So. Hello.
I’m starting this blog for two main reasons: the first is to have a place to put my thoughts on political strategy, current events, and things like that without needing to have my name attached to it. The second reason is that I want to help share knowledge, spread information, and otherwise work to prepare the people in my life and anyone who comes to this site for what we are all facing in the new year.
The way I see it, starting on January 20th, 2025 we must operate under the assumption that the state is absent at best and hostile at worst. It’s possible we are on the precipice of a bona fide authoritarian regime and the loss of American democracy as we currently know it. Even if we’re not, we are certainly facing a repressive, deregulated, and deeply conservative social and political majority for at least the next few years.
And so I want to leverage the things I know and the tools I’ve found, especially in the realm of digital privacy. I want to help people continue to communicate freely, to be able to organize and operate in the midst of a government that seeks to censor or control them. I want people to build the networks and skills to protect each other and provide for each other when the support systems they’re used to disappear or are gutted. I want to express the thoughts and views and insights I have as a means to encourage others to think critically about their relationship to morality, their community, and their government. Mostly I just want to help, and this feels like one more way I can.
I hope you’ll come with me. I hope you’ll use the information I put in this blog, I hope you reflect on the things I say even if you disagree with them. I hope that you’ll share it along if you find value in it. I really hope I’m overreacting, and I can look back on this blog and cringe. Time will tell.
Leave a Reply