You have to start somewhere
7th June 2007
I usually try to tailor my conversation to the interests of my audience. The problem with starting this blog is that I don’t know who my audience will be. When I was invited to create this blog, I asked what I should write about. The response was that I should just write about what interests me. That covers a lot of territory.
The first question that had to be answered was what the title should be. I finally settled on the Nexilist’s Notebook. The word “nexilist” is derived from ” Nexialist”a neologism coined by a science fiction author named A.E. Van Vogt in 1950 novel called “The Voyage of the Space Beagle”. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Voyage_of_the_Space_Beagle
He defined Nexialist as “One skilled in the science of joining together in an orderly fashion the knowledge of one field of learning with that of other fields”. I changed the spelling because 1) I think his spelling is awkward, 2) I think my spelling is a better use of the root nexus with the usual “ist” ending of a practitioner such as “chem-ist”, 3) Nexialist was already in wide use and the domain names were taken.
I have been interested in interdisciplinary studies since I was a kid. So this blog will cover a wide variety of subjects including how everything is connected. Politics, society, psychology, technology, religion, myth, dreams, the arts, and winning at the game of life. Welcome to my blog.