The reason I read your blog isn’t that I agree with you always - it’s because the way you look at the world is sufficiently similar and sufficiently dissimilar that I’ll need to think about how I look at the world.

There’s also, of course, the reason for my reading any blog - or, indeed talking to people at all. I don’t know and can’t know what it’s like to live your life. But by reading your writing I get some idea of things I would otherwise know nothing about. I’m big on the “know yourself” thing, but since I’m a part of the world that also means I should know as much as I can about being not-me, too.