The Boys Wear Pants, Men Wear Trousers Prime Directive

Human beings are meant to live as free individuals and true freedom lies beyond all human knowledge, experience, and systems of thought and governance. True Freedom is not made by man, nor can man possess it as a commodity to buy and sell. True freedom cannot be owned, possessed, endowed, or taken away by any man or institution of man. A just government is one that recognizes and protects the rights of individuals to pursue their visions of happiness provided they do not infringe upon the lives or property of other citizens. Collective laws and their enforcement are extensions of the inherent individual right to protect one’s life and property from being infringed upon by others and when laws go beyond the measure of securing individual rights and property, the law has become a tyranny unto itself and authority must be revoked by the individuals who collectively authorize its use to preserve a social structure of justice. A just society is the product of an education founded upon the freedom of the individual with an emphasis on civic responsibility and compassion for differences–this blog aims to support this type of education.

About the Boys Wear Pants, Men Wear Trousers Blog

This blog was created to take over the world, overthrow all authority, topple ancient institutions of thought and worship, and to smite all non-believers in the Boys Wear Pants, Men Wear Trousers Prime Directive. But if none of those things happen, I’d be happy just creating original and interesting content for the individual reader. As a freshman Creative Writing major at Bowling Green State University in the Fall of 1996, I began a weekly newsletter titled “Transdescriptions” which included my thoughts on life, politics, science, philosophy, art, God and a number of other subjects which fascinated me. I made hundreds of copies in the campus computer lab and handed them out to everyone I knew–so this blog started out on paper.

I bought my first computer after graduating college in the summer of 2000 and created my own hard coded website shortly after. It was a blog format, with the most recent posts sitting on top of older posts which were also categorized by month and subject, but it was all hard coded. In the spring of 2005, I finally acquiesced and started a free blogger site which I migrated to a paid hosting site under PowerBlogs in August, 2005 and finally to Wordpress in 2006.

This site was named Boys Wear Pants, Men Wear Trousers because this is a line that my conservative Brother-in-Law would often throw at me when I made the mistake of calling my pants “pants.” I thought is was an interesting tag line which represented how men are expected to be adults but are marketed to like they were children (I guess the same could be said of women as well); but it was also representative of the entire state of our society, how we are each trapped between adolescence and maturity, between love and hatred, between peace and war. I wanted to create a blog that would explore these rifts and see if there were any ways to bridge the gaps.

I believe in proper grammar and sentence structure. You won’t find any of that cutesy-cutesy new age writer crap where everything is lower case and there isn’t any punctuation or spell check performed. I ruthlessly edit everything I post, sometimes going through dozens of revisions until I reach what I consider to be perfection. I can’t guarantee that every post will be “According to Strunk” perfect but I will guarantee that I will correct any errors that readers point out.

I believe in ideas over personality. I’m not going to tell you that I’m a rock star, that I’ve slept with 10,000 women, or even that I’m very interesting or different from you (actually I’m quite normal and my wife would say “boring”). But I will tell you that my ideas about the way things should be are better than the majority of people in the Blogosphere, many of whom are, as Bushwick Bill would say, “talking loud but ain’t saying anything.”

Why You Should Subscribe to This Blog

Longevity. I’m in this for the long haul. I’ll be doing this blog long after a major publishing house picks up my work and I have an agent, a high-priced lawyer, an accountant, and all the headaches that come with success and genius. This blog will be my cornerstone to bring me back to reality. It will be the medium of conversation I have with my reading audience who will do as much to shape my thinking as I will theirs. I was a born storyteller, a single child who spent hours and hours creating elaborate storylines with my GI Joes, Transformers, Thundercats, or Star Wars men. When it came time to put the toys away, the writer in me stepped forth and picked up the tools of my imagination and I haven’t looked back since. I underwent an enormous spiritual and intellectual transformation at the age of 19, during which time I formulated a philosophy of living which I call “Between the Points,” a philosophy which has saved me from madness many times in the last ten years. I believe that humanity can come to an understanding of our place in a violent and mysterious universe which has an inevitable beginning and end for each one of us. I am not afraid to challenge myself, my ideas, or change my opinions provided that they all fall under the prime directive under which I have set forth.

And I want you to come along for the ride. So, please sign up through your RSS aggregator.

Josh

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