badstar

Must. Not. Debate. Complicated. Emotional. Issues. With. The. Philosophy. Major.

*grits teeth*

Soooooo

chronarchy asks me to write an article about how feeling a certain disconnect from one's family and ancestry can color one's work in ADF/certain DP requirements. And I'm talking to Jon (one of the 4 or 5 friends from high school, familiar with my familial discnnect) about this and next thing you know, the issue is 634 times broader and more complicated than that, addressing not a specific minority of an already small group of people- but the world at large, and he's proposing I write something that could take volumes (or, as he put it "ten pages would cover it")

He had some good ideas. He had some damned good ideas. But I think we have far different understandings of the scope and purpose of this particular piece of writing.

Other than straight up running it through my brain and thinking about it for anything more than 12 seconds, the quickest way that I know to complicate any given topic is to run it by Jon and then discuss. Usually it's amusing. Sometimes though, my brain just goes 'splody.

Maybe somewhere down the line I'll be able to write somethign like that, but right now I am definitely NOT prepared to delve into anything so cerebral about a topic that, like it or not, can still trigger a fairly strong emotional response.

time to sleep.