I have taken a bit of a sabbatical and with claude as my research assistant looking up existing material have dived deeper into many of the issues that were emerging in the previous blog. can you know something that you do not know? of course not. if you do not know it then, you do not know it. this apparently simple truism we break all the time! s

So after 18 years i concluded the program of "the joy of poverty" at https://riswey.blogspot.com/ . this blog i realised was the closed hand, seeking to grasp something tangible about the world. but of course there is a problem with this: how does it grasp its own action and itself? there is one person in the whole world you can be sure you cannot

In the spirit of the open hand i should have got bored of dichotomies, that is trying to split the world into two halves: a this and a that. but they do seem to remain useful at this point in time. so it is often nodded toward, but never clear that the world and what we say of the world are different worlds. pointing to the moon is not itself the m

So here is the post that ended the previous 18 years of blogging on joy of poverty at riswey.blogspot.com https://riswey.blogspot.com/2026/01/why-this-blog-is-pointless.html written after internally opening my hand at 3am. why this blog is pointless. a blog seeking truth is actually a scrooge! saturday, 3 january 2026 this post marks the end of the