“Hoping for a big tent in which it is understood that disagreement is the price to be paid for exploring important ideas.”
This is conceived as an informal and spontaneous annex to my more extensive blog, Grand Strategy: The View from Oregon.
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Discord Invitation
J. N. Nielsen
More than you needed (or wanted) to know:
● I discovered Tumblr by way of following a link back from my other blog.
● On the spur of the moment I decided to start a second blog to accommodate my less fully formed ideas.
● Since starting a blog on Tumblr, I have found that most everyone on here is in their 20s, so if you’re reading this I’m probably old enough to be your father (notwithstanding the fact that I have no children).
● I am an autodidact philosopher with widely ranging interests, but given my philosophical disposition my interest remains stubbornly abstract and theoretical.
● The few people who know me personally call me “Nick.”
● I live in Oregon on the Columbia River.
● You can write to me directly at john.n.nielsen at gmail dot com
Pet Peeves:
● Writers who talk or write about “writer’s block.” If you have nothing to say, please, spare us all and don’t bother to make the effort to write.
● People who misinterpret or over-interpret Kardashev. If you haven’t read Kardashev’s papers, pleased don’t talk about or write about Kardashev civilization types.
● People who believe their own bullshit.
● Deluded individuals who believe that they possess power when in fact they do not (see the immediately above).
● Films that depict the destruction of archaeological sites.