Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?

Writing is like the relationship with your bowels. First you can, then you can't. Finally, you must. Only then should you reach for the paper.

This Constitutional Republic called America is an historic aberration. Any honest student of history will note that the prevailing socio-economic system is feudalism, where a tiny minority control the vast majority of wealth, power, and resources. In doing so, they have absolute control over the 99% of the population. Power equals control.

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

A chronicle is very different from history proper.

When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.

Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.