Intro and purpose

Maou Tsaou: A scholar who, having failed, gives himself over to wine.

Ne·o·phyte/’nee-uh-fahyt /Noun

A person who is new to a subject, skill, or belief.

So Maou Tsaou is a “drunken neophyte.

That’s fair enough as far as it goes I suppose but it certainly begs the question, “a neophyte of what?”

My answer to the question, “what have you got?”

In other words on its most favorable blush Maou could be said to be “a Jack of many trades but a master of none.”

Another way to say it without churching it all up is that Maou knows practically nothing about a whole bunch of things.

So what I hope for this lil’ project is a post or two a week on whatever is tickling my intellectual fancy (such as it is) at the time.

Generally that has to do with a lot of history, some technology, a little mathematics scattered in here and there, a bit of biology, and a growing appreciation for arts, both crafting and fine.

Of course, these days it’s hard to ignore politics… much as I’d rather.

Ergo, if anyone at all ever bothers reading this stuff look for the first few topics I focus on to try and come to grips with just what is going on in that realm currently.

I have some gut instincts about what’s happening politically these days but I’m curious as to how accurate those instincts actually are.

Opinion does not equal expertise no matter how strong the emotional investment in the opinion.

I prefer expertise to instinct.

The question of which expert to follow, for example Friedman or Keynes, is another problem altogether but I figure the least I can do is try and show who I choose to follow and why when I reach those junctures.

Before I can reach those junctures though I’ve got to have some kind of idea of what something like economics actually is to begin with.

That’s what this blog is for.

I think of it as a kind of record of my ignorance.

I don’t expect everyone to agree with me and don’t expect to find all the “right” answers.

I do hope to refine my thoughts and ideas on various subjects through this process and also hope to find a few answers that are “right” for myself at least.

“Sunshine go away today

I don't feel much like dancing

Some man's gone he's tried to run my life

Don't know what he's asking

Working starts to make me wonder where

The fruits of what I do are going

He says in love and war all is fair

But he's got cards he ain't showing

How much does it cost, I'll buy it

The time is all we've lost, I'll try it

But he can't even run his own life

I'll be damned if he'll run mine, Sunshine”

-Jonathan Edwards, “Sunshine (Go Away Today)”