The Half-Hearted Manifesto

A blog.

With many people, such a thing has started to become a testament to self-righteousness. “I feel that my opinion is important enough that I shall create my own, personal forum to broadcast my opinions across the internets!” At least, that can be the perception of purpose for having such a thing.

But slowly, a realization struck me. When people talk to me, whether at my place of employment, at school, over the internet through the various soapboxes provided to me, or even at home, it seems as if there are a few people out there that actually care about certain things I have to say. Through some avenues, particularly further reaching ones such as Batman-On-Film, I’ve been able to make connections with a wide variety of different people to talk about one of my greatest passions in entertainment: comics. Particularly, super hero comics.

In other ways, I’ve been able to talk with a lot of people over another aspect of life that’s important to me, namely current events and American politics. For a lot of people, I understand that this is a very dry and polarizing topic, a point with which I disagree vehemently. Public policy, both domestic and international, shapes the very way we live. Maybe not in an immediate way, or an extreme way, but that is one of the components of our society that shapes how we live. How we’re governed. Forgive me for not being particularly fond of sports, but every four years, a presidential debate carries the importance of a super bowl.

So, I enjoy the banter, the specificity, and the insight into people that discussions about politics and current events can provide. You very easily start to see that many people don’t believe in something you may perceive as “wrong” out of malice, they may actually believe that what they’re arguing is the better way. Because of this, it’s always best not to question the motives of your opponents in a political discussion. More broadly, it’s best not to do that in any argument.

So, after belaboring a little bit, if you don’t know me, this is who I am: my name is Chris Clow. I’m a 22-year old university student that works in a comic book store. I believe in the heroes I read about every Wednesday. I also believe in the power people hold, each one of us, to shape the world in which we live. I may post things on here that you disagree with, but my intentions aren’t malicious. I’m just another voice in the ocean of internet blogs that decided I didn’t have anywhere else to put my opinions but on a blogspot account.

Does that make me rather pathetic? Maybe.

But hopefully, through this exercise in pitiful redundancy, I might be able to foster a thought or two. Maybe I’ll be able to vent my own frustrations and make a bad day a little bit better. Maybe I’ll be able to just shoot with people over mutual interests.

Either way, it seemed that the positives outweigh the negatives, and I’m just a guy trying to straighten out those kinds of economics in this condition called life.

Can you really blame me?

Wait, don’t answer that. This is the internet, of course you can.