With all the flaunting of credentials and pseudo-credentials around the Internet by way of establishing Authority, ought I to start flaunting my own?

I have enough letters after my name to know exactly how little they can mean. I have enough published material under my belt to pity those who broke down and self-published, although I wonder why they so often feel the need to conceal it. I can write in any venue with which I can establish a business relationship. I write what I see, in fiction as in non-fiction; and I try continually to see things as they are, not as I would have them be. I fear neither written nor spoken word nor what numbers have to tell me. After all, why should I fear what is? I have no partisan agenda.

What all this means, you can decide for yourself.

I could tell you the absolute facts, and still they might mean something entirely different from what you might assume. I could claim letters or a collar, and you would never know whether either or both were purchased on the Internet, or glossed, or a lifetime work and vocation. Yet however I might choose to frame myself here, however realistic a name I might choose to write under (and you are on the Internet, how can you know if it is truly my own?): my writing shows the truth of me.

Light has always shone most clearly through a writer's creations, and the articles and stories and poetry on this site are no exception. I am a channel: not a lens, not a frame, not a filtre. I say what I see, about our world, our universe, ourselves - but without your reading, I am only an empty mirror. And with your reading?

empty mirror
why can you do nothing
but reflect?

Society & Lifestyle > Social Values & Norms Why our society values conformity

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The patterns always stay the same, be it the macrocosm of a country's economy or the microcosm of a single company.

A dozen, a hundred, a thousand different business manuals may recommend that a company ought to value its naysayers far above its yes-men, written by people belonging to all parts of the economic spectrum: but in practice it is always the mob-supported bully who will be promoted, and the silencing of any dissenting voices will be cheered. The path to short-term power is exactly the same as the path to long-term implosion.

But who is willing to see this at the time? Popular b...

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