Welcome, Humans!

Hello and welcome to the Human Think Self blog, which will seek to explore many ideas relating to something congruent with a simple, pragmatic humanism — because hey, if it doesn't touch down here in my life on Earth – where I keep all my stuff and where most everything I care about is happening – then it's not the kind of humanism that's going to help actual breathing humans.

And since I generally tend to like other humans, I thought I'd begin with a brief introductory musical welcome to kick off the audio channel of Human Think Self – I hope you enjoy it.

My qualifications for the entirety of this undertaking are sufficient and simple: I have been a human being my entire life and am sympathetic to the human project overall. At times, when circumstances collide felicitously with your inclinations, you can find yourself able to do a little more to help out — and I do, and so I will try.

I will err, and I gladly welcome all feedback (save belligerence, because why bother? I'm nobody).
Skepticism is merely one's price for taking the next tiny step forward in an engagement — and I'm seriously not a fan of big steps, because they start to look like leaps, and that means you skipped something.

That is: one cannot respond to skepticism by asking the skeptic to take anything on faith — but that's great because if you narrow your focus and come at it in small steps, it's easy to stumble onto common ground with the skeptic and then, shazam, you're suddenly working together, if only briefly. Doubt and criticism are essential to any self-respecting pack of ideas.

So, here we go, then — I'll be sketching the contours of what I'm all about soon enough (and I'll hope the guitar helps you be patient with me while I try to make sense and learn how to make the blog look like not-crap).

All right, let's get started — there's work needs done.