Hello internet universe, I’ve considered creating a blog for some time now and decided it was time to end my contemplation.
The name of my blog, The Devcratic Method (Dev is short for my first name Devin), is a play on The Socratic Method. The Socratic Method “is named after Greek philosopher Socrates, who taught students by asking question after question, seeking to expose contradictions in the students’ thoughts and ideas to then guide them to arrive at a solid, tenable conclusion.” While I will not be implementing the exact technique of Socrates, I do strive to challenge by asking questions, expose contradictions and the people who perpetrate them, and try to help people arrive at a soundly reasoned conclusion or at least inspire people to reevaluate their stance on a certain issue. More specifically, the blog’s primary purpose is to challenge what the media and politicians convey to the people of the United States, whether it is opinions that are illogical or “facts” that don’t hold up to reality’s standards. A secondary purpose of the blog is to test popular societal beliefs that are largely unfounded. Also, I will from time to time write about topics that stray from this blog’s intended purpose. Motivation for my postings will be drawn from articles, clips, speeches, and other sources.
My hope is that I can encourage those who read my posts to think and take the initiative to research the issues themselves. Most of my opinions, at least my political ones, are formulated with the above technique in mind. That is I absorb what I’m being conveyed and challenge that information by doing my own research and analysis until I come up with a solid position that would be difficult to deconstruct. Unfortunately, a drawback is that it is very tough to find information that is unbiased. You might anticipate people reporting the news or politicians lobbying for their position to do so with a certain amount of inherent bias. However, I have discovered that a lot of information reported to the public is either reported to promote a point of view (which is egregious when perpetrated by the media), is misinformation, or is an outright lie. These discoveries have bothered me and driven me to the point of taking time out of my life in order to post on this blog.
I’d like to add that another "slight" difference in my method from Socrates’s is that I do not anticipate my method to result in my death. Please enjoy my postings and feel free to provide your input.
