Legend

   I'm convinced that the best way to debate or converse is NOT by
emotionally stuttering on the passing air or even by coolly delivering gemcut soundbites that are also instantly forgotten, but by printing thoroughly edited, short and reasonably comprehensive essays on paper or on the internet screen that can wait patiently in re-readable print just for my own review and revision or for the carefully considered, printed and re-readable responses of others.
   I'm also convinced that the only things to reflect or talk or write about are things that are really new or original, or that need to be gotten out from behind humanity's denial bump or to be gotten straight. And being very weary of the headlined rhetoric that's really only tiresomely pious recitation of the same views about the same things, usually in the same words, I'd like to converse WITH some courageously intelligent readers (as supposedly happens but usually doesn't happen on talk radio) NOT in incomplete, rudely interrupted sound-bites but in quietly coherent print about real issues.
   But my main intention here, previously explained as Motive #4 for my other website (iammyownreporter.com), is to very carefully and objectively analyze and clarify some important real-world issues to myself, using the English language as a near precision tool, and by my success, if I am successful, to refute, to my own satisfaction, the claim of verbally challenged mathematicians that philosophy has been replaced by their (usually respectable but) bloodless and noncommunicative arithmetic.
   If I arrouse and provoke some other very clear writers to join me on my platform, here's how it will work. You'll find here an array of subject documents, subdivided into definitions, philosophical comments and positions, reactions to passing events, deconstruction of the news, and what I call new rap "songs". Any such document can be postscripted by a really useful response it may provoke and then become an open ended scroll - an ongoing exchange of printed statements and counter or supplementary statements constituting an actually coherent conversation or argument between me and my initially only theoretical readers, which, brief or continuous or unamended - just by being well crafted and recrafted, posted and accessible, can thereafter allow me and maybe you to avoid the quicksand of emotional coffee-shop or cocktail-party blabber battle by directing questions or challenges to this website.
   I often review and improve what I've written, and, if I get any responses and it doesn't get confusing, I'll also try to accommodate correspondents who want to fix their statements.
   A survey of my own notes proves that almost any point can be well made in far less than 1000 words. Except for a set of documents tagged as Definitions, none of which exceed 1000 words, and another set I'm calling New Rap, which for a calculated effect employ a deliberately looser style and are set in exactly 100-word, 250-word, 350-word, 500-word, and 1000-word formats, I usually make my point here in 500 words or less. So, given that statements longer than 500 words, depending on their quality, tend to stop reading like brilliant conversation and start reading like blather, it makes sense and is relevant to the point of the website to try to limit each response and counter response to less - hopefully much less - than 1000 words.
    I studiously refuse to read unsigned "editorials" in the newspapers (you're invited to join my boycott) and I always take credit for my own words, so I won't post unsigned material. While people without self suspicion probably shouldn't write, anyone who'd be embarrassed to be caught saying what he, for some reason, wants to say, definitely shouldn't write, either. Writing honestly is a more certainly courageous undertaking than war, and every writer should know that going in.
   Acceptable grammar, punctuation, and spelling are required here. I won't post anything illiterate unless it's from some harmfully influential force whose illiteracy needs to be exposed. I may invite verbally challenged, otherwise intelligent writers to perfect their style and resubmit, but I'm unwilling to edit anyone else's composition.
   If my Spanish were as good as my English, I'd post and respond to Spanish comments, but, besides being ongoing pissed that the whole stupid race didn't start working 100 years ago toward a one-language world, I know I can't follow my own rules in Spanish, so I won't try that.

Glen Roberts
nottalkradio.com
nodenialallowed@gmail.com
iammyownreporter.com
editorofiamor@hotmail.com

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