Diversity and cohesion

Beside the swimming pool

After being a reader and generally afraid to commit my thoughts to a particular idea, since ideas rub each other and change each other and force its thinkers to declare themselves wrong--what a horrible experience, to proclaim an idea and then submit one's head to public scorn-- I find this way to intellectual bravery.
So, hiding behind a surname, I can dare to try out ideas, evaluate thoughts, interpret reality. And this writing forces me to some kind of cohesion, rigor, searching. So here I go. At 63, an essayer.