Awakening

For some time now, I've had thoughts rolling around in my head on how to boil down my position on critical thinking into a "mission statement of the mind", if you will. Last night, in a fit of sleeplessness, I started to feel productive, and I realized I'd found an apt analogy! I think I finally found the right words to make the whole thing hang together.

Rather than post a huge blog entry that will just go away in a few weeks or months anyway, I've posted these thoughts in a permanent article entitled "We Are Awake".

I'm not sure if this is inspired prose or just my demented rambling, but it feels right. It feels like a distillation of everything I mean when I call myself a "critical thinker". Even if it never speaks to anyone else the way it does me, I needed to put this out there for the world to see.

Maybe some of you will find it helpful or fulfilling. I welcome your reactions.