This is my first post in “Against the Grain”. I hope you may find interest in topics that I find exciting and engage in an open discussion that examines conventions, convictions, and so called common knowledge in a critical manner and perhaps reassembles them back into a newly examined package of beliefs. Controversy, provocacy, radical and anarchist disection of all so called “facts” from all angles of a discussion are most welcome. I invite guests to contribute posts and I hope to introduce some interesting people I have met along the way.
The topics that interest me are in human behaviour, society’s evolution and change, utalization of technology to better society, organization’s behavior, education, politics and economic theory. I am not an expert in any of these but regardless my belief is that authority should always be questioned. On the other hand and in contradiction to the opinion of a mentor, Asher Levi, “just because” is an answer.
I hope to create friendships, mutual respect, possible call for action, share some personal stories and real discussion leaving political correctness and hipocracy out while engaging in a respectful and meaningful dialogue.
Actually this is my third attempt at blogging. The first was a random list of thoughts which I called “Hagigim” (thoughts of philosophical nature in Hebrew) and the second tried to keep track of over 300 movies I watched in an 18 months period in 2004-2005. Both were mainly for personal use and experimental in nature. In this attempt I will try to reach out to an audience that may want to participate.
My first topics will be (not necessarily in this order): fun vs. health, lost ideas will never return, shuffle vs. concept album, sociology and management, increase in the income gap is more dangerous then El Quayda, and my favorite topic de jour, why choosing Palin is an act of sexism greater than anything that has been said about her by anyone.
I owe gratitude to Jeff Keni Pulver for inspiring this attempt. The name of this blog is my interpretation of the famous “haffooch”, the hot beverage so popular in Israel where you pour the coffee on top of the milk and the social, business and entrepreneurial culture associated with it he mentions so often.
Let the journey begin…
