About This Blog

Someone once told me that I think too much. My response to them was that they didn’t think nearly enough - and that the proof of this fact was evident in their bland regurgitation of their cliche. In fact it astonishes me the degree to which thinking in general is viewed with suspicion - given the obvious amount stupid things occuring on a daily basis, which they themselves will also complain about.

This is a blog for those who like to think. Those who don’t like thinking are welcome so long as they stay quiet. Criticism is welcome and adored - but an unconstructive, thoughtless cane will likely be met by a terse response.

My aim is to encourage thought in as many aspects of life as I can imagine. Hence I consider a wide range of different topics, from marketing, to computer games, to semantics, philosophy, literature and more. I believe there are many structures implicit in all things we do. Uncovering these structures brings awareness, then freedom - then change. I feel most alive when dancing above those structures, seeing them for what they are and spreading that understanding with others.

About Me

I’m currently a PhD student of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. I am currently researching theories of semantics and ontological commitment. My interest in semantics stems from a desire to understand the absolute fundamentals behind our ability as human beings to communicate. My hope is that I can someday use this research to inform a study into the nature of discourse between individuals, how discourse is situated within institutional structures, and whether there is some way of structuring discourse such that it provides strength to those institutional structures in which it is situated (and avoiding situations where the institutional structures stifle individual discourse).

Many articles you’ll find in this blog represent tentative first steps toward this final goal. My general intuition is that we are far more determined by various forces in our day to day life than most of us are willing to acknowledge - but that this is not a necessity. My goal here is to try to illuminate some of those forces that determine how we think and behave so as to provide the means for those to change their behaviour - if that is what they wish.

I’m also a fiction writer - you’ll find a few short stories on this blog. I’m writing a novel which has been in the works for some years now. You might see excerpt from that on this blog sometime in the near future.