Why start a blog?
Because, of course, I need to practice the act of writing. I need to be writing regularly just as I ought to be exercising regularly and exercising any potential skill regularly. I need to be disciplined. Through diligence and discipline I will become less shameful and maybe a little more impressive. Right now I am and I should be very much ashamed of myself. So I must lift my regularly downcast eyes to the pen and the page, and then to the keyboard and the screen.
Why call this blog "Alien Nation"?
I recognized that better blogs have themes. I also recognized that my past writing might argue two themes: estrangement (like those of any other reader and writer who practice their estranging acts) and internationalism, by which I mean the appreciation of foreign countries and the people from them. Perhaps then the concept of my blog will be this: an exploration of what it means to believe that I am alone in this world - that I and anyone else are part of an Alien Nation.
And I love puns.
This post took 1.5 hours to create, and is woefully underdeveloped. It reads very very fast for a tone that suggests struggling with a weight of personal responsibility and the weight of the world (in trying to appreciate it).
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