{"id":9905,"date":"2009-09-29T21:03:39","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T04:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=9905"},"modified":"2009-09-29T21:03:09","modified_gmt":"2009-09-30T04:03:09","slug":"save-the-world-from-home-in-your-spare-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/9905\/save-the-world-from-home-in-your-spare-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Save the world from home in your spare time!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve known for more than a year that I want to write a book about what we’re getting wrong.<\/p>\n

As a species, that is.<\/p>\n

Through all of human history.<\/p>\n

Surely that’s a man-sized ambition — and perhaps also a new high-water mark for the abstract concept denoted by the word “hubris.”<\/p>\n

That’s as may be. In truth, this is an undertaking I would rather not undertake. For one thing, I’m busy and, in consequence, I’m physically tired much of the time. For another, this is less a thankless job than it is a task for which I can reasonably expect to be punished. Not officially punished, one may hope, but it seems likely that I will be derided, hectored or hounded, as I proceed with this project. I don’t shun that sort of thing, not ever, but it’s not something I actively court.<\/p>\n

But none of that matters. The ideas I want to talk about drive me wild — in the best of all possible senses. I abhor every form of the claim of unchosen duty, and yet I feel that I must go through all this, that I cannot live in peace, much less die<\/em> in peace, until I have transcribed every bit of everything that races through my brain.<\/p>\n

But I can laugh at myself, too, so much am I alike, in my incipient dotage, to Dostoevsky’s Underground Man: “I am a sick man. I am a spiteful man.” Saving the world is a madman’s obsession, after all, a belfry awaiting its loyal complement of bats.<\/p>\n

[Continue reading here<\/a>, if you like. This project is way off topic even for a blog as topically-liberated as BloodhoundBlog, so if you want to follow along at home, the main action will be at SplendorQuest.com.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve known for more than a year that I want to write a book about what we’re getting wrong. As a species, that is. Through all of human history. Surely that’s a man-sized ambition — and perhaps also a new high-water mark for the abstract concept denoted by the word “hubris.” That’s as may be. 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