The FoolQuest.com FAQ

                  0. What can ever be more poisonous than the great divide between passive lofty philosophical inquiry never building strategy much less taking action, and practical discussion willfully and woefully uniformed by abstract reasoning or background research, and therefore condemned only to the most rash, simplistic and misguided action?

Rhetorical, of course...

The intimidating schism of discourse into the impractically lofty and the mindlessly pragmatic, practical and precedented, is one of the most successful and enduring conservative tactics and a deeply engrained taboo that few people dare violate, much less so flagrantly as here on FoolQuest.com

All intention of implementation whatsoever from any reasoned guiding principle or research whatsoever, is commonly subject to virulent attack as impractically and repressively Utopian, just as seeking to draw plans of action beginning only from the exploration of whatever general principles and background research as deemed pertinent before committing in haste to tangible specifics ("Measure twice, do once" as the saying goes!), is so often scorned and derided as pipedreaming.

Thus precisely, is such unconventional considered action as requisite to substantive change effectively fnorded out, swept into an heteronymous collective blind spot of fear and loathing, ruled out of order by adamant unwritten consensus.

1. What is the meaning of life?

First of all, as to meaning: Meaning is comprehension in the mind. There is no inherent meaning to all that simply is.
 

Hence:

The TRUE MEANING of LIFE is that HAPPINESS is subjective well-being, an INDIVIDUALLY REACTIVE STATE VARIABLE to howsoever favorable circumstances, objectively.

Wherein: (pleasure + engagement + meaning) ÷ t = gratification over time = fulfillment

    resulting from actively doing whatever one loves for whatever intrinsic value of whichever activity in and of itself.

2. What is happiness in life?

Even given the above, close relationships may even be the more important to happiness. Also, effective networking is often crucial to success. Happiness comes in meeting ones needs by capable interaction with responsible others.
 

3. What are our motivations in life?

See: questions 1 & 2, above.

Of course material and physical needs of comfort and survival will also obstruct fulfillment, unless satisfied. So the ideal is to achieve the means of meeting even material tangible needs and comfort through doing what one loves.

4. What defines success?

Success is attainment of whatever goals put forth, such as, in our case, love and happiness, not to mention comfort and survival, all as above, in meeting ones needs by capable interaction with responsible others.
 

5. How might all above become attainable?

Tying all the above together, so seldom achievable conventionally scholastically or by employment to others, one remaining answer is: via convivial and productive creative collaboration, artistic, civic and entrepreneurial.

So the strategic question becomes how to bring all that about.

And such exactly are the questions posed and underserved needs pursued, here on FoolQuest.com

So, what will it take?

The question remains open. To begin with, Dialectic, even sheer fallible speculation and Socratic wisdom which is the optimistic embrace of doubt and uncertainty with unflinching values of criticism and controversy, and simply to hold up your end of the conversation. And if we keep at it, some light may yet be shed.

Should we all then agree to move forward, expect that we will confront great effort and uncertainty even in research, various specialized recruitment as needed, realistic planning and contingency, sound organization and preparation, much less raising capital and then execution to completion, all as ever applicable, needs by capable interaction among responsible individuals.
 

Furthermore, at such point, in order to proceed smoothly at all, not only must each participant put themselves readily at one another's disposal without caginess or reluctance, but actually enjoy it! So, does that sound like you?

6. What alternative happiness strategic approaches are known to those on FoolQuest.com ?

Certainly, those various needs served by actual psychotherapy if not already elsewhere in personal life less formally, are certainly nothing less than crucial and irreplaceable. But this website is not therapeutic. And little, however, in the vast range of therapeutic modalities and alternatives as such, remain so woefully underserved as the pursuit, beyond insight alone, of success and authentic relationship specifically in sharing the subjective wellbeing that is individually variable intrinsic reactive happiness to objectively favorable circumstances of doing what one loves for whatever intrinsic value, such being the unique primary focus uniquely of this website.

FoolQuest.com is not yet another website for: recreation (the desperate effort and struggle to recover on one's own time and expense, from the learned helpless sheer exhaustion, fear and loathing entailed in...) schooling, employment, soul crushingly joyless workaholism in pursuit of material success alone (e.g., Network Marketing), such blatantly heteronymous self-help peer pressure fitting in socially howsoever dishonestly and at the dire cost of alienated lonely boring and stressful compromise ego-dissyntonicly, magic, religion or otherwise via inaction seeking sheer apathetic bliss strictly internally entirely in a crushed spirit of resignation and hopeless disregard of external conditions one way or the other, or likewise unflagging effort by sheer purported power of positive thinking motivational cheerleading snake oil behavioral conditioning and Transactionally dysfunctional bogus support group marshmallow throwing (blithe dispensation and exchange of invalidating sickly sweet patronizingly insincere positive strokes or sweet nothings in order reciprocally to pacify hesitation and discontent, a reciprocal sickly sweet brush off) all in a'priori abrogation of medical ethics in explicit violation of the Freudian injunction against suggestion.

Seek elsewhere for all such ersatz exuberant consolation to insidiously stultifying and perseverant plodding mediocre institutionalization of docile heteronymous denial, committee politics for the rest of us, dishonest Anti-Critical lip service to false emotion and no end of existing resources all thereto, many claiming great reliability and success indeed.

Alas and astonishingly, across the socio-political spectrum, no matter the range of ideological perspective upon responsibilities, the subjective wellbeing and thriving that is individually variable intrinsic reactive happiness to favorable circumstances of doing what one loves for whatever intrinsic value, such being the primary focus uniquely of FoolQuest.com, is elsewhere barely even considered if not actually a taboo consideration! Nor are values of authentic relationship often found at the crux of any practical outreach.

