Some people's writing has "increased science" while that of others has "increased nothing but words." Why? Because "the former were written by men that knew, and the latter by such as knew not, the doctrine they taught..." — Hobbes
Apart from what we may think of Hobbes —
Wouldn't most people prefer to belong to "those" people who contribute to human knowledge, rather than to "these" people who clutter the Internet and waste pages?
Source:
Thomas Hobbes. Elements of Philosophy Concerning Body. Part 1: Computation or Logic. Chapter 1: Of Philosophy. (1655, Latin; 1656, English.)
You might be interested to read my post on this blog about Harry G. Frankfurt's The Importance of What We Care About.
If you'd like to learn more about my work, see my thoughts on Joel Edward Goza's America's Unholy Ghosts, a book that discusses Thomas Hobbes. My article is a 5-minute read, and the link I provided is unpaywalled.
I've published books, and my next one will be Attis & Aleph: Poems of the Daimonic. It's about a man in 1930s New York who was fascinated with what the idea of eunuchs meant to him. He couldn't finish writing his book, but I finished writing this one. It's advice to overthinkers. It talks about how to see your project in a new way and take the paths that will bring happiness and completion. I need your pledge on Attis & Aleph so that I can reach minimum funding and this book can happen!
It's part of the Book Bazaar 2026, a crowdfunding event on BackerKit, Oct 29–Nov 19.
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