Welcome to my blog. Change is all around us. If we want to progress as a society, that change has to be directed by people with pure motives. Motives alone will not help us, though, as the good intention of a person with incomplete information will often yield terrible, even disastrous results.

Historically, this has proven true almost universally. It is easy to get a group of people to be passionate about a problem, even to convince them of problems that aren’t real. It is a much harder task to educate those same people to make wise decisions on an individual level. This is even more difficult when the solution might be to just be patient. Difficult times call for strong people.

A chain is only as strong as the weakest link. If we truly want progress, we have to help the individual to become smarter, and to empower them to seek ways to provide value back into their communities. We have to focus on the person.

Keeping with the analogy, to forge stronger metal, the fire has to be hot. I plan to cover some very divisive material at times, though my intent is not to be inflammatory. Problems in society are real, but when we understand them better, we will often find there are voluntary solutions available to us. Our reasons for division and hatred melt away like the impurities from iron ore. They do not make us stronger.

How do we identify those weaknesses? How do we remove them? What are the moral and practical implications of those decisions? These are questions that the decision-makers in our lives rarely grapple with. When they do, they make decisions with inadequate information or perhaps with nefarious motives.

Topics are often more challenging than we are told to believe they are. We need to seek information and try to understand our opposition. We can’t love one another if we don’t know and understand one another. Progress will escape us, if we don’t take control of our own lives and get better.

Welcome to my blog.