Magpie's Asymmetric Warfare: Comments Policy

(Latest update: 04-12-2015)

From today (Thursday August 9, 2012) on and for everybody's security, I decided that comments will be moderated.

I had to take this step due to the repeated posting of messages, presumably spam, containing suspicious links.

I encourage debate. You are free to post your opinions, even if they differ from mine. Provided you keep a minimum of civility, they should appear as soon as possible.

This is not supposed to be a scholarly blog, and I am no scholar; but thoughtful reasoning is welcome. Obstinate ignorance, disingenuity, and general arseholism will get your comments deleted.

Racism and abuse will not be tolerated. And as this is my blog, my word is law and final.

You can comment as an Anonymous user. In this case, you don't need to supply your email, log into Blogger or anything really; but any identification, even if only a pseudonym inserted at the bottom of your text, as a courtesy, will be appreciated.

About the Magpie

Well, maybe it's best to see this first post as a personal introduction and a "mission statement" of sorts.

I am a 48 yo male and I need to work for a living.

In a previous life I was considered upper middle-class and I had post-graduate education (Master's and started a PhD), but that was long ago.

Now I work manually and I could hardly be described as anything but low income earner.

Ideologically, I describe myself as a non-dogmatic Marxist. This shows in my personal philosophical posture, which tends to be nihilistic. If you don't know much about Marxism, you'll probably be surprised to hear that Marxism is an extremely optimistic worldview. But, if you don't know much about it, you'll have to take my word for it.

I, in contrast, am deeply pessimistic. And I attribute this in part to my nihilism.

Which leads me to the next point of this post: I am writing this because I believe the world is ill. Maybe terminally so. I realize there is little I can do to make a difference. But I want to try and the only means I have to effect a difference is through my voice.

Don't get me wrong: I am not a profoundly "idealistic" character (idealistic in the sense of altruism). Marxists are often "idealistic" in this sense, although they are likely to deny it.

I am doing this because, as a good nihilist, I believe life has no intrinsic purpose. It's up to us to provide our life with one. So, as a good Magpie, I choose to fight, in the hope this may to some degree justify my own existence.

My promise to the reader is that I will try to be informative and fair.

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