The death of a muse, the reincarnation of a resolve

During the school year I placed a great deal of faith on the ever hope inspiring summer. I had faith that time would be more plentiful then ever and my many aspirations and goals could be realized. As many of you now know this is not the case. The reality of the real world begets the destruction of our aspirations. The common saying, "welcome to the real world" doesn't happen in the real world, in the real world no one has the time to formally welcome you. It’s straight out of the frying pan into the fiery depths of reality. Money is essential, work is inevitable, the mundane is inescapable and time is irreplaceable. These are just a few of the harsh truths that we all come to realize as we make the transition from the nearly fairy tale world of the young. These are all thoughts that seem to skim past my consciousness as I meander through my day at work. Then I start to make some realizations. I am going to throw out some existential blabber here but its just to make you think. What is reality? Who defines it? Inarguably much of our reality is defined by none other then ourselves. Now this is either trough our state of mind or through our outright actions that shape it. Either way reality is an ambiguous term. It is something malleable. It is something we can change.

The key here is to actually believe that. Our culture, generation, society, whatever you want to call it. We... we have been conditioned unconditionally since birth to believe that the way things are, is the way they must be because that’s the way they are. It is that type of circular argument that keeps us all chained down to this current reality. So how do we escape this condition that we suffer from? This conditioning that has made us believe change on a major scale is futile? Much of you with level heads and you who are full of logic and reason will exclaim that it simply IS futile and over enthusiastic. However, this discussion is not meant to be about that. Our goal here is to figure out "why" we believe that is reality is the default one. That, "this is just the way things are" is sufficient explanation for the world’s state of affairs. If we discover "why" this is common belief then we have a fighting chance to help change that.

I constantly make the same arguments for what needs to be done to exact [positive change throughout society. Although action is a necessity, the direct action of many charitable organizations is something that has been done many times before. It is not working. A group of a few extremely hard working people can make a difference. However they are just a few. The key is to change attitudes. We need to make people believe in the world and themselves again. What better way then to lead by example.

I now purpose a second step in our plan to make a difference. However, this time we need full participation among as many people as we can get. No half assed poster making. (I have a whole bunch extra if anyone wants some to put up wherever.) This time I purpose we do an internet campaign. I hate to suggest it but I say we hit everyone up with our own brand of chain letter. Perhaps couple that with a word of mouth campaign. These are just suggestions to be worked on. I was thinking that the chain letter/campaign could be a challenge proposal. Perhaps we should come up with a challenge for people to educate themselves and another or to participate in making a difference in their day to day or in an organization. We could promote our discussion site and our way of life and thinking. There are limitless possibilities. Just think about how many people are on your msn list. Now take that number and multiply it by the few of us that frequent this site. That alone is a lot of people. Put that to the power of whatever amount of people they send it too and we have ourselves a wild fire of positive change. Take my idea into consideration. Perhaps throw me some ideas of how to go about this letter. Let’s see what we can do.