About this site

Welcome

Thank you for your visit, I hope you have time to linger a while. If not, please return soon.

The internet is a relatively recent addition to the media available to us for creative expression. The difference, compared to more traditional means,  is the potential to almost instantly reach millions of other web users. No publisher’s rejections, no need to convince a gallery owner, no need to sell a script to a TV producer … just sit at home, type and upload to your website. Of course the likelihood of millions of website hits is relatively low but that really isn’t the point, is it? The point is for each of us to exercise our mostly atrophied creative muscles and actually produce something – whether hosts of others will look at it or not.

Some like to paint, others like to act or sing and I like to write. Well, to be more accurate, I like to think, to ponder, to muse (hence the somewhat naff domain name: davidsmuse.co.uk – too late, it’s done now). My thoughts used to get an occasional airing during the late night drinking sessions that, sadly, now seem to have gone the way of my youthful looks. Even in those days – while I’m certain that I expressed myself impeccably after the 4th. bottle of house red – I knew that the only way to really articulate my thoughts properly would be to write them down. I have put this off for too long and now, putting all fears of failure aside, the time has come.

Philosophy

So, the philosophy pages contain the above mentioned expression of my musing and let it be said right now that I’m somewhat daunted by the task at hand. It is all very well taking subjects like religion, war or crime & punishment and explaining my views on each in isolation. But it is a very different matter to try to weave those individual subjects into a continuous fabric: a cohesive whole. I am no Plato or Descartes nor do I have any academic background whatsoever, beyond the English secondary modern school system of the 1960′s. But the thing I realised in all those late night discussions was that I could not do justice to my views on a topic without filling in the background philosophy behind those beliefs. To do that in a short debate is practically impossible so I would always end up saying “One day, I’ll write all of this down so that you can see where I’m coming from”. And here we are.