They say the website is dead. They talk of social media as the final evolution of the internet. They claim that without their gigantic reach, and their constant quest for attention, it’s impossible to resist the urge to use their platform. Well, fuck that. There are other ways.

Full disclosure: I have not blogged regularly in over a decade, or podcasted in the last few years. In my late 20’s and early thirties, I was making what people now called content at a furious pace. For me, it was just a form of self expression that eventually turned into activism (some might call it “evangelizing”). My voice became one of a handful of early adopters to podcasting, when just existing was almost a guarantee of listeners. The world of online atheism was exploding, and these were heady times. It wasn’t clear just how big things would get, and there remained an innocence and optimism that has since passed in these cynical years. Alas, it didn’t last forever.

When I finished writing “Bible Stories”, I was technically homeless, and my dreams that the book would provide the needed capital vanished in smoke. Sales were essentially zero, and my absence from the community, along with my general disdain for the politicization of belief drew me further and further away. By then, I felt my contribution to atheism had been largely completed, with the exception of my book trilogy still awaiting its final chapter.

I had to rebuild, and there was no time, or any real motivation, to continue on trying to emulate this new generation of “content” producers: a term that describes perfectly the mechanistic and artistically devoid process of creation for the youtube generation. The online world had changed, and money has a way of ruining everything. As advertising began to pollute the internet, it fundamentally changed the structure of how we live our lives. The dictates of chasing after views, and the endless quest for stimulation has driven people into a collective frenzy to produce endless materials in an effort to drive revenue for themselves. In other words, it’s less about sharing your thoughts, and more about catering them to the lowest common denominator. It’s what puts the “con” in “content”.

I wish to be free of these constraints. I want to reawaken interest in blogs again. I don’t want to share these thoughts for social media, or youtube, or any of the algorithms that dictate your lives. If you wish to know me and my work, then you will visit this place, and read my writings. I won’t promise to write every day. I am not that insightful. But I am interested in sharing some of my unusual thoughts, and maybe along the way a few may turn out to be insights.

If you’ve already heard of me, or listened to my shows in the past, this space will be where I answer your questions, and share some of my new ambitions as I prepare to show you all what I’ve been working on these past few years.

Perhaps this will fail, and I will have only been able to reach the bots that routinely try and hack websites. If that’s the case, then at least I won’t be alone. I’ll have plenty of friends trying to steal my identity.