Let’s Get Started!
Friends,
Firstly, I want to welcome you to my website, and I also want to welcome you to join me on this journey of civic engagement, enlightened discussion, and self-discovery. When I set out to create this platform, I not only wanted to showcase my affinity and connectedness to civic life, but I also wanted to provide a place that allowed for all people groups, no matter your race, religion, or socioeconomic status, to use as a launching pad for their own personally insightful dialogues with their family, friends, and peers.
Too often we allow ourselves, in this age of nearly instantaneous news and content, to get wrapped in information bubbles that inhibit our ability to create unique perspectives that are formed around our experiences and foundational takeaways. To me, such bubbles are necessary to help create the frame around the portrait of our beliefs, but going further, I believe that we should not allow the frame to solely guide the portrait of our ideas. We must, as citizens in this democratic society endowed with many rights, namely for the context of this discussion, free speech, utilize our resources and create fulfilling networks of thought that are filled with not only thoughts of our own, but some also that contrast with our pre-existing beliefs. Such contrast, ushers in a rhetorical dynamism that creates space for individuals to explore both, facts and understandings to draw closer, under a personal maxim, to a more sound and supported platform of beliefs and ideologies.
While Troy’s Take is not intended to be exhaustive in some of its discussion, I desire that the contents of this section create space for my contribution to the rhetorical ecosystem on politics and social society. I also intend for my perspectives here to be similarly contributory, at least slightly, in guiding you towards that ever-evolving and increasingly more cogent collection of beliefs and stances that help to inform your dialogues within your community. From here, on this platform, I plan to discuss many different topics from current events to political philosophy, but overall, the discussion here shall catalyze introspection.
So, let's get started!
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