I am tired of inundating my Facebook "friends" with my weekly rants and I know many of them are just as tired. So I am going to leave Facebook to the goofy posts and put my "weekly vomit" on here.
First let me introduce myself. I am 27 and a native of Floyd County, IN. I am not afraid to have an opinion and I am most certainly not opposed to admit when my opinion is wrong. I value discussion when it leads to a better understanding. I also value logic above all else. We are all different and we all come with different perspectives of the world around us. Like Plato, Rousseau, Kant and others I believe there are undeniable truths that all can appreciate regardless of perspective. We must reach these truths through logic. We must step outside ourselves and step behind a "veil of ignorance." (Although I agree with Rawls' method, I disagree with his conclusion; there may be a post on this eventually).
As you can probably tell, I enjoy political philosophy. I also enjoy economics and marketing. I have a Management degree from Indiana University Southeast, but I have done a lot of reading on my own. My favorite blogs are Cafe Hayek, The Big Questions, Public Reason, etc.
If you have stumbled across this blog, welcome. Like I said, I love discussion/debate but I despise partisanship. I want to strive for a future where American individuals create their own platform and decide which candidate is best for them using criteria based off of that platform. I hate that right now we have system that works just the opposite. Our candidates' party comes up with the platform and then we argue between two candidates whose terms will more than likely be remarkably similar. It creates disagreement where disagreement does not exist. I look forward to a day when we can debate ideas and solutions not the politicians' worthiness for office.
