Welcome to The Grasshopper by me, Fraser Harper.
The Grasshopper is a free-ranging blog from - I hope you will find - a free-thinking individual. I am setting no constraints, although as I start the process of writing, I do have certain themes that are high in my mind:
The freedom of individuals to act and say as they think, without fear of harm from any quarter.
Freedom from labelling of people by other people who rush to put them into boxes marked ‘unwanted’.
The bundling of big issues into tiny frames, painted to appeal to those who go only for the colour of the frame without glancing at the wonderful detail of the picture within.
The glorious history of the polymath and our desperate need for more interdisciplinarians in this ever more specialising age.
At the same time, The Grasshopper aims to have an entertaining side. As a musician, writer and storyteller, I hope you enjoy my more right-brained contributions too.
As I start this blog, I have no definitive plans for using Substack’s subscription wall. But if I do, your subscription will help me to sustain my work as an independent musician and writer. We’ll see how it goes. But in the meantime, see my website here for a flavour of what I do.
I dedicate this blog to Nicolaus Copernicus, whose book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium did not actually give us the word revolution but did contribute to its use to describe paradigm shifts, disruptive events, and the overthrow of old, outdated doctrines and systems. Much needed in today’s world, you may agree.
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