Core agenda: The FoolQuest.com golden probortunity!

Creativity can and Should be Social Agenda as to be expounded anon, FoolQuest.com presents exposition into feasible method towards Eudemonia, and additionally as a consequence, a revolution in social life, asking of others what no one else asks, and offering in return, what no one else offers. In the words of Sir Isaac Newton: “You have to make the rules, not follow them.” If only there where any set of grassroots DIO (Do-It-Ourselves) instructions, active strategy and discussion points! Well, here they are! And what a shame if no one believes it. Famously to quote George Bernard Shaw: “Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.” To wit: As it turns out, Eudemonia and authentic wellbeing of eustress in fully engaged, pleasurable and meaningful social and intellectual stimulation, results from ready experience of heady ongoing collaborative brainstorming and solution finding among equals that instead of resignation and adaptation to status quo, might conceivably ever begin to supplant, substitute and improve upon conventional and often less than satisfactory superficial and paranoid social existence. After all, Eudemonia of important close human relationship and particularly true friendship in autonomy, arises entirely as a byproduct of purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication, and never otherwise. Even the very least of hierarchically predictive social aptitudes and cynical popularity contest, remains ever antithetical to true friendship and free, candid, unguarded and reciprocal psychological visibility, just being known and understood to one another, recognized and desired. Alas, absent the vast power and influence for wholesale Utopian transformation of the world at large, only far more modest and proximate social engineering design implementation, even as in the forging of new and lasting social institutions, remains even remotely feasible. Therefore salvation from suffering and into Eudemonia in experience of ongoing collaborative solution finding among equals, becomes achievable via the inception by social engineering design, of intentional community: intentional social circle or group formation online, for unprecedented serious ongoing collaborative dramatic Science Fiction fiction writing and brainstorming on the one hand, pure creativity for its own joy, concurrently with the applied creativity of i  nnovative new venture creation and (pre-) incubation, on the other hand. Serious ongoing collaborative dramatic Science Fiction fiction writing and brainstorming may provide an excellent inspiration and team building exercise for innovative new venture creation and (pre-) incubation rendered accessible to meet a crying underserved need for entry level creative opportunity of entrepreneurship, even for the rest of us neophytes and wannabes, at our own pace. Because, what can there be more conducive to Eudemonia of heady collaborative solution finding among equals, than intentional community: intentional social circle or group formation online, centered upon serious ongoing collaborative dramatic Science Fiction  fiction writing and brainstorming concurrently with innovative new venture creation? No one can remain bored, lonely and sad, when so optimally reciprocally engaged together ebulliently in brainstorming towards creative solution finding. And along with various tools and guides, as a crucial initial facilitation, provided are both a select short compendium, for applied creativity, of innovative sample new venture proposals, and also for pure creativity, art for its own joy, a curated selection of sample unfinished stories, writing prompts and provocations. Each of either are likewise presented similarly for further collaborative exploration, modification, variation, expansion and improvement. Or by all means gentle reader, go ahead and pitch your own! Recursively, the first social engineering design probortunity at hand to brainstorm together toward collaborative solution finding, shall be no more or less than the  planning, feasibility and implementation challenge of more adequate sustainable ongoing opportunity to experience collaborative solution finding among equals, supply to start meeting demand. And no longer merely, as all too often, any transitory event of collaboration among equals in creative solution finding, such as any one time assigned task afterwards abandoned, or any sort of short term scheduled workshop, contest or seminar, typically concluding and vanishing entirety without any trace, indeed even any sort of frantic and intensive "boot camp" ending in exhaustion with no debrief, no path any further or follow up at all. Instead, proceeding in small reversible steps with ongoing error detection and course correction, even from the most tentative and embryonic first concept inception or "kitchen table" stage or phase of deliberation, commences the forging of game changing lasting new cultural institution, all beginning most modestly by persistence in ongoing discourse, research, due diligence, investigation and evaluation of the probortunity at hand. Thence forging a steering committee for deliberation upon the priorities and order of business, managing the general course of pending operations. Change our conversation, reset the agenda, and change the world! In the words of of Margaret Mead: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” Therefore: Desperately seeking cofounder collaboration candidates for arduous and complicated endeavor entirely on spec. Long effort with no end in sight. Success doubtful but epic, attempting anything really cool together. Desperately seeking the star first follower! And lo, the star first follower blazing the trail, shall herald the true meeting of minds and collaboration among equals in creative solution finding and Eudemonia right here on FoolQuest.com And thus the star first follower shall become the true leader, showing others how to relate. The star first follower actually rôle models for all comers, how to become followers (participants) and how to follow (participate) indeed as collaboration cofounders. Embarkation thus ensues upon the bridge from abstract principle (generally why) into  concrete application (specifically how), in deliberation analytic yet strategic, and the devil in the details, setting agenda and implementation, together taking coherent action. In the words of Henri-Louis Bergson: “Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought." Because, when theory by itself, however sound, yet remains less than compelling recruitment outreach promotionally out in the wild, the live unfolding demonstration online, public electronic conversation, dazzling creativity, clever promotion, the ongoing work product published to the Web, may yet the more effectively entice and recruit others at long last to participate and join in. For any lonesome frustrated desire tells a story, needs a plan, and calls out for allies, for unmet friends.

 

FoolQuest.com remains my own subversive Message in a Bottle cast upon the cyber seas, agenda of frustrated outreach indeed for thoughtful committed citizens, unreasonable people, desperately sought for collaboration cofounder candidates, heroes, allies setting forth upon the true to life Hero's Journey, asking of others what no one else asks, and offering in return, what no one else offers, attempting anything really cool together. Not for the faint of heart!  

 

Bearing all in mind, perhaps an effective remedy for prevailing malaise might become feasible via unprecedented social engineering design of eustress (good euphoric stress, as opposed to bad suffering of dystress) in more optimal social and intellectual stimulus struggle. A theme emerges in review of current science. To wit: in accordance with the Arousal Theory of motivation, all living beings are perpetually engaged in stimulus struggle, which is the name coined by anthropologist Desmond Morris in 'the human zoo' October 1 1969, for the perpetual striving of all living things, to regulate, to obtain and maintain, the optimum kind and degree of stimulation and arousal from the surrounding environment. Everything that we do is in order to modify subjective experience thereby altering consciousness And most successful in social and intellectual stimulus struggle, happy people whom we might all do so well to emulate if only we knew how, are Empirically observed extrovertedly to reach out, Talking More Seriously, fully engaged in purposeful interaction and substantive communication, and make less small talk, exerting effort in order to actively make things happen, attentively pursuing new understanding. Indeed, accordance with the ancient wisdom of the greatest sages of old, later day Eudemonia as rediscovered under the very cutting edge of modern science, and specifically, according to Martin Seligman's celebrated happiness formula of Positive Psychology: Pleasure + engagement + meaning = intrinsic fulfillment. But most saliently, there remains also that distinctly democratic grand afterthought in counter to the generally authoritarian perspective in Cultural Anthropology, indeed even notwithstanding the paradigmatic study of heteronomy to hierarchical kinship and rank so fundamental to Cultural Anthropology. Said grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology emerging in consistent if infrequent Empirical observation that, as pressing need and special circumstances or situation as arising in the judgment of whatever great and good powers that be, there remain also those rare, exceptional and special moments of collaboration in creative solution finding which is characteristically egalitarian in nature as well as uplifting in freedom, power, progress and elation in the vibrant contest of ideas, even actually putting on hold whatever gamut of tawdry and domineering primate politics. And such remains the probortunity at hand: What active strategy in the social engineering design of more optimal reciprocally engaged  social and intellectual stimulus struggle, shall be derived in deliberation analytic yet strategic from the above passive Empirical observation and abstract principle? 

 

Again, if indeed, and in accordance with the starkly democratic grand afterthought to the generally authoritarian paradigm of Cultural Anthropology, we can only be more joyful in such ebullient scarce experience of collaboration among equals in brainstorming and creative solution finding, then recursively, the first social engineering design probortunity at hand for collaborative solution finding shall be no more or less than the  planning, feasibility and implementation challenge of more adequate sustainably ongoing supply of opportunity to experience collaborative solution finding among equals, in order to meet the vastly underserved social and intellectual stimulus appetites of massively inbred hideous mutation, evolutionary neurology and the passionate arousal of engorged human cerebrality. And because Eudemonia of important close human relationship and particularly true friendship in autonomy, arises entirely as a byproduct of purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication, and never otherwise. If only there where any set of grassroots DIO (Do-It-Ourselves) instructions, active strategy and discussion points! Well, here they are! And what a shame if no one believes it. For in  truth, our salvation from suffering and into Eudemonia depends upon the inception of intentional community: intentional social circle or group formation online, for serious ongoing collaborative dramatic Science Fiction  fiction writing and brainstorming concurrently with innovative new venture creation and (pre-) incubation. New venture creation and (pre-) incubation accessible to meet a crying underserved need for entry level creative opportunity of entrepreneurship, even for the rest of us neophytes and wannabes, at our own pace. Because what can there be more conducive to Eudemonia of brainstorming and collaborative solution finding among equals, than serious ongoing collaborative dramatic Science Fiction  fiction writing and brainstorming concurrently with innovative new venture creation? No one can remain bored, lonely and sad, when so optimally reciprocally engaged together ebulliently in brainstorming towards creative solution finding.  

 

For as the saying goes, life is the journey, the ongoing experience, and not just deferred gratification in the destination or desired result in hoped for success. And as per chapter 64 of the Dao De Jing as ascribed to Laozi, the journey of a thousand miles, begins with but a single step. And that first baby step will be the weaning off from behaviorally conditioned socialization to blithe inattention: to disengage from disengagement, indeed simply to abstain from autopilot and stop just going with the flow. Instead the effort together at deliberate ongoing purpose and substance, called: agenda setting.

 

Let us then together deliberate and even consider testing the prediction that even so complicated, arduous and daunting the task, our work so well cut out for us, notwithstanding, even in merely the most preliminary sustained ongoing honest and serious analytic yet strategic conversation and feasibility study, entirely subversive, will already become more uplifting in the will to power, than any slave mentality status quo of heteronomy to ultimately debilitating bogus motivational grift or soul crushing manipulative Behavioral Modification, indeed heteronomy to any cult of socialization and popularity under systematic reward, punishment and indoctrination that none dare call: brainwash!

That is your way, it is not mine, thus spake Zarathustra!

Firstly to engage site visitors in serious ongoing collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming, both dramatic and Science Fiction speculative, of high caliber, quality and originality. And nothing less. For drama hailed by Socrates as most philosophical among the arts, together with speculative Science Fiction, the Literature of ideas, thesis-antithesis-synthesis, opens up the exploration of art for art’s sake, with the sufficient purpose of pure creativity for its own joy in the discipline of the writing craft. But lonesome alone, better together.

 

And secondly new venture creation, indeed, filling the yawning gap in support for entrepreneurship even for the rest of us neophytes and wannabes at our own pace, consciously revised life script imitating art, arête, attempting anything really cool together: To embark together upon the real world Hero's Journey, beyond mere Absurdist grand gesture, futuring, speculative Science Fiction adventure come to life, of innovative new business ventures and perhaps other kinds of projects, though no less entrepreneurially. Entrepreneurship denoting real world drama and stakes of calculated risk tolerant initiative. And all even from most embryonic “kitchen table” stage or phase first concept, beginning with brainstorming and business or project planning, indeed eustress and real world dramatic tension of creative solution finding and rigorous feasibility study. Then if all goes well, further outreach, recruitment, management team formation, all the way through to investment Venture Capitalization, all to climax finally in implementation followed by a dénouement of exit strategy ever as applicable. For such is game changing applied creativity called: disruptive innovation. And more heads better than one!

But what is the purpose and prospect of new venture creation and (pre-) incubation? What does it mean? How is it done? By what process? Answer: In the final analysis, an all too frequent motive for subversive innovation, organization and proactive initiative, is simply because no suitable and tenable conventional options present themselves in confronting life problems irresolvable by recourse to established institutions that have failed us so. Indeed, most students in formal education and most corporate employees, remain quite frankly miserable. Job satisfaction remains highly exceptional, while formal education for the most part, remains misery in preparation for further misery. As an all too often difficult and desperately unreasonable and committed alternative envisaged and proposed herein, in striving for freedom in an unfree world, the outreach agenda of new venture creation and (pre) incubation, pertains to the heady ambitious, creative solution finding and complex multitask interdependent interdisciplinary process of developing and transforming whatever new idea, innovation or technology, into a business of whatever kind, that can even conceivably succeed, and therefore just might possibly attract investment of Venture Capital. Indeed ventures of every kind even conceivable, profit or nonprofit, traditional, Social Entrepreneurship or even grassroots politics and more. All beginning, however, with outreach that must inspire investment of sweat equity for joint ownership profit participation as stakeholders down the line. And so, an initial project proposal must be crafted and put forth in order to recruit a varied range of socially supportive, helpful and trustworthy capable talent, knowledge and skill sets, in abiding mutual respect. And all in hope and trust that springs eternal, to risk of vulnerable disappointment and exploitation, to join in and participate on spec and all from scratch. Alas, beware: Nigh inevitable conflict, betrayal, uncertainty and suspense so thrilling for drama, remains harrowing in reality. Expect the unexpected. And what can go wrong, will. 

Rising then to the challenge, never in prevailing heteronomy to ever repressively compliant under stimulated, cagy, timid, guarded and paranoid conventional excruciatingly superficial and trivial small talk and distance, no matter how patient, boredom tolerant or resistant, socially skilled and socially successful. Let alone neither adequately socially skilled nor socially successful, indeed actually boredom prone, or worst of all, in such terrifying rejection, bullying and exclusion, anxiety and dire threat whereof ever looming. Even the least of all such hierarchically predictive social aptitudes and cynical popularity contest, remaining so antithetical to true friendship and free, candid, unguarded and reciprocal psychological visibility, just being known and understood to one another, recognized and desired. Purpose and intent all herein therefore of more readily open, accessible and available more congenial and better functional alternative to all such ubiquitous and accepted evils in our milieu. For to quote Charles B Forbes: “Large-scale success today is spelled -Teamwork.” Not sycophancy and skilled incompetence. But will to power, material success and Eudemonia, all harmonized in concurrent synergy. The American dream!

Thirdly, framework and practice of continual interaction: Outreach for ongoing participation, recruitment for cofounder collaboration partners, in vibrant artistic and innovative concurrent synergy, together to advance, as preceding, both each different application of narrative creativity, contemporaneously. And as a crucial initial facilitation, provided are both a select short compendium of innovative sample new venture proposals, and also for pure creativity, art for its own joy, a curated selection of sample unfinished stories, writing prompts and provocations. Each of either are likewise presented similarly for further collaborative exploration, modification, variation, expansion and improvement. Or by all means gentle reader, go ahead and pitch your own! And to compare and contrast: Indeed for both each different application of narrative creativity, even from suitability of whatever initial premise, the criteria crucially differ: mere hypothetical plausibility for pure creativity in fiction writing, but intensive feasibility study for innovation in business or project planning. Thus the former may provide for creative people, an excellent inspiration and team building exercise towards the latter. Indeed, for fanciful story crafting and sound strategic deliberation alike, inspired collaborative brainstorming among equals together, yet remains both similar and different when it comes to solution finding and as far as writing and rewriting, never a waste of time.

Fourthly, community: To advance all thereby the inception of intentional community: intentional social circle or group formation online, indeed recruitment and team building, truly focused about just such as hitherto delineated exalted and heady interaction and learning curve, indeed Eudemonia and opportunity for aspiring novice and old pro alike together. Not only serious ongoing collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming, but actually new venture creation, even meeting the vastly underserved need of support for entrepreneurship even for the rest of us neophytes and wannabes, at our own pace. Alas, both hopeful entrepreneurs and aspiring fiction writers are notoriously self-reliant and solitary, indeed especially in their respective vocations if not also just in general. But to quote Charles B Forbes: “Large-scale success today is spelled -Teamwork.” And already all herein, first dawning opportunity of Eudemonia indeed by the very least of asking of others what no one else asks, and offering in return what no one else offers. But more than this, ongoing outreach, creative collaboration reinvented in social engineering design, and adapted into a more effective, productive and congenial medium for individual interpersonal networking, better and stronger social embedment, wider access to connections, resources and more enjoyable social life. Indeed better quality relationship opportunity of every kind and for every purpose. And all as indeed might bear mention, even pending advance and disruptive innovation in automated Sociometry, beyond the distraction and destruction inflicted by current (anti)social media. Not to digress.

But what is Eudemonia here on FoolQuest.com? Asking exactly what of others that no one else asks, and offering in return precisely how that no one else offers? Indeed, how shall Eudemonia, ultimate in human purpose and aspiration, ever arise or be brought to bear? The very question endures most anciently and yet flourishing ever new, reframed in every time and civilization. For Eudemonia can be many purposeful things:

I. In perpetual stimulus struggle, for such is life, optimal reciprocally engaged collaboration among equals in brainstorming and creative solution finding remains key to the arousal of ebullient intrinsic fulfillment and thereby to the experience of authentic wellbeing. And this is to be recommended. Because therein will be found joy, and without it, deprivation and suffering. Indeed, boredom and loneliness. 

II. Because no one can remain bored, lonely and sad, when so optimally reciprocally engaged together in brainstorming towards creative solution finding such as in aforesaid ongoing collaborative endeavor and novel vehicle of Eudemonia. And this is to be recommended. All in accordance with the Positive Psychology of authentic wellbeing, in turn consequent from the evolutionary neuroscience of hideously inbred mutation and massively engorged cerebrality, and consistent also with the grand democratic afterthought of the generally authoritarian theoretical framework that is Cultural Anthropology.  

III. Also culture of helping and capable social support for individual will to power, via substantive communication and purposeful interaction to overcome alienation, boredom and loneliness. And this is to be recommended. Because so situated, human beings thrive, but otherwise, wither.

IV. Because Eudemonia, important close human relationship and particularly true friendship in autonomy, arises entirely as a byproduct of purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication, and never otherwise. And yes, more specifically, and yet cleaving to theme, best achievable just as entailed and provided for in the course of collaborative endeavor as herein delineated.

Let's get ahead of the curve! We stand on the very cusps of Emortality and the philosopher's I-told-you-so revenge: When at last in the fullness of time, only the very meaning of life remains important enough after every cliché of effete, cretin, craven and callow shopworn manipulation stands exhausted, Existentially bankrupt and exposed, what shall remain in the arsenal of marketing and propaganda thereafter, except for everything that crass and cunning yet simple minded Behaviorist advertising appeals and mystique ever so deplore: the most lucid and sophisticated applied Axiology and ardent intrinsic value proposition such as agenda and purpose herein on FoolQuest.com? What less will anyone still respond to anymore?  “A dunce once searched for fire with a lit lantern!”  So writ are the koans, plain and profane. Indeed, in the words of Paul Raven: “Science Fiction isn’t dying at all; it’s metastasizing!” And therefore to quote Anton Chekhov: “... only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.” And so gentle reader, bear with me: First situation analysis, problem statement, and only then deliberation analytic yet strategic, bridging from abstract principle (generally why) at last into concrete application (specifically how). In other words: active strategy towards implementation.

 

Because supposedly practical consideration so cretin philistine devoid of all thoughtful guiding abstract principle, remains no less deranged than classic ivory tower abstract principle blithely uninformed of any objective reality and practically. Hence compartmentalization between the abstract and the concrete, remains a prevalent and highly effective conservative memeplex, undermining not only Empirical science but also transfer from scientific discovery into practical strategy and coherent application. To quote Ernest Hemingway: “Never confuse movement with action.“ Indeed, as Thomas Carlyle put it: “Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.“ Insightful strategy for intelligible concrete action, emerges as product of supporting knowledge and abstract principle, of background and context, for deliberation analytic yet strategic. Let us then begin:

 

Situation analysis: In our sick sad world, the helplessness of individual frustration and failure everywhere pervades. We should sound the alarm and shout from every roof top! And yet, the customer, the end user, is always wrong: The system never fails, you fail the system. For such remains the most aggressive normalization of deviance. And as Edward Snowden observes, oppressors who restrict our options, then pretend that we consent. Might in truth, such ubiquitous helpless pandemic individual frustration and failure, not merely of the clearly and obviously broken and disadvantaged nor even also of the most ordinary and average, but especially of our best and brightest, their possibilities squandered, actually be in any measure in truth not only because of whatever ones own individual human shortcomings and maladaptation even however flagrant, but largely in manifest consequence from whatever conceivable greater systemic defect in society, of entrenched mediocrity and worse? Of course, gentle reader, you've heard this all before. And surely such generalities of pop iconoclasm so long clichéd and dissipated of of all shock value, must come as little surprise to anyone. And yet every question remains as to precisely the nature of prevailing expectation and conventional adaptation thereto. Indeed, where is hidden the fine print in the social contract? And at what cost? How Faustian! And deep down, behind all denial and willful naivety, are we actually all of us so cynical, submissive, even Masochistic, so utterly defeated and in on the racket? Have we truly joined the enemy against ourselves, Number 6? For we have all been subject to exhortation, frustrated and tantalized: “Follow your bliss!” Empty blandishment and broken promise, as we are all then summarily abandoned each to our own devices, setup for failure. All easier said than done. Indeed, to quote Frederick Law Olmsted: "After all is said and done, much is said and little is done." And so, we each and all then secretly await the call, to some yearned for true to life Hero's Journey. And when it comes, don't blink or you might miss it! For it comes now. At last arrives the hour of Faustian recantation and cheating the cheaters. And more, anon.

 

For such remains the human condition of perpetual stimulus struggle, bereft of the requisite capable respectful culture of helping and autonomy supportive social support. For in accordance with the Arousal Theory of motivation, all living beings are perpetually engaged in stimulus struggle, which is the name coined by anthropologist Desmond Morris in 'the human zoo' October 1 1969, for the perpetual striving of all living things, to regulate, to obtain and maintain, the optimum kind and degree of stimulation and arousal from the surrounding environment. Everything that we do is in order to modify subjective experience thereby altering consciousness. But we are all slowly bored to death, unseen and and interminably lonely. Alas, the prospects instead for better fulfillment remain dismal for designated worker drones slaving under the perpetual grinding sore travail of heteronomy to behavioral conditioning, all cogs in the machine, formal education and typical corporate culture of employment, fostering admiration, but never emulation, of those lionized men and women of destiny rising only actually despite the system, overcoming adversity, and then effectively quarantined and lonely at the top. And for wretches such as we, there must be no ready escape at all from the only dull and sorry game in town! For such remains the banal rank hypocrisy of glowing lip service to independence while fostering helplessness and dependency. Thus, from top to bottom, indeed at every strata and walk of life, to quote Russell Brand: “Society is collapsing and people are starting to recognize that the reason they feel like they’re mentally ill is that they’re living in a system that’s not designed to suit the human spirit.”

 

Indeed by design discovered to scientific investigation, qualitatively domineering and oppressive, systematically crushing of human spirit. Because from very premise, Cultural Anthropology studies human relationships consistent with rôles of relative social standing, degrees of kinship and rank, all predicated upon competencies and aptitudes of hierarchically predictive social cognition by which to anticipate the responses of others, merely via the recognition of members of one's own social group in order to form direct relationships consistent with rôles of relative social standing, degrees of kinship and rank, recognition of third-party social relationships and prediction of future behavior and in order to know what one is expected to do and how to behave. After all, from prehistory and up to the present day, every hierarchical structure has evolved from that of the clan or extended family. And there's the rub!

 

We the Sheeple, as the glorified pack mammals that we truly are, by default social order falls back upon the simplest hierarchy and heteronomy thereto, all being the very antithesis of emerging more highly evolved and sophisticated autonomy as to engender psychological visibility, friendship, freedom and capability all so intrinsic to authentic wellbeing of meeting the vastly underserved social and intellectual stimulus appetites of massively inbred hideous mutation, evolutionary neurology and the passionate arousal of engorged human cerebrality. The emotional distance and objectification situationally inherent in compulsive heteronomy to hierarchy remain antithetical to any sympathetic glimpse into one another's inner life that is called: psychological visibility, just being perceived, recognized, known, understood and desired for oneself. Therefore dystressful Existentially Absurd alienation, futility and lonely boredom consistently ensue. And because Eudemonia, important close human relationship and particularly true friendship in autonomy, arises entirely as a byproduct of purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication, and never otherwise. Thus, popularity and ever facile and distant social success, ever remain antithetical to genuine friendship, substantive and intimate. But what to do? What path to liberation?

Towards strategy: The starkly democratic grand afterthought to the authoritarian paradigm of Cultural Anthropology, emerges in consistent if statistically infrequent Empirical observation that, as pressing need and special circumstances or situation as arising in the judgment of whatever great and good powers that be, that there remain also those rare, exceptional and special moments of collaboration in creative solution finding which is characteristically egalitarian in nature as well as uplifting in freedom, power, progress and elation in the vibrant contest of ideas, even actually putting on hold whatever gamut of tawdry and domineering primate politics. Alas, the priorities of heteronomy remain ever malignant. But what then if indeed priorities could be completely flipped, reversed, turned upon their head? What if there was a way, an actionable plan, indeed for open and productive, non-zero-sum fully engaged uplifting and egalitarian low hierarchical distance of collaborative creative solution finding, somehow to become instetuted as the ongoing default, and whatever kind of responsible authority the special case, a fall back position reserved for and resorted to only as and when the need whereof ever actually arising? And no longer merely, as all too often, any transitory event of collaboration among equals in creative solution finding, such as any one time assigned task afterwards abandoned, or any sort of short term scheduled workshop, contest or seminar, typically concluding and vanishing entirety without any trace, indeed even any sort of frantic and intensive "boot camp" ending in exhaustion with no debrief, no path any further or follow up at all. If only there where any set of grassroots DIO (Do-It-Ourselves) instructions, active strategy and discussion points! Well, here they are! And what a shame if no one believes it.

In the bright future and subversively disruptive innovation of advanced automated Sociometry, everyone will become influential. But in the meantime, in the here and now, individual will to power demands ongoing struggle, beginning with the quest for Eudemonia and optimally positive influence upon one another. Alas, under heteronomy, We the Sheeple generally learn to become so cynical, insecure, inhibited, wary and cagey, most strongly motivated by life long behavioral conditioning to peer pressure and the many ongoing punishment and rewards and social cognition of perceived vested interests, relentless struggle ever jockeying in the advancement and preservation of social position, esteem and standing. That is why kinship and rank are viewed as so central to the human condition in society, under the generally authoritarian perspective of Cultural Anthropology, with the fully engaged open and uplifting egalitarian low hierarchical distance of collaborative solution finding relegated almost to mere democratic grand afterthought. An exception, a weird and wonderful special case, by whatever unusual need or rare circumstances as decided by whatever great and good powers that be. An however infrequent and all to scarce transient positive experience then leaving such a dull and aching void in unrelentingly bored and lonely life the rest of the time. Hence frustration of uniquely human intrinsic needs of social and intellectual stimulus struggle rooted in freakish and massively inbred hideous mutation, evolutionary neurology and engorged human cerebrality. Leaving such poignant memories of those rare peak experiences of such creative interaction as ever arising, so dearly treasured in helplessness to sustain or proactively. Not solitary  DIY (Do-It-Yourself) but together DIO (Do-It-Ourselves), to duplicate such desirable conditions or situations regularly or systematically and at will. If only there where any set of grassroots DIO (Do-It-Ourselves) instructions, active strategy and discussion points! Well, here they are! And what a shame if no one believes it. 

I and thou: Most sincerely, thank you gentle reader. Because ever more clearly, we all live, so often impoverished, in such a tightly strained attention economy, then all the more, in the immortal words of Simone Weil: “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” And emphatically, the wise investment of attention which is optimal reciprocal engagement, consistently accrues the highest return in like kind for everyone involved. So pay attention to me, damn it! Be interested, be interesting. Stay interested. Include me. Because, to quote Barbara Sher: “Isolation is the true dream killer, not your attitude.” Moreover, in the wise words of Carl Gustav Jung: “Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate to others the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible . . . If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.” For as Michel Eyquem De Montaigne admits: “There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.” Indeed as George Orwell writes in 'Conversation with a Pacifist': “Philosophers, writers, artists, even scientists, not only need encouragement and an audience, they need constant stimulation from other people. It is almost impossible to think without talking. If Defoe had really lived on a desert island, he could not have written Robinson Crusoe, nor would he have wanted to. Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.”

 

Any two or more finding common ground and wherewithal, only need the purpose and resolve together in order actually to investigate and then strive to provide one another whatever interaction hitherto so elusive. For thus indeed unfolds the Individualistic process of ever deeper true intimacy and psychological visibility by relating to one another without mediation of rigid social expectations and looming authority. Indeed, among individuals of any moral fiber and fortitude at all to live up to ones principles, in other words: the creditable Menschlichkeit of trustworthy and forbidden true friendship in autonomy, no one else's permission or approval shall be required. And only that is what garners even the most begrudging trust and respect out in the world. Beyond the long obsolete dogmatism and arbitrary oppression in the dehumanizing demands of social success and popularity, let alone failing in whatever vagueries of social success and therefore every dreadful sore travail of social exclusion, the probortunity accrues instead, of intentional social life and chosen priorities by social engineering design. Social engineering design of intentional social life. A social life of optimal reciprocal engagement such as to better provide for participants therein. The present work ensues a proposal to that very end.

