Welcome to Ideas of an Idealist

I, Joshua Valett, started this blog in April 2011 as a way to get my views across to the general public. A guest contributor, Nathan Xavier, wrote a few posts as well, joined later by a Miss Bella Darling. My current 5 posts are on the front page, and you can always check out previous posts in my archive. If you want to be alerted when a new post goes up, you can now follow by email!

The blog was ended in October of 2012, though there are murmurings that Joshua shall return as the next Great Prophet, though it was a dead leaf that proclaimed that.

Some rumblings are heard through the treetops. Panic ensues in cities. A single message, displayed on every electronic device....

Rise. Rise. Rise.

In unrelated news, I'm bringing it back!

10.08.2012

The End

Last night, I finished watching the series finale of Entourage. No, you are reading a new post- as incredulous as it might sound- not the post Let Go (or Let it Go, I can never remember). It was still good, by all accounts, but it didn't inspire the same fervor that it did the first time around. I mean, a lot of the issues had to do with the season being cut short midway through production. Plotlines were raised and dropped in the final episode. As much as I like Sophia, it took her six episodes to decide to get married. Six. And she ardently disliked him for four. But Sloan! Oh Sloan. But let's get back to Let it Go. I got a lot of acclaim for that one, at least the most acclaim I've ever got for a blog post. People liked it, and I think I can see why. It's broad, I don't actually say anything, and it's got a nice message. The problem is that it sucks. If you like it, don't let me convince you that it sucks. Think what you think, despite what I think. It's not my job to tell you how to feel. But I just can't like it. I've gone through a lot since I wrote that post. And I don't think people matter as much as I thought. People are as much of a mixed bag as you can get. There are a few people who I genuinely believe should be revered, people I know who are so awesome that it baffles me that the school is not renamed in their honor. And there are people who I think the world would be better off without. I mean, I'm not going to go kill them because I've got the muscle composition of a crippled infant, but also because who says I'm in a good position to judge? The point is that all people don't matter. You might not matter to me. I might not matter to you. Earn that privilege, dammit. I guess this is a good time to end my blog. It's been a good run, I guess. 7000 roundabout views is nice, I guess, but other sites get that daily, instead of almost two years. I haven't been very good about updating daily. I'm not exactly going out on top. I've written some good posts, some bad. I think the writing experience genuinely helped me, and so did some of the feedback. I did really enjoy what I had here. I wish you all the best and nothing less, -Joshua Zeb Valett. I've got Dishonored to play.