The Blog is Back: A New Focus (sort of)

Life has a way of changing priorities over time. When this blog first started, I was very much writing as an academic. But in the meantime of joining the corporate world, the writing stopped – the reading did not.

I saw a gradual process over my outlook toward life, my experience working in corporate, and my relation to the world. What was once very idealistic views formed in the academy slowly turned more jaded – I began to see why so many escape to virtue ethics or religion, but did really understand why. My outlook has, and is, a continuous development on the utilitarian axis or one of its reactions... viewing the different traditions as tools in a kit with my preferred being to explain things as maximizing satisfaction and/or capabilities.

Then I read Linguistic Justice by Philippe Van Parijs. There sparked a wide interest in a field I never considered – language rights and even a confrontation with myself on my lack of Spanish speaking-ability despite being half-Mexican. Like Máret Ánne Sara in this FT article, I found my Mexicaness while an undergraduate at a very international university in London. There, I did not have to explain my background or defend why I looked the way I did or being Latino or Mexican-American in a place that is actively against my being. I could just be... myself.

So this blog, which originally started as a Covid-era outlet while doing research on Mill, will be changing focus. I will speak less in the style of an academic-article and more fluid. To engage with an exploration of ideas I find rather important for whatever reason... some of these will be around multilingualism, minority languages, minority cultures, free speech, and even broader categories such as religion and secularism, and more importantly, work. Specifically, sales work (happy to speak to current humanities / philosophers about this career path). Only time will see what new direction we'll take here...

Lastly, in the age of gen-AI, this blog will continue to not be perfect, contain typos and errors, and be my journal and not written by AI.