 

But Eudemonia turns first of all, and indispensably, upon Socratic Dialectic, the practice of controversy being the welcome and invited exchange of criticism, thereby ongoing error detection and course correction, and in deliberation analytic yet strategic, bridging abstract principle (generally why) and concrete application (specifically how). Let us then already begin improving our disposition by together marshalling our wits Dialectically, indeed to freely question everything, especially whatever is not understood and to articulate every nagging ambiguity. And all free from anxiety, in the most shameless and flagrant taboo practice of philosophy, liberation from vapid small talk and from the endlessly jockeying for social position. For as has been known and understood from antiquity, and well corroborated to this day, even thus little exercise of freedom and discipline will already significantly improve reciprocal positive influence, character growth and merely day to day life. Criticism remains inherently friendly, an expression of abiding respect. Indeed, with a little friendly diligence, even outright communications failure is seldom irrecoverable, even from the most stygian depths of confusion, in order thereby to bring us all that much closer. Explore, criticize, brainstorm and modify. Freely pose Socratic open ended questions.

In perhaps the most famous and celebrated agenda of George Bernard Shaw: “Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.” Indeed, to cite from the no less celebrated agenda setting of Margaret Mead: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” Gentle reader, unmet friend, can we together, I and thou, function as unreasonably thoughtful and committed citizens? But how precisely? Thus the social engineering design probortunity, agenda and purpose at hand. 

 

In accordance with the ancient wisdom of the greatest sages of old, later day Eudemonia as rediscovered under the very cutting edge of modern science, and specifically, according to Martin Seligman's celebrated happiness formula of Positive Psychology: Pleasure + engagement + meaning = intrinsic fulfillment. Believe it or not, in order best to become fulfilled in authentic wellbeing, meaningfully and pleasurably optimally reciprocally engaged, any affable and intelligent person yearns to become part of ongoing collaboration among equals in creative solution finding. In short: Creativity can and Should be Social! But what form might that take? Agenda for ratification here on FoolQuest.com, hypertext in unabashed complexity, presents a statement of audaciously subversive vision, unapologetic densely written hypertext to unpack, of capability and high ambition towards great doings. So try not to chip a nail clicking the provided hyperlinks as needed!

 

A notable key tenet of TRIZ, the much renowned Russian theory of inventive solution finding, remains in the observation of how aside from entirely new scientific discoveries, the rarest most important and powerful innovations arise in the transfer and reapplication of knowledge and methods across disciplines. And for your inner Multipotentialite or Polymath, as later day Renaissance men and women all, indeed towards precisely such figurative cosmopolitan crosspollination, walk-and-chew-gum dual endeavor of arête, excellence, is herein proposed: On the one hand, of power, capability and freedom towards success through applied creativity, innovative new venture creation and (pre-) incubation, entrepreneurship for the rest of us, in concurrent synergy, on the other hand, with ongoing serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming, art for its own joy. Not just either, but both contemporaneously. After all, both business or project planning on the one hand, and on the other hand, the discipline of the writing craft in fiction writing, remain related applications of the same exhilarating creative power of narrative imagination and quite frankly, utter conjecture. Thus the latter may provide for creative people, an excellent inspiration and team building exercise towards the former. Indeed, intentional community: intentional social circle or group formation, online, focused upon aforesaid ongoing concurrent synergistic dual endeavor.

 

The present proposal then ensues, of pleasurable engagement, eustress and fulfillment in meaningful collaboration among equals, intentional ongoing creative solution finding, specifically the art for art's sake, the pure creativity for its own joy, of top quality and highly original collaborative fiction writing together with the innovation, applied creativity and the subversive vision of power, autonomy, flexibility and transformation, subversion in disruptive new venture creation, entrepreneurship for the rest of us. These are all so vastly underserved and often unfulfilled intrinsic human motivation towards authentic wellbeing.

 

Towards ongoing concurrent synergistic dual endeavor (again: on the one hand, innovative new venture creation and (pre-) incubation entrepreneurship for the rest of us, in concurrent synergy, on the other hand, with ongoing serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming), as a starting point both a short list of innovative sample new venture proposals, and also a selection of sample unfinished stories, writing prompts and provocations, are each presented for further development together in collaboration. Or by all means gentle reader, go ahead and pitch your own ideas, venture and/or fiction, for further development together in collaboration! After all, brainstorming just willy-nilly entirely from scratch, might not be as serious and productive as actually encouraging participants each to bring their own ideas as point of departure.

 

An ode to incomprehension: Got no idea what the Hell I am talking about? Welcome! Wonderful! Because, how can anyone declare that we learn only from our mistakes, and yet fail to credit and value among all manner and dizzying variety of kinds and categories of mistakes, simple ignorance and sheer incomprehension, after all the subject matter of most sublime Socratic Wisdom gauging the scope of ones own limited knowledge and understanding? Never balk, but freely question whatever is not understood and articulate every nagging ambiguity. Because how is anxiety, evasion and suspicion against the pressing of innocent question, which is struggle that ought never to be rebuffed, any better than Anti-Critical Bias, hostility towards criticism? Again, in case of difficulties reading and understanding this very content, or in order to critique prose and composition, please click here. For as the saying goes: No question is too stupid to ask, and no answer too wise to be given. The practice of controversy consists in the welcome and invited exchange of criticism, and thereby ongoing error detection and course correction. Criticism remains inherently friendly, an expression of abiding respect. Indeed even sheer incomprehension is a beginning and no dire impasse or cause for alarm. Because there are time tested methods in order to dredge up crystal clear lucidity out from even the most abysmal confusion. The readiness to speak up, question, point out and discuss communication errors, ambiguities and failures, indeed no less than criticism, error and disagreement, remains integral to communication at all, in science, philosophy, art, commerce or much anything else worth pursuing. Indeed occasionally even a matter of life and death. Mistakes are the Essence towards fully engaged Dialectical miscommunication competent conversational adequacy in collaborative miscommunication repair, with Active Reading and Listening striving towards the achievement of Intersubjectivity being: the closer correspondence of message as received and understood, to content as actually intended by the sender. And this is no anomaly, but entirely normal. New ideas are often confusing and hard work. Only shopworn and well familiar old ideas are certain always to come across effortlessly. The mainstay of science and philosophy was once the cutting edge. The well familiar great concise ideas upon which we all rely, are often, historically, the product of brilliant minds in lifetimes of boiling it all down, volume by volume, page by page. To always get it right the first time, say very little and dare nothing new.  

   

Creativity and elemental clash: Imagination knows no bounds, but truth remains singular and constrained. In fiction wring collaboration, in case of unresolved artistic difference among friends, the worst that can result will be prolific multiple variant versions, different stories. Whereas modern Scientific Method of experimentation remains predicated upon Socratic enlightenment by refutation in a process of elimination setting aside unviable hypotheses, thereby clearing the field of all but any handful of remaining viable hypotheses, ever less wrong. In true to life practice or merely in fiction wring, the Dialectic readily brings to light meaningful conflict in dramatization of controversy, values and intriguing problem to solve And out from the dramatization of controversy, presented from differing POV, Point Of View or perspective in character conflict, in depiction of not only of unfolding external strife and action adventure, but also of inner conflict and struggle of ambivalence, new heights of collaborative creativity in plotting and meaning are discovered via synthesis of any two conflicting ideas, called: thesis and antithesis, together reconciled in synthesis, to form anything unprecedented, richer, more engagingly complex and surprising. And this same very principle of fertile conjecture transcends mere drama into any range of creative solution finding and collaboration among equals, bridging abstract principle (generally why) and concrete application (specifically how), in deliberation analytic yet strategic, even into the real world along the Backwards Ladder of Abstraction, the steady retreat from fantasy and willing suspension of disbelief, gradually into ever more defensible bastion of real purpose and barest possibility: Innovative new venture creation. Power, capability, autonomy, real liberation, hope of success and the achievement of freedom in an unfree world; the probortinity at hand. To quote Sir Francis Bacon: “Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.”

 

All hence, serious collaborative fiction writing, brainstorming, drama hailed by Socrates as most philosophical among the arts, the venerable discipline of the writing craft, and also the speculative element and unfettered conjecture of Science Fiction, is all indeed herein extolled as both intrinsically valuable in and of its own right, but also towards pursuit of capability, liberation and the individual will to power, indeed of distinct creative enhancement to innovation in new venture creation and (pre-) incubation, brainstorming and planning, indeed rigorous feasibility study and futuring; entrepreneurship for the rest of us. Not to mention that drama and storytelling is always a great part of marketing, publicity, polemic and propaganda, getting whatever message out, as however entailed or applied. Let alone various enterprise of media, publication or journalism.

 

But first of all, outreach in any such a vibrant project proposal must inspire and help recruit a varied range of socially supportive, helpful and trustworthy capable talent, knowledge and skill sets, in mutual respect, to join in and participate on spec and all from scratch. Indeed, for novice aspirant and old pro alike, entrepreneurship for the rest of us. Yes, even from the hither to, indeed currently, most vastly underserved embryonic first concept inception or: "kitchen table" stage or phase, through management team formation, business or project planning and feasibility study, indeed through capitalization and all the way to successful implementation. Embarkation thus upon the all too uncertain real life Hero's Journey, attempting  anything really cool together. Likewise, all easier said than done, our work cut out for us.

 

 

 

 

The FoolQuest.com social engineering design outreach probortunity

 

In the words of Arthur H. Vandenberg: “It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.” And after all, subjective happiness, being most precious and scarce of all opportunity going beyond characteristic individual disposition alone, remains a reactive state variable of inner life, responsive to favorable external circumstances as arising, situation in objective reality amenable to investigation, strategy and feasibility study. But defeatism balks at ambition and difficulty, even making do by seeking refuge from reality in wishful thinking, willful positivity and pipedream, all eventually collapsing into disgruntled despair. And indeed, hence The Great Quit. Yes, we'll all become slackers now! For to quote Russell Brand: “Society is collapsing and people are starting to recognize that the reason they feel like they’re mentally ill is that they’re living in a system that’s not designed to suit the human spirit.”

And yet, in accordance with the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology, it shall come to pass even under the most pandemic under stimulated and unremitting humdrum and oppression of routine heteronomy to hierarchical dominance, hierarchical dominance may come to be temporarily relaxed for the sake of creative free exchange. Thus, for a time, for one brief shining moment, oppressed spirits will be lifted in eustress and set free in at last unfettered imagination. As for example, in typical corporate life, when in the rare event, employees or students are brought together and tasked with brainstorming and solution finding probortunity arising. But only under whatever special circumstances when and as deemed needful or advantageous by whatever generally authoritarian powers that be, that the all too scarce respite and infrequent peak experience of universal inner giftedness via collaboration among equals brainstorming in creative solution finding, immediately makes people ebulliently happy for the duration of such interaction, and thereafter even wistfully desirous to repeat the uncommonly uplifting practice more often and only wish, if only! that they could be working instead at some much more famously ultra-hip design company the likes of IDEO! Because no one can remain bored, lonely and sad, when so optimally reciprocally engaged together in brainstorming towards creative solution finding. 

However of course, such highly desirable positions of employment remain in tremendous demand, short supply, extremely qualified, scarce, tantalizing out of reach. But wait: Can supply be improved? What about just founding our own private IDEO? -Talk about easier said than done and our work cut out for us! One might even foresee that association within any creative corporate socially supportive culture of helping the likes of IDEO or any situation, perhaps even online, adequately similar, could also greatly enhance social life, more optimal social embedment, extended networking, widest access to resources, contacts and the cultivation of quality relationships of every kind and for any human purpose. All in all, perhaps the best conceivable circumstances pending advances in automated Sociometry, the anticipated next revolution in social technology (not to digress). And such remains the objective of the FoolQuest.com outreach, Creativity can be Popular, towards better social life by social engineering design, everything falling into place.

To quote Sir Isaac Newton “You have to make the rules, not follow them.” And as per the general recommendation of Sir Karl Popper, the present vision of social change might be realized indeed via the formation of lasting social institutions. And if not by broadest and most sweeping cultural change beyond the scope of all but the most powerful and well connected, instead, still daunting a proposition, by piecemeal engineering, starting small, beginning on a much more modest scale, beginning far more modestly with smaller and more intimate group or social circle, particularly such as by social engineering design, Creativity can be Popular, the ever subversive social engineering design challenge, the outreach probortunity at hand, of Intentional community online, or at least initially, more modestly, intentional social circle or group formation, for suitable ongoing endeavor and fulfilling collaboration among equals in creative solution finding.

But not merely, as all too often, any transitory event, such as any one time assigned task, afterwards abandoned, or any sort of short term scheduled workshop, contest or seminar, typically concluding and vanishing entirety without any trace, with no debrief or follow up at all. In the alternative, herein proposed, only dare imagine sustained optimal reciprocal engagement such as to be exemplified in long term ongoing dual endeavor: On the one hand, innovative new venture creation and (pre-) incubation, entrepreneurship for the rest of us, in concurrent synergy, on the other hand, with ongoing serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming. New venture creation and (pre-) incubation accessible to meet a crying underserved need for entry level creative opportunity of entrepreneurship, even for the rest of us neophytes and wannabes, at our own pace. Because while new venture creation epitomizes innovation, which is the name given to applied creativity, indeed as inspired by the entrepreneurial dream of individual ambition, capability, power, freedom and hoped for success, serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming, in the discipline of the writing craft, in drama hailed by Socrates as most philosophical among the arts, and in the speculative element and unfettered conjecture of Science Fiction and even rigorous futuring scenario, all nourishes pure creativity, art for its own joy.

 

Indeed, the aphorism remains variously accredited: “The Secret of Getting Ahead Is Getting Started.” Indeed, as per chapter 64 of the Dao De Jing as ascribed to Laozi, the journey of a thousand miles beginning with but a single step. And the barest beginning, without running off halfcocked, remains in the setting of an agenda towards initiation of serious sustained ongoing strategic yet analytical discussion and deliberation. And therefore, as a starting point, as aforesaid, a short list of innovative sample new venture proposals, along with a selection of sample unfinished stories, writing prompts and provocations, shall be found presented here on FoolQuest.com for further development together in collaboration among equals. Or by all means gentle reader, go ahead and pitch your own ideas, venture or fiction,  for further development together in collaboration among equals. After all, brainstorming just willy-nilly entirely from scratch, might not be as serious and productive as actually encouraging participants each to bring their own ideas as point of departure.

 

All bearing in mind, however, that on the market, bold ideas remain quite worthless pending implementation and whatever payoff. Indeed, any initial business or project plan on its own, remains merely hypothesis, sheer conjecture, an evocative tale to be told, a ripping yarn, a compelling and character motivated philosophical drama of the human condition, all towards proposed action, indeed life imitating art, and hoped for success and fulfillment in whatever predicted and desired results or outcomes. The FoolQuest.com social engineering design probortunity at hand, remains that of Intentional community online, or more modestly, intentional social circle or group formation, to that very interaction and purpose. Presented then herein for open discussion to the agenda for any and all interested parties, the present proposal in ever more wordy presentation, remains nothing less than outreach in standing solicitation. Let's talk! Apply now to join right in, at least in preliminary deliberation as proposed to agenda.

 

In light all thereof, let us together deliberate and even consider testing the prediction that even so complicated, arduous and daunting the task, our work so well cut out for us, notwithstanding, even in merely the most preliminary sustained ongoing honest and serious analytic yet strategic conversation and feasibility study, entirely subversive, will already become more uplifting in the will to power, than any slave mentality status quo of heteronomy to ultimately debilitating bogus motivational grift or soul crushing manipulative Behavioral Modification, indeed heteronomy to any cult of socialization and popularity under systematic reward, punishment and indoctrination that none dare call: brainwash!

 

 

Malagenda: Utter denial, both too serious and yet, not serious enough

 

Alas, both hopeful entrepreneurs and aspiring fiction writers are notoriously self-reliant and solitary. But to quote Charles B Forbes: “Large-scale success today is spelled -Teamwork." Indeed, in the words of Barbara Sher: “Isolation is the true dream killer, not your attitude.” Whether for stories or business/project plans, writing is rewriting and never a waste of time. Alas, especially as entrenched in willfully positive cheerful attitudes, many never find the motivation for anything much more than utter denial, both too serious and yet, not serious enough. Because writing is easy to do, but difficult to do well. And all of that is why there will never be found any shortage in malagenda of determinedly co-validating clueless unaware incompetence as that of delusional half assed gawdawful group badfic online, any more than in no less willfully positive and ever cheerful upbeat business pipedreams, hand waving and scams, bereft of all skeptical credulity.

 

Especially online, there exist what amount to bogus support groups of unflagging encouragement for fiction writers, a travesty wherein salient critique is vehemently deplored and actively discouraged, indeed even actually forbidden and penalized. However, there are also many fine serious fiction writers' groups, wherein those aforementioned serious albeit ever self-reliant and solitary writers ever so studiously break isolation in order indeed to exchange critique and advance their venerable art, the discipline of the writing craft. But while there has been an impressive flowering online, of even encyclopedic collaborative World Building, shared setting and background for individual fiction writing, otherwise there appear to be precious few if any communities for serious collaborative fiction writing actually as such. Only those insular co-validating ninnies who have together afflicted collaborative fiction writing with such a poor reputation among those aforementioned notoriously solitary and self-reliant serious fiction writers. And serious people generally, will only find ourselves one way or another, all the more isolated amid membership of those thin skinned wishy-washy conformist consensus communities, granfalloons of the unserious of any interest or in any field of endeavor. All hence the gap, crying underserved need, the ever subversive social engineering design challenge, the outreach probortunity at hand, of Intentional community online, or at least initially, more modestly, intentional social circle or group formation, for suitable ongoing endeavor and collaboration among equals in creative solution finding.

 

By contrast to all that prevails, interesting and high quality serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming, hitherto never easy to find, nor indeed readily or openly available to the public (do they exist at all?), is herein envisaged and proposed, as synergistic adjunct to innovative new venture creation, entrepreneurship for the rest of us. Collaborative brainstorming, imagination and Science Fiction speculation, but also the discipline of the writing craft, building competency in drama and style. An excellent ongoing team building exercise and creative prompt in support of new venture (pre) incubation for serious and truly creative people together at long last. Again, to that end, as a starting point, a short list of sample unfinished stories, writing prompts and provocations, is presented for further development together in collaboration. Or, by all means gentle reader, go ahead and pitch your own ideas for further development together in collaboration!  

 

Both capable storytelling (barring the fairytale surreal) and competent planning, will likewise never honestly withstand gaping plot holes and gaps or errors in applicable logic. But whereas fiction writing, remaining entirely hypothetical and imaginary, only needs to seem valid (plausible and logically consistency to premise, an Epistemological Methodological criteria of critical preference in Scientific Method), innovation, plan of action or futuring scenario, bridging abstract principle (generally why) and concrete application (specifically how), in deliberation analytic yet strategic, all further turn upon rigorous feasibility study in Empirical objective reality. Because validity alone, defined as logical inner self consistency of proposition, can never become transitive to truth, truth being defined as correspondence to reality in assertions. As G. E. Moore contends: “You can't get an is from an ought.” And yet, it remains a sly trope of manipulative and deceptive propaganda, to fob of evocative illustration and rationalization, as though evidentiary as practical demonstration. But even if story as depicted seems to make appealing sense, it still might not actually be so. Pollyanna willful positivity be damned! Pleasure Principle and wishful thinking must be governed by Reality Principle. And after critical preference, comes reality testing, indeed planning and feasibility study.

The term: "design" hyperlinks to an exposition (to put it without false modesty!) upon an innovative and pioneering new social engineering design process proposed towards nothing less than the veritable orchestration of your happiness. The term: "social engineering" hyperlinks to a brief entry upon social engineering. And the term "stimulus struggle" hyperlinks to a discourse upon stimulus struggle, a pervading theme. Lastly, the term: "stimuli" hyperlinks to disambiguation of present usage. And the term: "arousal" hyperlinks externally to a brief entry upon the subject. All highly relevant in the never ending strife and striving against ongoing pandemic under stimulation. Indeed, according to the arousal Theory of motivation, all living beings remain perpetually engaged in stimulus struggle which is the name coined by anthropologist Desmond Morris in 'the human zoo' October 1 1969, for the perpetual striving of all living things, to regulate, to obtain and maintain, the optimum kind and degree of stimulation and arousal from the surrounding environment, according to whatever plan.

Alas, to quote Robert Burns: “The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft a-gley.” (Go often awry.) For in the famous words of Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, noted disciple of Carl von Clausewitz: “No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy.” -nor, for that matter, whatever other sort of antagonist, true to life dramatic obstacle or complication. Therefore, as said by Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower: “Plans are nothing, planning is everything.” All wherein, the Dialectical practice of controversy, which is the open, free and invited exchange of criticism/critique, inherently friendly, an expression of abiding respect. For such remains Socratic enlightenment by refutation in the crucible of truth, subversive, ever less wrong: hypothetico deductive reasoning wherein, without shame, strife or acrimony, errors are not to be avoided beforehand, but detected and course corrected as arising. Because how else do we learn, grow, progress and ultimately even ever possibly succeed? But superiority, invalidation, thin skinned Anti-Critical Bias and bitter disrespect, only guarantee passive hostility, sabotage, headgames, protracted dysfunction, headgames and interminable primate politics.

 

 

In pursuit of friendship and happiness

 “The only truly happy people are children and the creative minority.” — Jean Caldwell

FoolQuest.com advances an innovative and pioneering new social engineering design process proposed towards nothing less than the veritable orchestration of your happiness. According to the arousal Theory of motivation, all living beings remain perpetually engaged in stimulus struggle which is the name coined by anthropologist Desmond Morris in 'the human zoo' October 1 1969, for the perpetual striving of all living things, to regulate, to obtain and maintain, the optimum kind and degree of stimulation and arousal from the surrounding environment. In short, uniquely human social and intellectual stimulus struggle remains the endless and often frustrated struggle with loneliness and boredom. And in that very pursuit, happy people, ever trustworthy, capable and respectful, but alas so distinct a minority, and so eminently suitable rôle models whereof whom we poor sods the rest of us might all do so very well to emulate, are Empirically observed extrovertedly to reach out, Talking More Seriously, fully engaged in purposeful interaction and substantive communication, therefore making less small talk and exerting every effort in order to actively make things happen, attentively pursuing new understanding, therefore remaining more likely to choose creative activities, seek new achievements, and thereby uplift their own thoughts and emotions, even improving their circumstances by centering their lives around sharing whatever pleases them most. Of course all, however, so much easier said than done.

And to reiterate, hence the ever subversive social engineering design challenge, the outreach probortunity at hand, of Intentional community or at least initially, more modestly, intentional social circle or group formation, for suitable ongoing endeavor and collaboration among equals in creative solution finding, particulars whereof as proposed herein on FoolQuest.com Specifically, and to reiterate: on the one hand, innovative new venture creation, entrepreneurship for the rest of us, in concurrent synergy, on the other hand, with ongoing serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming: Embarkation upon the true to life Hero's Journey, attempting anything really cool together. Indeed, as per chapter 64 of the Dao De Jing as ascribed to Laozi, the journey of a thousand miles beginning with but a single step. Again, whereof, as a starting point, both a short list of innovative sample new venture proposals and also a selection of sample unfinished stories, writing prompts and provocations, are presented for further development together in collaboration. Or, by all means gentle reader, go ahead and pitch your own ideas for further development together in collaboration!  

 

In the words of John Mason Good: “Happiness consists in activity. It is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.” And  to quote Benjamin Disraeli: “Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” Alas however, so very, very far from anything so serious, anything even resembling action and ambition, the ubiquitous desperate panic stricken sycophantic socially skilled toadying skilled incompetence and pervasively toxic cutthroat anti-introspective anti-intellectual unrelenting popularity contest for facile and distant social success, ever remains precisely antithetical to true friendship. Because friendship is genuine, substantive, intimate, and predicated upon autonomous, free, candid, unguarded and reciprocal psychological visibility. Friendship of serious people, remains the only effective antidote to loneliness.

Loneliness is the wont of intimacy. Hence, when mass anxiety fails to challenge our very way of life or to trouble the powers that be, and thus individual dystress fails to evoke sympathetic feeling and therefore mutual aid, and if none any longer shall rally to the alarm sounded, then such only will signal vulnerability to predation and exploitation, merely endangering others as well as oneself. If as we are told, indeed keeping things light is indeed so crucial to popularity and social success, then popularity and social success must come at the sacrifice of all happiness. Thus indeed popularity and social success on the one hand, and friendship on the other, remain starkly antithetical. This is because friendship is genuine, substantive and intimate in psychological visibility, while popularity or social success depend upon boring facile superficiality and ever maintaining lonely distance. Therefore the inherent contradiction remains irresolvable in very principle, and nothing but a setup for frustration, failure and craven exhortation to lowered expectations and making do with mindless small talk.

Because important close human relationship and particularly true friendship in autonomy, arises entirely as a byproduct even of optimal reciprocal engagement in purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication, and never otherwise. And such remains the challenge and probortunity of whatever dramatically motivated characterization propelling any real life Hero's Journey. Indeed like unto The Three Musketeers: “One for all, and all for one!” attempting  anything really cool together. And no less so than in any compelling drama. And certainly as proposed here on FoolQuest.com, dual endeavor as herein proposed, on the one hand, of power, capability and freedom towards success through applied creativity, innovative new venture creation, entrepreneurship for the rest of us, in concurrent synergy, on the other hand, with ongoing serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming, art for its own joy. No one can remain bored, lonely and sad, when so optimally reciprocally engaged together ebulliently in brainstorming towards creative solution finding.  

Alas then, that substance and purpose, let alone intellect, curiosity and creativity all uniquely characteristic to ‘The Survival of the Sickest’ and evolutionary neurology of the human condition, remain actually shameful, awkward, nerdy, uncool, socially unacceptable and taboo as perhaps most often named: Anti-intellectualism (hostility and mistrust towards intellect, intellectuals, intellectualism, and deprecation of culture whatsoever) but perhaps more properly designated: anti-intraception (a discomfort or opposition in very principle, toward the subjective, the imaginative, the tender minded). And make no mistake, curiosity, alas increasingly coming under attack, remains the beginning of empathy and hence the agent of compassion. Apathy therefore heralds unmindful cruelty. Nothing that fails even to arouse curiosity, will ever much engender compassion. Thus in purposeful behavioral extinction and futility of compassion in social interaction, a situation that can only lead to pandemic serial bullying.  

Therefore, unmet friends, then let us together marshal our wits and freely question everything, especially whatever is not understood and articulate every nagging ambiguity.. Explore, criticize, brainstorm and modify. Freely pose Socratic open ended questions. And all therefore, most sincerely, thank you gentle reader. Because ever more clearly, we all live, so often impoverished, in such a tightly strained attention economy, then all the more, in the immortal words of Simone Weil: “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” For again in the words of Barbara Sher: “Isolation is the true dream killer, not your attitude.” So pay attention to me, damn it! Be interested, be interesting. Stay interested. Include me. Let's talk!

 

HyperGlossary

 

To reiterate: Put forth to agenda for discussion by all interested parties, Creativity can and Should be Social as proposed, is conceived of, most concretely, as the inception of ongoing concurrent and vibrant dual endeavor, innovative new venture creation, entrepreneurship for the rest of us, on the one hand, in concurrent synergy with, on the other hand, pure creativity, art for its own joy, in ongoing serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming. Moreover, new venture creation herein shall be taken to include both profit and nonprofit, indeed Social Entrepreneurship, doing well by doing good, and even adventures into grassroots politics.

 

The term: "Creativity can and Should be Social" hyperlinks to a presentation upon the proposal so named. While the term: "new venture creation" hyperlinks to a short list of innovative sample proposals for further development together. But by all means, pitch your own! It hardly seems in dispute, that aspiring entrepreneurs often meet with isolation, inertia and frustration. Therefore the term: "entrepreneurship for the rest of us" hyperlinks to a social engineering design exposition upon proposed intentional community or at least initially, more modestly, smaller intentional social circle or group, with provision and code of conduct towards the frustrated and unmet needs of more transparent and ready entry, even for the novice aspirant and old pro together, into precisely such manner of collaboration among equals.

 

And the term: "fiction writing" hyperlinks to a resource upon creativity most broadly, along with brainstorming, dramatic  fiction writing and Science Fiction speculation, including also a list of sample unfinished stories, writing prompts and provocations, indeed, for collaboration in fiction writing together. But by all means, do pitch your own story ideas. And the distinct pre-qualifier: "serious" hyperlinks to an exposition upon the nature of serious fiction writing, exchange of critique, and the venerable discipline of the writing craft from time immemorial, in the traditionally solitary practice of serious fiction writing, plus the fundamentals of Science Fiction, all alas hitherto so absent from prevailing half-assed philistine dilettante gawdawfull fiction writing collaboration travesty online, in such ideological contempt towards writing competency and literacy, so hypersensitive and resentful of all critique.

 

The term: "Creativity can and Should be Social!" hyperlinks to the one proposal to bind them all! Creative people need one another. Practice of serious fiction writing collaboration can and should instead become available as a mode of social interaction, indeed even as herein proposed, ancillary to innovative new venture creation, entrepreneurship for the rest of us. Therefore the term: "synergy" links to salient exposition upon a vision of unprecedented dynamic synergy concurrently between pure creativity on the one hand, and innovation on the other hand, via concurrent dual creative endeavors all as herein proposed. 