7. What are more specifically some underserved needs pursued by FoolQuest.com ? 

a) Only FoolQuest.com strives at pre-incubation towards the underserved needs of aspiring cutting edge Entrepreneurial collaboration from scratch, perhaps even on your ideas (I'm looking and I'm interested!), teambuilding and business planning from the "kitchen table stage" or phase, implementation from first concept to completion, and in the broadest application including civics and more.

b) Anther underserved need pursued on FoolQuest.com, is that of simply sharing creativity for its own joy by approaching online collaborative fiction writing more seriously, for a more valuable experience and output that does not suck!

c) FoolQuest.com also hosts the most radical known concept for anti-bullying initiative: CliqueBusters TM among various other interlocking proposals in development showcased.

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Please always inform me how I may be of assistance!: Congratulations! You have discovered FoolQuest.com, often by far too detailed for any individual casual interest or narrowed specific purpose of research, yet nowhere near detailed enough to meet the needs of actual preparation towards implementation. Most of the time, any brief concise plan can be sound only in principle. For practicability tends to demand detail beyond casual attention span. And even then, the necessity of ongoing adaptation to change frequently demands constant revision and improvisation. Therefore we have much to discuss. Other websites proffer the most trivial advice or blithely over simplistic and flawed solutions that will never help you. Do not be taken in by people working at frantic cross purposes, far too deep in a rut from running the rat race and consumed by utter blind terror of spending more than three minutes at a time on each sales prospect in turn, for the sheer bother and actual respect of ever simply assisting or actually so little as even paying attention to one another!

Fearless stimulation seeking: Opportunities such as they are, that typical consumers readily respond to, consist in any part of the at least howsoever ostensibly self achievable and in any other part of howsoever at least ostensibly guaranteed provisions. Indeed, so often as we are all left to own devices whenever it really matters, successful entrepreneurs tend towards solitary self reliance, reluctant to delegate, and therefore stressfully overworked. Because, by contrast, the vast uncertainly of teambuilding and real cooperative investigation is always daunting. But how else can entrepreneurship serve as a creative outlet, given that to begin with, creativity is a gregarious mode of expression rather than a reclusive practice of contemplation? Indeed, great entrepreneurs recognize not only that they must play to their strengths but to recruit for complementary strengths and skills beyond their own. A common twice exceptionality, lifelong deadly social and career learning disability among gifted underachievers, ongoing products of lifelong asynchronous development, in even somewhat rebelliously stunned apathetic bored and lonely deficiency of all such executive function including poor memory and low organizational skills, in actuality may be entirely due to severe underarousal to such fully active responsiveness as arising only to howsoever valued high standards of social support towards the grievously undersupplied stimulus of true pleasurable, engaging and meaningful opportunity to rise to their true potential. That is why FoolQuest.com remains dedicated, first and foremost, to systematic and concerted cultivation of exactly such optimally pleasurable, engaging and meaningful interaction so essential to human flourishing. And what could be better?

No one is lazy doing whatever they themselves experience as worthwhile. Engagement, creative tension, remains more than merely productive means to whatever end, indeed, an intrinsic motivation, a fundamental human need not only for uplifting occupation but for truly satisfying human interaction at all. Yet everywhere one turns, there is such indifference, indeed timid contempt, malignant hostility and actual taboo towards engagement in very principle, as can be seen forever spawning industries of travesty. Even genuinely viable success strategies can more quickly make you miserable, much less all manner of debilitating and evasive scams. And mindlessly hanging out and recreational passive consumption never really compensate the emptiness and aggravation. As ever, marketing often strives to confuse and inveigle the consumer into desperate compensation for unmet needs, via the elicitation towards sublimation to positive associations and mystique, all seldom actually substantiated or borne out in whatever goods or services. For such is the shameless peddling of false hope, taking advantage of epidemic alienation! Hence, in flight from exactly such worldly vexation and deception, many claim solace in religion. Indeed, there are even those myriad disciplines and sophisticated techniques, ancient and arcane or bleeding edge modern, all utterly to cease caring. And others still, ever exhort a willfully positive attitude towards sheer determined drudgery as the path to success, or likewise fitting in socially at any cost, typically demanding either ruthless exploitation of others or else submission to the herd, if not, actually, even both all at once. In truth, however, only precious few of us have ever actually been happy in our travails amid the rat race under such typically oppressive punishment and reward systems as school or employment. -Nor, for that matter, politics and lip service to revolution.

For anyone hungry to eat shit with gusto, there will always be a second helping! Vested interest can be no better than whatever the object thereof. For anyone, as is fashionable, well and masochistically adaptive and content in relentless self manipulation all in order simply to tolerate and make do under the ersatz oppressive mediocrity of status quo and travesty, life is that much more simple. Of course virtuous fortitude in forging ahead is always a good recommendation, as if such could ever realty ever be so easy! Rather, happiness being contingent upon the exercise and communication of the meaningful values of imagination, adequate range of choice, autonomy, mastery (competence) and achievement, together with connection, self awareness and conscience informed by rationality, the true key to happiness is in the quest for happiness more than in resultant success alone, in any reasonable hope, in the dignity of risk, and also in true friendship. So there can be no simple and straightforward blueprint for living life, but at best, towards any hoped for improvement in our circumstances, the following thorny problem statement and daunting challenge of social aptitude and risk tolerance, all towards the hoped for fulfillment of all such real and vastly underserved fundamental human needs and values as are all seemingly ignored, thwarted, dismissed or trivialized veritably everywhere one turns except for the very frontiers of sheer escapist fantasy. Indeed, according to the latest research, those ever addictive multiplayer video games are now found to produce in simulation, exactly the beneficial sense of competency, achievement and connection, all so woefully absent from the existential dreariness of grinding daily routine!