Readership Down

This blog is becoming less popular than President GW Bush at a Lesbian Pride Peace Rally. I won't stop speaking my mind, but I wonder if it's just burn-out on the part of readers or does the subject matter simply bore the living crap out of everyone in the blogosphere.

I realize the religious Jews, for the most part, will only talk or read about relevant religious Jewish subjects. Since my apostacy is no longer a novelty event either, any mention of who I was then or what I subsequently morphed into and events in between have no attraction to those readers. Christians love to argue with Atheists, and the fire-breathing Atheists (you know who you are) speak enough on the pertinent issues that I really have nothing at all to add aside from perhaps a scientific explanation here and there. Frankly, I'm tired of arguing about it.

I do love politics and history and how it plays out in societal trends. Politics is, in part, how people project their personal philosophy out into the world. Politics is not, at least to me, only about winners and losers. The four "P's" (as I call them) always operate in tandem and every idea should be expressed in relation to all of them as a whole. They are physics, philosophy, psychology, and politics. Physics is the natural reality. Philosophy translates that reality into a thought about life. Psychology shapes our relationship with that reality. Politics is how we project that understanding and passion out into society and the world. There is a progression from one level to another, though I feel at times many people work this system backwards.

I write about politics only to get at the core of who we really are as people and what we value most. I talk a little about economics because money is like love in many ways. Like love, no one is admired in the real world for shunning wealth. Money talk is always controversial. Ask a person about love and they have lots of advice for you. Ask them about money and you will never hear the end of it. It is no small coincidence that psychics, tarot readers, etc., are asked more questions about love and money than anything else. If you want to anger a man into a fight, criticize his wife or his profession.

Maybe what I write has too much fire. Maybe I try to cover too much and end up saying too little. I don't know. Some subjects are surely beaten to death. Maybe the blogosphere is going the way of the personal website or the homepage. Maybe I am redundant.

Input is appreciated. I cannot promise, however, that any advice will be taken.

Kol Tuv