 

The term: "Creativity Can and Should be Popular" hyperlinks to a page of discourse upon even zany outreach and recruitment strategy for Creativity can and Should be Social named: Creativity Can and Should be Popular, and not just nerdy and awkward. Creativity should actively bring people together, not stigmatize and isolate us.

 

The term: "social engineering" hyperlinks to a brief entry upon social engineering. Probortunty ensues regarding the social engineering by design of  stimulus struggle. Therefore the term "stimulus struggle" hyperlinks to a discourse upon stimulus struggle, a pervading theme. Lastly, the term: "stimuli" hyperlinks to disambiguation of present usage. And the term: "arousal" hyperlinks externally to a brief entry upon the subject. The term: "design" hyperlinks to an exposition (to put it without false modesty!) upon an innovative and pioneering new social engineering design process proposed towards nothing less than the veritable orchestration of your happiness.

 

Because the challenging probortunity at hand, of the human condition, will be in social engineering design all from scratch of more optimal stimulus struggle and relationship redefined in new paradigm of new social reality via intentional community or at least initially, more modestly, smaller intentional social circle. And the objective whereof remains in the better provision and availability of more optimal purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication. Hence indeed, unprecedentedly synergistic dual creative collaboration and innovation so Empirically characteristic of happy people, trustworthy, capable and respectful, whom we would all do so well to emulate together, and indeed as herein proposed. For precisely such remains indeed pinnacle of highest gratification in social and intellectual stimulus struggle to overcome loneliness and boredom; as indeed perhaps most fully achievable via ongoing dual endeavor as proposed herein above. Or, gentle reader, have you a better idea?

 

Animals are to be rightly admired, because for animals attachment is so simple and pure, and long term bonds so profound. And isn't it just adorable? Only human beings have so muddled, perplexed and undermined the unreasoning animal simplicity of love itself, so convolutedly. But such is the price for human complexity and depth. And innocence remains vastly overrated. Because important close human relationship and particularly friendship, arises entirely as a byproduct of optimal reciprocal engagement in purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication, and never otherwise. And no one else need approve! The ubiquitous desperate panic stricken sycophantic socially skilled toadying skilled incompetence and pervasively toxic cutthroat anti-introspective anti-intellectual unrelenting popularity contest for facile and distant social success among the Sheeple, ever remains precisely antithetical to true friendship. Because friendship is genuine, substantive, intimate, and predicated upon autonomous, free, candid, unguarded and reciprocal psychological visibility. Friendship of serious people, remains the only effective and ever subversive antidote to loneliness. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What if creativity could be sociable, engaging and appealing,                                             instead of just intellectually dry, nerdy and awkward?                   A very personal outreach agenda

According to the Dead Internet Theory, the Internet is by now little more than an endless vast charade perpetrated by legions of 'bots teaming across the cyberspace, a deceptive pervading simulation co-opting all living perception and isolating everyone from one another amid an all consuming noise drowning out all genuine live signal. But I for one, remain so obviously flesh and blood. Debacle as of my existence just can't be simulated! Therefore, as my own boss, I have fired myself for utter failure and gross incompetence in the sore travail of life! In my own defense however, the responsibility remains daunting. Tautologically, there can be no self-help, no solitary rugged self-reliant unilateral "well-formed plan" for interaction among more than one individual. As the saying goes: It takes two to tango. Nor any secret sycophantic magic of facile socially skilled fineness and interminably empty and banal small talk either, ubiquitously oppressive, impractical and uncongenial social expectations all be forever damned. In the face of entrenched pervasive institutional indifference, how can anyone fare any better? That's the rub to set the present agenda. But does agenda remain ever abstract, or indeed, ultimately, mustn't agenda become personal? For those for whom salient agenda only becomes intelligible in relatable real life motivated characterization, see me, hear me, here I stand, warts and all.

Radical power is never solitary. And in the words of Mark R. J. Lavoie: “Life dies inside a person when there are no others willing to befriend him." Alas, no one ever cooperates with me, no matter what the stakes. Not love, money or life and death! No exaggeration. I cannot save myself, much less anyone I care for. But no one should be held accountable to responsibility beyond ones power in an indifferent universe, the Existentially Absurd real world of banal evil and folly from which the hapless individual remains ever inextricable. As Edward Snowden observes, oppressors who restrict our options, then pretend that we consent. And indeed, throughout the Dead Internet, such pretense may take the form of short attention manipulative Totalitarian Interactivity, hypertext clickbait that scarcely diverges before rapidly converging, seemingly personalized comprehensive webforms and questionnaires with only only one true intention, all illusion of choice while being lead safely about by the proverbial nose. And under any and all such devious oppression and propaganda, the salient moral yet practical questions remain those of how to organize, engage and conspire in subversive action and to what end. Any takers? Life is a test of autonomy. There can  be no reliance upon spontaneous propinquity.

In the bold interrogative irony of one time Vice Presidential candidate Admiral James Bond Stockdale: "Who am I, why am I here?" 

Obviously, and in case anyone cares, I myself am no such celebrated public figure or reputable expert. Quite the contrary, I am just another failure, stuck in a rut, a maladroit wanna-be with a cable modem, ever mouthing off online.

 

And so, more importantly, why then am I here? To what purpose here on FoolQuest.com? In answer: Like so many, I yearn to become an artist and Entrepreneur, in short a persistent serial failure, perseverant until at last ever meeting at all with success. For such of course, endures well renowned, as the way of the often solitary Entrepreneur. Failure is not an option. Repeated failure is inevitable. And such adversity is said to promote character growth.

  

But as so often affirmed, success, far from enduring in stifling isolation and solitude, comes as a product of teamwork, indeed life long learning together at our own pace. Because I don't much care for the protracted betrayal of being endlessly stalled, nor should I cravenly remain silent while being "boot camp" hurried and dubiously hustled, either. For as Aesop tells us: “Slow and steady wins the race!” But I can't go it alone, nor would I wish to! 

  

In the words of Arthur H. Vandenberg:  “It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.” Alas, therein remains a serious gap to be filled, thwarted outreach, a dire need to be addressed. For I find myself isolated and forever frustrated by the scarcity and unavailability of access to participation in trustworthy collaboration among equals in creative solution finding and innovation as expounded anon.

     

And not only so scarce, but typically unsustainable, unserious, unreliable and of overall poor quality. My own greatly preferred modes of ongoing  creative endeavor together, as yet remain by enlarge out of reach for me without better support in playing to my own self perceived strengths, also potentially most useful to others and better appreciated.

For in the words of Barbara Sher: “Isolation is the true dream killer, not your attitude.” Indeed, as George Orwell observes, even at all thinking clearly, becomes increasingly difficult in bored and lonely isolation without expression. As it turns out, inner freedom by itself alone, is no freedom at all.

“Philosophers, writers, artists, even scientists, not only need encouragement and an audience, they need constant stimulation from other people. It is almost impossible to think without talking. If Defoe had really lived on a desert island, he could not have written Robinson Crusoe, nor would he have wanted to. Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.”

  — 'Conversation with a Pacifist' by George Orwell

   

Perhaps then human connection may be best cemented through high ambition and great doings. On the one hand, power, capability and freedom towards success through applied creativity, innovative new venture creation, entrepreneurship for the rest of us, in concurrent synergy, on the other hand, with ongoing serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming, art for its own joy. Therefore, let us together test the prediction that even so complicated, arduous and daunting the task, our work so well cut out for us, nevertheless, even in merely the most preliminary sustained ongoing honest and serious analytic yet strategic conversation and feasibility study, will already become more uplifting that any ultimately debilitating bogus motivational grift or soul crushing manipulative Behavioral Modification. Because important close human relationship and particularly true friendship in autonomy, arises entirely as a byproduct even of  in purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication, and never otherwise. This remains the challenge and probortunity of motivated characterization propelling any Hero's Journey in real life, attempting anything really cool together, no less than in compelling drama, and certainly here on FoolQuest.com  

 

Indeed, according to the arousal Theory of motivation, all living beings are perpetually engaged in stimulus struggle, which is the name coined by anthropologist Desmond Morris in 'the human zoo' October 1 1969, for the perpetual striving of all living things, to regulate, to obtain and maintain, the optimum kind and degree of stimulation and arousal from the surrounding environment. In short, social and intellectual stimulus struggle remains the endless struggle with loneliness and boredom. And because happy people whom we might all do well to emulate, are Empirically observed extrovertedly to reach out, Talking More Seriously, fully engaged in purposeful interaction and substantive communication, and make less small talk, exerting effort in order to actively make things happen, attentively pursuing new understanding. All, however, so much easier said than done. Nevertheless, it remains that the all to infrequent peak experience of collaboration among equals in creative solution finding, makes people ebulliently happy for the duration of such interaction, and thereafter desire to repeat it more often. Hence the social engineering design challenge, the probortunity at hand, of Intentional community or initially and more modestly, intentional social circle or group formation, for suitable ongoing endeavor and collaboration among equals in creative solution finding; and more specifically, applied creativity, innovative new venture creation, entrepreneurship for the rest of us, in concurrent synergy, on the other hand, with ongoing serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming, art for its own joy.

 

Gentle reader, can you relate? If so, then let's talk! For the important question remains:

 

 

 

 

 

 

     

 

 

 

Desperately seeking prospective collaboration cofounder candidates The various uplifting psychosocial and strategic benefits to authentic wellbeing and human flourishing as projected from implementation of the present proposal

 

 

Would the  FoolQuest.com online (pre)incubation collaboratory and Action Salon be right for you?

  Then let us build it together! But what would that take? And what shall be required of participants? And why even bother?

 

Three basic questions in life as in drama ever obtain:

        who am I?, what do I feel? and what do I want?

   Save us all from the banality and sore travail of conventional expectations! Who needs the grief? When all else fails, what has actually been desired all along?

 

 

Why remain bored and lonely? And whither the true path to fun and success together? Creativity can and Should be Social! Indeed, Creativity Can and Should be Popular! Gentle reader, FoolQuest.com at long last, is your call to adventure upon the real life Hero's Journey, attempting anything really cool together! As the saying goes, life is the journey, the ongoing experience, and not just deferred gratification in the destination or desired result in hoped for success. And as per chapter 64 of the Dao De Jing as ascribed to Laozi, the journey of a thousand miles, begins with but a single step.

Alas, under currently prevailing heteronomy throughout the World, creativity is routinely quashed under domineering micromanagement. To fill the gap and address underserved need, to reiterate, the concept at hand then, is of social engineering unique Intentional community, or beginning more modestly, intentional social circle or group, for ongoing creative group endeavor, of collaboration among equals in creative solution finding, with provision and code of conduct towards the frustrated and unmet needs of more transparent and ready entry, even for the novice aspirant and old pro together, into innovative new venture creation, entrepreneurship for the rest of us on the one hand, in concurrent synergy with, on the other hand, pure creativity, art for its own joy, in ongoing serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming. All further specifics whereof as above and to be further detailed anon. Due diligence is key. Impatience is foolhardy. Therefore the first objective at hand shall be merely to submit the present proposal to the agenda for all interested parties and to initiate and sustain ongoing public discussion and feasibility study. Let's talk!

 

But why must such intensive creativity actually become so crucial? Indeed, many will regard creativity in very principle, as entirely superfluous and distracting, at best merely ornamental. Indeed, it may bear mention how sometimes espoused in remedial Behavior Modification and rehab, is the recommendation merely of consistent participation in ongoing long term projects even at all much more arbitrarily, and with precious little challenge to much creativity. Indeed somewhat philistine and cretin, yet entirely cut-and-dry and feasible though banal and boring drudgery. Such as, for example: community gardening, providing behavioral structure of regularly scheduled activity and association sustaining propinquity while also producing any interaction and sense of involvement to draw participants together. Such much. And yet, the notion points halfway towards what is actually so sorely needed, in focus therein upon active ongoing cooperation. To bad it's all so tedious and onerous, boring to tears, unless indeed one so adores gardening! But its easy to see why anything so readily accessible and straightforward may be deemed more simple and feasible for Sheeple such as We. Because “The devil is in the details,” Eudemonia, anything more ambitious and uplifting, attempting  anything really cool together, demands greater initiative and responsibility and therefore must require such meticulous perseverance and autonomy, multipotential cross discipline. And no one foresees arête, excellence, from underachieving losers reaching out for help. They forget how our best and brightest frequently underachieve. They ignore the crying needs not only of the gifted, but of fulfillment in universal human inner giftedness in the human condition for us all.

 

To quote Russell Brand: “Society is collapsing and people are starting to recognize that the reason they feel like they’re mentally ill is that they’re living in a system that’s not designed to suit the human spirit.” After all, subjective happiness, beyond characteristic individual disposition alone, remains a reactive state variable of inner life, responsive to favorable external circumstances as arising, situation in objective reality amenable to investigation, strategy and feasibility study. But defeatism balks at ambition and difficulty. In perhaps the most famous and celebrated words of George Bernard Shaw: “Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.” Indeed, to quote Margaret Mead: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” FoolQuest.com remains my own subversive Message in a Bottle cast upon the cyber seas, frustrated outreach indeed for thoughtful committed citizens, unreasonable people, desperately sought for collaboration cofounder candidates, heroes, allies setting forth upon the true to life Hero's Journey, attempting  anything really cool together.

 

Alas however, so very, very far from anything so serious, anything even resembling action and ambition, the ubiquitous desperate panic stricken sycophantic socially skilled toadying skilled incompetence and pervasively toxic cutthroat anti-introspective anti-intellectual unrelenting popularity contest for facile distant social success, ever remains precisely antithetical to true friendship. Because friendship is genuine, substantive and intimate, being predicated upon free, candid, unguarded and reciprocal psychological visibility under autonomy. Friendship after all, is the only antidote to loneliness. And as expounded anon, important close human interaction, relationship and particularly friendship, arises entirely as a byproduct of purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication, and never otherwise. And no one else need approve!  For in the words of Barbara Sher: “Isolation is the true dream killer, not your attitude.” Therefore, to once again employ explicit imperative voice: Let us together indeed engage in substantive communication towards purposeful interaction, precisely as herein proposed, collaboration among equals in creative solution finding, the inception of ongoing concurrent and vibrant dual endeavor, innovative new venture creation, entrepreneurship for the rest of us on the one hand, in concurrent synergy with, on the other hand, pure creativity, art for its own joy, in ongoing serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming.

 

And make no mistake, Behavior Modification rehab and community gardening all be damned: All else save for salvation into purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication remains chimera, will 'o' the wisp, futility, setup for failure, user hostile outcomes gap, sore travail of pandemic alienation, boredom and loneliness in perpetual struggle to meet conventional expectations in an ever changing world. And there is no fix or workaround. Alas then that ever crucial substance and purpose remain actually shameful, awkward, nerdy, uncool, socially unacceptable and taboo.

 

Therefore as an optimum ongoing focus for optimal reciprocal engagement in substantive communication towards purposeful interaction, is advanced the FoolQuest.com  core proposal towards collaboration among equals in creative solution finding endeavor entitled: Creativity can and Should be Social, submitted to agenda for discussion by all interested parties, as the proposed inception of ongoing concurrent and vibrant dual endeavor, innovative new venture creation, entrepreneurship for the rest of us on the one hand, in concurrent synergy with, on the other hand, pure creativity, art for its own joy, in ongoing serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming. Moreover, to further reiterate, new venture creation herein shall be taken to include both profit and nonprofit, indeed Social Entrepreneurship, doing well by doing good, and even adventures into grassroots politics. Further exposition in detail and comprehensive resources are provided here on FoolQuest.com For as John Cleese expounds: “Creativity is not a talent: it's a way of operating.”

 

But well may one ask: Why go to such lengths? Why so rashly together embark upon such arduous and complicated real life Hero's Journey? Why pine for life less ordinary? Why not just chill and go with  flow? Why needlessly raise expectations of attempting  anything really cool together? Why even dignify outlandish notions with serious deliberation together?

 

The short answer will pertain to human nature: The requirements in order to meet the underserved innate intrinsic social and intellectual stimulus appetites resultant of evolutionary neurology and engorged human cerebrality. Because in accordance with the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology, sycophantic predictive social cognition under heteronomy to hierarchical dominance, human social order as the glorified pack mammals, Sheeple that we are, falls so vastly short of authentic wellbeing and autonomy. Whereas the scarce and fondly remembered occasion of collaboration among equals in creative solution finding, will be by far more meaningful, pleasurably engaging, and therefore at last fulfilling. If You Desire Anything You've Never Had, Try Something You've Never Done.

 

Indeed, according to the arousal Theory of motivation, all living beings are perpetually engaged in stimulus struggle, which is the name coined by anthropologist Desmond Morris in 'the human zoo' October 1 1969, for the perpetual striving of all living things, to regulate, to obtain and maintain, the optimum kind and degree of stimulation and arousal from the surrounding environment. In short, social and intellectual stimulus struggle remains the endless struggle with loneliness and boredom. And because happy people whom we might all do well to emulate, are Empirically observed extrovertedly to reach out, Talking More Seriously, fully engaged in purposeful interaction and substantive communication, and make less small talk, exerting effort in order to actively make things happen, attentively pursuing new understanding. All, however, so much easier said than done. Nevertheless, it remains that the all to infrequent peak experience of collaboration among equals in creative solution finding, makes people happy. Hence the social engineering design challenge, the probortunity at hand, of Intentional community/intentional social circle for suitable ongoing endeavor and collaboration among equals in creative solution finding.

 

We have all been subject to exhortation, frustrated and tantalized: "Follow your bliss!” Empty blandishment and broken promise easier said than done, as we are all then summarily abandoned each to our own devices, setup for failure. And so, we each and all then secretly await the call, to some yearned for true to life Hero's Journey of deliverance. For such remains the human condition of perpetual stimulus struggle, bereft of the requisite capable, respectful and autonomy supportive social support. For designated worker drones under heteronomy to behavioral conditioning, all cogs in the machine, formal education and typical corporate culture of employment, foster admiration, but never emulation, of those lionized men and women of destiny rising only actually despite the system, overcoming adversity, effectively quarantined and lonely at the top. And for wretches such as we, there must be no ready escape at all from the only wretched game in town! For such remains the banal rank hypocrisy of glowing lip service to independence while fostering helplessness and dependency.

 

But for wretches such as we, there must be no ready escape at all from the only wretched game in town! Clearly then, social evolution does not keep pace with technological advance. People then remain bored, lonely and miserably unhappy, even amid affluence and civil society. And lone individual emulation of whatever success rôle model as per the formulae of various success gurus, so often meets with inertia and frustration in isolation, because human interaction fails to progress, change or improve.

We are all such proverbial square pegs: The customer is always wrong! The program never fails, you fail the program. Cut the foot to fit the shoe! Bah, humbug! In truth, to quote Anthony Marra: “Work isn’t meaningful just because you spend your life doing it.” Indeed, in the immortal observations of George Carlin: "Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.” And lately, the masses are just up and quitting! By contrast, our designated rôle models in every conventional option in life, exemplars of approval seeking sycophantic predictive social cognition under heteronomy to hierarchical dominance, the star student under formal education, ideal employee, perfect disciple or model prisoner alike, are all so consummately well adapted, ever so heteronymously characterized as they remain, beyond mere responsive obedience and passivity otherwise, not only by every obsessive-compulsive eager beaver sore travail, but boundlessly committed initiative in anticipation of their superior's desires, "paying one's dues" life long, excelling without complaint or resistance, never demanding attention by requesting explanation or assistance.

And why can't we all just submissively follow their shining example and be more like them? Because, just as George Carlin implies, we all so chafe at the bit! Recalcitrant in such sore travail, obstinately uncooperative toward mind numbing routine as imposed by ever coercive and manipulative self-servingly moralizing authority, all too many typically succumb to ambivalence expressed in resentful and reluctant obedience together with covert passive hostile sabotage, instead of actually choosing between either dignified and whole hearted active compliance on the one hand, or else free and open fully effective proletariat uprising on the other hand. And such remains damaged human nature not by innate disposition, but as triggered in suffering and humiliated response to norms of sore travail, deviously guilt tripping tyranny psychologically internalized. In short: inner conflicted ambivalence and headgames of slave Moralism.

 

A parable: Imagine a seminar on how to form a regulation bowling team. The great regulation bowling team formation guru, regales the acolytes enthralled, with great purls of wisdom! And the attendees assembled together share all manner of sensitive personal disclosure, reciprocally sworn to silence once the seminar adjourns. Because what happens and all that is said at the regulation bowling team formation seminar, stays at the regulation bowling team formation seminar. So solemnly vow do they all. And from the regulation bowling team organizing guru they learn the purportedly foolproof secrets towards each their similar objectives. Afterwards, eyes henceforth forever averted, they all quietly disperse, each once again alone, out into the dark night of the soul, never to interact again, each having girded their loins for the solitary and arduous networking and recruitment outreach at hand.

And nobody at all even seems to have noticed that there were exactly enough people in the room right then and there, for the formation of a regulation bowling team! Easier said than done of course, but then, what isn't? Any notion of organizing, of intentional group formation, if not utterly ignored, is typically oversimplified so that the weak effort, stillborn, only drifts apart, entirely forgotten. Any serious innovation of intentional interaction by design, of tailor made social contract, remains unheard of. A paradox: The weird ineffectual alienated paradigm and etiquette as so pervasively appropriated from bogus support group culture, remains almost like unto a sort of one night stand, though even as a regular event. In truth, there persists a temerity and imperative of nonattachment, born from a lack of trust amongst the very strangers and the very anonymity so relied upon for the secret intimacy of safe disclosure, somehow risk free, and without personal investment.

And the moral of the story? Only begging the question: In order to remedy loneliness, shall each of us do better to strive alone in the world at large, or to turn to one another? Do lonely people require access and inclusion up the social ladder with better socially graceful and situated peers? Or perhaps in order ever to remedy loneliness, do lonely people first require to find inclusion and access merely with one another, even actual assistance and partnership, true friendship in imperfection, even just amongst ourselves? The cult of socialization, ever striving for inclusion and access up the social ladder with popular kids who don't actually need more hangers on, remains the ardent supplication for acceptance and approval from those better advantaged. Whereas instead, so often overlooked in the mad dash for social skills and correct performance in heteronomy to hierarchically predictive social aptitudes, there remains an obvious alternative being: endeavor at inclusion and access for lonely people, simply with one another, even merely as an outreach just perhaps not only for solace and commiseration, but maybe even for highly functional cooperation in any similar common struggle.

But as Aesop tells us: "A man is known by the company he keeps.“ And even aside from malicious gossip and the social risk of ill repute by association, the actual psychological danger remains of toxic Ulterior Transactions or: headgames, and only playing upon one another's flaws, thereby exacerbating dysfunction and holding one another back, thus indeed only reflecting poorly upon one another.

Which strategy then must best take precedence? In answer: Trustworthy capable individuals value the same in others. And likewise, callow popular kids ever committed to the social rat-race, are impressed by outwards exhibition of community and popularity. All hence, the demonstration of capable and competent cooperation, even amongst similarly downtrodden and forgotten peers, must afford a first upward step in assimilation with anyone else better off and presumably more useful. Lonely isolated people can only strategize in terms of lone striving. However, true probortunity remains, never merely of individual wherewithal, but of teamwork, and of how then might we more congenially, productively and effectively cooperate; friendship arising entirely as a byproduct of optimal reciprocal engagement in substantive communication towards purposeful interaction, and nothing less. And no one else need approve! 

Cynically manipulative social advice online typically ranges from the domineering to the sycophantic. But always unilateral, never touching upon any notion of  cooperation. Alas however, tautologically, there can be no unilateral solitary lonely DIY self-help or self-improvement of relationship, of human interaction as by definition involving more than one person. Thus ordinary conformity so often remains such a monumental waste of time. Heteronymous conventional distant, Existentially Absurd and oppressively empty superficial social life and short attention all remain, as with rare exception, no less desperately alienated than typical situation of formal education and employment whereby sensibility even off the clock, is most prevalently and markedly informed. And all becoming similarly another chore and a bore, just crushingly dull. And all of that so completely fails the masses of humanity because quite simply, and yet again, social success remains irrelevant to actually staving off loneliness. For in the words of Barbara Sher: “Isolation is the true dream killer, not your attitude.” To reiterate, important close human relationship and particularly friendship, arises entirely as a byproduct of optimal reciprocal engagement in purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication, and never otherwise. And no one else need approve!  

After all, popularity and ever facile and distant social success, ever remain antithetical to true friendship, because friendship is genuine, substantive and intimate, being predicated upon free and unguarded and reciprocal psychological visibility. Alas that substance and purpose remain actually shameful, awkward, nerdy, uncool, socially unacceptable and taboo. And if as we have all been so frequently and blithely admonished, indeed interminable emotionally and intellectually distant, cagey, unwelcoming and disingenuous small talk ever keeping it light, remains key to popularity and social success, then such do-nothing busywork dronelike Orwellian anti-intellectually subservient path of popularity and social success, remains antithetical to true friendship which by contrast must remain ever open, genuine, substantive and intimate, being predicated after all, upon free and unguarded and reciprocal psychological visibility. Indeed, increasing distance and mounting social exclusion is well known precursor to betrayal, never at all any glistening hallmark of secure social embedment.

The begged question then remains: Precisely how is genuine friendship ever supposed to emerge from such prevalent, well known and understood social expectations of typical paranoid distance and facile triviality and interminably banal small talk? In truth, that can never happen! And it's not your fault! Indeed, this is by design, alienation baked in. Indeed, even most anciently in the repressively totalitarian curriculum of Plato's Academy, boredom was deliberately inflicted upon students as a conservative measure to test and filter in favor of heteronomy and conformity by weeding out boredom prone original thinkers and innovators, purveyors of dangerous novelty, from rising to influential positions in society.

Indeed, as the consummate authoritarian Plato's beloved free thinking mentor Socrates so famously declares: "An unexamined life is not worth the living for a human being."  Because ongoing purposeful and substantive communication is no objective or desired end result of compliance and diligent social skills, but a barest beginning in autonomy for serious individuals. And yet instead, so many, remaining ever emotionally invested in false promise of prevailing common sense and heteronomy, amounting only to manipulative empty pandering propaganda for status quo, good little girls and boys therefore balk at the Empirically obvious, stubbornly ignoring objective reality, only forever to soldier on in such abject futility.  

But in the alternative, precisely what more appealing vision shall inform agenda for optimal reciprocal engagement among all interested parties, in substantive communication towards purposeful interaction? Answer: Creativity can and Should be Social is proposed to agenda for discussion by all interested parties, as the proposed inception of ongoing concurrent and vibrant dual endeavor, innovative new venture creation, entrepreneurship for the rest of us on the one hand, in concurrent synergy with, on the other hand, pure creativity, art for its own joy, in ongoing serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming. Moreover, new venture creation herein shall be taken to include both profit and nonprofit, indeed Social Entrepreneurship, doing well by doing good, and even adventures into grassroots politics. Further exposition in detail and comprehensive resources are provided here on FoolQuest.com

Why? Again, because important close human relationship and particularly true friendship in autonomy, arises entirely as a byproduct of optimal reciprocal engagement in purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication, and never otherwise, the objective herein remains the emulation of happy people Empirically observed extrovertedly to reach out, Talking More Seriously, fully engaged in purposeful interaction and substantive communication, and make less small talk, exerting effort in order to actively make things happen, attentively pursuing new understanding. For as John Cleese expounds: “Creativity is not a talent: it's a way of operating.”

And whom better then as rôle models, than precisely such happy people, trustworthy, capable and respectful, whom indeed we would all do so well to emulate together, therefore remaining more likely to choose creative activities, seek new achievements, and thereby uplift their own thoughts and emotions, even improving their circumstances by centering their lives around sharing whatever pleases them most. In the words of John Mason Good: “Happiness consists in activity. It is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.” But as with all those dubious success programs, still however so much easier said than done. And there can be no call to mince words on that score, because I am no motivational grifter here to psych you up and then leave you in the lurch. As the Yiddish saying goes: “If hard work was so wonderful, the rich would keep it all for themselves.” After all, in the words of J. M. Barrie: “Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.” Or to quote: Maxim Gorky: “When work is pleasure, life is joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.” The agenda at hand remains a difficult lifestyle proposition for sober deliberation together. And the learning curve even of the most initial and cursory feasibility study remains so arduous and dauntingly steep and never simple, The devil in the details. Imagine then: Would it be any fun?

 

Subjective happiness, beyond individual disposition alone, remains a reactive state variable of inner life, responsive to favorable external circumstances as arising, situation in objective reality amenable to investigation, strategy and feasibility study. But defeatism balks at ambition and difficulty. In perhaps the most famous and celebrated words of George Bernard Shaw: “Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.” And to quote Margaret Mead: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” FoolQuest.com remains my own subversive Message in a Bottle cast upon the cyber seas, frustrated outreach indeed for thoughtful committed citizens, unreasonable people, desperately sought for collaboration cofounder candidates, heroes, allies setting forth upon the true to life Hero's Journey, attempting  anything really cool together. For in the words of Barbara Sher: “Isolation is the true dream killer, not your attitude.” If You Desire Anything You've Never Had, Try Something You've Never Done. Important close human interaction, relationship and particularly friendship, arises entirely as a byproduct of purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication, and never otherwise. And no one else need approve!

 

The aphorism remains variously accredited: “The Secret of Getting Ahead Is Getting Started.” And the barest beginning remains the initiation of serious sustained ongoing strategic yet analytical discussion: Presented then herein for open discussion to the agenda for any and all interested parties, what follows in ever more wordy presentation, remains nothing less than outreach in standing solicitation. Let's talk! Apply now to join right in, at least in preliminary deliberation as proposed to agenda.

