"Connect the Dots" is what I'm calling this thread of thoughts.
I'm noting that as I get older, I know more and more interesting little tidbits of information, have more theories, and think I know the answers to more questions. These are 'the dots.'
What's much harder is to make sense of all these dots. To pull them all together into one larger piece of sense. These are the missing connections that would help me to make sense of the world.
I thought it was time that I started to write these down, as they occurred to me (or partially occurred to me, at least). Maybe a blog is the place where I can start connecting the ideas from books, inexplicable current events, and my favorite past time: wondering why it is so many people seem to have a worldview so extremely different from mine.
I keep thinking that this is all explainable somehow....if I could only think hard enough, clarify my half-baked theories about how things work, catalog the brilliant books that start to suggest explanations for broad patterns of human behavior. As I've often joked, it's all leading up to Ken's Unified Theory of Everything.
We'll see.
UPDATE:
There are some preliminary 'nodes' on the Connect the Dots network forming. So far, we have these:
- Globalization Dot: how we understand today's world and how it operates
- "Framing" Dot (ala Lakoff): why Americans think and act the (contradictory?) way they do
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