never enough

What to write about? I suppose I'll use this post as more of an introduction to this blog than anything.

Why 'Never Enough?' This title represents the amount of background knowledge I have regarding an issue before I write about it. I am constantly aware that points I make can often be easily argued against. But the effort to make an air-tight argument often prevents the argument from ever being made.

That's what this blog will be for, for me. I'm just gonna lay it out there as I see it at this moment given the information and gut feelings I have right now.

I'll talk about municipal, provincial and federal politics, mostly. But I'll also touch on some global issues as well. And of course, my interests also include media in society, music and artistic expression, world religions (in a broad light), and something I'm getting into that I'll refer to as "group dynamics."

The latter is the label I'm putting on the way groups of people interact and react to situations. As a person grows older and begins to form his or her view of the world, the hope is that he or she will notice differences between individuals. Not one person is exactly alike, and one person can differ wildly from the next.

In my personal experience, I'm trying to come to grips with this - not only by recognizing that people approach things from different backgrounds, but by trying to understand what those backgrounds are and how they influence their perception of the world around them.

This may seem like an obvious point. But the challenge is to empathize with these people, or at the very least limit the bias and subjectivity that influences our own understandings of one another. And that requires understanding of oneself.

It is a daunting task, but nevertheless it is a task we take on for our entire lives so we might as well make the best of it. I'll use the blog to help myself articulate my personal views of me, my friends, my community, my province, my nation, and the world we all live in.

Dave