 

To begin with, Empirically in objective reality no less than in myth and fiction, the Hero's Journey has never been predicated upon superficial harmony and blandly getting along, nor in by whatever connivance, bullying ones way to the top. Instead, the Hero's Journey remains defiant, an act of resistance, not complacent compliance, neither so cynical nor so credulous as conventional social skills. Indeed, as shall be expounded throughout, there remains no less universally vested interest herein at stake only given any the wit to see, than alliance toward literally the most important intrinsic social and intellectual human needs, stimulus appetites of social and intellectual stimulus struggle, so vastly and catastrophically underserved in every walk of life ever as we have known it. For such is the lesson of evolutionary neuroscience and what may be named: the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology.

 

But to reiterate, why go to such lengths? Why the call to such arduous and complicated true to life Hero's Journey into innovative new venture creation, entrepreneurship for the rest of us, on the one hand, in such unprecedented synergy concurrently with, on the other hand, pure creativity, art for its own joy, in ongoing serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming? What compelling good reason?

 

Answer: Because, in the words of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” Because status quo grows ever more profoundly untenable and impractical. Because of the obvious and well known great appeal to so many, in both or either aforesaid liberating creative endeavors. And towards implementation, any realistic better idea would still remain subject to project planning and feasibility study, interesting, challenging and worth the effort together. Or else failing that, might still at least serve as pleasurably meaningful and engaging premise for serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming, even just for fun. And because of ever mounting frustration, futility, setup for failure, user hostile outcomes gap, sore travail of pandemic alienation, boredom and loneliness in perpetual struggle to meet conventional expectations in an ever changing world. Because heteronomy to conventional socialization falls so far behind real motivating intrinsic human fulfillment. Important close relationship and particularly friendship, arises entirely as a byproduct of optimal reciprocal engagement in purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication, and truly never otherwise. And no one else need approve! Because everything that we've been taught about how to get along, remains nothing more than a manipulative classic big lie. And the defect remains fundamental such that there can be no quick fix or workaround.

 

It's all about the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology, and how sycophantic predictive social cognition of hierarchical dominance, human social order as the glorified pack mammals, Sheeple that we are, has come to fall so vastly short of ever fulfilling innate needs and appetites of social and intellectual stimulus struggle entirely unique to ever more massively engorged human cerebrality as according to evolutionary neuroscience. In accordance with the Arousal Theory of motivation, all living beings are perpetually engaged in stimulus struggle, which is the name coined by anthropologist Desmond Morris in 'the human zoo' October 1 1969, for the perpetual striving of all living things, to regulate, to obtain and maintain, the optimum kind and degree of stimulation and arousal from the surrounding environment. In short, social and intellectual stimulus struggle remains the endless struggle with loneliness and boredom. For in the words of Barbara Sher: “Isolation is the true dream killer, not your attitude.”

 

Alas, so clearly, the only cure, purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication, remains a process irredeemably more obstructed than facilitated in facile and trivial conventional social life for which there can be no conceivable quick fix or workaround. But there remain known more purposeful and substantive and thereby more empathic better options entirely, though less readily available. And therefore implementation of any thereof more readily availably, remains ever so crucial.

 

Wake up, Sheeple! Is this all sinking in? Gentle reader, do you disagree? Do you object? And if so, can you offer cogent rebuttal, or only outraged and perplexed denial and in the face of taboo? Alas, there remains no shortage of such utter failure of imagination and of utter crimestop.

 

Subjective happiness, beyond characteristic individual disposition alone, remains a reactive state variable of inner condition, responsive to favorable external circumstances as arising, situation in objective reality amenable to investigation, strategy and feasibility study. But defeatism balks at ambition and difficulty. In perhaps the most famous and celebrated words of George Bernard Shaw: “Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.” And to quote Margaret Mead: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” FoolQuest.com, subversive Message in a Bottle cast upon the cyber seas, frustrated outreach indeed for thoughtful committed citizens, unreasonable people, desperately sought for collaboration cofounder candidates upon the the true to life Hero's Journey, attempting  anything really cool together. If You Desire Anything You've Never Had, Try Something You've Never Done.

 

Because happiness in the experience of favorable situation, accrues in meeting ones needs for capable interaction with even adequately responsible others, making progress every day. Happy people whom we would all do so well to emulate together, extrovertedly reach out, Talking More Seriously, fully engaged in purposeful interaction and substantive communication, and make less small talk, exerting effort in order to actively make things happen, attentively pursuing new understanding. All so much easier said than done.

 

Happy people, whom we would all do so well to emulate together, therefore remain more likely to choose creative activities, seek new achievements, and thereby uplift their own thoughts and emotions, even improving their circumstances by centering their lives around sharing whatever pleases them most. In the words of John Mason Good: “Happiness consists in activity. It is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.” All however, indeed so much easier said than done.

 

Thus the TRUE MEANING of LIFE remains to be discovered in social and intellectual stimulus struggle: Everything at all that anyone does, indeed any life form at all, will be in order to modify subjective experience, thereby altering consciousness itself. All hence, as herein proposed, the social engineering of stimulus struggle as herein proposed, would contrive the deliberate introduction of specific social stimuli and social interaction, into the social environment, in order better to optimize uniquely human social and intellectual stimulus struggle via optimal reciprocal engagement in purposeful interaction and substantive communication. And hence, to this end, the present proposal: Creativity can and Should be Social, consisting in ongoing dual endeavor as herein proposed, as best avenue thereto: 

 

For in accordance with the ancient wisdom of the greatest sages of old, as rediscovered under the very cutting edge of modern science, and specifically, according to Martin Seligman's celebrated happiness formula of Positive Psychology, so abstract: Pleasure + engagement + meaning = intrinsic fulfillment. Indeed, bridging such abstraction more concretely: Creativity can and Should be Social, more optimal reciprocal engagement in purposeful interaction and substantive communication, via the proposed inception of vibrant ongoing dual endeavor: Innovative new venture creation, entrepreneurship for the rest of us, on the one hand, in unprecedented synergy concurrently with, on the other hand, pure creativity, art for its own joy, in ongoing serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming. Moreover, new venture creation herein shall be taken to include both profit and nonprofit, indeed Social Entrepreneurship, doing well by doing good, and even adventures into grassroots politics. For as John Cleese expounds: “Creativity is not a talent: it's a way of operating.” Abstract principle must bridge into concrete strategy. Concrete strategy must be informed by abstract principle, and likewise the abstract must be informed by the concrete. Serious deliberation remains concerned both with the whys and wherefores of desired results generally, and also with implementation specifically.

 

Who then shall heed the call?! Presented then herein for open discussion to the agenda for any and all interested parties, what follows in ever more wordy presentation, remains nothing less than outreach in standing solicitation:

 

Instigate your own vision of Eudemonia! Apply now to join in on the proverbial "ground floor" (heck, the veritable subbasement!) of Creativity can and Should be Social, as above proposed, the most unprecedented, appealing, vibrant, synergistic parallel endeavors, each whereof so many aspire, and each epitome of creative solution finding. And optimal reciprocal engagement together in collaboration among equals in creative solution finding remains key to authentic wellbeing, trustworthy, capable and respectful autonomy support, self realization and human flourishing, all as according to evolutionary neuroscience and in accordance also with what can be called the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology.

 

In accordance with the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology, sycophantic predictive social cognition under hierarchical dominance, human social order as the glorified pack mammals that we are, has come to fall so vastly short of innate needs and appetites of social and intellectual stimulus struggle entirely unique to ever more massively engorged human cerebrality as according to evolutionary neuroscience. Specifically, the frustrated appetite for ongoing collaboration among equals together in creative solution finding. A joy alas all too infrequent under conventional paradigm of stultifying heteronomy to sycophantic predictive social cognition  under hierarchical dominance. And the consequences to autonomy and authentic wellbeing could not be more dire.

 

Indeed, in the famous words of Immanuel Kant: “Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something too hope for.” And what better hope and occupation than innovative new venture creation, entrepreneurship for the rest of us, on the one hand, in unprecedented synergy concurrently with, on the other hand, pure creativity, art for its own joy, in ongoing serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming? And what happier conceivable bonding activity or outreach?

 

Full engagement in purposeful interaction and substantive communication remain key features of collaboration among equals in creative solution finding in ongoing dual endeavor as proposed herein above: All aforesaid recommendation towards authentic wellbeing and human flourishing, all coming in accordance with evolutionary neuroscience and what may be called the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology: the human condition, both socially and biologically. And all remaining factors ever so crucial to such success as Empirically observed of trustworthy, capable and respectful happy people whom we may all do well to emulate together, indeed who talk more seriously with less small talk, thriving upon creative interaction. Because, as according to Martin Seligman's celebrated happiness formula of Positive Psychology: Pleasure + engagement + meaning = intrinsic fulfillment. And how better, than by innovative new venture creation, entrepreneurship for the rest of us, on the one hand, in unprecedented synergy concurrently with, on the other hand, pure creativity, art for its own joy, in ongoing serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming? As for anything less, how's that been working for ya'? Gentle reader, what would convince you? Please fully explain.

 

 

 

 

 

Probortunity begins in bold unflinching situation analysis and problem statement

 

FoolQuest.com is not yet another short attention website for manipulative Totalitarian Interactivity perpetually leading the casual website visitor safely about by the nose. Only whatever most remarkable self directed unique individual motivation howsoever piquing whatever lively yet comforting vested self-interest, Existential Validation or relatable concern, gravitas or whimsy, has ever delivered intelligible purpose and context for the present densely verbose hypertext asking of others what no one else asks, and offering in return, what no one else offers. As a rule, others neither so urgently solicit nor offer partnership in ambitious endeavor. At least, not seriously. And yet, such must be the inception of any true to life Hero's Journey asking what no one else does, and daring to offer in return, what no one else offers, and whereof, leave us admit, we each and all, however benumbed, secretly await the mythic call to adventure. For such is the human condition of perpetual stimulus struggle. Of course, intellectual adventure of reading and discussion, free exploration into the world of ideas, does seem perhaps the least perilous of transaction. What can it hurt? Surely there will be greater risks in life.

Alas, in the biting whit of Dorothy Parker: “You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think." In such frequent demonstration of quantity over quality, online discussion predominantly remains ever repetitive and redundant, meager signal ever drowning out amid the din and clamor of all that empty noise. FoolQuest.com, instead undertaking various neglected discourse, anything less effete and dissipated, thereby ever blunders upon no end of fresh new taboo for the squeamish so studiously to ignore. Nevertheless, in order to advocate for change, in order to demonstrate the urgency, it remains necessary to expose the normalization of deviance and the worst of all that has become so routine.

Again to quote Russell Brand: “Society is collapsing and people are starting to recognize that the reason they feel like they’re mentally ill is that they’re living in a system that’s not designed to suit the human spirit.” Gentle reader, only look around you: Society is not your friend. Society is the enemy. Society is the oppressor. Society is not nurturing. Society remains user hostile. Catch-22, a classic double bind, setup for failure and suffering, one way or the other: damned if you do, damned if you don't! Alas, in Existentially Absurd social reality, there remains such dystressing user hostile outcomes gap, wherein instrumentality equals zero, meaning, even causally and deterministically, no relationship between performance and outcome, no real hope, no results no matter what one does, other than mounting frustration and defeat. So much then, it might seem, for individual real world freedom and capability. Society is no conduit to success, but a filter of the incompetent and noncompliant alike and without distinction, a crushing and threatening obstacle course to be overcome, an unremitting chore and a bore, setup for failure; thus to self-esteem, a proverbial death by a thousand cuts. And any claims to the contrary, are just part of the racket. Indeed, from any end user standpoint, the existing system has remained broken from time immemorial. Alas the masses abide in false hope from blinding propaganda myth. And what a racket! A racket, no matter how respectable, can be any dishonest scheme or ongoing transaction, all not as it contrives to present itself and as is tacitly accepted or endured by the majority of those involved, but in actuality, indeed, a myth, scam or fraud of heteronomy, a deceptive domineering practice of coercion and manipulation conducted for whatever benefit of a few cronies at the expense of the many.

We are all exhorted and tantalized: “Follow your bliss!” Empty blandishment and broken promise easier said than done, as we are all then summarily abandoned each to our own devices, bereft of respectful autonomy supportive social support and thereby capability, thus setup for failure. And so, whilst pragmatically making do and fitting in, we each and all meanwhile secretly await the call to some yearned for true to life Hero's Journey. For such remains the human condition of perpetual stimulus struggle against lonely boredom, secretly and shamefully miserable and unhappy, even amid affluence and secure civil society. And lone individual emulation of whatever success rôle model as per the formulae of various success gurus, so often meets with inertia and frustration in isolation, because human interaction fails to progress, change or improve. Because tautologically, there can be no self-help, no solitary rugged self-reliant unilateral "well-formed plan," for interaction among more than one individual. As the saying goes: It takes two to tango. But one alone, wanders ever searching like Diogenes, a sore travail.

 

Alas that so many nevertheless balk, remaining so clueless and bereft of any proverbial grain of salt, too desperate to let go of various fraudulent false hopes and propaganda so foisted upon us all. For such are the dynamics of conditionality, meaning conditional love, buttressed by systematic indoctrination, brainwash, denial and crimestop. Nevertheless, what to do, if all such dynamics remain anything more prevalent than merely some strange malignancy of whatever marginal bizarre cults? What if cults only reflect anything howsoever actually somewhat common, normalization of deviance ever prevalent? Where then does that leave any of us?

In the much beloved fairytale parable and metaphor authored by Hans Christian Anderson, 'The Emperor's New Suit,' the titular Emperor desired only to be ever fashionable and well dressed. One day he came under the sway of his new tailors, actually swindlers who persuaded the Emperor to don new vestments of an amazing gossamer light new fabric, visible only to the worthy, so that the unworthy, thereby exposed, ferreted out and failing the test, may be well banished, once and for all.

But in actuality, the  Emperor only stood stark naked, just daring anyone to remark! As ever, many so lowly and loyal among Sheeple, ever most faithful and exploited among the masses, surely believed without hesitation, simpletons, useful innocents  ever embracing flagrant delusion wholeheartedly. Although, in truth, various sly cynical privileged courtiers and hypocritical cronies, ever motivated in well considered vested interest, with comfort and survival at stake for the families they support and protect, as ever remaining circumspect, proverbially pivoting into whatever figurative direction the allegorical wind metaphorically blows, adult and responsible, so vigorously went along with the gag and staunchly conformed.

Under such an oppressively corrupt reward and punishment system, a mad world of blind folly and cynical mendacity, inevitably any honest person, by disposition stripped of all such protective armor of distasteful denial, shall only then find themselves metaphorically naked and exposed before the Existentially Absurd, all alone and railing against the inequity and therefore excluded, indeed forever banished. Because truth to power in subversion of hierarchy, threatens status quo.

To quote Nazi Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels: “Propaganda becomes ineffective, the moment we become aware of it.” To whit: what if in all too many ways, the general and indistinct common wisdom of mainstream social reality and order, with only a modicum of perspective in autonomy, stands so shockingly denuded, in effect, as after all, merely yet another weird cult granfalloon membership and practice? - Indeed the pervasive and reputable short attention memplex sometimes designated as: the cult of socialization.

For while empathy is by nature ever receptive, by contrast that great and good boon from our ever gracious betters, socialization, that which none dare call: indoctrination, Behavioral Conditioning or brainwash, remains ever dull and unreceptive, rejecting, dishonest, manipulative and coercive. After all, propaganda can be unintentional. Not all propaganda is deliberate influence. Indeed, unthinking tradition and propaganda are everywhere. For the organization of methods to persuade people to think and behave in a certain way, have themselves long become entirely spontaneous and endemic to social order. And indeed, such is complacent heteronomy, oppression propagating among the oppressed. Shall anyone thus growing ever more desperately entrenched in heteronomy, ever finally arrive at Positive Disintegration?

 

Existentially Absurd: Popular or unpopular alike, we all remain so ill equipped and each abandoned to our own devices, setup for failure, futility, user hostile outcomes gap, sore travail, pandemic boredom and loneliness. The only winning move is not to play! But for so many of us, it's the only game in town! And precisely hence such urgent need of implementation towards any new and better alternatives. But with creativity and innovation, looms danger and uncertainty. Hence prevailing resistance. Indeed, even successful innovation, so hard won, readily transitions into new orthodoxy resistant to further change. Because popularity and unpopularity alike, are only different situations of individual isolation and oppression, the isolation and even sheer abuse of unpopularity and social exclusion being more overt, and the exploitation of popularity within the social rat-race being by far the more devious. And such is the status quo of pandemic serial bullying, escape wherefrom propelling the true to life Hero's Journey.

 

In the words of Neil Gabler: “American society is a society in which individuals have learned to prize social skills that permit them, like actors, to assume whatever rôle the occasion demands and to "perform" their lives rather than just live them.” And forced cheerful willful positivity and interminably vapid small talk notwithstanding, a morbidly serious matter. Nothing could ever be less playful. Competent or incompetent, whether in true hardnosed practicality or in sheer aimless and empty actingout of mimesis, many all the same remain no less consumed with the burning question of how to perform as expected and to fit in: How best to placate The Great Faceless They, thereby to obtain the key to life.

 

For such remains the heteronymous slave mentality of Homo Domesticus, the domesticated human being. And so, we the Sheeple, ever desperate and terrified of loneliness and exclusion, remain ever vested in endless sacrifice of authenticity upon that Moloch alter of social acceptance. For anything less remains the height of blasphemy! Or so one might expect. And yet all rebuke herein must come as no surprise, nothing new, all such clichéd iconoclasm having so long dissipated all shock value and element of surprise. That is, until the point will be driven home, to reiterate, that relationship and particularly friendship, arises entirely as a byproduct of full engagement in purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication, and never otherwise.  And no one else need approve! The only thing to sacrifice, shall be sacrifice itself.

Indeed, popularity and ever facile and distant social success, ever remain antithetical to true friendship, because friendship is genuine, substantive and intimate, being predicated upon free and unguarded and reciprocal psychological visibility. Alas that substance and purpose remain actually shameful, awkward, nerdy, uncool, socially unacceptable and taboo. And if as we have all been so frequently and blithely admonished, indeed interminable emotionally and intellectually distant, cagey, unwelcoming and disingenuous small talk ever keeping it light, remains key to popularity and social success, then such do-nothing busywork dronelike Orwellian anti-intellectually subservient path of popularity and social success, remains antithetical to true friendship which by contrast must remain ever open, genuine, substantive and intimate, being predicated after all, upon free and unguarded and reciprocal psychological visibility. Indeed, increasing distance and mounting social exclusion is well known precursor to betrayal, not at all any hallmark of secure social embedment. And in the words of Barbara Sher: “Isolation is the true dream killer, not your attitude.”

The begged question then remains: Precisely how is genuine friendship ever supposed to emerge from such prevalent, well known and understood social expectations of typical paranoid distance and facile triviality and interminably banal small talk? In truth, that can never happen! And it's not your fault! Indeed, this is by design, alienation baked in. Indeed, even most anciently in the curriculum of Plato's Academy, boredom was deliberately inflicted upon students as a conservative measure to test for heteronomy and conformity by weeding out boredom prone original thinkers and innovators, purveyors of dangerous novelty, from rising to influential positions in society.

As Edward Snowden observes, oppressors of every stripe, who so deviously restrict our options, then pretend that we consent. Eudemonia, capable relationship and especially true friendship, will accrue only for serious people, arising as byproduct of full engagement in purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication and never otherwise, of which entirely, no one else need approve. Alas, one can but extend invitation, indeed even under such oppression. For in the biting whit of Dorothy Parker: “You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think." And yet, FoolQuest.com remains your golden invitation, gentle reader, asking of others what no one else asks, and offering in return, what no one else offers. Let's talk!

Some or other better system or novel subversive and disruptively innovative modus vivendi remains ever so desperately required. Which brings us to the urgency of collaboration among equals in innovative solution finding, creatively working the probortunity together:

 

Again, perhaps the best strategy of social engineering design all from scratch (of relationship redefined in new paradigm, of new social reality via Intentional community or at least initially, more modestly, smaller intentional social circle)  for meeting the probortunity at hand, remains in dual synergistic creative endeavor as proposed: Creativity can and Should be Social, conceived of as consisting in innovative new venture creation, entrepreneurship for the rest of us, on the one hand, in potent synergy concurrently with, on the other hand, pure creativity, art for its own joy, in ongoing serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming. And to reiterate, new venture creation herein shall be taken to include both profit and nonprofit, indeed Social Entrepreneurship, doing well by doing good, and even adventures into grassroots politics.

 

To wit: Business or project planning, not unlike drama extolled by Socrates as most philosophical among the arts, remains yet another heady application of narrative extrapolation, exploration, conjecture and speculation. And make no mistake: Even such deliberation together already begins making participants happy! All factors ever so crucial to such success as Empirically observed of trustworthy, capable and respectful happy people who talk more seriously with less small talk, thriving upon creative interaction. And for latter day Socratic Sir Karl Popper, even initial investigation of reality as towards responsible feasibility study, begins only in creative hypothesis.

Alas that substance and purpose, let alone intellect, curiosity and creativity, remain actually shameful, awkward, nerdy, uncool, socially unacceptable and taboo perhaps most often named: Anti-intellectualism (hostility and mistrust towards intellect, intellectuals, intellectualism, and deprecation of culture whatsoever) but perhaps more properly designated: anti-intraception (a discomfort or opposition in very principle, toward the subjective, the imaginative, the tender minded). And make no mistake, curiosity is the agent of compassion. Apathy heralds unmindful cruelty. Nothing that fails even to arouse curiosity, will ever engender compassion. Hence in social subtext to reward patient distance, and routinely and systematically to punish, humiliate and quell sheer curiosity literally even to understand one another at all, means the calculated extinction of compassion in social interaction that only leads to Sadism and pandemic serial bullying.

And if indeed interminable emotionally and intellectually distant, unwelcoming and disingenuous fawning sycophantic small talk ever keeping conversation light and insubstantive, remains indeed key to popularity and social success, then such do-nothing busywork dronelike Orwellian anti-intellectual or anti-intraceptive path of popularity and social success, remains antithetical to true friendship, because it remains in the very taboo nature of friendship, that friendship must be open, genuine and fully engaged, not cagy, mindlessly and heartlessly distant. Only an oppressor demands of one never to think or to speak out, indeed never to care. Only an oppressor promotes and imposes sublime apathy in surrender to the Absurd. Under heteronomy, the arduous and crushingly braindead sycophantic price of social acceptance remains utterly purpose defeating.

Alas that under heteronomy, there may ever arise indeed significant danger motivating interminable caginess: Before daring even to begin any interaction, always heed the cautionary lesson of the ever more exhausting callow (anti)social media mass distraction: Will, not only as in (anti)social media participation, but in the social rat-race most generally, extra effort and involvement actually derive extra value and purpose, or only become ever more squandered? That is the question!

 

In the latter calculation, then there will be no reason for concern. Safest always just to walk away, even to refuse the quest and leave the Hero's Journey stillborn. Nothing ventured, nothing lost. In that case, then grumbling can only arise from doubt and remorse, so frequently triggered, manipulated and exploited. Remorse, ever so dramatic, as ever accrues from disappointment, beaten defeat and failure to rise to occasion as life passes by. Nothing ventured, therefore nothing gained but enduring regret. Everything turns upon evaluation of probortunity in transaction, all turning upon the importance of vastly neglected intrinsic human appetites of social and intellectual stimulus struggle.

A stimulus so instantly draws attention to itself by such stark contrast with just prior conditions, changing everything. Stimuli are not just anything whatsoever, howsoever perceived and experienced. A stimulus that isn't all that stimulating, that fails much to arouse, is not much of a stimulus. Reference to stimuli is generally meant in the sense more of visceral arousal rather than merely cognitive input and information. Indeed the sensation, literal or figurative, will be immediately different. A stimulus then, will be an especially vividly perceived object, Phenomenon or incident suddenly altering experience of the surrounding environment, a momentary event in any way arousing attention and interest, perhaps in violation of expectations, even thence eliciting quick appraisal and triggering response, negative or positive.

And in accordance with the Arousal Theory of motivation, all living beings are perpetually engaged in stimulus struggle, which is the name coined by anthropologist Desmond Morris in 'the human zoo' October 1 1969, for the perpetual striving of all living things, to regulate, to obtain and maintain, the optimum kind and degree of stimulation and arousal from the surrounding environment. For such remains the endless struggle with loneliness and boredom. Everything that we do is in order to modify subjective experience thereby altering consciousness. All hence, as herein proposed, the social engineering of stimulus struggle as herein proposed, would contrive the deliberate introduction of specific social stimuli and social interaction, into the social environment, in order better to optimize social and intellectual stimulus struggle. And hence, to this end, the present proposal: Creativity can and Should be Social, consisting in ongoing dual endeavor as herein proposed.

 

 

 

 

The  FoolQuest.com invitation Beginning first with a meeting of minds: Motive is context!

 

In the words of Barbara Sher: “Isolation is the true dream killer, not your attitude.” Eudemonia, capable relationship and especially true friendship, will accrue only for serious people, arising as byproduct of full engagement in in quality and process of purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication and never otherwise. Indeed, no one else need approve! And rather than sweeping the world out of nowhere, subversion necessarily begins in microcosm, when any two or more individuals begin doing things differently together and persist. For such will be the first germ of interaction perhaps even as proposed herein, within even a small intentional social circle let alone any grander intentional community, amongst ourselves together turning away from the social rat-race, and perhaps even together reaching out in the world at large but even at all actually on our own terms.

 

To begin with, at all as to that meeting of minds: There remains always the possible convergence of two distinct sets of motivating objectives and purpose, rapport in order to meaningfully propel engagement. These being: authorial intent, in this case the outreach and agenda of FoolQuest.com, on the one hand, and on the other hand, whatever even dire concern of urgent self interest, advantageous opportunity or looming threat thereto, Existential Validation or whatever they can relate to, general edification, curiosity or sheer entertainment, to pique and to sustain whatever the passionate interest of any particular website visitor browsing any various content here on FoolQuest.com. Indeed, such even rising above all possible difficulty or even the more remarkable and rare, indeed always a pleasant surprise, lucidity smoothly even without any particular difficulty in comprehension of texts on FoolQuest.com at all! Now fancy that!

 

Of course, it will always be gratifying whenever anyone for whatever their own good reasons and personal situation, discovers value of their own, in this very website, FoolQuest.com. And yet the burning question remains: Can such particular, different and distinct motivating objectives, that of the sender (authorial intent) and that of the recipient (you, gentle reader?), ever significantly align? Can anyone ever truly find themselves actually persuaded to the unique cause and collaboration among equals as so fervently advocated in such detail, anon, however belabored and yet alas so inadequate, here on FoolQuest.com? It's like herding cats! Who can know: Perhaps such an auspicious event, such an alignment, might even herald the advent of the fabled and desperately sought for star first follower, providing social "proof," informational social influence over sequential behavior, being the cascade of one action to the next in social context, figuratively getting the proverbial ball metaphorically rolling. In the words of Henry Ford: “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” But in devious cross-purpose, accrues only such abject failure. Better far, will be open and honest disagreement.  

 

 

 

And lo, the star first follower, first to publicly recognize by fully interacting with the hitherto misunderstood and isolated lone dissident innovator, shall be the true leader and influencer blazing the trail, teaching by subversive example, demonstrating for others how to participate, rôle models showing everyone how to relate, bridging abstract and concrete. For any lonesome frustrated desire tells a story, needs a plan, and calls out for allies, desperately sought for unmet friends. Therefore: Change our conversation, reset the agenda, and change the world!  And because, when theory by itself, however sound, yet remains less than compelling promotionally out in the wild, the live demonstration online, public electronic conversation, the ongoing work product published to the Web, may yet the more effectively entice and recruit others at long last to participate and join in. For any lonesome frustrated desire tells a story, needs a plan, and calls out for allies, for unmet friends. Desperately seeking all therefore, the star first follower!

Desperately seeking: first of all, persistent and open minded conversationalists upon the agenda at hand. Who out there might actually be prevailed upon with the requisite wherewithal? Indeed, should you, gentle reader, then yet at all decide indeed for whatever your own good reasons, to persevere and continue navigation of FoolQuest.com, then never simmer in deadlock and frustration. Because as the saying goes, no question is too foolish to ask, and no answer too wise to be given. Therefore question freely in case of incomprehension. Because even incomprehension is nothing so dreadful or awkward, no menace to be so assiduously avoided, no dire impasse at all, not the end, but actually a beginning. For communication is struggle. After all, writing is rewriting and never a waste of time. But there is method toward the achievement of Intersubjectivity, whereof intrinsic motivation and Active Reading remain ever crucial. And thank you, gentle reader, unmet friend. Because we live in an attention economy. And in the words of Barbara Sher: “Isolation is the true dream killer, not your attitude.” Therefore in the immortal words of Simone Weil: “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”     

Desperately seeking: responsible trustworthy partners for innovative new venture creation, entrepreneurship for the rest of us.

