Full Spectrum Culture

“Fidel Castro and Hillary Clinton object.”

It took me almost four years to change my mind about this, and though I have made peace with the new arrangement it will still take time for me to get used to it. I speak of course of my decision to swap the color assignments of Nature and Market. Ever since summer of 2005 on this website, the Realm of the Market has been green and the Realm of Nature (originally called “Creation”) was orange. Something in the back of my head was always asking me why it was this way and vice versa, and I always answered that something with two reasons:

• In America, the color green is associated with money, so why not?
• I find the modern environmental movement obnoxious, so I was reluctant to give them their color of choice.

In the end, my reasons were based on my whims and predilections, without any other basis. This is silly, so the justification for the color swap are now as follows:

• I believe that the United States dollar will sometime soon be collapsing like a house of cards. Since “greenback” will soon once again be a term of derision, the Realm of the Market will be given instead the color of fire, which may be more appropriate considering the power and destructiveness of that “Element”.
• Seriously, it only makes sense that the Realm of Nature shold be represented by the color that can be seen almost everywhere outside of the limits of any city. So you greenies can have your precious color. I respect your desire to preserve nature and keep things clean for future generations, and agree with it to a point, though for the entirely different reason that we are commanded to do such things by God. That said, I still think that your ideas about naturally occurring microbe-to-man evolution and human-caused climate change that you have foisted upon the minds of a fallen human race are highly preposterous hoaxes.

That is all. (And really, it’s not much.)

…and the new ones just feel a lot more appropriate. Here are the details:

• “Church” has become “Religion“,
• “Creation” has become “Nature“, &
• “State” has become “Government“.

This change has already taken place at the Bible site as well.

“Not exactly what Ray Bradbury envisioned, but close.”

Like the beginning of the new look? I’ll be bringing in some of the familiar graphics as I get to know this Wordpress theme, but overall, you will find that this site will be getting more simple and less busy in appearance, mainly because I won’t be asking for it do quite so much. It won’t have to do so much, because I am rolling out other websites to do some of the tasks that this website used to do, all under the name “Full Spectrum”. Here are my plans at their sketchiest:

• Full Spectrum Culture — This main site, covering the cultural news of the day and linking to the other sites in ways that I have only vague ideas about so far.
• The Full Spectrum Bible — All my scriptural studies will be put here. The website is up and ready to go, but it is what I consider a bit of a blank slate at this point.
• Full Spectrum Politics — Also known as the Center for General Interest Politics, it is where people can enter data on the politicians that represent them or otherwise just become more aware about the experiences, biases and predilections of the individual politicians that represent us.
• Full Spectrum History — Just a domain name at this point. A constant interest of mine is to view history through this paradigm that I have come up with, but the other interests above always seem to take precedence. Someday, maybe, when I retire…

So I for one am finding this all very exciting. Whether anyone else ever does remains to be seen. On my to-do list is to start writing about the paradigm to a fuller extent with a view to getting more people interested, if not as obsessed with it as I am. As always, stay tuned…

The content of this site will soon be peeling off to different sites, but it will still all be undera new common name. More information very soon.