...
If you want to see Steven Crowder's video where he talk about Critical Theory vs. Socratic Method, click here:
Because of my schedule and the fact that this will not be a source of revenue for me, I can not promise a regular timeline for my posts, although I can say that I will try to post at least once or twice a week. I guess you can comment below, or you can just catch up with me on twitter
@seaneric_ace
Let me know what you think I should talk about. If I feel like I have enough information about it, I'll probably have an opinion about it.
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