And desperately seeking: earnest participants in ongoing serious collaborative fiction writing. Because, as to be expounded and detailed anon, rising to the challenge before us, may very much depend upon a subversive and hitherto unprecedented synergy concurrently between pure creativity, art for art's sake as embodied in ongoing serious collaborative fiction writing, and disruptive innovation, applied creativity as of new venture creation, entrepreneurship for the rest of us. Because intelligence squandered, must no longer isolate: Creativity can and Should be Social! Indeed, Creativity Can and Should be Popular! 

Wake up, Sheeple! It's all about how human social order as the glorified pack mammals that we are, has come to fall so vastly short of innate needs and appetites of social and intellectual stimulus struggle entirely unique to ever more massively engorged human cerebrality: Specifically, for collaboration among equals together in creative solution finding. A joy alas far too infrequent under conventional paradigm of stultifying heteronomy to hierarchical dominance. And the consequences to authentic wellbeing could not be more dire.    

Desperately seeking: cofounder candidates, in accordance with evolutionary neuroscience and the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology, in true subversive cultivation of freedom, friendship and thought, relationship in new paradigm via Intentional community or just intentional social circle by social engineering design; for better optimized social and intellectual stimulus struggle via ongoing collaboration among equals, pleasurable and meaningful optimal reciprocal engagement intrinsic to fulfillment, authentic wellbeing and human flourishing; all as characteristic and Empirically observed of honest, responsible, trustworthy, capable and respectful happy people who thrive, together intentionally and purposefully engaging in creative endeavor, often hard work  evidently so unclear to many.             

Desperately seeking: Volunteer advisors/mentors simply regarding outreach, how even to initiate/ignite entirely from scratch and then to sustain, in quality and process, open ongoing public discussion online upon the present agenda. How might even that most modest initial objective somehow to initiate or to trigger sustained open ongoing public discussion online at all, upon the present agenda, ever be achieved? With the help and advice that we each need, it may become possible to break isolation toward even collaboration in exploration and feasibility study of whatever the kind of probortunities that one finds interesting. Alas, I have no ready and trite simple answer to all manner of complex problems that plague us all. Sustained substantive communication and purposeful interaction, successful team work, can be hard work undertaken by serious people. Nevertheless, relationship and particularly friendship, arises in autonomy, entirely as a byproduct of full engagement in in quality and process of purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication and as shall be seen, never otherwise, and of which no one else need approve. That remains what shall be at stake, throughout. For in the words of Barbara Sher: “Isolation is the true dream killer, not your attitude.”  So I don't want your money or your devotion. And I am certainly no formulaic callow motivational grifter here to psyche you up and then leave you in the lurch! Isn't there already quite enough of that already?

As the saying goes, life is the journey, the ongoing experience, and not just deferred gratification in the destination or desired result in hoped for success. And no one should be abandoned to wander and stumble blindly their heart's true path in life all alone, destitute and bereft of all succor, a sore travail. Alas, even anyone so fortunate with anyone to turn to, yet shall their work be found well cut out for them. And as shall be expounded throughout, there remains nothing herein less at stake than literally the most important intrinsic social and intellectual human needs and stimulus appetites, so vastly and catastrophically underserved in life, indeed all as accordance with the ancient wisdom of the greatest sages of old, as rediscovered under the very cutting edge of modern science:

In perhaps the most famous and celebrated words of George Bernard Shaw: “Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.” And to quote Margaret Mead: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” 

And lo, the star first follower, first to publicly recognize by fully interacting with the hither to misunderstood and isolated lone dissident innovator, shall be the true leader and influencer blazing the trail, teaching by example, demonstrating for others how to participate, showing everyone how to relate! For any lonesome frustrated desire tells a story, needs a plan, and calls out for allies, desperately sought for unmet friends. Therefore: Change our conversation, reset the agenda, and change the world! Alas, one can but extend invitation. And FoolQuest.com remains your golden invitation, gentle reader. Let's talk!

All therefore desperately seeking: "unreasonable" thoughtful collaboration cofounder candidates, indeed perhaps beginning with any star first follower. Indeed, outreach and organization, remain nigh tautologically integral to all group collaboration from scratch such as proposed herein

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And so, indeed, just perhaps, we can be heroes!Hence at the risk of anything Utopian in the pejorative of remaining vastly impractical and impossibly ideal, FoolQuest.com advances in solution, because Creativity can and Should be Social, a social engineering vision, if all goes well, of welcome and trustworthy collaboration among equals, serious people, fully engaged in substantive communication, purposeful interaction and creative solution finding in innovative new venture creation, entrepreneurship for the rest of us in concurrent synergy with ongoing serious collaborative fiction writing, 1) respectful and responsible capable group endeavor on our own terms taking small reversible steps steadily at our own pace in a culture of helpfulness and creative solution finding, 2) indeed reciprocity helpful and ever mindful of task interdependencies, asking of others what no one else asks, and offering in return, what no one else offers, wherein, 3) beyond mere solitary division of labor, effective performance toward success without corporate or institutional authority and support (at least at first), 4) will require value maximization of participating human resource, 5) wherein each participant taking initiative multipotential cross discipline, by calling upon other participants for whatever timely and whole hearted assistance and follow up required, and reciprocating when likewise called upon by any other participant similarly as needed. Such as per the concept of relationship redefined in new paradigm, new social reality via Intentional community or smaller intentional social circle by social engineering design. All in order as to foster recognition in action, a higher level of social support from one another, a gratifying sense of power and abiding respect. Moreover, pursuant outreach may also well conceivably be cultivated, highly effective in connection to resources and networking better meeting individual social needs. Thus, effectively, reciprocally, each participant taking command in whatever their own specialized capable niche, while reciprocally each remaining subordinate, socially supportive and helpful to one another as detailed. Like the Three Musketeers: “One for all, and all for one!” For in the words of Barbara Sher: “Isolation is the true dream killer, not your attitude.” For to reiterate:  Eudemonia, capable relationship and especially true friendship, will accrue only for serious people, arising as byproduct of full engagement in in quality and process of purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication and never otherwise. Indeed, no one else need approve! And all as would be heightened in the above fulfilling situation scenario.

Congratulations then, gentle reader, for you have discovered FoolQuest.com, my outreach and your invitation, advancing an agenda for open ongoing substantive discussion and deliberation. And it is hoped that substantive deliberation might even as alas all too seldom, culminate in novel ongoing close collaboration, taking purposeful interaction together, gentle readers and yours truly. What follows is novel and plausible problem statement as to widely prevailing circumstances of unhappiness and such oppressive veritable human captivity, even amid such historically unprecedented technological affluence. Then will be proposed novel and feasible solutions, interaction for even a small intentional social circle let alone any grander intentional community, together. Hence the present endeavor at collaboration cofounder recruitment. Because, yes, as shall be proffered anon, liberating intrinsic fulfillment, socially and intellectually, might, as advanced herein, actually consist of endeavor at entrepreneurship for the rest of us, disruptively innovative new venture creation, on the one hand, in unprecedented concurrent synergy with, on the other hand, serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming.  

 

For indeed Eudemonia, capable relationship and particularly friendship, will result never by any rat race of extrinsic societal reward and punishment throughout or in the course of interminable exhausting and stultifying inane small talk, uncritical willful positivity, superficial harmony, fearfully conflict avoidant and debilitating headgames of toxic social skill and sycophantic toadying skilled incompetence, nor in recreation, so-called, that shabbily travesty of playful honest hedonism, replete with soul crushing fake fun passing for any wholehearted pleasure seeking; instead only the desperate effort and struggle to recover, on ones own time and expense, from endless debilitation from oppression under heteronomy to conventional options in life, but ever only for serious people as byproduct of full engagement in in quality and process of purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication and never otherwise. Indeed, no one else need approve! And FoolQuest.com remains your golden invitation, gentle reader. Let's talk! For in the words of Barbara Sher: “Isolation is the true dream killer, not your attitude.”

Rather than sweeping the world out of nowhere, subversion necessarily begins in microcosm, when any two or more individuals begin doing things differently together and persist. For such will be the first germ of interaction perhaps even as proposed herein, within even a small intentional social circle let alone any grander intentional community, amongst ourselves together turning away from the social rat-race, and perhaps even together reaching out in the world at large but even at all actually on our own terms.

Because power remains a function of capable relationship on ones own terms, interaction with responsible others. Am I then your unmet friend? Can you even see me? Will you make yourself known to me? Can we talk? Expert or layperson in whatever fields, old pro or neophyte aspirant, we each and all bring to the table whatever ones own insights, questions, answers, knowledge, talent, ideas, perspective, experience and connections. -Alas, hard work all too often so vastly unappreciated and blithely squandered. Befuddled masses yearning to breath free! What then is liberty, freedom so alluring yet forbidden, taboo, that nevertheless all people so yearn and strive for? Freedom whether in creative expression or effective action. Freedom of association, self esteem and more. How is freedom actually experienced? By what values? And most importantly, what must we do, I and thou, gentle reader, to win our freedom, liberty to pursue happiness? Can we organize? Should we? And how so?

The true to life Hero's Journey, for the rest of us...

An outcry rings forth in the wilderness, for an unloved quest. Who is the target audience? The target audience remains unknown. Does anybody even care? Such is the tribulation of the prophet lost and unheeded. The Hero's Journey, in order to begin, must break the isolation of solitary quest by forging profound alliance against adversity and objectives in common. So too, for the solitary aspirant in any endeavor. Indeed, like unto the mythic Hero's Journey, real collaboration among equals, creative solution finding to whatever purpose or intention, can only begin with some or other fateful meeting or recruitment, and all hinging upon overcoming taboo, illusion and dishonesty, into new and greater self-understanding of who one needs to be and to do together.

But stirring myth notwithstanding, does realism quite simply demand surrender and making do? Is even sheer stimulus struggle doomed only to lonely boredom? Barring the most unrealistic rugged self sufficiency, for social beings as are we all, options ever remain limited in isolation, abandoned as we find ourselves, each and all to ones own devices. And that is why, in order ever to succeed, individuals must seek one another out, others each different and one brings to whatever quest, and band together. For in the words of Henry Ford: “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” But devious cross-purpose, accrues only such abject failure. Better far, open honest disagreement. For so goes the proverb: “The devil is in the details.” And the learning curve remains steep. But only therein will be found salvation from ever more frenetic emptiness and Existentially Absurd sore travail in the Brave New World of ever escalating soft-core zombie apocalypse that is (anti)social media culture.     

Gentle reader(s), will you heed the call? Am I then your unmet friend? Let's work the probortunity together: The same ever applicable fundamentals of due diligence, feasibility study, project planning, outreach, recruitment, organization and implementation, all obtain. As does the power of narrative, because planning remains another mode of storytelling, crafting futuring scenario learning and teaching the tale of intention unfolding.  

New venture creation for the rest of us: What does it really take, attempting  anything really cool together? Beyond fiction merely howsoever as diverting stimulus or even as historically as protopsychology, drama, hailed by Socrates as most philosophical among the arts, provides deep exploration of dharma, character motivation, human frailty and growth even into right action, learning from mistakes. Hence the proposal, Creativity can and Should be Social, as conceived, consisting of entrepreneurship for the rest of us, disruptively innovative new venture creation, on the one hand, in unprecedented concurrent synergy with, on the other hand, serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming. Business or project planning after all, is but another mode of narrative, another kind of storytelling, a method beyond mere plausibility as in fiction, of realistic feasibility study towards implementation. Thus, as do we all, aspiring writers and wanna-be entrepreneurs alike, can relate to the archetypical hero, however vaguely dissatisfied, who at first refuses the call to adventure and peril. Because change is frightening and difficult. And probortunity is often complicated. But If You Desire Anything You've Never Had, Try Something You've Never Done.

  

Even heeding the call, like unto the mythic protagonist, aspiring writers and wanna-be entrepreneurs alike, inevitably confront setbacks, challenges and temptations, doubts and even feelings of resentment in perception or nagging suspicion of having been drawn in and duped into onerous commitments, all merely even in undertaking preparation and initiation. After all, only bad decisions make good stories. Indeed, everything so dramatic for fiction, entails suffering in reality.

The protagonist called to adventure upon the path of the Hero's Journey, is often someone different from and misunderstood by their peers. Of course, that might also describe a knave, a fool or a crank! Cranks are falsely distinguished and characterized by bad ideas. However, often knaves and false prophets can have extremely good ideas, but they ruin them! And they betray those to whom to turn for help. Beware! And then again, wisdom and good intention frequently go unrecognized. Such dystressing uncertain dilemma and ambiguity of unknown trustworthuness, brings dramatic tension and suspense to the Hero's Journey in reality no less than in fiction.  

 

As Carl Gustav Jung wrote: “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” Indeed, because the Hero’s Journey inevitably undertakes such profound transformation of consciousness, the Hero’s Journey remains also largely internal. The common story arc of the Hero's Journey, follows a protagonist, motivated to ever mounting ambivalence, in leading a stable and even comfortable yet stiflingly unfulfilling life, and then even unexpectedly embarking upon a journey, literal or figurative, full of peril, numerous challenges, lessons, growth, character development, transformation and even atonement (as ever applicable to genuine pathos), dramatic obstacle, plot complication and adventure of one kind or another.

 

Because even amid ordinary status quo, much like real people, relatable characters begin gaining limited awareness of unfamiliar probortunity. Thus awareness of need for change ever increases. Hence fear and resistance to change to be overcome before committing to change and crossing the threshold into adventure and experimentation with new situations in preparing for major change, even seemingly life and death, indeed  ordeal with the Dark Night of the Soul and acceptance of consequences of new change and rededication. Final attempts at denial ensue in order to resist. At last, denial fails, and Positive Disintegration ensues, opening the way new mastery, capable  power and autonomy.

 

Fears may be entirely quite rational and evidenced however, and trust must be earned. Indeed, the most discouraging malicious gossip need not persuade, but only engender hesitation. As must we all, the hero finally confronts their inner demons and whatever has been sabotaging life, forever holding them back. By finding allies and getting help, the protagonist becomes able to cross the threshold into danger and adventure, draw up plans and undertake feasibility study, work out hard decisions, face trial and tribulation, and even defeat enemies, struggle and overcome.

 

The Hero's Journey thus culminates in one great conclusive challenge, the dramatic climax, of an experience leaving the protagonist forever changed, even as normal life returns and resumes. And dénouement of normalcy regained, so badly missed, may be welcomed. Or else, the protagonist forever changed, will no longer be satisfied. And so instead, trauma comes to light, and an extended dénouement of anguish and healing ensues, dubbed by Maureen Murdock as: The Heroine's Journey, the reconciliation of "masculine" toughness with "feminine" vulnerability.

 

And exactly this universal mythic story structure of the Hero's Journey, is indeed reflected in the call to collaboration among equals, in the vision and even in the reality of innovative new venture creation, disruptive entrepreneurship for the rest of us, and even in the yearning of art for its own joy in ongoing serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming. All so appealing to power and "masculine" toughness so crucial to autonomy and capability, yet trust so threatening to human vulnerability, indeed "feminine" tenderness ever crucial to attachment, bonding and team building.

 

The rubric: 'probortunity,' is coined by way of portmanteau from the two words: 'problem' and 'opportunity,' in optimistic denotation of how problems might be embraced as opportunity for innovative solution finding, planning, feasibility study and implementation. Indeed, entrepreneurship addresses probortunity on two fronts: Externally relevant entrepreneurship must strive to discover and to meet some or other market gap, whatever underserved needs of any target consumers, our fellow human beings. Unless it's all just another grift and a sham! Because the true to life Hero's Journey remains ever fraught with deceit, detour and dead ends. For Entrepreneurship also endeavors to satisfy frustrated yearnings and authentic personal integrity in life, of aspiring entrepreneurs themselves. Much as writing motivated by frustrated self-expression, must therefore also seek to relate to any receptive audience. Unless it's all some sham of banal hack, sycophantic empty manipulation and pandering propaganda.

 

 

 

Collaboration among equals in creative solution finding, threatens taboo subversion of hierarchical dominance                                                  Why there has always been such resistance to true liberation

Subversion of hierarchy means whatever even conceivable causality, action or situation which as consequence negates, moderates, diminishes or undermines hierarchical dominance and sycophantic predictive social cognition, in any system or organization, formal or informal. Subversion of hierarchy promotes the deconstruction and relaxation of coercion and dominance generally. Hierarchy or "pecking order" is oppressive social regulation whereby people, groups or institutions, find themselves effectively classified, ranked or graded, indeed thereby empowered and disempowered, into different levels or priorities of authority according to status or social standing. Whereas, power and autonomy, free from submission to heteronomy, remains ever an objective of functional relationship on ones own terms, capable interaction with responsible others, throughout any true to life Hero's Journey.

 

Subversion of hierarchy, a hallmark of autonomy, remains ever taboo under heteronomy. Alas, at very worst, hierarchy, especially when all too fragile and easily threatened, all too often promotes hostility and even serial bullying. In knee-jerk reaction, authoritarian flunkies become so easily threatened, terrified and even lash out, at any prospect at all of subversion of hierarchy, indeed any egalitarian concept whatsoever. But so do even the most lowly, insecure and codependently submissive of sheeple. Whereas, actually at all more significant authority figures may tend to remain at all better educated and equipped, civil, canny, secure in their own threat levels, subtle and scheming, choosing their battles.

 

The initial conditions of inertia whence any true to life Hero's Journey begins, are such and so: The masses, ever so haplessly misguided and heteronymous, especially as lacking all other alignment and hope, so desperately look to even the most sociopathic perceived authority of one kind or another, for order out from chaos, organization out from confusion; happy for mediocrity filtering out substandard and excellence alike as equally dangerous, or even cleaving to such utter crap, only so long as any fantasy of direction and comforting illusions of membership and inclusion, even however conditional.

 

And the more meager such stakes, the more poignantly desperate and precious. In the words of Mark Twain, “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).” For in the words of George Orwell: “A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing,” Yet truth ignored or tabooed, does not then go away. And the truth sticks in ones craw, possible neither to stomach nor to disgorge.

 

And the nature of the antagonistic forces confronted throughout the true to life Hero's Journey begins, remain such and so: Under prevailing mindset of heteronomy to hierarchical dominance, leadership can do no wrong. Law, order and due process thence require neither justice nor that the truth will out. Indeed, law abidance, or just observance of sacrosanct custom, thence peace and order, are perceived to require blithely unchallenged loyalty to whatever hierarchical dominance or pecking order, codependency vested in systematic reward and punishment. Any conceivable denial to forestall honest individual struggle with the Absurd, and thence Positive Disintegration into individual morality beyond docile social compliance, once aroused by redeeming Existential disgust in the face of human evil within an indifferent universe. Therefore, equality becomes threatening and freedom terrifying, so that whatever minority opinion therefore must be quashed and contained. But no matter how bad you are, there will always be someone worse, precisely because they think that they are better.

 

Alternatively to everything so dreary and conventional, as it turns out, there remains ever a daunting learning curve in the entirely different social aptitudes of autonomy and capability. The agenda at hand of as aforesaid synergistic parallel endeavors of egalitarian creative collaboration among equals, herein extolled as a new optimum vehicle for substantive communication towards purposeful interaction, ever strives at optimal reciprocal engagement and optimized stimulus struggle in accordance with evolutionary neuroscience. And in groundbreaking new concept by social engineering design all from scratch, attachment and bonds of relationship in subversive new paradigm of autonomy via whatever Intentional community however expansively, or to begin more proximately, any smaller intentional social circle in reversal of conventional norms.

 

Norms, indeed, whereby, in accordance with the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology, collaboration in creative solution finding remains stifled under oppressive and boring hierarchical dominance and sycophantic predictive social cognition most of the time. Liberating and stimulating near egalitarian collaboration in creative solution finding, as so rarely ever sanctioned and scheduled by whatever great and good powers that be in their infinite wisdom, therefore remains ever scarce, yearned for and fondly remembered.

 

But what if instead, in most taboo and subversive of all conceivable Peripeteia, autonomy and ongoing collaboration among equals in creative solution finding should become the new norm, with resort even to ad hock authority or even simply moderation, as the special case, need as for whatever reason in any situation, as ever actually arising? And precisely how might such Eudemonia ever come to pass?

 

Creativity can and Should be Social here on FoolQuest.com, is conceived of as the very antithesis of (anti)social media facile triviality. Probortunity at hand, is born of prevailing social reality: Ecclesiastical vanity, futility, sore travail, docility and setup for failure. Radicalizing (anti)social media algorithms rewarding rage, hate, malicious gossip, in an escalating hotbed of bullying, is only a further complication more fundamental and wide spread conformism and unconditional agreeability. To wit: Precisely contrary to the perniciously heteronymous and Orwellian anti-intellectual big lie of perpetually shucking and jiving desperately submissive and dishonest soul-destroying "Fake It Till You Make it" oppressive slave mentality of bogus, miserably distant, lonely, boring, excruciatingly sycophantic social skills constantly drummed into us all; about never complaining, never criticizing, always staying upbeat, making endlessly non threatening bland small talk, maintaining distance and ever keeping conversation light:

 

Au contraire, relationship and particularly friendship, arises for serious people of integrity, in free thinking autonomy, in flagrant subversion of hierarchy, indeed as in collaboration among equals, thereby so disruptively flouting taboo: and entirely as a byproduct of full engagement in purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication, and never otherwise. And no one else need approve! All else remains chimera.

 

And yet so many balk at this simple truth, among all other conceivable points of view upon any range of subject matter ever cogitated in sublime equanimity. Tell them instead, that the Earth is flat and that alien lizards deceive us. Declare that  that nothing is real anyhow, because actually, we all live in the Matrix. Yes, that most ancient and interminable canard of clichéd Zen Mystical tripe, still hailed as great profundity and ever new. But can there be indeed any manner of hoax convincing us all that our dreams are inherently false? For in the words of Barbara Sher: “Isolation is the true dream killer, not your attitude.”

The fantastical premise or Solipsistic metaphor of the maya is popularized for the cinema in the Matrix movie franchise. But actually the maya remains anything less than actually supernatural. Rather the maya, like samsāra, remains metaphor merely for our Existential conundrum of hapless bumbling involvement as the offish hard luck chumps, losers and utter schlimazels that we are.

Only then explain the metaphor, indeed that the real true to life Matrix has always been that tenacious chimera, that toxic will-o'-the-wisp and Absurd Existential hangover, which is nothing more or less in sore travail, than constructed mass delusion in action called: social reality, poignant investment to which we are all so brazenly extorted. Well then, that will be another matter entirely! And quite unthinkable. For again, as George Orwell observes: “A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing,”

 

Yet truth ignored or tabooed, does not then simply evaporate. Whereas, by contrast, Phenomenologically and memetically, social reality, much like self fulfilling prophesy, only remains true at all so long as yielded cultural observance indeed extending beyond mere perception, active obedience and conformity to custom. Social reality thus remains that consensus of inconsistent apprehension, expectation and values, good or ill, so badly ever in need of being taken with that proverbial grain of salt. For such is required by autonomy so hard won from Positive Disintegration, the inception of individual values when mere normative social expectations under individual scrutiny break down and loose deepest meaning. Empirical physical reality and social reality remain completely distinct. Wishful expectation of either to shoulder the burden of the other, can only mislead and disappoint. And when irredeemable sycophantic headgames stand exposed, the only winning move will be quite simply not to play. There can be no fix or work around. But it's the only game in town! And hence the dire need for anything new and different.

 

In the words of Neil Gabler: “American society is a society in which individuals have learned to prize social skills that permit them, like actors, to assume whatever rôle the occasion demands and to "perform" their lives rather than just live them.” And forced cheerful willful positivity notwithstanding, a morbidly serious matter. Nothing could ever be less playful. Competent or incompetent, whether in true hardnosed practicality or in sheer aimless and empty actingout of mimesis, many all the same remain no less consumed with the burning question of how to perform as expected and to fit in: How best to placate The Great Faceless They, thereby to obtain the key to life.

 

For such remains the slave mentality of Homo Domesticus, the domesticated human. And so we the Sheeple, ever desperate and terrified are we all, of loneliness and exclusion, remain ever vested in endless sacrifice of authenticity upon that Moloch alter of social acceptance. For anything less remains the height of blasphemy! Or so one might expect. And yet all rebuke herein must come as no surprise, all such clichéd iconoclasm having so long dissipated all shock value and element of surprise. That is, until the point will be driven home, to reiterate, that relationship and particularly friendship, arises entirely as a byproduct of full engagement in purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication, and never otherwise. Indeed, no one else need approve! And the only thing to sacrifice, will be sacrifice itself. Because in the words of Barbara Sher: “Isolation is the true dream killer, not your attitude.”

 

Indeed, the obvious truth remains: Popularity and ever facile distant social success within any pecking order, ever remain antithetical to true friendship, because, again so obviously, friendship by stark contrast, remains by very nature, genuine, substantive and intimate, being predicated upon free and unguarded and reciprocal psychological visibility. But all the latter so much easier extolled than attained or achieved. And yet all as so very characteristic and Empirically observed of honest, responsible, trustworthy, capable and respectful happy people talking more seriously and making less small talk, thriving together intentionally and purposefully engaging together in creative endeavor. In a single word, so much abused: Philosophy.

 

Therefore, strategically, who else, what other kind of personality or character profile as above, indeed of Empirically observed of happy people, leading what other exemplary kind of life, presents as best together to emulate or rôle model in striving for autonomy and pursuit of happiness in Eudemonia and arête? Indeed, just perhaps, instead of so brutally dumbing down our best and brightest "for your own good, dear!" might instead precise reversal all thereof, turn out so much more noble and happier? Far better, mayhap, to do precisely the opposite throughout life, and immerse indeed even the most ordinary people into such interaction as so characteristic among gifted peers, thereby cultivating, welcoming and bringing forth each ones own thriving inner giftedness? And what better conceivable vehicle for all such conceivable Eudemonia, than those aforesaid synergistic parallel endeavors of egalitarian creative collaboration? Specifically, and to reiterate: Innovative new venture creation, disruptive entrepreneurship for the rest of us, on the one hand, and on the other hand pure creativity, art for its own joy, in ongoing serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming.

 

Unmet friends: In due emulation of those aforesaid happy people indeed leading such exemplary lives, let us begin even merely amongst ourselves, like gifted peers, simply by continually talking more seriously together, substantively and strategically, ever bridging between abstract and concrete, theoretical and practical. Because, emphatically: All other options more conventional in life, remain Ecclesiastical vanity and futility, an Existentially Absurd sore travail that can't be fixed or tweaked. And yet, more truly today even than in antiquity, any two or more individuals, indeed just perhaps I and thou, gentle reader(s), only should they/we find one another and so resolve, even realizing the the bold vision of Transactional Analysis, may yet interact even intentionally, more openly, intelligently and effectively. In the words of Henry Ford: “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” But devious cross-purpose, accrues only such abject failure. Far better always, open honest disagreement.     

Surmounting the Absurd?

For the challenge into the true to life Hero's Journey begins and remains such and so: Helpless servitude to random propinquity, let alone domineering and ever manipulative self-appointed social gatekeepers, all be dammed! Because power remains ever an objective of functional relationship on ones own terms, capable interaction with responsible others. For such remains crucial to finding allies and getting help on the true to life Hero's Journey. Indeed, tautologically, there can be no self-help, no solitary rugged self-reliant unilateral "well-formed plan," for interaction among more than one individual. As the saying goes: It takes two to tango. But one alone, wanders ever searching like Diogenes, a sore travail.

 

It has been advanced that Existentialism arose in order to blunt the despair of Nihilism. Indeed, life is Existentially Absurd and therefore often condemned as a lost cause. And hence the extol of life as a grand gesture, even however futile, as the best and most meaningful feasible quest. In 'The Deconstruction of Reality:' What Modernism and Postmodernism Say About Surface and Depth' author Ken Sanes expounds:

Some of these theories of postmodernism then take an additional step, arguing that since life (or much of life) is a fiction or since fiction is all we can know, we should join in the drama ourselves and live a life of play. In effect, they recommend that we treat life as a symbolic arena for the acting out of fantasies. In place of merely discovering that reality is a construction, they would have us consciously take over the process of creating it, inventing selves, subcultures and alternative "realities," as forms of social experimentation.

However, even in such optimistic pessimism of self reinvention and creative redemption, telling a story is one thing, and beyond gambits of Absurdly dishonest soul-destroying "Fake It Till You Make it," competently living ones aspirational story quite another. After all, the Hero's Journey begins first in refusal of the call to adventure, and therein frequently remains stillborn. Dare indeed one abandon all hope of becoming more effective and effectual, and forswear all endeavor more vibrantly to live out fantasy? Are unambitious lowered expectations surrendering and making do, truly best in life? Whereas short of the surreal, any capable fiction must at least seem plausible, by contrast responsibility of real capable and responsible endeavor demands at all actual feasibility, easier said than done.

Alas as things stand, actually by such longstanding and cunning design, employment and formal education typically exhaust such vast proportion of individual time and effort, only setup for failure. Because only a fortunate few experience job satisfaction or enthusiasm in learning. For most, employment, ever mounting anxiety of wage slavery ever less secure, and much like formal education in such submissive disciplined preparation and investment all thereto, and all on ones own time and expense with usurious compounding interest, remains interminably protracted burden and sore travail. And ever at all alleviated only by that shabbily travesty of hedonistic play called: recreation, the desperate effort and struggle to recover, on ones own time and expense, from such endless debilitation.

