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“There is nothing sacred except the good and what pertains to it.”

Simone Weil

Simone Weil was a western philosopher and mystic who observed; that which is pure good is pure truth and that we are all interacting with it with varying degrees of freedom to do so.

In the broadest sense I write about myself – In an effort to uncover what I share with others and to understand myself better through an inquiry into social objectives. I’m influenced mostly by sociology and philosophy. I wish to realize goodness in practice and as a writer.

There are two things to mention in this here about page: one is the idea that we are, all of us, inclined to turn toward a pure truth. Simone Weil says “everything beautiful is the object of desire but one desires that it be not otherwise, that it be unchanged, that it be exactly what it is.” We each experience our proximity to goodness and although we might not be capable of translating it we feel it and thus we feel falsehood viscerally.

Robert M Pirsig explains that a characteristic that philosophical statements often have when something is left out is that they go in one ear and out of the other. Other experiences of falsehoods in statements are tension and afflictive emotions. When we desire that a statement (or part of a statement) be unchanged we resonate with it as a pure truth and when a statement (or part of a statement) causes us tension, we are being called to investigate falsehood.

I expect that both of these experiences will arise while reading my writing and I expect this of taking in most content. I want to lean into this; to learn and to learn to write better.