unexpected noise

First of all welcome to anyone who happens to read this blog.

It was created to talk about some of the intangible aspects of life which are not explicated in the incessant droning of mainstream discourse with its delimiting and normalizing thought pattens that force us into a quite, submissive and pathetic state of consciousness.

I don't mean to sound elitist in the slightest and would hope that this blog appeals to a broad audience. Having said that, it will more than likely appeal to those who are forward thinking post-enlightenment, post-colonial and post-secular thinkers. Yes so many posts, however i think they are necessary so we can move on to a truly expressive conversation that includes our most intimate and fragile dreams, hopes and fears as human beings.

I would like also to question the status of the human being in this blog. Not to devalue it but to re-conceptualize some of its contours and extend the category of human to include non-human beings. Yes this has been done before; many humans throughout history have also thought there was something highly suspicious about our self-appointed position in the cosmos. And in this day and age with the wealth of scientific information we have about our evolutionary heritage, we must concede that other beings are beings much like us, that feel pain and joy, not exactly like we do, but nevertheless do indeed feel. Our treatment of 'them' will be the ultimate arbitrator of our civilization and the ease with which slaughter them on a daily bases for our own satisfaction will be our pedagogic ethic that determines how we as humans interact with each other and our environment.