Welcome

Hello, and welcome to The Fortunes of the Dialectic. This blog is intended to foster a constructive discussion of those theoretical matters which interest me, a category which includes some of the more philosophical aspects of literature, science, mathematics, and politics. My ideal reader is a dogged amateur in intellectual matters: the discussions here will maintain an accessible tone. (If you had problems with school, I assure you mine were still greater.) However, I will attempt to avoid the "journaling" that sometimes brings blogs down to the level of chronicling the minutiae of everyday life; in my opinion chain-letter "memes" are only interesting from a sociological standpoint, and my views of current events are probably better expressed by others. So, here it is. There may not be something for everybody, but I hope there is somebody for everything.