Having recently made my first post to this arm-pit of the web (see if they'll say I'm brown nosing now, and yes I'm just kidding) I found that while the opinions, topics and nature of the individuals present and posting are varied that the willingness to accept the opinion of others may not be. This, sadly, is a common reality in all parts of the world and particularly significant in today's popular culture.

Perhaps the cause for this is our unwillingness to accept the selfish interest of each of us as individuals. We are each an imperfect being, human, and each of us are driven by our own self-interest. These self-interests often not aligned with our known or stated motives or with our betterment.

The blogosphere permits us to develop the "persona" that we wish to effect for ourselves, while we often chose to do it for reasons we are unaware, and often we claim that it is for others. Few things in fact are for others, whether it be the supposed good will of the Liberal or the sharing of faith by the Religious.

This being said, I declare my interest and thusly avoid the criticism of the naïve who fail to accept themselves while claiming to accept all others, I blog for my own enjoyment. There are things I enjoy more, and things that I would rather be doing, but in lieu of those things, I blog. While doing so, I may learn a thing or two, if I'm fortunate, and I may change along the way, it has been known to happen. But I do it for myself, not for you, and while you may read my post or not, the choice is your choice, and the reason is your reason, not mine.