I have not, as yet, decided precicely the purpose of this forum. In creating this vehicle, as with any other, I have grandiose visions of idealistic results. Tempered with the lessons of experience, however, I am inclined toward the humble hope that it will become a forum wherein we may discuss, with informed opinion, the world as it relates to us.
I am a student of many things, always willing to listen to new theories. I have oft been accused of patriotism, a slander among my more liberal contemporaries. I have, every time, plead guilty. But it is not the country to which I am ever loyal, or even the government as established. It is, rather, the ideal, the concept, the heart of our nation that is for me a truly inspirational and awe invoking doctrine. I do not, like so many of my academic peers, deify The Founders, knowing that even those stalwart and intellectual giants were simply men. I will however praise the divinity of the words they breathed to life. Concepts like Freedom, Equality, and Justice trancend ages and compose a symphony of the truly sublime within we mundane creatures. And so, even as they composed those lofty and preserved documents that founded our nation, we know that they had yet not concieved of the things which may come of their own creation. The pilgrim could not have envisioned a vast and sprawling web of information that spanned the globe. Hamilton could not have forseen this forum of freely shared thoughts. Even the architechts of that great lost library of Alexandria could not have imagined the enourmous collection of human knowledge with which we are now presented.
So, our actions today will effect the world of tomorrow, though not all so vividly as those above. But, when guided by the mentor of sublime inclination, we act upon mundane need, our actions propell us toward that divine spark of which we have heard tell in so many doctrines of faith. Whether the tiny community of our own home, or the greater congregation of an entire dioscese, or the vast and sprawling umma, we are now interconnected in ways previously unknown, and before us is presented a task greater than the sum of our parts. In most every doctrine of faith, the union of two into one, through mutually held love and respect, is sacrosanct. How much greater, therefore, is the synthesis of many through shared knowledge and respect? And now, in a world where geographic division has lost the power to separate, how much closer have we grown to a shared human experience?
Perhaps this introduction was loftier than intended, heady and conceptual, but it is difficult to discuss hopes and dreams in mundane terms. Not all my entries will be so embelished; not all our discussions will be idealistic or encompassing; but it is this lofty ideal that inspired the creation of this forum, and therefore it is fitting to introduce it in such a fashion. So I humbly submit this inaugural entry with the hope of creating a seed from which will grow the roots that will give succor and sustanance to future blooms of insight.
