davidcharleston
davidcharleston
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Bio
Greetings my fellow primate mammals.
Skip to the bottom for a review of my efforts in the war of ideas.
My main interests are history, sociology, culture, philology, critical thinking, meta-cognition, argumentation or dialectics, cognitive science, psychology, philosophy, morality, law, politics, economics, and science. I also have other interests, that inclusively fit into the mentioned above. Yes, it’s an eclectic list, but I’m an eclectic individual.
I wish to become (aside from my current profession) a polymath, philosopher, cognitive scientist, philologist, polemicist, debater, orator, critic at large, advocate, writer, columnist, essayist, blogger, author & public intellectual. These are of course jobs I may intermittently fulfil, apart from this lofty list or anything fixed I do, like the odd cul-de-sac stint. I am most of the above to be fair already.
I have a private library and a list of influences as any self-respecting thinker of course, but in the spirit of briefness, I will refrain from enumerating these lists like others here.
With respect to ideological orientation on the political spectrum, I don’t have any profound ideological or party affiliation to subscribe to, as I’d consider myself an all-around gadfly. It’s, therefore, difficult to pinpoint me down into any limited category. I do have a defined worldview, however, characterizing myself as an Independent and freethinker and identifying myself as Radical.
In the praxis of my political leanings, I vibrate to the left-wing motion with a tendency or affinity in light of Progressivism, Secular-Humanism and Democracy. My inclinations of sympathy belong to the greens, feminism, liberalism, libertarianism and interventionism, although my sensibilities aren’t limited to anything set in stone. I have patience but it’s under the control of my standards and depends on the mentality in question. I take myself seriously because I’m not indifferent to important questions. If others wish to answer those questions, and will take me seriously, I can return the favor and will take others seriously as well.
There once was a man named Charleston
He was sure his rivals would succumb
He very much wished to debate
But he did not anticipate
All his would-be opponents would run
— David “Ponz” Taylor, the 7th U.S. Correspondence Chess Champion, and author of three books.
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