I was hoping that there was this type of site, where a range of involvement, from armchair philosophy to applied philocsophy (pre-law, etc.) as well as in-depth inquiry, might be explored.

I am a freelance writer, handicapped - so i don't chase after it like I used to - , which has given me more time to collect, develop, live with and change my thoughts and those of others.

Seems to be an awful lot of proclamations flung around like mini-balls in a Gettysburg wheatfield. On the one hand, this would seem to be a very fruitful time for well-rounded and grounded ideas to advance into the public square, but these will most likely come through argument and challenge. (different from point-counterpoint)

What's presented now, and what most unsheltered psyches below the age of fifty have been bombarded with, it seems, is marketing psychology stunts and campaigns, and the promotion of finding familiar stimuli among the 24/7 chittering offers to stick rather gummily toward.
(Older folks have had that diet also, just not entirely since birth, so echoes of patience, dusty hot tube radio and staid presentations, I imagine, may persist).

I have found so many people fearful of continuing a conversation, even of picking up old ones to re-explore and advance - to actually move, even experimentally. My guess is that so much advertising is based on Don't Be Wrong, You're In It Alone, that easy uncertainty seems dreaded as unsafe, exposed and threatening.

I'm just looking for the kind of asylum, academy, agora, den where we can laugh about stuffy things and spend some time with the unnoticed parts we pretend to be sure of.

Oh look: emoticons! :sarcastic: :nonooo: :perplexed: I'm out of my league already :surrender: