| This website was created in May of
            2003 to host the piece This War Is
            About So Much More, which I had written in April and put up
            on a temporary website as one single large document. The response I
            got to that document was such that I decided to create a better
            website for it, which is this website. This War Is About So Much
            More is the first major piece I had ever written, but I enjoyed
            it and have continued to write on other topics as I see fit in my
            spare time. What this website is not: This website is not 
			about "conspiracy theories", or any other such nonsense. This 
			website is about documentation that I feel, based on my own 
			experiences growing up and living in America, is not exposed to 
			public scrutiny to the extent that it should be.  I do not intend to convince anyone of
            anything. I am merely presenting material. Just like me, everyone is
            free to research the facts on their own, and I encourage everyone to
            research anything I have presented here in further detail. All facts
            presented on this website are subject to challenge. If you see
            anything that you have proof is factually incorrect, then e-mail me
            and tell me, or you can do so publicly in the Feedback section. I
            have made changes to the material of the website based on feedback
            in the past. You will find facts and analysis on this
            website that you will not find anywhere else presented the way that
            I present them. Take for example the article In Depth Analysis of American Income and Taxation.
            There is an inescapable fact about this article, and that fact is
            that all of the information in the article comes from freely
            available public government sources, such as the CBO and 
            Census Bureau, and all of the information is relatively easy to
            present, yet, this information, as simple, plain, and
            important as it is, is never presented in a meaningful manner by the
            American media or by American politicians. It is there; it is important;
            it can easily be presented, and in fact anyone who is honestly
            trying to encourage understanding by the public would present it,
            yet our leadership does not present it. Whether you agree with the
            opinions presented on this website or not, the fact remains that all
            of the information presented here is verifiable, solid, and important
            information. You are free to interpret that information however you
            want, and in a way totally opposite from the way that I have, but
            the question to ask is: Why isn't this information more openly
            discussed in America in the first place? And no, a conspiracy is not
            the answer. The main goal of this website is to encourage
            further thought about the topics and information presented here.
            This is certainly not intended to be a final destination for truth
            seekers, only a waypoint in a sea of information. 
			This website is funded purely by myself, without 
			any commercial interest. I have intentionally avoided any commercial 
			association with this website as a matter of principle. As one of 
			the great philosophers of our world once wrote: 
			There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write 
			for the subject’s sake, and those who write for writing’s sake. The 
			first kind have had thoughts or experiences which seem to them worth 
			communicating, while the second kind need money and consequently 
			write for money. They think in order to write, and they may be 
			recognised by their spinning out their thoughts to the greatest 
			possible length, and also by the way they work out their thoughts, 
			which are half-true, perverse, forced, and vacillating; then also by 
			their love of evasion, so that they may seem what they are not; and 
			this is why their writing is lacking in definiteness and clearness. Consequently, it is soon recognised that they write for the sake 
			of filling up the paper, and this is the case sometimes with the 
			best authors; for example, in parts of Lessing’s Dramaturgie, 
			and even in many of Jean Paul’s romances. As soon as this is 
			perceived the book should be thrown away, for time is precious. As a 
			matter of fact, the author is cheating the reader as soon as he 
			writes for the sake of filling up paper; because his pretext for 
			writing is that he has something to impart. Writing for money and 
			preservation of copyright are, at bottom, the ruin of literature. It 
			is only the man who writes absolutely for the sake of the subject 
			that writes anything worth writing. What an inestimable advantage it 
			would be, if, in every branch of literature, there existed only a 
			few but excellent books! This can never come to pass so long as 
			money is to be made by writing. It seems as if money lay under a 
			curse, for every author deteriorates directly he writes in any way 
			for the sake of money. The best works of great men all come from the 
			time when they had to write either for nothing or for very little 
			pay. This is confirmed by the Spanish proverb: honra y provecho 
			no caben en un saco (Honour and money are not to be found in 
			the same purse). The deplorable condition of the literature of 
			to-day, both in Germany and other countries, is due to the fact that 
			books are written for the sake of earning money. Every one who is in 
			want of money sits down and writes a book, and the public is stupid 
			enough to buy it. The secondary effect of this is the ruin of 
			language. A great number of bad authors eke out their existence entirely by 
			the foolishness of the public, which only will read what has just 
			been printed. I refer to journalists, who have been appropriately 
			so-called. In other words, it would be “day labourer.”
			-Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851; On Authorship and Style |