Good morning to you, reader of this post, and I wish you the best! How are you today? How are things going? As for me, I am doing okay, just hanging out, overall I tend to be on a wait mood for September, as I said I have been since after my birthday. Unfortunately the new DLC for Europa Universalis is only coming in September, the 13th of that month. So a reason to wait. The new DLC for Anno 1800, on the 20th, another reason to do so. The birthday gift I am planning, getting the iPad for digital drawing, I also am expecting for September. It so goes like that. How is the weather where you are? Here, it is still somehow fresh, but the days are starting earlier and earlier, which is a sign winter is drawing towards its ending. I just watched a brilliant small documentary on the life of Gilbert Chesterton, and I loved it, loved to hear about the life of this brilliant mind, this wonderful writer! So much so, I am eager to look for his work in the future, as what I've heard of him really catches my attention in a positive light! Though, I must say, I have some criticism towards his political viewpoint. I must explain further, I am extremely, radically, in the fringe of the border of the world of ideas, for the free market, for lasseiz faire capitalism. Chesterton does have a good view on private property, as much as I do, but his "Distributism" philosophy rubs me the wrong way. I like the idea of localism, but I am also for massive trade between places and the commodities of modern life, I was never really into the countryside, with the smell of dirt and smallness. At least in the way I know the countryside, the one of the state of Alagoas, Brazil. As I am concerned, it is a desperately poor, without any prospects, place, desolated, a wasteland. Was very much more adapted to the life in the city. I did visited São Paulo some moments, and I must say I don't like the massive size of the place, I feel suffocated there. But, I also feel suffocated in the wasteland nothingness of Brazilian countryside. I grew used to the commodities of a city. Though, I must tell, I do hate the modern architecture of glass and steel and concrete, I abhor brutalism, and I am depressed by the international style. Those buildings, these boxes without the wonderful adornation of Rococo architecture and interior design and its sound loveliness... I do have some resistance in talking about "square-size", "lack of adornation" stuff, because some contemporaries have heard that, but their idea of how to overcome those things? It result in buildings coming straight from an alien dystopia, distorted buildings that look like wrapped paper that goes in the trash... Well, returning to Chesterton, he has the same issue I have with some more traditionalist conservatives. What about the ideas of classical liberalism? Of free markets? Of cosmopolitanism? I think even libertarians lack the appreciation towards classical liberalism. I can't say without reason, because the liberal politicians of every corner - from the leftists that STOLE the term from its rightful users, to the centrists, to the relativists of globalist nature - they caused so much harm. The ideas that came with modernity caused so much harm, they fuel the primitivists, the ones that go "reject modernity, embrace tradition", because one extreme is internationalism, they go to the other extreme, which is nationalism, militarism, they preach the life of the mythic spartans. No, I am not into that, and that doesn't make me an internationalist relativist either. I'm just me, and I am yet to organize my ideas on its entirety. Is it even a goal to be aimed at? I am called a weak-man because I refuse to enlist to the army and have that awful frugal life, but I could be as well called a bigoted-fascist by my other opposers on the left, that I abhor as well. It is the destiny of Daniel, to never feel at home with no group that is presented to him. If only I had the grace that they said in the documentary Chesterton had, I mean, the guy was friends with its opposers, H. G. Wells and Bernard Shaw, not only that, but his ideas were applauded by Wells, that even so remained an opposer to Chesterton. That is something I can definitely admire, for I live in a very very very polarised environment, putrid, which is what I call "the tragedy of democracy". They say Democracy comes from Demos, I say it comes from Demon, Demoncracy.
Dang, I had no freaking idea what to write when I started, and would you look at this post now? So many meaningful words! I really don't like to extend myself too much, but I do want to close this post with a picture, a best of Instagram. So let's jump to it.
Another small souvenir from my grandpa's office, that I took to the garden and snapped a picture of it. It is dated from somewhere around May-June 2016. Quite lovely, isn't it? And I suppose is a nice symbol of what I sketch as my opinion. It really suits my text here well. So there we have it! What a success!
With this success, I must wrap things up on this post. Thank you, my friend, for being here once again, so we can have a look at the divagation store of my mind! I hope to return really soon with more thoughts and pictures and everything in-between! I hope sooner rather than later, because it took me almost 10 days to update this blog after the last post, that's not ideal, is it? At least the post turned to be one of my best ones. Anyway, cheers, and I see you again real real REAL real soon!
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