Indeed like unto fiction, business or project planning remaining ever provisional, conjectural, speculative, therefore, for Sir Karl Popper, became his model for faliblism, nonjustificationist science and politics. We are all fallible. Danger and misfortune abound. Risk can never be eliminated. There can only be risk management. In order then to embrace progress and make life more worth living, Popper rejects and condemns the despair and delusion of demanding impossible certainty and safety. Perfectionism is the enemy. In his philosophy of science, Epistemological Methodology underpinning any valid Scientific Method, Karl Popper, the favorite philosopher of scientists, strove to clarify and simplify Metaphysics into a field more amenable to scientific honesty and hence any hope of intelligibility.   

According to defunct yet enduring long standing tradition of verification or justification, scientific certainty ever builds upon firm foundation of verified or justified knowledge. But such is unachievable perfectionism, impossible standards leading only to despair, only exacerbating the Absurd. Indeed, according to Popper, there can be no certainty of even firm foundation, verification or justification. In practice, all good science and uplifting discovery begins from sheer speculation, unfounded conjecture, only then subject first to critical preference (such criteria as internal logical consistency and theoretical elegance) and only thereafter to ongoing Empirical reality testing, evidentiary support subject to refutation. Such is a process of elimination, narrowing the field of viable hypotheses, ever less wrong; ongoing practice of controversy, Dialectical Socratic enlightenment by refutation, wherein, without shame, strife or acrimony, errors are not to be avoided beforehand, but detected and course corrected as arising. Because how else do we learn and progress?    

Business or project planning, not unlike drama extolled by Socrates as most philosophical among the arts, remains yet another heady application of narrative extrapolation, exploration, conjecture and speculation. Business or project planning after all, is only a different kind of storytelling and plotting, even dramatic futuring scenario climaxing toward whatever hoped for outcomes; an idea to be pitched, a tale to be told, towards applied creativity, disruptive innovation, rigorously detailing any projected path to success and desired results. All factors ever so crucial to such success as Empirically observed of trustworthy, capable and respectful happy people who talk more seriously with less small talk, thriving upon creative interaction. And for modern Socratic Sir Karl Popper, investigation of reality begins only in creative hypothesis.     

The difference yet obtaining, in the distinction between innovation, the name given to applied creativity, distinct from pure creativity of art for art's sake: To wit, that in innovative business or project planning, far from sublime apathy and surrender to Absurd uncertainty, actual feasibility will be at stake, and not just narrative plausibility as in story crafting. Because capable business or project planning proceeds in wherewithal of research to test reality beyond merely internal self consistency as in story background and World Building, setting the scene. Indeed, whereas fiction writers only need imagine sympathetic, interesting and at all capable characters just barely adequate to rise, ever in such mounting suspense, to ever worsening challenges contrived in any plot-driven tale, the real world drama of management team formation, no less harrowing, shall require so much more: Indeed real world dramatic outcomes in doubt regarding endeavor at management team formation, frequently turn not only upon intensive strategy, research and feasibility study, but upon successful outreach, actual search and recruitment, on spec, of any range of participants qualified in different expertise, capability and suitable temperament, including risk tolerance, work towards success in whatever hoped for future outcomes or results. Yes, just perhaps, we can be heroes! In the words of Henry Ford: “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” Anything less remains only all the more needless Existential Absurdity, abject failure. And yet, there will be no need to impose consensus. People who disagree cooperate only everyday! Whereas dogmatically erroneous consensus remains ever futile.  

Alas nevertheless, that even given shared values and objectives, strategy and action may yet meet with rejection, only fizzling out in real world anticlimax of Absurd anti-drama and disappointment. Indeed as for examples recounted here, and here. Indeed, even given as aforesaid, such ignition of intensely motivated individualized focus, and not merely short attention, aggravation, boredom, flaccid Zen behaviorally conditioned resignation and apathy, shall we even then ever find common ground in any plan of action agenda at hand presently? For in the words of Benjamin Disraeli: “Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”   

And alas also, that endeavor set in stone without prior deliberation, due diligence, research, exploration and planning, typically remains ever doomed to obsession, delusion, hand waving and pipedream with neither clarity nor flexibility, and hence chimerically hopeless, Existentially Absurd, illusory, unachievably vanishing prospect of endurance, much less success. To quote Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower: “Plans are nothing, planning is everything.” Because in the famous words of Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, noted disciple of Carl von Clausewitz: "No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy." -nor, for that matter, whatever other sort of antagonist, true to life dramatic obstacle or complication.  

And yet, even though, to quote Robert Burns: “The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft a-gley.” (Go often awry.) -nevertheless, as Eisenhower so well understood, the intensive discourse and research of planning, brings preparation and rapport. And into all deliberation shall be wherein enters the salient value of serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming, indeed the speculative element and exploration of Science Fiction, ever new, yet all mindful of the ancient and venerated discipline of the writing craft.     

For all such enfold the exchange of hardnosed critique, a fancy French word for criticism and the Socratic Dialectical practice of controversy which is the invited, welcome and appreciated free exchange of criticism, remains essential to error detection and ongoing course correction, not to mention happiness together even in such deliberation. Hence collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming bears such untapped subversive potential, so instructive as a bonding and team building exercise toward unprecedented and subversive collaboration among equals in disruptive innovative new venture creation,           

All hence does entrepreneurship, in any alterative, tantalize with any prospect instead, in quest of liberation from bondage to employment working to enrich others, all in such poignant hope of ever finding freedom in an unfree world. And all easier said than done! Indeed, to quote Frederick Law Olmsted: "After all is said and done, much is said and little is done."

Moreover, not only psychology but philosophy and meaning in the deepest sense, ever remain relevant to inform entrepreneurship as in application to anything else in life. This is because successful new venture creation, indeed entrepreneurship for the rest of us, must struggle and innovate, imaginatively addressing unhappiness of prevailing frustrated unmet or underserved needs and desires. But profound desires are often repressed and denied, going unrecognized and scorned in heteronymous religious or ideological shame and anti-intellectualism, as ever the same desperate panic stricken sycophantic socially skilled toadying skilled incompetence and crimestop ever striving to purge an unwanted self in order to gain extrinsic rewards of social acceptance. Thus all too often, the greater the value, perhaps too abstract, the harder to sell, bridging abstract principle into appealing concrete strategy. 

Case in point: As shall be expounded throughout, and Orwellian anti-intellectual righthink taboo notwithstanding, there remains no less universally vested interest herein at stake only given any the wit to see, than literally the most important intrinsic social and intellectual human needs and stimulus appetites of social and intellectual stimulus struggle, so vastly and catastrophically underserved in every walk of life as we have known it. Indeed all as in accordance with the ancient wisdom of the greatest sages of old, as rediscovered under the very cutting edge of modern science. Indeed as entirely consistent with evolutionary neuroscience and the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology. For according to Martin Seligman's celebrated happiness formula of Positive Psychology, so abstract: Pleasure + engagement + meaning = intrinsic fulfillment. Indeed, bridging abstraction more concretely: Creativity can and Should be Social.

And thank you gentle reader. Because we all live in such a tightly strained attention economy, in the words of Barbara Sher: “Isolation is the true dream killer, not your attitude.” All hence, all the more, in the immortal words of Simone Weil: “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” Better still, optimal reciprocal engagement, indeed substantive communication towards purposeful interaction, and never otherwise. And no one else need approve! All wherein, truly generous investment of precious attention, never squandered, ever accrues the highest return in like kind, fully engaged attention. Your Impossible Mission, gentle reader, should you choose to accept it! Because we live in an attention economy, often indeed so distant, frugal and miserable. A culture especially online, of alienated short attention and minimal transitory engagement. And indignant stock rebuff is undeniably so highly economical. But who and what are we all saving ourselves for? Pay attention to me, damn it! Be interested, be interesting. Stay interested. Include me. Because, to reiterate with emphasis, optimal reciprocal engagement remains the reciprocal investment and exchange of attention that accrues highest return in like kind. And ya gotta spend it in order to get any in return!

And freely question whatever is not understood and articulate every nagging ambiguity. For as the saying goes: No question is too stupid to ask, and no answer too wise to be given. Even sheer incomprehension is a beginning and no dire impasse or cause for alarm. The readiness to speak up, question, point out and discuss communication errors and failures, remains crucial to communication at all, and sometimes even actually a matter of life and death. Mistakes are the Essence towards Intersubjectivity via fully engaged Dialectical conversational adequacy in collaborative miscommunication repai, with Active Reading and Listening striving towards the achievement of Intersubjectivity being: the closer correspondence of message as received and understood, to content as actually intended by the sender. New ideas are often confusing. Only shopworn and well familiar old ideas are certain always to come across effortlessly. The mainstay of science and philosophy was once the cutting edge. The well familiar great concise ideas upon which we all rely, are often, historically, the product of brilliant minds in lifetimes of boiling it all down, volume by volume, page by page. To always get it right the first time, say very little and dare nothing new.  

 

Attempting anything really cool together: What does it really take? New venture creation for the rest of us: Rising to the true to life Hero's Journey.

 

In the progress of any group, there will be an initial shake down of who stays the course and who fades back and drops out, who can be counted on and who not, leaving only anyone who was ever truly serious to begin with. Indeed, in order to prevent group de-cohesion and dissolution, there must ever remain procedure and protocol in commitment toward recovery and even beginning anew. -figuratively back to the proverbial drawing board. Specifically, should anyone no matter how expert and having built themselves up as seemingly indispensable, indeed taking a leadership position, figuratively pulls the proverbial rug metaphorically out from under, by actingout in passive aggression, undermining all progress, effectively just going on strike while howsoever pretending otherwise, indeed even by such sabotage wresting defeat out from the very jaws of victory, then, in such case, what must be done? Answer: together we must remain brave, undiscouraged, agile, adapt and find another way, even outreach recruiting other more reliable partners in collaboration. Indeed, the offender may even be prevailed upon to help recruit their own replacement, if they just don't want to do their own job. Instead of such helpless and stunned dependency, there must be fall back plans in case of such defection, no matter how seemingly catastrophic. Anyone simply losing interest must be set free, their obligations written of as a bad debt. There is always another way, even if seemingly howsoever at all less advantageous. When such controlling passive aggression no longer paralyzes and destroys the group, by such Transactional Antithesis the Ulterior Transaction or: headgame will quickly lose its appeal, and the offender may even decide to mend their ways instead of simply finding themselves alone and left out not by howsoever actually being excluded, but simply by their own inaction and nonparticipation as the others just move on together.

In crucial reiteration: Trustworthy, capable and respectful happy people Empirically observed talking more seriously and making less small talk, thrive together intentionally and purposefully engaging together in creative endeavor. Indeed, relationship and particularly friendship, arises for serious people of integrity, in autonomy, subversively and disruptively flouting taboo, entirely as a byproduct of full engagement in purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication, and as to be expounded anon, never otherwise. Moreover, no one else need approve! After all: Popularity and ever facile and distant social success, ever remain antithetical to true friendship, because friendship is genuine, substantive and intimate, being predicated upon free, unguarded and reciprocal psychological visibility. For in the words of Barbara Sher: “Isolation is the true dream killer, not your attitude.”

Indeed, even at the risk of anything Utopian in the pejorative of remaining vastly impractical and impossibly ideal, FoolQuest.com advances in solution, because Creativity can and Should be Social, a social engineering vision, if all goes well, of welcome and trustworthy collaboration among equals, serious people, fully engaged in substantive communication, purposeful interaction and creative solution finding in innovative new venture creation, entrepreneurship for the rest of us in concurrent synergy with ongoing serious collaborative fiction writing, 1) respectful and responsible capable group endeavor on our own terms taking small reversible steps steadily at our own pace in a culture of helpfulness and creative solution finding, 2) indeed reciprocity helpful and ever mindful of task interdependencies, asking of others what no one else asks, and offering in return, what no one else offers, wherein, 3) beyond mere solitary division of labor, effective performance toward success without corporate or institutional authority and support (at least at first), 4) will require value maximization of participating human resource, 5) wherein each participant taking initiative multipotential cross discipline, by calling upon other participants for whatever timely and whole hearted assistance and follow up required, and reciprocating when likewise called upon by any other participant similarly as needed. Such as per the concept of relationship redefined in new paradigm, new social reality via Intentional community or at least initially, more modestly, smaller intentional social circle by social engineering design. All in order as to foster recognition in action, a higher level of social support from one another, a gratifying sense of power and abiding respect.

Moreover, Creativity Can and Should be Popular! Indeed, pursuant outreach may also well conceivably be cultivated, highly effective in connection to resources and networking better meeting individual social needs. Thus, effectively, reciprocally, each participant taking command in whatever their own specialized capable niche, while reciprocally each remaining subordinate, socially supportive and helpful to one another as detailed. Like the Three Musketeers: “One for all, and all for one!”  For in the words of Barbara Sher: “Isolation is the true dream killer, not your attitude.” And to reiterate:  Eudemonia, capable relationship and especially true friendship, will accrue only for serious people, arising as byproduct of full engagement in purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication and never otherwise. Indeed, no one else need approve! And all as would be heightened in the above fulfilling situation scenario. If You Desire Anything You've Never Had, Try Something You've Never Done.

Creativity can and Should be Social, unlike, not only, for example in the next section: community gardening, or for that matter, such prevailing institutional structure as formal education and traditional employment, will always remain the more demanding of perseverant individual responsibility. If any one packs up their gardening tools and turns their back on that benighted community garden, well then life goes on for the others. But new venture creation, entrepreneurship for the rest of us, and for that matter, even serious collaborative fiction writing, will always remain the more fraught with, and vulnerable to, disruption by personality conflict, passive hostility and betrayal. Such nigh inevitable tribulation will ever remain the test of adult responsibility, resilience and perseverance. After all, successful entrepreneurship eventually results only from rapid serial failure together. Hard work: Try, try, try again! In the words of Henry Ford: “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” And devious cross-purpose, accrues only such abject failure. And alas, never open honest disagreement.

Along with Creativity can and Should be Social, also included is an ancillary subversive notion of outreach, Creativity Can and Should be Popular, individual outreach under legitimizing context of collective outreach, all as conceived to better facilitate individual networking, social embedment and social stimulus struggle, metaphorical tail figuratively wagging proverbial dog, ulterior objective taking priority over ostensible ongoing recruitment to Creativity can and Should be Social.

Alas however, that the greater masses of humanity, cretins and philistines all, so ill equipped and bereft of all philosophy and scientifically ignorant, remain ever so blithely oblivious to and unmoved by the crucial importance of the probortunity at hand. Alas, anti-intellectual short attention prevails. So bereft of autonomy, many remain all too easily distracted and discouraged by even the slightest difficulty, let alone serious effort, and even from persistence in thinking too deeply. Let alone from Active Reading and research, much less substantive communication even contemplating ambitiously purposeful interaction. Because, ultimately, in the words of Benjamin Disraeli: “Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” Alas however, deep thinking and planning for well considered action, remain so unpopular because reality can be so painful and discouraging. Understandably, even benumbed escapism remains far more appealing for mass marketing. But when the going gets tough, nerds work the problem! Indispensable to meaning and purpose, eustress of inherent creative tension stems from the inadequacy all that one is, in striving and ambition in latency of all that one yearns to become, excellence called: arête. And so gentle reader, is FoolQuest.com right for you?

Alas, no matter what might be at stake, that so many people just cannot fathom any responsible suggestion of, for whatever good reasons, doing anything differently than as has become accustomed. Neither in any liberating shock of the new, nor simply in appeal to competency as embodied even in most ancient and venerated tradition as for example, of serious writing, drama and the discipline of the writing craft. And not even simply in open-mindedness to enjoy the speculative element and exploration of Science Fiction.

Alas, all too often, promising connections and opportunity so ignominiously die still born amid tragic hesitation. And all manner of promising innovation in attempting  anything really cool together is scuttled by the same old headgames, consensus manipulation, and even bullying outright. And then there is what has been dubbed: The Cult of the Amateur, a popular anti-intellectual movement online in such scornful cretin philistine rejection of expertise, art and proficiency, in very principle. As in recent history, from the very beginning, when all various qualified experts were effectively driven off from Wikipedia, in "a kind of reverse snobbery that seeks to excuse mediocrity." [Wikipedia talk:Anti-elitism] And there can be by far worse malagenda of heteronomy because of precisely such reverse snobbery but even more extreme, embracing Relativism and Anti-Critical Bias as in the silly aphorism that there is no disputing tastes, indeed taking thereby the implication that there can be no possible standards of quality whatsoever. And often thereby extolling not even mere mediocrity, but actually glorifying even the most trenchant denial as manifest in antirational ideology; travesty of cognition and human connection, ever remaining the very font of willfully unaware and socially skilled incompetence sycophantic pipedream and most entrenched production of blithely unironic ghodawful badfic.

Only practice makes perfect. Only writing badly can ever progress into any better writing. Writing is rewriting and never a waste of time. And not merely creative writing, but any endeavor obsessively set in stone without prior deliberation, due diligence, research, exploration and planning, typically remains ever doomed to delusion, hand waving and pipedream with no prospect of success. And here is the lesson of serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming, indeed the speculative element and exploration of Science Fiction, ever new, yet all mindful of the ancient and venerated discipline of the writing craft. For all such enfold the exchange of hardnosed critique, a fancy French word for criticism and the Socratic Dialectical practice of controversy. Hence collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming bears such untapped subversive potential, so instructive as a bonding and team building exercise toward unprecedented collaboration among equals in disruptive innovative new venture creation. What then does the future hold? In the words of Paul Raven: “Science Fiction isn’t dying at all; it’s metastasizing!”

 

 

Overcoming foreseeable resistance to featured key strategic specifics of Creativity can and Should be Social and innovative new venture creation, entrepreneurship for the rest of us, in concurrent synergy with serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming taboo subversion of heteronomy to authority and hierarchical dominance by social engineering design

Many a mythic Hero's Journey turns upon endless riddles, even such as indeed will be exposed as plain and profane, no riddle at all. And along the course of the present true to life Hero's Journey, there will be much attentively to unpack and decompress, in the present densely verbose hypertext paragraphs here on FoolQuest.com

But initial drama along the course of the present true to life Hero's Journey, obtains such and so: That alas, even in shared values and objectives, strategy and action agenda may yet meet with rejection, only fizzling out in real world anticlimax of anti-drama and disappointment. Indeed as for examples, recounted here, and here. Indeed, even given as aforesaid, even so rarely, ignition of intensely motivated individualized focus, will any common ground towards conceivable plan of action agenda ever appear? For in the words of Benjamin Disraeli: “Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”

In life as in myth, from the beginning the Hero's Journey is ever imperiled by distraction, diversion and compromise, from the true path. And not all compromise is evil. Meaningful compromise ever challenges dramatic priorities upon the path of individual true to life Hero's Journey. Doctors once recommended for their patients to take up golf,  even just to pass the time, even no matter how senselessly, all in order thereby to improve self esteem by gaining task mastery. All conjuring to mind the demonic Terrible Trivium from 'The Phantom Toll Booth' written by Norton Juster and illustrated by Jules Feiffer. Because indeed, the seductive distraction of endlessly unimportant tasks, easy to do, spare us all from the anxieties of difficult and important challenges. Indeed, as often espoused in remedial Behavior Modification and rehab, is the recommendation of consistent participation in ongoing long term projects even at all arbitrarily. Indeed somewhat off-putting, yet entirely cut-and-dry and feasible though banal and boring drudgery. Such as, for example: community gardening, providing behavioral structure of regularly scheduled activity and association sustaining propinquity while also producing any interaction and sense of involvement to draw participants together.

Such much. And yet, the notion points halfway towards what is actually so sorely needed, in focus therein upon active ongoing cooperation. To bad it's so tedious and onerous, unless indeed one so adores gardening! In the alternative, might then anything more interesting and meaningful, turn out actually the more uplifting and successful, than such remedial drudgery as community gardening? The present proposal remains perhaps the most modest and least extreme or Draconian of all conceivable serious life strategies currently advanced in response towards solution finding coming to grips with the probotunity at hand. And yet, many would balk. Will there then be anything more important or interesting on your mind, gentle reader? Bear with me:

In the biting whit of Dorothy Parker: “You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think." Yet again, as here on FoolQuest.com, one can but extend invitation. Alas, many even who yearn for and advocate, at least in abstract principle, collaboration among equals not just in labor together arbitrarily, but actually creative solution finding, nevertheless may flat-out reject either or even both quintessentially creative pursuits advanced herein, that of going into business together for ourselves, and even that of story crafting together. -Just not their proverbial cup of tea. In that case, then the first brainstorming challenge to the agenda, might be to define and select whatever other at all conceivable challenge in focus of sustainable and appealing creative collaboration and endeavor, once whatever that scarce and fondly remembered exciting and uplifting super fun workplace project, workshop or seminar concludes, without providing follow up whatsoever, leaving all just figuratively standing out there in the proverbial cold, and not to mix metaphors, sitting on our hands, abandoned once again, to our own devices. And that situation so bereft of vital social support, puts to the test, skills and responsibilities of autonomy, so atrophied and undermined under heteronomy. Do then those Behaviorist community gardeners get the last laugh? Wait: Not so fast!

Subversively and disruptively proposed herein, shall be nothing less than indeed to completely reverse traditional paradigm of heteronomy to authoritarianism, all in accordance with the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology, by instead, in liberating value maximization, resetting collaboration among equals in creative solution finding as the new norm and default human condition, then appealing to even ad hoc authority, only occasionally as need actually arising. And the strategy, mechanics and proposed plan of action in implementation thereof, shall be dubbed: Creativity can and Should be Social, in such disruptively innovative new venture creation, entrepreneurship for the rest of us, in such subversive synergy concurrently with serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming. For as John Cleese expounds: “Creativity is not a talent: it's a way of operating.” But yet again, barring hierarchically dominant power and authority in wherewithal simply to impose implementation of more enlightened policy, one can but extend invitation. And FoolQuest.com remains your golden invitation, gentle reader. Let's talk!

No, not anarchy, not at all, merely civil society, informality until whatever formalities are evoked. Actual need of authority can arise in many ways. The need for moderation may arise in order to restore order and resume pertinence of discourse to agenda, let alone to quell or resolve actual conflict and acrimony passing beyond merely enthusiasm of heated exchange and the practice of controversy, and let alone urgently authoritative contravention in order to counter actual abuse and bullying of one kind or another. Authority may also serve to break deadlock and indecision in urgent probortunity.

But any default situation of constant authority, macro and micromanagement all the time, simply as the normal routine, frequently loses purpose, descending into oppressive self-serving, destruction and irrelevance. And the strategy, mechanics and proposed plan of action in implementation of aforesaid new paradigm, shall be dubbed: Creativity can and Should be Social. For as John Cleese expounds: “Creativity is not a talent: it's a way of operating.” But yet again, barring hierarchically dominant power and authority in wherewithal simply to impose implementation of more enlightened policy, one can but extend invitation. And FoolQuest.com remains your golden invitation, gentle reader. Let's talk!

Situation analysis: Indeed, the probortunity at hand remains only consistent with that which may be referred to as: the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology: Conventionally and heteronymously, in every walk of life, authority routinely and continually and systematically stifles not only autonomy in general, but most particularly, creative solution finding. That is, except when and as deemed needful or advantageous by whatever powers that be, especially in light of any whatever unusual special circumstances or situation. Only thus ever arises for even the rank and file, such scarce and fondly remembered peak experience of creative collaboration and fulfillment under relaxation of hierarchical dominance, called: low hierarchical distance, meaning: near equality. From the standpoint of heteronomy, collaboration among equals remain quite inconceivable. And yet in all terror of autonomy, heteronomy so hesitantly strives, in very limited success, to tame for heteronomy, the competitively indispensable power of autonomy and even of creative solution finding in close collaboration among equals. But heteronomy can't be tweaked or revamped. Heteronomy can only be brought to give way, at long last, to autonomy, indeed perhaps even in reversal of paradigmatically  heteronymous norms and expectations, Peripeteia as herein so subversively and disruptively conspired.

And then, even in as to any aforementioned howsoever even seemingly arbitrary indifference, even distaste and rejection both of business and of drama, it may then reasonably and responsibly be expected that sustainability of such vastly underserved peak experience of collaboration among equals in creative solution finding, may inevitably entail in any alternative, some other manner of salient and relevant project planning towards effective implementation, not to mention whatever probortunity as focus of collaboration among equals in creative solution finding. Because implementation is key. And creative solution finding, even however innovative, requires some or other clear focus or objective. Indeed, when all else fails, what has actually been desired all along? Hence: As to be expounded anon, bridging abstract and concrete, project planning is but another powerful and synergistic application of narrative, of dramatic futuring scenario and story crafting. Hence the salient relevance of sustained and ongoing culture of innovative new venture creation, entrepreneurship for the rest of us, in short: of open collaboration in business or project planning towards effective implementation. Thus, the relevance of innovative new venture creation, entrepreneurship for the rest of us, by any other name, becomes inescapable to all such proactive initiative beyond the bounds of institutional life. And indulging perhaps also pure creativity, art for art's sake, how better than in ongoing serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming? Other options aside from collaborative writing, may remain less broadly accessible, readily sustainable, and thereby at al less practical. Moreover, serious collaborative fiction writing promotes appealing cultivation of the liberating power of narrative.

 

 

Problem statement: Whythe  FoolQuest.com invitation to substantive communication towards purposeful interaction herein deemed so indispensable: People should decide each as we see fit, but in clear understanding of what remains ever at stake. Socialize, or social lies? Truth is correspondence to reality in assertions, while social reality remains ever Chimera. And overthrow of adverse social reality and poison consensus, in defiance of oppression, begins by living in truth, by refusing to repeat, to transmit, to follow, or to continue living by whatever the big lie. The big lie is in timidity and giving way to bullies. The toxic big lie is in always wearing a socially acceptable mask, maintaining distance and keeping things light, while starving for any true connection, because such terrorized and ever intimidated charade, utter travesty, remains key to social success! Or so We the Sheeple, glorified pack mammals all, have always been taught.

 

Indeed all such above complaint, to reiterate, remains well known, tropic, even somewhat cliché iconoclasm. Whereas in corollary, alas the truth, plain and profane, so widely unacknowledged, remains that relationship and particularly friendship, arises for serious people, in autonomy, subversively flouting taboo, and entirely as a byproduct of full engagement in purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication, and as shall be seen, never otherwise. And no one else need approve! Mark my words: All else remains fraud, folly and futility, Existentially Absurd and ultimately irredeemable multiple flavors of entirely diversionary grade A snake oil! Purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication remains our only hope, essential towards psychological visibility, intrinsic fulfillment and authentic wellbeing in more optimal social and intellectual so indispensable. But what to do? Abstract principle must bridge into concrete strategy expressed in active verbs:

 

And towards such indispensable substantive communication, towards purposeful interaction, is proposed ongoing collaboration among equals, pleasurable and meaningful optimal reciprocal engagement, more optimal social and intellectual stimulus struggle, intrinsic to fulfillment, authentic wellbeing and human flourishing; all as characteristic and Empirically observed of honest, responsible, trustworthy, capable and respectful happy people (indeed flouting taboo and conventional recommendations towards popularity and social success) talking more seriously and making less small talk, and who thrive, together intentionally and purposefully engaging in creative endeavor. -indeed for serious people, substantive communication towards purposeful interaction, eschewing bland triviality. And strategically, who else, what other kind of person, leading what other kind of life, best should be emulated together in autonomy and pursuit of happiness? To reiterate: All else, any other vastly unsuitable rôle models, remain fools, nigh cultist cronies, sycophants and grifters, purveyors and consumers of pure grade A snake oil! For such remains the essential nature of heteronomy. And heteronomy can't be tweaked or revamped. Heteronomy can only be brought to give way, at long last, to autonomy.

 

 

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FoolQuest.com therefore advances first of all, simply to agenda for substantive ongoing discussion, extending open standing invitation, an actual plan of action for purposeful interaction in true subversive cultivation of freedom, friendship and thought. The objective whereof shall be the ignition of relationship, attachment, bonding and psychological visibility in new paradigm via Intentional community or just intentional social circle, by social engineering design. And all towards Eudemonia, fulfillment and the overthrow of pandemic boredom and loneliness; bridging the abstract into the concrete, beginning in a theoretical basis from evolutionary neuroscience, stimulus struggle and what can be called the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology, among other key concepts.  

 

Wake up, Sheeple! It's all about how human social order as the glorified pack mammals that we are, has come to fall so vastly short of innate needs and appetites of social and intellectual stimulus struggle entirely unique to ever more massively engorged human cerebrality: Specifically, for  collaboration among equals together in creative solution finding. A joy alas far too infrequent under conventional paradigm of stultifying heteronomy to hierarchical dominance. And the consequences to authentic wellbeing could not be more dire.

 

Evolutionary neurology, the subject in study of evolutionary neuroscience, underpins the unique intrinsic motivation and human needs and stimulus appetites of social and intellectual stimulus struggle, psychological visibility so thwarted by heteronomy to our legacy as Sheeple, glorified pack mammals. Indeed, the competencies and aptitudes that are subject of Cultural Anthropology, all that is necessary and adequate in order to know what to expect, and what is expected, include hierarchically predictive social cognition by which to anticipate the responses of others, merely via the recognition of members of one's own social group in order to form direct relationships consistent with rôles of relative social standing, degrees of kinship and rank, recognition of third-party social relationships and prediction of future behavior, all distinctly and uncomfortably heteronymous, authoritarian and non-egalitarian.

