Journal

This journal is a daily account of my creative work. It's intended to be accurate, not entertaining. If you decide to read it you'll see how I actually write and compose. It's also freewritten, quite unlike my other writing. The ideas I express here are thoughts going through my head rather than definitive views or even solid opinions. So don't take them too seriously. To prevent AI scraping, older entries require a (free) subscription.

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April 20, 2026

Fairly productive day today thanks to a very strict regimen. It seems my body can't tolerate even the slightest variation. Hoping I can string together a few good days.

Despite all the delays and health issues I am now halfway through part five of six in the upcoming religion piece. In other words I am 3/4 done. Given the current pace I expect to finish sometime next week.

Feeling an increasing distance from society every year. Everything seems to be breaking down. Even social media, which I never liked at all, is breaking down. I am not sure what is going to be left.

I have recently come to feel that part of the reason I have been shocked by the hysterical negative reactions to my writing from the public is not just naivete on my part - although that certainly bears part of the blame - but that in the last decade or two the average person has become less virtuous than they were in the past, and that this process has probably been going on for generations. Our media ecosystem feeds people what they want to hear, and when various other factors I don't feel like taking apart in a journal entry compound with that, the result is a populace that has less and less virtue. There is no reason to think that the level of virtue in a population is a static thing or fully biological. History argues the contrary. And it seems to me that our system progressively reduces the virtues needed to seek the truth. These being humbleness, openness, patience, and above all desire to know the true rather than the flattering. It is easy to argue that these have never been common. Too easy. I suspect there has been a gradual change for the worse.

However, complaints about decline and fall get old. One has to do something regardless: wind up some music for the snow globe.