On Human Weakness

Looking at the statistics for this blog, there is a distinct pattern: On thursdays, or at least the last two thursdays, there is an impressive peak, followed by a small peak the next day, followed by… nothing. This corresponds with my own experience of the blog; as I write, I find myself spinning off many other ideas for the blog, and as I walk around the next day, but often as not I don’t note these down, figuring that I have “until next Thursday” to get them down and write them out in full.

The answer then, is simple. I can’t make myself wait a whole week before writing another post. I think, in keeping with my observation that I remain enthusiastic about the project for a full day after the most recent post has gone up, I will write on a semi-daily basis: taking a day off to think and write, then publish, then take a day off, and so on. We’ll see if I can sustain the pace – I suspect that my article length will shorten significantly. My original aim had been 2,000 words an article (I only managed it for the first one), but now I think I’ll aim for 500. That’s still 1,750 a week, which isn’t half bad.

Today I’m going to let this suffice for my post, so that I don’t use up all my good ideas at once. Instead, I’d like to raise a thought that has tickled the back of my mind for a long, long time. I can’t decide if I believe it, or if it is merely cynicism, or if I’m making heavy weather of nothing particularly important. Without further ado:

“Any philosophy or ideology contains the capacity for evil.”

Your imperative for today, as usual, is… COMMENT!