My first post and introductory statement
Dear reader,
I am a lifetime introvert and misfit who saw that there were appallingly few resources on the internet that addressed the most basic issues and questions of the Subtle experience.
There are plenty of sites about introverts, but most are written from the viewpoint of an outsider looking in. There were no answers, only unhelpful platitudes and a fundamental lack of understanding.
I decided to set out to write from the perspective of an introverted outcast with emphasis on usually hidden perceptions and opinions. Why hidden? Because revealing such feelings to mainstream persons is both counterproductive and dangerous. It occurred to me that the web was the safest method to make these issues public.
My objectives in doing so:
-To show isolated introverts that they are not alone.
-To persuade introverts that they should not change, that they should take pride in what they are and develop their true nature to its fullest, even if doing so means complete departure conventional society.
-Extroverts are constantly confused by our thought patterns and motives. Here they are, laid out for the public eye…
-To examine the possibility of a union of introverted persons so we can have an organization in which we are accepted and understood.
I have my posts grouped into rough categories now that I have accumulated a good many.
My content is not time sensitive as is often the case. Posts written in the beginning days of this blog are as relevant to my purpose as the latest post.
As for my background:
I am, Gluon, a Ferengi merchant regrettably shipwrecked on a world full of tiny eared people who have never even heard of the Rules of Acquisition.
My central website can be found at
I can be contacted at
zygmunt@gluontheferengi.com
4 Comments
You write well. However, Ferengi is not the sort of credential I was looking for. As an extremely isolated introvert myself, I’m wondering if you have any educational or professional credentials in psychology, or do you speak only from personal experience?
Sorry to say, I am no professor of psychology. I speak mostly from personal experience and from personal reading.
If I had great credentials, I imagine I would be publishing in academic journals using high language that no layman could understand. I might have great knowledge, but without you spending huge amounts of time and money on psychology classes, it wouldn’t make any sense to you. You would be entirely reliant on middlemen who have their own agendas to have any access to my well-qualified research.
Furthermore, my research would not be infallible. I would only have funding to research the things people who have money want me to research. The people with money and power will also affect how prominently my work gets published or if it gets published.
I write purely as an amateur. I do so because I think much of the time, the professionals are highly overrated. Not for lack of knowledge, but because they are extreme specialists who tend to be closed off from other relevant sources of insight, who are restricted in their scope by the economic demands of their profession.
I too look to highly qualified academics as a useful source of information, but I see their limits. Should credentials be seen as the end all be all or simply as tickets that we punch along a career path?
If ‘Ferengi’ is not good enough of credentials, focus on academic journals instead of blogs.
I meant no offense; I was just curious about a contemplative Ferengi who writes well.
No offense taken then. Though, I must admit ‘contemplative Ferengi’ sounds like something of an oxymoron.
I originally made myself a Ferengi to complete a pun. My first blog was named ‘WordPressed Latinum’ after the DS9 currency. I named myself Gluon because of the obnoxious Ferengi merchant, Quark, in DS9. His nephew, Nog calls him ‘Uncle Quark.’