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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
Help people realize, foster, and benefit from our mutual interdependence through art, experience, information, and love.
ABOUT ME
I'm on a quest to explore myself, the world, and how the two fit together. I love to learn, am eager to experience new things and places, and like to surround myself with people who do the same.
PHILOSOPHY
"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd" - Voltaire
Pragmatism, pure and simple. I judge an idea, or action, strictly by its consequences. This is my epistemology. Since I only have one perspective, I need to get other people's opinions and perspectives to get a fuller understanding of ideas and actions' consequences. There is a moral philosophy involved here, as well as an epistemological one. Once we do, we should be able to say whether we agree or not with it, and there should be political mechanisms for doing so. This is where politics comes in, namely social democracy. Suffusing it all is humanism - a respect for mankind and its potential, an a drive to help us reach that potential through creative, passionate, intelligent, cooperative action.
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
Host N' Travel
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
I've been hosted by a few folks in London and Milwaukee, and have shown some folks around NYC as well. I'm loving it.
Interests
Music - mostly Baroque and mid-century Jazz, with some proto-punk/funk thrown in.
Movies - intense dramas with lighter comedies thrown in. Chinatown mixed with Superbad.
Poetry - W.H. Auden, Whitman, and Dylan Thomas top the list.
Architecture - Richardsonian Romanesque
- arts
- poetry
- architecture
- politics
- movies
- traveling
- music
- jazz
Music, Movies, and Books
Music: Bach, Yo La Tengo, The Sonics, and Bill Evans gives you an ideaBooks: mostly poetry and non-fiction. WH Auden, Baudelaire, and Walt Whitman for the former, Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs, Thomas Kloppenberg, Thomas Bender, and William James for the latterMovies - anything by Terrence Mallick, Kurosawa, for starters
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
Gotten in a fistfight with a racist, homophobic priest on the subway.
Teach, Learn, Share
The only way I can reach my potential is if those around me are reaching theirs, and vice-versa. Thus, there is no division between the individual good and the common good - they are utterly interdependent. It is a question of finding the right balance.