Welcome to For a Course of Years. Please read the “About” page linked on the right to get your bearings. In the coming weeks I will begin putting down some of my thoughts and perhaps the general public will find them of worth. Then again, perhaps not. In either case, this journal will have served its purpose.
A few points at the outset:
- Please, don’t dare call this a “blog”. I prefer the expanded designation “web log”, or (better still) online journal. Everything implied by the latin “commentarius” would be most fitting, both in denotation and etymology. This journal is antithetical to the culture that permeates the “blogosphere” and other such innovations of the AOL generation. Course of Years is to “blogs” what Polaner All-Fruit is to “jelly”.
- This journal is by an originalist. This designation might perhaps also encompass the term conservative (depending on how it is defined), and certainly has a deep rooting in capitalism. What this journal does not pretend to is Republican apology (note the capital “R”). The author should not be mistaken for a Republican, nor will feedback attacking originalist or conservative ideas through ad hominem attacks on their (often) Republican messengers be given so much as a hearing in this forum. Please take your partisan beef to the appropriate butcher.
- I don’t care that my journal is not popular in the “blogosphere”. It’s not a blog and therefore not a vanity project. I feel no gratification from exhibition or exposition. Suffice it to say that I have deeper motives for wishing to express my political angst in a publicly accessible format. See the “About” page.
- Right now there is no login requirement for posting comments. I have a feeling I will regret this, but my principles dictate that liberty always be given a chance to operate before the despotic hand of government be brought to bear in protecting the public from the natural consequences of its own hedonistic anarchy.
- No, there was not a grammatical error in the preceding bullet. It’s called the subjunctive mood. Go back to school and get a classical education from a conservative establishment more interested in teaching you to reason for yourself and to express your thoughts rationally and effectively than in programming you with an ideology.
Once again, welcome! Fasten your seat belts, return your seat backs and trays to full, upright, and locked position, and prepare to be astonished. Or bored. It could go either way, really. It’s entirely possible that I will eventually bore myself with my thoughts and this will ultimately prove to be the ideal cure for political angst. If so, then this web log will truly have served its purpose.
Fabius Cincinnatus
