It is important for anyone who happens upon this text to be aware of a few things and these are they:
Firstly, we ought to be ashamed of ourselves! Sorry, no excuses, no rationalizations, but we ought to, and of course I include myself in the group who ought to be ashamed, and am ashamed, though I am still complicit.
Secondly, I don't care whether you consider any or all of this a futile endeavor, and I don't have time for any such concern. If you think I'm delusional or deluded, I don't have time for that either. If you are 'concerned' for my mental state or fail to understand what I am trying to say likewise, no time and no inclination: your concern is misplaced and irrelevant so take it elsewhere: there are plenty who are in need of help.
Thirdly, I don't really give a hoot about how many or what letters you might have following your name: that is not to say that such information isn't useful or that the letters are insignificant: of course they bloody are! They are a useful measure, out of many useful measures, and are achievements in and of themselves: it's just that, in the present context, they do not matter to me. What matters is what is said, how it's said and the integrity of the thinking underlying it.
Fourthly, at present I do not know what good this might do, or what it might end up looking like, or who might contribute to or redact from it. I do not pretend to know because I think it might help not to, to instead allow a sort of 'evolution' to occur. If anyone follows this or picks up a ball from it then, at the time of writing, they are more than welcome to do so, as long as it is not for money. Which it couldn't be, as I hope we will discover.
(I was originally toying with the idea of the overtly hostile approach. Simply coming out with a few assertions and opinions which hardly anyone would give the time of day to at first glance, and then trying to win the reader, if there ever are any, round to seeing why I said these Unthinkable Things. I'll try this first, though, as nothing is presently off limits, or out-of-play.)
Fifth and finally I would like to put on record that I am an fool. This is important. I'm hoping at least a few who are not fools might be interested, and those who know who I am already know this. If I get things wrong and you notice then please point it out to me in a comment or something: as I keep repeating, there is little time. I fully aware that I will be mistaken during this dubious process, so if you know better than I do, please let me know.
This is done because I have to try. That is all.
