Shutting Up & Going into Hibernation (Kirkland, WA, USA)
This will be my last journal entry for at least the next few months - if not longer.
It's time for ME to SHUT UP.
I realized I should shut up after re-reading my last journal entry. While I think it started off well written (Granted it's only a journal) I ended up going off on a mad tirade (Dictionary.com). Counter-productive to my primary goal for this website - which is to get people (And myself) to look at the world in a different way. Not just different, as in Wayne's way, but different based on the REAL world we all live in - all while connecting it to real issues that come up everyday -- in a highly organized manner of course.
I also wrote things that I don't entirely agree with. Of course, I could just delete the parts I don't like, but I will leave them for posterity. Maybe you are thinking this is strange. It isn't really...here's why:
1) I realized that I have been often been blinded by the momentum of thinking a certain way. (I doubt anyone can escape this)
2) I have also come to realize that I am now often able to "defeat" by myself, many of my own opinions on certain issues. I think alot of this has directly to do with my recent travels, the "stretching of my brain" by having seen more of what is out there and possible in the world, and the mass of knowledge that I have acquired from continually questioning things. Having time to think about it also helps too. Of course, I've stated before (In my WRONG article) that on many things there is no right answer per se - but what I have come to accept is this:
There is the world we live in today. There is the world we will live in tomorrow. There is the world we could live in tomorrow. What do we want that world to look like?
Why do we want it to look a certain way. And I do mean more than just "Peace and harmony." That is overly simplistic.
3) The realization that different people know different things. There are so many things that each of us implicitly know (And don't know) due to our experiences. Yet, I feel that far too often people just assume certain things and take up their positions on certain issues. Unaware that people are unlikely to change unless their implicit assumptions of how they see the world are changed.
How do I best express what I am trying to say / show without making too many assumptions?
4) I need to better determine just who exactly I expect / want to be reading and using this website - especially as I continue to expand it's original mission beyond just a record of my travels, but also as a travel portal - something which I never intended to do, but something which just happened overtime.
One might think quickly - why is there a need for a travel portal when there are so many others out there. How can one man make a difference? All I can say at the moment, is that there is big difference on a website that is built around selling something, and one that isn't. I'll let the future results speak for themselves.
With this in mind - I am undertaking a massive re-design of the website. Both content and interface. But, I don't want to roll them out piecemeal, I would rather change the site in one big swoop. The reason that it has taken me so long to build the Circus of Life the way I want it to look is that I am going through so much information. I doubt you will find many websites which integrate so many other website articles and topics about different subjects into the way I have started.
Oh yeah....the Book
I am already half way done writing the first draft of my fiction book. Writing the rest of it should be pretty straight forward since I already have all of the scenes and chapter summaries written out. The devil of course is in the details. And the details are very time consuming. I of course then have to work to get it successfully published.
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I'll send out an email when the site re-design has been completed. Until then I may take more and more sections offline.
As always, hoping to see you on the road.
It's time for ME to SHUT UP.
I realized I should shut up after re-reading my last journal entry. While I think it started off well written (Granted it's only a journal) I ended up going off on a mad tirade (Dictionary.com). Counter-productive to my primary goal for this website - which is to get people (And myself) to look at the world in a different way. Not just different, as in Wayne's way, but different based on the REAL world we all live in - all while connecting it to real issues that come up everyday -- in a highly organized manner of course.
I also wrote things that I don't entirely agree with. Of course, I could just delete the parts I don't like, but I will leave them for posterity. Maybe you are thinking this is strange. It isn't really...here's why:
1) I realized that I have been often been blinded by the momentum of thinking a certain way. (I doubt anyone can escape this)
2) I have also come to realize that I am now often able to "defeat" by myself, many of my own opinions on certain issues. I think alot of this has directly to do with my recent travels, the "stretching of my brain" by having seen more of what is out there and possible in the world, and the mass of knowledge that I have acquired from continually questioning things. Having time to think about it also helps too. Of course, I've stated before (In my WRONG article) that on many things there is no right answer per se - but what I have come to accept is this:
There is the world we live in today. There is the world we will live in tomorrow. There is the world we could live in tomorrow. What do we want that world to look like?
Why do we want it to look a certain way. And I do mean more than just "Peace and harmony." That is overly simplistic.
3) The realization that different people know different things. There are so many things that each of us implicitly know (And don't know) due to our experiences. Yet, I feel that far too often people just assume certain things and take up their positions on certain issues. Unaware that people are unlikely to change unless their implicit assumptions of how they see the world are changed.
How do I best express what I am trying to say / show without making too many assumptions?
4) I need to better determine just who exactly I expect / want to be reading and using this website - especially as I continue to expand it's original mission beyond just a record of my travels, but also as a travel portal - something which I never intended to do, but something which just happened overtime.
One might think quickly - why is there a need for a travel portal when there are so many others out there. How can one man make a difference? All I can say at the moment, is that there is big difference on a website that is built around selling something, and one that isn't. I'll let the future results speak for themselves.
With this in mind - I am undertaking a massive re-design of the website. Both content and interface. But, I don't want to roll them out piecemeal, I would rather change the site in one big swoop. The reason that it has taken me so long to build the Circus of Life the way I want it to look is that I am going through so much information. I doubt you will find many websites which integrate so many other website articles and topics about different subjects into the way I have started.
Oh yeah....the Book
I am already half way done writing the first draft of my fiction book. Writing the rest of it should be pretty straight forward since I already have all of the scenes and chapter summaries written out. The devil of course is in the details. And the details are very time consuming. I of course then have to work to get it successfully published.
----
I'll send out an email when the site re-design has been completed. Until then I may take more and more sections offline.
As always, hoping to see you on the road.
