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| The Pine Tree Flag of New England |
If you have happened to stumble upon
The Boston Pine Flag, you are probably wondering what this blog is all about, and why anyone would choose such a name.
The Boston Pine Flag is a forum for
several liberally minded freelance writers to express opinions
slightly out of the ordinary. Far too much dialogue is lost in public
debate through simply looking at the world through the same artificial lenses. The Boston Pine Flag hopes to present our readers with
articles that ask the questions that nobody asks.
As a small group of freelance writers who tend to find themselves the most liberal people in the room, we have taken our name from the Pine Tree Flag raised at the Battle of Bunker Hill in solidarity with our Yankee ancestors who did the most liberal thing imaginable in there era--replace colonial rule with the direct democracy of the local town meeting.
Although we do not exclusively represent the interests of socialist secessionist New England Yankees, since that demographic is microscopically small in the current era, we at The Boston Pine Flag will try to present some of the most liberal commentary available.
The topics may be unheard of and the political opinions expressed may be ones that no one would dare mention in polite company, but we hope that our readers will be able to find stuff here that they cannot find anywhere else. Our goal is to be an alternative voice on the fringes of alternative media.
We do not desire that our reader will
agree with us. That would be boring. Rather we at The Boston Pine Flag
hope that our reader will be shocked by almost every conclusion that
we draw without compromising the logic of our arguments. We wish our
Op-eds to be as different from the mainstream as Leibniz's geometry
is from Euclid's.
Though in the pages of this blog we may
present a strange world where parallel lines intersect and planes are
finite mentioning every counter intuitive observation as fast as we
can upload them, we are neither revolutionary nor ideological
purists. We are free-thinkers, and the unfortunate truth is that to
ask free-thinkers to be either revolutionary or ideologically
consistent is, to use an old expression, like herding cats.
In a world that seems to be enamored
with goose-stepping to ever increasingly right-wing ideologies, some
of those on the left may feel that it would be nice if there were a
movement on the left that was strong enough and unified enough to
combat this trend. If you are searching the forgotten corners of the
Internet for that, we must apologize for you have come to the wrong
place. The most we claim to be is a somewhat eccentric site which
encourages our writers to be at least modestly erudite on the
subjects they take to pen.
Presenting our reader with intriguing
and accurate information is our raison d'etre. If you have
found that here feel free to read more—it is free by the way.
Gene Ogorodov
Editor
