Article 1: The Beginning of the Journal (24/04/2021)
As this is the first entry in this journal (yes, I shall call it a journal because I’m not some hippy millennial that uses the word ‘blog’), I might as well talk a bit about myself. I come from the country of Rutland in England, a rural and beautiful yet irrelevant county which is the second smallest in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. At the time of writing this, I am a 19 year old who is unusual for my age: I am a Christian and I hold morally and culturally conservative views. Due to the fact that I am a undergraduate student at a university, my positions are neither widely spoken about nor accepted in this climate of academic and student censorship. My true positions are relatively unknown beyond a single friend at university who shares very similar political views as I do. It is difficult to defend Christian values in the heartlands of metropolitan liberalism, where self constraint is thrown out the window and my values are neither not popular nor listened to. However, I do not want to descend into the depths of the victimhood culture. I don’t believe the claiming of the ‘left’ is entirely responsible for all of societies ills. Many of on the ‘right’ have to accept responsibility that they and past generations have given up the rich Christian culture that used to exist in this culture and made it an enriching place which has been undermined since the 1960s. Don’t get me wrong, there has been some important developments, especially regarding race relations since the 1960s, as well as better food, air quality and technology and looking back, I would probably hate to live in the 1950s. However, even some of the material gains in some regards cannot replace the things we have lost, such as a culture which encouraged the accumulation of knowledge, hard work and community.
Fundamentally, I am mainly writing this journal as a way mostly to ramble on about my political views and be surprised if anyone is interested in it. While I do not get the opportunity to speak much about my views, I thought that I might as well put pen to paper (or more appropriately keyboard to screen) to give an outlet to my thoughts beyond the confides of my head. However, this idea firmly came into being as a way to procrastinate over completing essays, it has evolved into a side project that will ramble about stuff people might find interesting if they ever come across it. Topics that interest are history, politics, the state of Christianity in Britain and the west, as the as potentially some stuff that I find interesting in the news or on Twitter.
