POST #1: ALL HAIL THE WORKERS

"To become a subject (and not remain a simple human animal), is to participate in the coming into being of a universal novelty. That requires effort, endurance, sometimes self-denial. I often say it's necessary to be the "activist" of a Truth. There is Evil each time egoism leads to the renunciation of a Truth. Then, one is de-subjectivized. Egoistic self-interest carries one away, risking the interruption of the whole progress of a truth (and thus of the Good)." --Alain Badiou

Today was May Day, known and celebrated throughout the world as International Worker's Day, a day suspiciously unheralded in the notoriously (esp. as of late) anti-Labor United States. I chose this day to begin this blog not because I intend to focus on the Labor Movement (although that certainly may fall within the scope of subsequent writings), but because it is the spirit of work itself which I would like to see as enduring theme. As a writer, I've known my fair share of artistic highs and uncreative lows, but nothing solid or constant. This, I believe, is due to a failure of discipline, and a misunderstanding of what my existence on this planet is for. It is NOT for television watching or beer drinking (alone), I can assure you that. Daily practice, day in and out, constant discipline: these are things from which inspiration is born. And thus, in the spirit of workers around the world, and in the spirit of some of my own personal writings heroes (Zen writing coach Natalie Goldberg, along with the ultra-prolific philosopher Ken Wilber being chief among them) I pretentiously consecrate this practice blog as officially open for business.

What this blog is for:

I do not intend for this blog to follow the "traditional" blog format of informative, newsworthy posts, links, and commentary. Nor do I see it as a place for finished essays, reviews, etc. All I merely wish to do is commit to writing, at least 10 minutes a day, in any style I see fit. Creative writing experiments, personal journaling, pointing-out instructions: mainly I wish this to serve as a daily creative outlet with which to "process" my experiences, to make sure no consumed media item goes unacknowledged, no life experience goes unreflected upon, no artistic impulse goes unexpressed. This blog intends to be the central, raw creative engine of my current lifestyle, from which all further writing-oriented projects (articles, essays, reviews, books, performance pieces, poems, greeting cards, etc) will find their nascent inception within.

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