 

And the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology, remains in observation of how, nevertheless, near egalitarian low hierarchical distance in creative solution finding as need arising in the eyes of decision makers, remains that rare taste of freedom, the one cautiously infrequent respite from boredom and sore travail, fleeting clemency at the whim of our various jailors, guardians all, of status quo, whatever oppressive powers that be, tribal chieftains, corporate overlords, or the stifling authority of professional educators.

But, in the most flagrantly taboo subversion, what if the norm could become subject to Peripeteia, figuratively turned on its head, in maximization of value and freedom, so that instead of controlling authoritarianism routinely stifling curiosity and creativity, convivial creativity became the normal default, day to day, and deference to commanding authority, even however ad hock, the infrequent exception in contingency only as need ever actually arising.

Psychological visibility: Beyond the interminable shallow Machiavellian popularity contest or marshmallow throwing bogus support, the highly evolved human social intelligence is an appetite returned and fulfilled by the care and personal investment in others of authentic intellectual, emotional, purposeful and imaginative participation in the ongoing and unexpected discovery and progress of human character and relations over time in cultures of participation offering challenge and support for risk taking, deprivation resulting in frustration, emptiness, inadequacy, sadness, malaise, discontent, boredom, anxiety, alienation and anomie. Without psychological visibility, one can only suffer lonely, misunderstood, unappreciated, obscure and unknown. Hence the intrinsic need of psychological visibility, and why the pretence that typically buttresses popularity and social success, so antithetical to friendship, remains ever miserable and no less alien than unpopularity and more overt isolation.

Because popularity and social success ever remain antithetical to true friendship. Because friendship is genuine, substantive and intimate, being predicated upon free and unguarded and reciprocal psychological visibility. Alas that substance and purpose remain actually shameful, awkward, nerdy, uncool, socially unacceptable and taboo. And if indeed interminable emotionally and intellectually distant, cagey, unwelcoming and disingenuous small talk ever keeping it light, remains key to popularity and social success, then such do-nothing busywork dronelike Orwellian anti-intellectually subservient path of popularity and social success, remains antithetical to true friendship which by contrast must remain ever open, genuine, substantive and intimate, being predicated after all, upon free and unguarded and reciprocal psychological visibility.

The begged question then remains: Precisely how is genuine friendship ever supposed to emerge from such prevalent, well known and understood social expectations of typical paranoid distance and facile triviality and interminably banal small talk? In truth, that can never happen! And it's not your fault! Indeed, this is by design, alienation baked in. Indeed, even most anciently in the curriculum of Plato's Academy, boredom was deliberately inflicted upon students as a conservative measure to test for heteronomy and conformity by weeding out boredom prone original thinkers and innovators, purveyors of dangerous novelty, from rising to influential positions in society.

The begged question ever remains: Precisely how is genuine friendship ever supposed to emerge from typical paranoid distance, facile triviality and interminably banal small talk? In truth, that can never happen! And that's not your fault!

As Edward Snowden observes, oppressors of every stripe, who restrict our options, then pretend that we consent. Indeed, this is by design, alienation baked in. For even most anciently in the curriculum of Plato's Academy, boredom was deliberately inflicted upon students as a conservative measure to test for heteronomy and conformity and against Indeed, this is by design, alienation baked in. Indeed, even most anciently in the curriculum of Plato's Academy, boredom was deliberately inflicted upon students as a conservative measure to test and filter for heteronomy and conformity and against autonomy, by weeding out boredom prone original thinkers and innovators, purveyors of dangerous novelty, from rising to influential positions in society, by weeding out boredom prone original thinkers and innovators, purveyors of dangerous novelty, from rising to influential positions in society. And in the words of Barbara Sher: “Isolation is the true dream killer, not your attitude.”

But Eudemonia, capable relationship and especially true friendship, will accrue only for serious people, arising as byproduct of full engagement in f purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication and never otherwise. And no one else need approve! Alas, one can but extend invitation, indeed even under such oppression. And FoolQuest.com remains your golden invitation of probortunity, gentle reader, asking of others what no one else asks, and offering in return, what no one else offers.

For stimulus struggle, what every living thing is doing all the time, is no more or less than the perpetual striving to regulate, to obtain and maintain, the optimum kind and degree of stimulation and arousal from the surrounding environment. And this includes uniquely human social and intellectual stimulus struggle and even psychological visibility, indeed every crucial social stimulus provided by anyone triggering and eliciting response from anyone else within the same social environment or situation, a process so desperately undermined and subverted under heteronomy in the perpetual rat race out in the endless emotional and intellectual wastelands of the social minefield.

In summation then to reiterate: In open standing invitation, the proposed plan of action Creativity can and Should be Social details the groundbreaking new concept by social engineering design, relationship in new paradigm via Intentional community or just intentional social circle, an unprecedented ongoing collaboration among equals, as proposed, to consist in vibrant new synergy concurrently between parallel endeavors of innovative new venture creation, entrepreneurship for the rest of us on the one hand, and on the other hand pure creativity, art for art's sake, in ongoing serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming.

 

And to reiterate: Also included is an ancillary subversive notion of outreach, Creativity Can and Should be Popular, individual outreach under legalizing context of collective outreach, all as conceived to better facilitate individual networking, social embedment and social stimulus struggle, metaphorical tail figuratively wagging proverbial dog, ulterior objective taking priority over ostensible ongoing recruitment to Creativity can and Should be Social.

Subversion refers to any even deliberate process, for good or ill, whereby the values and principles of any system in operation may be undermined, contradicted or reversed throughout endeavor even most proximately, to transform whatever homogenous established social order under whatever authoritarian frameworks of power, heteronomy, authority, hierarchy, and especially social norms. And such transgressive subversion will be motivated by some or other abiding discontent. Because no one likes to feel insignificant and abandoned under whatever status quo. Everyone needs to be wanted and special, close knit part of anything deemed important and underserved. Indeed something malevolently subverted by pandemic and heteronymously authoritarian serial relational bullying and social isolation. For not all subversion must be heroic or benevolent. Not to digress.

 

As the saying goes: "Old ways won't open new doors." Dare we imagine different? Life doesn't have to always be the way that it has always been. However: Rather than sweeping across the world out of nowhere, subversion necessarily begins in microcosm, via the even secret intimacy of collusion, wherein any two or more defiant souls initiate and persist together through interaction howsoever different, even taboo. Indeed perhaps actually most taboo of all, instead of just going with the flow, setting against the grain and violating expectation by acting purposefully, worse doing so not just individually but in concert, co-validating. Because even such little can become profoundly subversive, one step forward in any yearning for a life at all less conventional, bored and lonely. So often even in sly defiance of conformism and pandemic serial bullying. And what can there be more important? 

 

For in our deepest heart of hearts, like Hamlet's everyman "slave to passion," everyone individually fashions in their very own most secret most transgressive thoughts, true Eros and yearning for understanding, for psychological visibility, indeed some even barest subversive social engineering design fantasy even hypothetically of whatever fulfilling situation might conceivably best fill that gap, especially if whatever one yearns for does not even seem already manifest and existent, much less readily accessible to all. And here is a rousing tale untold, a seed perhaps ever at last finding fertile soil in the ready minds and shared core motivation so characteristic of countless others, desperately sought for unmet friends.

 

Rather than sweeping the world out of nowhere, subversion necessarily begins in microcosm, when any two or more individuals begin doing things differently together and persist. For such will be the first germ of interaction perhaps even as proposed herein, within even a small intentional social circle let alone any grander intentional community, amongst ourselves together turning away from the social rat-race, and perhaps even together reaching out in the world at large but even at all actually on our own terms.

 

 

Freedom and the human condition

First of all, freedom in Eudemonia for human beings must be defined in terms of human nature, evolutionary neurology. For time bound human consciousness, prior experience, memory of the past, informing anticipation of the future, remains never content as are other animals, to live simply in the moment as according ancient dictates and exhortations of Zen Mysticism and the like. Therefore, among all other values socially, what all too often frustrated impulses, what specific defining intrinsic stimulus appetites of social and intellectual stimulus struggle, are so uniquely characteristic to evolutionary neurology of the human condition and any slim ever frustrated prospect of fulfillment therein? That is the question. Therein lies probortunity. And there's the rub! For the rubric: probortunity, is coined by way of portmanteau from the words: 'problem' and 'opportunity,' in hopeful denotation of how, and flaccid Zen resignation and apathy be damned, indeed in accordance with evolutionary neurology and the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology, solution finding in all to scarce and fondly remembered experience of collaboration among equals, present socially to the intellect, true freedom, gratifying challenge and opportunity. Desperately seeking...

And in accordance with the present agenda, the very purpose of FoolQuest.com, and bridging philosophical and psychological generality into application and practicality of planning and specific strategic action, indeed comprehensive social engineering of more optimal social and intellectual stimulus struggle by social engineering design, compelling argument shall be advanced anon, that an appealingly ideal strategic vehicle of precisely such liberating intrinsic fulfillment, socially and intellectually, might, as advanced herein, actually consist of endeavor at entrepreneurship for the rest of us, disruptively innovative new venture creation on the one hand, in unprecedented synergy concurrently with serious collaborative fiction writing, on the other hand.

For such remains the FoolQuest.com social engineering design protocol, named: Creativity can and Should be Social. Because purposeful interaction and substantive communication, prosper from pleasurably meaningful, sustainable and fully engaged ongoing creative endeavor, and also in order to bring participants, human beings, social animals as we are, continually back into uplifting contact, thereby forging ever stronger attachments. So goes the proverb: “The devil is in the details.” But more anon.

For it has been opined that for social success in any social life, putting it idiomatically: in order to be more interesting and impressive to others, to get a social life, first get a life: An imperative to engage into any fuller or more interesting situation, because such, presumably, will be hoped to occasion and inform propinquity in ongoing networking, social connection and interaction. Creativity Can and Should be Popular, not strange and socially awkward, interesting but oddball and unconventional, thus often actually injurious to social standing.

However, in the most flagrantly taboo subversion, what if the norm could become subject to Peripeteia, figuratively turned on its head? The outreach proposal: Creativity Can and Should be Popular, advances by design, a concept of the intentional social engineering of informational social influence or: social "proof" towards legitimization and maximization of the draw and appeal of Creativity can and Should be Social as proposed, actually in order to aid, abet, and  socially support participating individuals in thereby becoming more interesting and impressive to others, thereby improving individual social life, standing, networking and connection, with ongoing recruitment and expansion of Creativity can and Should be Social, as actually a secondary priority. Desperately seeking: The proverbial tail figuratively wagging the metaphorical dog!

Such an outcome as above described, would be so highly desirable, because as things stand, so very many indeed continue suffering such sore travail of subjugation and heteronomy, just going through the Existentially Absurd motions of any dull and dystressfully unhappy existence or situation, merely in order to remain connected at all. But many instead who fail or who resist, not only the most flagrantly damaged wretched refuse of humanity sp flagrantly unable to cope, but even the most unassuming and at least seemingly well adjusted ordinary of folk, and indeed so many of our best and brightest, however highly competent, nevertheless will fall by the wayside, forgotten, abandoned, bored and lonely. Catch-22, a classic double bind, setup for failure and suffering, one way or the other: damned if you do, damned if you don't! Alas, in Existentially Absurd social reality, there remains such dystressing user hostile outcomes gap, wherein instrumentality equals zero, meaning, even causally and deterministically, no relationship between performance and outcome, no real hope, no results no matter what one does, other than mounting frustration and defeat. So much then, it might seem, for individual real world freedom and capability.

Indeed, from any end user standpoint, the existing system has remained broken from time immemorial. Alas the masses abide in blinding propaganda myth. And what a racket! A racket, no matter how respectable, can be any dishonest scheme or ongoing transaction, all not as it contrives to present itself and as is tacitly accepted or endured by the majority of those involved, but in actuality, indeed, a myth, scam or fraud of heteronomy, a deceptive domineering practice of coercion and manipulation conducted for whatever benefit of a few cronies at the expense of the many.

As Edward Snowden observes, oppressors who restrict our options, then pretend that we consent. And the inculcation of social skills and skilled incompetence, remains an important aspect of just such ubiquitous fraud and sheer Existential Absurdity. And the only wining move is not to play, alas what all too often seems, however wretched, the only game in town. If you’re not winning because you don’t know the rules, then by all means, why not just learn the rules? But if for whatever perfectly good reason, one knows the rules yet remains adamant and unwilling to follow whatever rules imposed, there must be either something wrong with the game or with the participant playing. But if the game is rigged so you just can’t win, find another game or let's invent and begin playing one of our own precious autonomy.

Because Creativity can and Should be Social! Intentional community or intentional social circle and therein relationship in new paradigm by social engineering design, towards more optimal social and intellectual stimulus struggle, whatever form that might take, perhaps even clearing some hither to unavailable path to success. In accordance with evolutionary neurology and the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology, FoolQuest.com advances agenda of comprehensive social engineering of more optimal social and intellectual stimulus struggle by design, an appealingly ideal strategic vehicle of precisely such liberating intrinsic fulfillment, socially and intellectually, as advanced herein, actually consisting of endeavor at entrepreneurship for the rest of us, disruptively innovative new venture creation on the one hand, in unprecedented synergy concurrently with serious collaborative fiction writing, on the other hand. Change our conversation, reset the agenda, and change the world!

Alas there as yet exists no alternative of clear, ready, trustworthy and transparent social support system for the liberation of capable individual endeavor and outreach. Moreover, popularity and social success ever remain antithetical to true friendship. Because friendship is genuine, substantive and intimate, being predicated upon free and unguarded and reciprocal psychological visibility. Alas that substance and purpose remain actually shameful, awkward, nerdy, uncool, socially unacceptable and taboo. And if indeed interminable emotionally and intellectually distant, cagey, unwelcoming and disingenuous small talk ever keeping it light, remains key to popularity and social success, then such do-nothing busywork dronelike Orwellian anti-anti-intellectually subservient path of popularity and social success, remains antithetical to true friendship which by contrast must remain ever open, genuine, substantive and intimate, being predicated after all, upon free and unguarded and reciprocal psychological visibility.

And such remains the probortunity at hand. For the rubric: probortunity, is coined by way of portmanteau from the words: 'problem' and 'opportunity,' in hopeful denotation of how problems present to the intellect, true freedom and opportunity, any transformational prospect of adaptation and change for the better. Creative solution finding: Look for the Solution within the Problem. Are relationships shaped by social context indeed under heteronymous alienation, or is society merely the aggregate network of all constituent autonomous relationships? And if both are true, which paradigm shall take precedence? What "game" shall we play? Which opens any path solution finding? And indeed, what then truly constitutes fuller more interesting existence? And what to do? What freedom remains actually feasible in such a closed and inhospitable society? What are the options?

Answer: Neither by somehow, like unto the very hand of God, entirely reshaping the playing field of the world all in one fell swoop, world conquest and salvation wholesale, nor therefore, in any false binary of ideologically fanatical black and white thinking. And neither, instead, by accommodation in mystical quest for futility, sublime apathy and cynical resignation to our fates. Nor by uncritical willful positivity, superficial harmony, and magic. Nor by interminable exhausting and stultifying inane small talk and whatever pointless and irrelevant exchange of biographical information. Nor by lone isolated and rugged self-sufficiency, but by autonomy and Individualism in proximate relationship, social circles, formal or informal, often known, for better or worse, to normalize whatever their own even deviant social contracts amongst themselves, even perhaps howsoever flagrantly superseding and taking precedence over prevailing expectations of society at large, whenever together in close interaction.

Thus even dramatic change in proximate situation, even without overwhelming power to impose their transformative will upon society at large. Indeed, as further expounded anon, hence any at all feasible prospect actually of tailor made culture in test case microcosm, any practice of freedom together, as via intentional community or intentional social circle and therein relationship in new paradigm by social engineering design, towards more optimal social and intellectual stimulus struggle, whatever form that might take. FoolQuest.com remains, so desperately seeking, my outreach and your invitation, gentle reader, to deliberation upon such as above prospects for taking action together. Let's talk!

After all, society is the enemy! Society, heteronomy, oppression, rigid incompetence, imposition, victim blaming and sheer indifference. Leviathan in which er each and all play our part. Thus, in the in the famous aphorism of Walt Kelly's beloved Pogo Possum: “We have met the enemy, and he is us!” For indeed, the correct indefinite pronoun denoting society is never 'it' but 'We.' Therefore: "why isn't it... ?" may generally be the wrong question. The interesting and responsible question remains: "Why don't/can't We... ?" And what else matters? How as compliant members, we each participate in the whole. Unless we won't. Unless we resist! Yes: We. I and thou. Who else? We are all one way or another, willing or unwilling, part of any problem and also conceivably just perhaps any part of whatever kind of solution finding and responsible experimentation.

 

 

Relevant substantive communication and human interaction

Those for whom the answer for every challenge, is the implementation of that which they call "a platform," are just barking up the wrong tree. Such "platforms" are frustratingly rigid and laborious webforms, epitomizing Totalitarian Interactivity. Rather, truly important and relevant, remains the process and quality of human interaction. For as per the writings of Aristotle: “Man is by nature a social animal.” Tautologically, no one, none of us, can interact alone. That said, lucid problem statement, so often thwarted by taboo and crimestop, remains integral to solution finding and any responsible plan of action together. And the probortunity at hand, remains not just quantity but quality of nurturing and gratifying social interaction, indeed creative social interactions towards more optimal social and intellectual stimulus struggle, as recommended in outreach herein, whatever form that might take.

But never by any rat race of extrinsic societal reward and punishment in the course of interminable exhausting and stultifying inane small talk, uncritical willful positivity, superficial harmony, fearfully conflict avoidant and debilitating headgames of toxic social skill and sycophantic toadying skilled incompetence,, nor in recreation, so-called, that shabbily travesty of playful honest hedonism, replete with soul crushing fake fun passing for any wholehearted pleasure seeking; instead only the desperate effort and struggle to recover, on ones own time and expense, from sheer Existential Absurdity, from endless debilitation from oppression under heteronomy to conventional options in life alienated from all purpose and sensemaking, but ever only for serious people as byproduct of full engagement in purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication and never otherwise. And no one else need approve! Only the oppressor demands of us all never to think. Philosophical habits of clear thinking thereby become subversive and even thoughtcrime entirely taboo.

Conversation of deeper cognition, indeed Socratic Dialectic, remains ever integral to purposeful interaction. Philosophical Dialectical honest and skeptical sweet reason, leverages good will and habits of clear thinking, by fearlessly open and fruitful investigation and deliberation together, unfolding in at all responsible due diligence, the practice of controversy consisting in the welcome and invited exchange of criticism, and thereby ongoing error detection and course correction. For criticism remains inherently friendly, an expression of abiding respect. 

Substantive conversation exceeds lecture and short-answer formats for transition of information. Full engagement in substantive conversation and even into the practice of controversy consisting in the welcome and invited exchange of criticism, involves people more profoundly with one another. Whereas, and all in such trepidation to avoid disagreement at all cost, conventionally expected vapid small talk, deliberately insubstantial and distant conversation and pervading anti-anti-intellectualism, the conviction that disagreement is tantamount to strife, thwarts attachment, bonding and relationship, particularly friendship, thereby starving social and intellectual stimulus appetites, thereby inflicting a crushing oppression of protracted loneliness and boredom.

And yet the indefatigable enemies of freedom and the open society, imbeciles, tyrants and scoundrels, adamantly insist, in trenchant denial simply ignoring all sound reasoning supported by Empirical evidence entirely to the contrary, that cooperation is impossible save by fairly complete agreement and compliance. And thus, under the worldview of heteronomy, collaboration among equals, though in truth eventually indispensable, remains entirely inconceivable!

And therefore, one way or another, in accordance with the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology, near egalitarian low hierarchical distance in creative solution finding as need arising in the eyes of decision makers, remains that rare taste of freedom, the one cautiously infrequent respite from boredom and sore travail, fleeting clemency at the whim of our various jailors, guardians all, of status quo, whatever oppressive powers that be, tribal chieftains, corporate overlords, or the stifling authority of professional educators.

But, in the most flagrantly taboo subversion, what if the norm could become subject to Peripeteia, figuratively turned on its head, in maximization of value and freedom, so that instead of controlling authoritarianism routinely stifling curiosity and creativity, convivial creativity became the normal default, day to day, and deference to commanding authority, even however ad hock, the infrequent exception, moderation only in contingency as need ever actually arising?

Because, strategically, precisely such as above real life Peripeteia, remains the least daunting, entirely feasible and completely actionable for us, gentle readers, just amongst ourselves, ever should we come together and set agenda, even however taboo,  for ongoing deliberation. Because honest, trustworthy, capable and respectful happy people who thrive, together intentionally and purposefully engaging in creative endeavor, begin, first of all, simply by talking more seriously. And any two or more people can do likewise, on purpose, in defiance of all prevailing anti-intellectual social pressure to habitually interminable small talk, vapidly uncritical willful positivity, superficial harmony in ever keeping it light and avoiding all social risk. And such the latter existence or situation can only be stifling indeed, for intelligent and sensitive individuals. Here then, in the alternative, is something that only sounds lofty and abstract, yet remaining in actuality, conduct entirely practical and concrete for any two or more, an objective according to plan.

Gentle reader, do you ever long for some other less conventional option in the game of life, anything less irksome and oppressive, different and more fulfilling, an unconventional life of freedom together in expressive convivially creative interaction? Because as to be fully expounded anon, precisely such consuming ambition remains in so many ways ever crucial. And there is nothing less at stake in the present proposal. So many burn with the ambition of attempting  anything really cool together with others at all likeminded. Hence the need, so poorly understood and vastly underserved, for any sort of open and effective (pre-) incubator to foster all such connection and deliberation into actionable planning that will already by itself uplift spirits. Indeed, perhaps even endeavor of entrepreneurship for the rest of us, disruptively innovative new venture creation on the one hand, in unprecedented synergy concurrently with serious collaborative fiction writing, on the other hand. Because Creativity can and Should be Social! For as John Cleese expounds: “Creativity is not a talent: it's a way of operating.” To reiterate, merely inception of ongoing deliberation, even just to talk it over. A modest beginning, the indispensable first step, entirely feasible and completely actionable for any of us, amongst ourselves, should we together so decide, gentle readers. That little remains within the power of any two or more, come what may. If You Desire Anything You've Never Had, Try Something You've Never Done.

FoolQuest.com undertakes a new and different transparently accessible more joyfully subversive approach. Egalitarian collaboration in storytelling and business or project planning remain similar and related applications in the dynamic power of narrative. Business or project planning after all, is only a different kind of storytelling and plotting, even dramatic futuring scenario climaxing toward whatever hoped for outcomes; an idea to be pitched, a tale to be told, towards applied creativity, disruptive innovation, rigorously detailing any projected path to success and desired results. As a powerful bonding exercise, serious and capable collaborative fiction brainstorming enfolds important lessons in creativity and solution finding, very much applicable in the true to life drama of new venture creation and entrepreneurship for the rest of us, attempting  anything really cool together. Let's! Can we talk?

Practical freedom in objectively real application beyond the merely theoretical, consists not only in autonomy in the abstract, but also in practical capability. And yet, as sapient social beings, the will to power is fulfilled not merely in solitary task mastery, even however practically or materially fruitful, nor even in elicitation thereby of conditional strokes, but only by meeting ones needs for capable interaction with even adequately responsible others, indeed as epitomized in collaboration among equals. Otherwise, we all remain merely setup for failure. Indeed, in accordance with evolutionary neuroscience, purposeful interaction, substantive communication, creative solution finding and brainstorming, remain key to Eudemonia. For such remains the human condition.

And as it turns out, the very key to serous and capable interaction with even adequately responsible others, in  fulfillment thereby of the will to power, may be found by following example neither of the facile and conniving popular kids nor of those phony success gurus, but instead in emulation of honest, trustworthy, capable and respectful happy people who talk more seriously and thrive, together intentionally and purposefully engaging in creative endeavor. In other words, intentionally to do likewise together, to talk more seriously, together intentionally, purposefully engaging in creative endeavor, specially as  proposed, collaboration among equals in an unprecedentedly innovative dynamic synergy  concurrently between serious collaborative fiction writing on the one hand, and business or project planning in new venture creation, entrepreneurship for the rest of us, on the other hand, all as per the present outreach of FoolQuest.com. Thereby to discover, just perhaps, if likewise to thrive as a result. Because pleasurable and meaningful optimal reciprocal engagement remains key to better optimized ongoing social and intellectual stimulus struggle against ever looming boredom and loneliness. 

For Eudemonia will result never by any rat race of extrinsic societal reward and punishment in the course of interminable exhausting and stultifying inane small talk, uncritical willful positivity, superficial harmony, fearfully conflict avoidant and debilitating headgames of toxic social skill and sycophantic toadying skilled incompetence,, nor in recreation, so-called, that shabbily travesty of playful honest hedonism, replete with soul crushing fake fun passing for any wholehearted pleasure seeking; instead only the desperate effort and struggle to recover, on ones own time and expense, from endless debilitation from oppression under heteronomy to conventional options in life, but ever only for serious people as byproduct of full engagement in purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication and never otherwise. And no one else need approve! If You Desire Anything You've Never Had, Try Something You've Never Done. For in the words of Barbara Sher: “Isolation is the true dream killer, not your attitude.”

Substantive conversation, indeed Socratic Dialectic, remains ever integral to purposeful interaction. Philosophical Dialectical honest and skeptical sweet reason, leverages good will and habits of clear thinking, by fearlessly open and fruitful investigation and deliberation together, unfolding in at all responsible due diligence, the practice of controversy consisting in the welcome and invited exchange of criticism, and thereby ongoing error detection and course correction. For criticism remains inherently friendly, an expression of abiding respect. 

For in the words of Barbara Sher: “Isolation is the true dream killer, not your attitude.” Indeed, as George Orwell observes, even at all thinking clearly, becomes increasingly difficult in bored and lonely isolation without expression. As it turns out, inner freedom by itself alone, is no freedom at all.

“Philosophers, writers, artists, even scientists, not only need encouragement and an audience, they need constant stimulation from other people. It is almost impossible to think without talking. If Defoe had really lived on a desert island, he could not have written Robinson Crusoe, nor would he have wanted to. Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.”

  — 'Conversation with a Pacifist' by George Orwell

Therefore, woe betide us all should anyone imagine the Socratic Dialectic as an objective or mere intent. It's not. For thought worthy dialogue remains no objective or desired end result, but the barest indispensable beginning and the very backbone of all thinking endeavor. In outreach asking of others what no one else asks, and offering in return, what no one else offers, only FoolQuest.com openly advances agenda for discussion, as to proffer or attempt any such endeavor as hereto expounded. And as to be fully expounded anon, such remains crucial to the pursuit of happiness, meaning towards whatever one wishes to do, to accomplish, or to become. Here then is proffered your open invitation to discuss the prospect at hand, or even join right in. Let's talk! And freely question whatever remains unclear. In facilitation of creative solution finding and brainstorming collaboration among equals as proposed, along with a selection of disruptively innovative startup proposals are listed under new venture creation, a curetted selection of notions, provocations and unfinished stories and prompts, along with extensive tools and guides to creativity, drama and the discipline of the writing craft, are provided here on FoolQuest.com, Or pitch your own story ideas and business first concepts! Again: Post to the message posting forums for others to weigh in, or via email if its private. And I promise to reply.

 FoolQuest.com remains an outreach for "unreasonable" thoughtful cofounders in collaboration among equals, unprecedentedly innovative dynamic synergy  concurrently between serious collaborative fiction writing on the one hand, and business or project planning in new venture creation, entrepreneurship for the rest of us, on the other hand, all as per the present outreach of FoolQuest.com. Thereby to discover, just perhaps, if likewise to thrive as a result. Because pleasurable and meaningful optimal reciprocal engagement remains key to the social engineering of better optimized ongoing social and intellectual stimulus struggle against ever looming boredom and loneliness. 

 

 

 

Open ongoing social experiment:

Join in and engage experience of the

 Virtual (pre-)Incubator Action Salon
 and Brainstorming Collabratory workshop

for innovation and creative solution finding

 

 

 

Three basic questions in life as in drama remain:

        who am I?, what do I feel? and what do I want?

     When all else fails, what has actually been desired all along?

 

Believable developed motivated characters in competent fiction writing, relatably represent real humanity, and thus must believably, coherently and consistently work out such questions each in their own way, in order actually to move the audience, and not just the sentimental author. 

 

In the bold interrogative irony of one time Vice Presidential candidate Admiral James Stockdale: "Who am I, why am I here?" In answer, setting present mission statement in perhaps the most famous words of George Bernard Shaw: “Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.” -indeed, unreasonably intelligent, kind and helpful... Moreover, to quote Margaret Mead: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” Beginning with the celebrated star first follower who shall be the true leader and influencer, teaching by example, showing others how to participate and relate, blazing the trail of welcome! No, I might not have what you want.  But dare we seek for it together? For any lonesome frustrated desire tells a story, needs a plan, and calls out for allies.

Who are you? What do you want? Where are you going? But who do you serve, and who do you trust? Don't you know? Then I will go with you. 

— 'Babylon 5: Crusade' (paraphrase)

 

FoolQuest.com ever strives at outreach toward collaboration cofounder recruitment of "unreasonable" thoughtful citizens in capable collaboration among equals, beginning first of all, merely in striving together to initiate and to sustain ongoing public discourse upon the agenda at hand.

Bridging the abstract and the concrete, FoolQuest.com  pursues a relevant fulfillment of literally the most important intrinsic human needs and stimulus appetites according to the greatest sages of antiquity as rediscovered by the cutting edge of modern science. What then could ever possibly be more interesting and important?

