What I hope to accomplish by starting this blog:
1. I understand that there are countless millions of people who are pounding away at their keyboards, writing useless blogs that will never be read or appreciated. What makes this one any different? Essentially, not much except that I am hoping that somehow, something I write here will catch your interest or maybe show you a different perspective for just a brief moment.
2. After reading George Orwell's "1984" (absolutely fantastic), one thing that I found interesting was that in the story - personal writing (such as a diary or journal) was forbidden. I believe this was the case because even though a journal is probably only read by the writer, the simple act of writing and contemplating problems/issues/dilemmas will cause a person to question why things are. For the totallitarian government in the story, this would have been fatal to its power if people were allowed to think for themselves.
Conclusion: 1) maybe I can write something you haven't fully contemplated yet or 2) by writing this, even if I am the only person to read it - this makes me think for myself.
feel free to email me: morgan.ryan.davis@gmail.com
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"If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skulls, then why do we read it? Good God, we also would be happy if we had no books and such books that make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. What we must have are those books that come on us like ill fortune, like the death of one we love better than ourselves, like suicide. A book must be an ice axe to break the sea frozen inside us." -Franz Kafka
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