Indeed, outreach and organization, remain tautologically integral to all group collaboration from scratch such as proposed. Like any prospecting or networking for new social connection, whatever such outreach should be joy instead of, as all to often, such a daunting ordeal and exercise in futility. And that is why, as to be fully expounded anon, in unprecidented innovation, FoolQuest.com takes a specifically different, joyfully subversive and more fulfilling approach to organization and outreach. Alas, the conventional outreach methods of common wisdom remain so woefully cumbersome and inadequate. Indeed, the typical online cofounde recruitment, or entrepreneur matching, communities for aspiring entrepreneurs to connect and together undertake new venture creation, leave much to be desired.

As it turns out, entrepreneur matching as currently practiced, can be a lot like online dating, but worse: In an endless catalogue of often frustratingly cagey strangers, of dauntingly meaningless user profiles, how are people supposed to even perceive one another, much less find one another and connect? Even worse, the pitches for their ideas may be somewhat banal and cursory. But to reiterate the observation by George Orwell, even at all thinking clearly, becomes increasingly difficult in bored and lonely isolation without expression.

Alas that game changing sophisticated automated Sociometry yet remains in its infancy. As a new and better less haphazard means of social interaction, highly advance and sophisticated Artificial Intelligent Expert Systems for automated Sociometry, will not only interact, but continually foster and observe human interaction, gather data and learn, before continually offering new and precisely determined recommendations and matches, both one to one and for groups and social circles, among other things. Profound advancements in automated Sociometry, anticipated as the next revolution in social technology, will, as envisaged, personality profile, match and thus more readily bring together for all purposes and among others, the compatibly likeminded, thereby improving social embedment and personal access to resources of society. In the future, everyone will be influential! Not to digress.

And however, the point remaining, how making do in the here and now with available wherewithal, for the perseverant reader, herein presented remains nothing less than just perhaps any howsoever less miraculous and convenient lower tech actionable proposal, blueprint and plan of action, towards new and unprecedented more optimal situation by social engineering design, of ongoing capable interaction with even adequately responsible others, and thereby the constant social and intellectual stimulation from other people whereof Orwell speaks, and thereby, Eudemonia of more optimal social and intellectual stimulus struggle. Indeed, not merely as a matter of teamwork so crucial to howsoever extrinsic deferred gratification from whatever hoped for eventual success, but a vital experience of respectful human interaction in and of itself immediately intrinsic to secure and authentic wellbeing.

And to reiterate, all something that, tautologically, no one can execute alone and unassisted, but well within the power of I and thou, that is to say: among willing participants: capable collaboration among equals. Because optimal reciprocal engagement accrues the highest return in like kind, for truly generous investment of precious attention whereof extolled by Simone Wei. At least in theory. After all, it's only a matter of how well folks together relate and conduct ourselves towards one another, though often easier said than done. And there's the rub! Can you be trustworthy and responsible? And will anybody else reciprocate? Am I your unmet friend?

 

 

 

Subversive analytic & strategic manifesto of an intentionally creative culture

Friendship towards success: I only want to shake up the game, but no one wants to play with me!

Dynamic synergy concurrently between serious collaborative fiction writing

and new venture creation for the rest of us

 

Harkening back to the Renaissance, new venture creation is inherently interdisciplinary, which should be such a great part of its appeal, far from antipathy. Indeed, a notable key tenet of TRIZ, the much renowned Russian theory of inventive solution finding, remains in the observation of how aside from entirely new scientific discoveries, the rarest most important and powerful innovations arise in the transfer and multipotential reapplication of knowledge and methods across disciplines. Whereas the bureaucratic self inflicted wound of mounting external irrelevance from increasing compartmentalization, so typical in the death throws ending the lifecycle of complex systems, remains the very antithesis of close collaboration, and nothing to emulate in consequently doomed new venture creation and pipedream of business startup, any more than as resulting only in malagenda of the most execrable dilettantery in collaborative fiction writing. 

 

An unfeasible plan might yet make for a plausible work of fiction, and a ripping yarn might yet inspire credible course of action. Let us then cultivate synergy between innovation and art by concurrent practice as herein proposed. Creativity can and Should be Social! As it turns out, serious collaborative fiction writing remains integral, indeed a basic skill set of narrative, applicable  business or project planning in new venture creation for the rest of us. After all: Collaboration in storytelling and business or project planning remain similar and related applications in the dynamic power of narrative. Business or project planning after all, is only a different kind of storytelling and plotting, even dramatic futuring scenario climaxing toward whatever hoped for outcomes. - An idea to be pitched, a tale to be told, of applied creativity, disruptive innovation, rigorously detailing any projected path to success and desired results.

 

Business or project planning, like storytelling, remains merely another heady application of narrative extrapolation and speculation. The differences remaining however, in the distinction between innovation, the name given to applied creativity, as differentiated from pure creativity: That in business or project planning, actual feasibility will be at stake, not just narrative plausibility as in storytelling, with research to test reality beyond merely self consistency in story background and World Building, setting the scene. And whereas writers only need imagine sympathetic, interesting and capable characters passably to rise to the challenges contrived in any plot-driven tale, real life management te

am building shall require outreach, actual search and recruitment, on spec, of any range of participants qualified in different expertise, ability, and suitable temperament, including risk tolerance, work in hopes of success in whatever hoped for results down the line.

Emphatically, water tight planning and demonstration from sound reasoning and Empirical evidentiary support, exceeds mere evocative propaganda and vividly compelling illustration in even the most ripping yarn. Therefore, whereas, at least barring the outright surreal, a good story, in pure creativity, only needs to seem even plausible, a viable plan must be rendered rigorously feasible and realistically flexible even under ever changing circumstances. Thus whereas fiction writing exercises pure creativity, new venture creation challenges innovation which is the name given to applied creativity. Hence thereby such expectation of ebullient synergy  concurrently between the aforementioned two applications of narrative, all in creative solution finding together, in true subversive cultivation of freedom, friendship and thought, all in collaboration among equals. 

Never be fooled: Illustration is not demonstration. Much like unto the discourse, such as it remains, of bogus support groups, blissful and willfully positive propaganda utopias, hand waving pipedreams and scams, often consist not only, of course, in glittering generality, but all the more in vividly compelling and evocative narrative illustration, sans any rational and Empirical nuts-and-bolts even attempting demonstration of viable hypothesis, much less workable proposal therefrom. So goes the proverb: “The devil is in the details.” Sun Tzu said: “Every battle is won or lost before it is ever fought.” First indeed must be shared whatever vivid fantasy of compelling frustrated yearning, but fit groundwork must then ensue. It remains foolhardy to just wing it. As per the notorious multiple p's: Properly Purposeful Pre-Planning and Prior Preparation Prevents Preemptive Production of Painfully Piss Poor Performance.

Therefore, whereas, at least barring the outright surreal, a good story, in pure creativity for its own joy, art for art's sake, only needs to seem even plausible, a viable plan must be rendered rigorously feasible and realistically flexible even under ever changing circumstances. Thus whereas fiction writing exercises pure creativity, new venture creation challenges innovation which is the name given to applied creativity. Synergy between the two complementary application of the uplifting power of narrative, derives from the tantalizing creative tension between sheer plausibility and rigorous yet flexible feasibility. Hence thereby such expectation of ebullient synergy  concurrently between the aforementioned two applications of narrative, all in creative solution finding together, in true subversive cultivation of freedom, friendship and thought, all in collaboration among equals. For the will to power is fulfilled not merely in mastery, but by meeting ones needs for capable interaction with even adequately responsible others.

Along with entrepreneurship for the rest of us, subversively innovative new venture creation, serious and capable collaborative fiction brainstorming remains integral to the present agenda of collaboration among equals.

of the proposal: Creativity can and Should be Social, a plan for purposeful interaction for serious people, substantive communication, Eudemonia and pleasurably meaningful optimal reciprocal engagement towards more optimal social and intellectual stimulus struggle by social engineering design. As a powerful bonding exercise, serious and capable collaborative fiction brainstorming enfolds important lessons in creativity and solution finding, very much applicable in the true to life drama of entrepreneurship for the rest of us. However, the difference remains in how water tight planning and demonstration from sound reasoning and Empirical evidentiary support, exceeds mere evocative propaganda and vividly compelling illustration in the most ripping yarn.

How to advance the liberation experienced in life long ongoing collaborative creative solution finding? Answer: As advanced in the proposal at hand,  Creativity can and Should be Social, purposeful interaction, substantive communication, creative solution finding and brainstorming, can all be value maximized for serious people, by the practice of entrepreneurship for the rest of us, the disruptive innovation, meaning: applied creativity, of new venture creation in synergy  concurrently with the pure creativity for its own joy, art for art's sake, of serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming; all so indispensable to human connection and crucial to fulfillment and authentic wellbeing, the will to power fulfilled in shared creativity and meeting ones needs for capable interaction with even adequately responsible others. Not to mention effective teamwork so crucial to hoped for eventual success.

 

For such is Eudemonia arising never by any rat race of extrinsic societal reward and punishment in the course of interminable exhausting and stultifying inane small talk, uncritical willful positivity, superficial harmony, fearfully conflict avoidant and debilitating headgames of toxic social skill and sycophantic toadying skilled incompetence,, nor in recreation, so-called, that shabbily travesty of playful honest hedonism, replete with soul crushing fake fun passing for any wholehearted pleasure seeking; instead only the desperate effort and struggle to recover, on ones own time and expense, from endless debilitation from oppression under heteronomy to conventional options in life, but ever only for serious people as byproduct of full engagement in purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication and never otherwise. And no one else need approve!

Breaking every rule, in agenda as proposed, seeking to address the poorly understood underserved needs of serious fiction writing collaboration online in unprecedented synergy  concurrently with entrepreneurship for the rest of us, innovative new venture creation, in subversive outreach for collaboration cofounder candidates into a working group. Creativity can and Should be Social as proposed, is to consist, as a bonding exercise, of the inception of a serious, original and high quality collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming circle embracing the discipline of the writing craft, with every venerable insight of drama along with speculative element and exploration of Science Fiction, and all in synergy  concurrently with disruptively innovative entrepreneurial new venture creation, profit, nonprofit or Social Entrepreneurship and activism, entrepreneurship for the rest of us, all the way from the most embryonic first concept inception or "kitchen table" stage or phase, all the way through management team formation, business / project planning, research, comprehensive feasibility study, due diligence, into capitalization, implementation and then ongoing expansion.

Creativity Can and Should be Popular, remains an embryonic first concept of outreach for collaboration cofounder candidates, to join in Creativity can and Should be Social, asking of others what no one else asks, and offering in return, what no one else offers. Think of a sort of deluxe "kitchen table," an invitation to all free of charge, facilitating "lifestyle entrepreneurship" of interaction even as to nurture newly dawning friendship and to inspire participant persistence, entrepreneurship for the rest of us, an ongoing collaborative fiction writing as a bonding and management team building exercise, towards collaborative solution finding in business planning and feasibility study towards subversive and disruptively innovative new venture creation from first-concept, all the way through to capitalization and implementation.

Therefore in facilitation of creative solution finding and brainstorming collaboration among equals as proposed, along with a selection of disruptively innovative startup proposals are listed under new venture creation, a curetted selection of notions, provocations and unfinished stories and prompts, along with extensive tools and guides to creativity, drama and the discipline of the writing craft, are provided here on FoolQuest.com,  Or pitch your own story ideas and business first concepts! Post to the message posting forums for others to weigh in, or via email if its private. And freely question whatever remains unclear. Because ongoing purposeful and substantive communication is no objective or desired end result, but the barest beginning for serious people, alas stillborn in the alienated pointless futility of interminably tedious small talk.

 

 

Capable collaborative fiction brainstorming

Beware malagenda: The unrecognized need for more serious collaborative fiction brainstorming online

There already exist online, all manner of ongoing projects in shared collaborative World Building of copious, meticulous and sometimes even most rigorous background in excruciating detail, that often then no one really seems to fathom quite what to do with. There is high powered collaboration in video and even feature movie production online, frequently with no attention to scripting. Atrocious and thuddingly inept scripts are often imposed arbitrarily and in advance, in the arrogance of the clueless unaware incompetence, ever putting the cart before the horse! For such remains the heteronomy and irrelevance of excessive socialization, desperate conformity, unit cohesion, superficial harmony, and fitting in for its own sake, pointlessly and at any cost. Alas, joint authorship in fiction online, has been abandoned to the mercies of various internet communities of grandiose delusionally malagendaed willfully amateurish pipedreaming dilettantery that give fanfic such a bad name.

Now, whereas yet endure such plethora of what amount to worthlessly thin-skinned and Anti-Critically Biased online bogus support groups or forums also for supposed writers, there remain also plenty of excellent and longstanding serious writers groups online for the exchange of genuine critique, which is a pretentious French word for criticism of writing, even such feedback of the very highest caliber, in order to nurture and cultivate talent and improve in fiction writing rigor and competence in the discipline of the writing craft. But for some reason, unlike the aforementioned snot-nosed blockheads, serious writers are only rarely seen to collaborate and only with close associates in writing, never strangers en mass. This leaves a considerable gap in any readily available and valuable creative social experience and resource of informed and capable productive joint authorship in fiction writing. Serious writers regulate their exposure and keep distance from unaware incompetence, too serious yet not serious enough, with no regard for the discipline of the writing craft. Many such, in their fantasy of being writers, even together actually concoct actual process virtually guaranteeing the most ghodawful badfic!  For such as they remain convinced that there is no disputing taste, and therefore no possibility of criteria of esthetics, skill, quality or learning, good or bad, in any art, indeed such as fiction writing.

Only by somehow sustaining engagement in whatever salient human interaction will any kind of entry level ever ensue, into whatever so coveted experience. For example, writing: Only seriously writing will make one any sort of a writer. Alas however, writing is typically solitary, isolated and unknown to the world. Serious fiction writers break solitude, struggle and grow by exchanging hardnosed critique. And while there exist fine writers groups for otherwise solitary writers to break isolation via the exchange of critique, there is a distinct lack of serious collaborative fiction writing, both underserved and underappreciated. This is because except by the exchange of critique, serious writers so often tend to remain solitary, working alone, while existing collaborative fiction, one way or another, is seldom of the any caliber, ranging from awful to perfunctory, in one format or another. An ongoing genuine intensive writer's bull session online, is nowhere to be found. High caliber fiction writing collaboration remains obscure, misunderstood and underserved.

Alas then that all serious  writing traditionally long remains solitary. What a waste! What squandered social and imaginative opportunity! For sheer creativity, more egalitarian, problem-centered rather than ego-centered, the unique first key complementary agenda of FoolQuest.com is to meet the poorly understood, blithely despised, and vastly underserved need, and at long last fill the gap of serious writing joint authorship even from scratch, by bringing together aspiring fiction writers of every skill level, not only for the exchange of hardnosed critique, but full participation in an ongoing writers bull session online, collaborative brainstorming of new fiction writing projects as emerge, not only for intensity of peak experience of shared creativity and growth in the discipline of the writing craft, but an actual high standard of genuine and intensely innovative and surprising new quality output in dramatic  fiction writing and Science Fiction. In outreach asking of others what no one else asks, and offering in return, only FoolQuest.com

 

New Venture Creation and Entrepreneurship for the rest of us:

Breaking isolation around the proverbial "Kitchen Table:"

For as envisaged and proposed herein, the outreach agenda of new venture creation and (pre) incubation, pertains to the heady ambitious and complex multitask interdependent interdisciplinary process of developing and transforming whatever new idea, innovation or technology, into a business of whatever kind (profit or nonprofit, traditional, Social Entrepreneurship or even grassroots politics, indeed perhaps even at long last, entrepreneurship for the rest of us neophytes and wannabes at our own pace), that can even conceivably succeed, and therefore just might possibly attract investment of Venture Capital.

 

But first of all, outreach in any such a vibrant project proposal must inspire and help recruit a varied range of trustworthy capable talent, knowledge and skill sets, in mutual respect, to join in and participate on spec and all from scratch. Yes, even from the most embryonic first concept inception or: "kitchen table" stage or phase, through management team formation, business or project planning and feasibility study, indeed through capitalization and all the way to successful implementation. Embarkation thus upon the all too uncertain real life Hero's Journey, attempting  anything really cool together. To that end, as a starting point, a short list of innovative sample new venture proposals is presented for further development together in collaboration. Or, by all means gentle reader, go ahead and pitch your own ideas for further development together in collaboration! 

What does it really take, taking up the real life Hero's Journey of attempting  anything really cool together? The aphorism: "For the rest of us" has entered into common usage from the famous Microsoft advertising slogan claiming to fill whatever gap and meet whatever crying need for greater user friendliness and thus wider accessibility for the masses, in marketing their various product and service innovations. As the aphorism has entered into widest public consciousness, others have followed suit in application of the expression similarly in order to advance promotional claims of  pragmatic demystification and wider access to all manner of hitherto obscure daunting utility and endeavor. Entrepreneurship and new venture creation, such popular aspiration, nevertheless remains daunting and obscure for the masses, all manner of bogus scam success "opportunities" notwithstanding. And this leaves a gap to be filled, a crying need unmet. Here on FoolQuest.com, can then there ever arise: new venture creation and Entrepreneurship for the rest of us? Creativity can and Should be Social! Creativity Can and Should be Popular!

While there exist burgeoning industries of training, services and vast bodies of literature within thriving and productive industries in support of successfully established serial Entrepreneurs who can pay, the rest of us wana-bes, novice and expert alike, remain as ever abandoned to our own devices. There is as yet no profitable business model in service to the rest of us wanabees, within those aforementioned thriving industries of training, services and vast bodies of literature for the already well initiated. For the desperate naive beginner there remains a vast and thriving industry of Network Marketing and other dishonest scam "opportunities." The solution instead, of Creativity can and Should be Social, is indeed of initial demonetization in extensive preparation towards readiness and capitalization in due course steadily at our own pace. Theoretically, this removes all manner of conflicts of interest under common cause. Would this were so! Alas for ulterior motive, even however irrational and dishonest. Not to digress.

As things stand however, there remains a gap in literature or support for the most embryonic inception or vastly underserved "kitchen table" stage or phase of subversive and disruptively innovative new venture creation entirely from scratch. And as shall be seen, there is actually nowhere truly suitable to go. Expensive business school formal education remains mostly oriented towards preparation for corporate life or consultancy, and decidedly not entrepreneurship. The lifelong debt load of higher education, challenges the risk tolerance of entrepreneurial new venture creation. And to make matters worse, as for formal education in entrepreneurship and new venture creation, a growth industry within formal education, as in all formal education, intrinsic motivation tends to be undermined by the standard extrinsic motivation traditionally characteristic of formal education, and aspiring entrepreneurship undermined by conventional career pursuit as aforementioned. Even worse, business school formal education even in the field of entrepreneurship, still typically adheres to the Inductivist case study method, a dystressing and endless guessing game. At least the aforementioned training, services and vast bodies of literature within thriving and productive industries in support of established serial Entrepreneurs who can pay, remain staunchly Hypothetico-Deductive. The prospect of learning in the course of autonomous collaboration among equals, the proposal Creativity can and Should be Social at all harkens back to the original comfortable and informal student run education of the Renaissance, before domineering conformist co-opting by the authorities.

Alas however, not only are Entrepreneurs, not unlike writers, so often ever such obdurate solitary loners, but exactly as as Socrates most anciently observed, different experts often treat one another with such shocking contempt and professional jealousy, each convinced that they alone already know everything, or at any rate, everything important. People growing up under authoritarianism, all too often predictably rôle model from the most obnoxious domineering attitudes of their oppressors. And precisely such chronic pigheadedness undermines any engaged practice of Dialectic controversy. So bereft of all , such is unaware incompetence. Alas, even in our time, such toxic antipathy and professional jealousy between the creatives and the executives, the nerds and "them suits," so often undermines so much glowing opportunity.

Again harkening back to the Renaissance, new venture creation is inherently interdisciplinary, which should be such a great part of its appeal, far from antipathy. Indeed, a notable key tenet of TRIZ, the much renowned Russian theory of inventive solution finding, remains in the observation of how aside from entirely new scientific discoveries, the rarest most important and powerful innovations arise in the transfer and multipotential reapplication of knowledge and methods across disciplines. Whereas the bureaucratic self inflicted wound of mounting external irrelevance from increasing compartmentalization, so typical in the death throws ending the lifecycle of complex systems, remains the very antithesis of close collaboration, and nothing to emulate in consequently doomed new venture creation and pipedream of business startup, any more than as resulting only in malagenda of the most execrable dilettantery in collaborative fiction writing. 

Instead, asking of others what no one else asks, and offering in return, what no one else offers, in filling the gap of poorly understood and vastly underserved needs of entrepreneurship indeed made more accessible for the rest of us, in the utterly neglected very earliest embryonic path of concerted effort over time, discussion, research and networking even from the most vastly underserved embryonic inception or: "kitchen table" phase or stage of new venture creation planning, research, due diligence, comprehensive feasibility study and organization, problem-centered rather than ego-centered, with the productive ambition of even world changing new venture creation and expansion all from scratch, undertaking beyond the resource or wherewithal of any one lone individual, hence actually seeking out and bringing together aspiring entrepreneurs and activists for brainstorming new ideas and following up in every due diligence developing all manner of promising notions into realization, from (pre-) incubation of embryonic first concepts, through research, due diligence, comprehensive feasibility study and business planning, all in the course of qualified Management Team recruitment, all the way through to capitalization, implementation and expansion. In outreach asking of others what no one else asks, and offering in return, what no one else offers, only FoolQuest.com openly proffers or attempts any such a thing!

Outreach asking of others what no one else asks, and offering in return, what no one else offers, think of a sort of deluxe "kitchen table," an invitation to all free of charge, facilitating "lifestyle entrepreneurship" of interaction even as to nurture newly dawning friendship and to inspire participant persistence, entrepreneurship for the rest of us, collaborative solution finding in business planning and feasibility study towards subversive and disruptively innovative new venture creation from first-concept all the way through to capitalization and implementation.

And so, at the risk of anything Utopian in the pejorative of remaining vastly impractical and impossibly ideal, FoolQuest.com advances in solution, because Creativity can and Should be Social, a social engineering vision of substantive communication and purposeful interaction, if all goes well, of welcome and trustworthy collaboration among equals, 1) respectful and responsible capable group endeavor for serious people, on our own terms taking small reversible steps steadily at our own pace in a culture of helpfulness and creative solution finding, 2) indeed reciprocity helpful and ever mindful of task interdependencies, asking of others what no one else asks, and offering in return, what no one else offers, wherein, 3) beyond mere solitary division of labor, effective performance toward success without corporate or institutional support (at least at first) and authority, 4) will require value maximization of participating human resource, 5) wherein each participant taking initiative multipotential cross discipline, by calling upon other participants for whatever timely and whole hearted assistance and follow up required, and reciprocating when likewise called upon by any other participant similarly as needed.  Thus via the social engineering design of intentional community under a new paradigm, effectively, reciprocally, each in command in whatever specialized capable leadership niche, yet each more broadly subordinate, socially supportive and helpful, upon our true to life Hero's Journey of creativity and innovative collaboration among equals. Like the Three Musketeers: "One for all, and all for one!"

Remaining realistic and proceeding steadily at our own pace, each participant must be held accountable in all good will, if only in ongoing open discussion, assessment and solution finding, of whatever problems, and delays as ever arising. Also by sympathetically and effectively addressing all sincere dissatisfaction. Alas, all too often, responsibility may demand confronting also any mounting passive foot dragging and disinclination or animosity. In such eventuality, instead of then surrendering to escalating discouragement, allowing all endeavor to grind to a halt, hope to dissipate, and collaboration to dissolve, the most constructive deterrent in Transactional Antithesis to nullify all such destructive passive power plays, might be a standing policy of ongoing solution finding in order simply to keep options open and thereby simply bypass just such aggravations, and of outreach in ongoing recruitment as ever required and qualified in order to pick up the slack.

The  FoolQuest.com outreach and organization strategy named: Creativity Can and Should be Popular, begins from the draw and bonding of optimal reciprocal engagement in pleasurably meaningfully optimized social and intellectual stimulus struggle by social engineering design named: Creativity can and Should be Social, consisting in unprecedented innovative dynamic synergy  concurrently between serious collaborative fiction writing on the one hand, and business or project planning in new venture creation, entrepreneurship for the rest of us, on the other hand.

And so, the question arises, by contrast, what experience instead endures as such widespread dire and oppressively unhappy prevailing routine? Answer: In short, gentle reader, we've all been had, completely duped! Not just wanna-be entrepreneurs, artists and creatives, but everyone, we are all doing everything completely wrong! And all because, as to be fully expounded anon, relationship, as one might ever finally come to realize, and especially bonding and attachments of true friendship as even among gifted peers, with psychological visibility, one way or another, arises for serious people ever only as byproduct of  welcomed full engagement in purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication and never otherwise. And no one else need approve!

Indeed, never by any sad and desperate rat race of extrinsic societal reward and punishment in the course of interminable exhausting and stultifying inane small talk, vapidly uncritical willful positivity, superficial harmony, fearfully conflict avoidant and debilitating headgames of toxic social skill and sycophantic toadying skilled incompetence,, nor in recreation, so-called, that shabbily travesty of playful honest hedonism, replete with soul crushing fake fun passing for any wholehearted pleasure seeking. Recreation remains the desperate effort and struggle to recover, on ones own time and expense, from endless debilitation from every oppressive sore travail.

 

Realistic professionalism: The  FoolQuest.com work ethic in action

FoolQuest.com extends your invitation, gentle reader, to collaboration among equals in an unprecedentedly innovative dynamic synergy  concurrently between serious collaborative fiction writing on the one hand, and business or project planning in new venture creation, entrepreneurship for the rest of us, on the other hand; filling the gap of poorly understood and vastly underserved needs of entrepreneurship made more accessible for the rest of us; all as beginning in the utterly neglected very earliest path of concerted effort over time, discussion, research and networking even from the most vastly underserved embryonic inception or: "kitchen table" phase or stage of new venture creation, into planning, research, due diligence, feasibility study and organization, problem-centered rather than ego-centered, with the productive ambition of even world changing new venture creation and expansion all from scratch, undertaking beyond the resource or wherewithal of any one lone individual; all hence actually seeking out and bringing together aspiring entrepreneurs and activists for brainstorming new ideas and following up in every due diligence developing all manner of promising notions into realization, from comprehensive feasibility study and (pre-) incubation of embryonic first concepts, through research, comprehensive feasibility study, business planning and qualified Management Team recruitment, all the way to capitalization, implementation and expansion.

 

Obviously, funding must remain ever crucial in new venture creation. And we have entered a revolutionary new age of ever more accessible new vehicles of investment and capitalization, ever more commonly accessible, indeed: for the rest of us. But popular participation amid unprecedented liberation from traditional privileged exclusivity, has eroded away all concomitant protective filters of, to put it colloquially: shit from Shinola! And therefore prospecting for capitalization may often remain somewhat premature, for wont of necessary preceding preparation and due diligence, support thereof all ever remaining as exclusive as ever, so vastly and dauntingly underserved for the likes of us clueless hoi polloi, and mysterious or worse: often halfcocked and half-baked pipedream, incompetent or even actually dishonest folly and knavery. So goes the proverb: “The devil is in the details.” Sun Tzu said: "Every battle is won or lost before it is ever fought." First indeed must be shared whatever vivid fantasy of compelling frustrated yearning, but fit groundwork must then ensue. It remains foolhardy to just wing it. As per the notorious multiple p's: Properly Purposeful Pre-Planning and Prior Preparation Prevents Preemptive Production of Painfully Piss Poor Performance.

 

Neither high pressure facile flimflam of hurried hustle and deceptive manipulation, nor passive hostile foot-dragging proverbially pulling out the figurative rug metaphorically out from under, but responsibly proceeding in true collaboration steadily at our own pace in small reversible steps. Neither high pressure facile flimflam of hurried hustle and deceptive manipulation, nor passive hostile stalling and foot-dragging proverbially pulling out the figurative rug metaphorically out from under, but responsibly proceeding in true collaboration among equals steadily at our own pace in small reversible steps, business or project planning together, creative solution finding, and capable management team formation, business or project planning together, a steep learning curve creative solution finding, and capable management team formation. Gentle reader, can you be trustworthy and responsible? And will anybody else reciprocate? Am I your unmet friend?

The FoolQuest.com vision of entrepreneurship for the rest of us, capable interaction with even adequately responsible others, remains entirely different from anything less. It is therefore respectfully submitted herein, that the true key remains in the actual process, the human interaction, of business or project planning together, creative solution finding, and management team formation, in true collaboration among equals steadily at our own pace, beyond mere lip service. And that the indispensable and effective starting point remains to be found in initiation and quality of open and responsible sustained discourse and deliberation in critical thinking, outreach and research. And in specific new and unprecedented innovation as to be fully expounded anon, in the concurrent dynamic synergy to be cultivated between serious collaborative fiction writing and new venture creation for the rest of us. Because Creativity can and Should be Social, beginning with the celebrated star first follower who shall be the true leader and influencer, showing others how to participate and relate, blazing the trail of welcome! No, I might not have what you want.  But dare we seek for it together? For any lonesome frustrated desire tells a story, needs a plan, and calls out for allies.

Setup for failure:

 

"Follow your bliss!" rings hollow that shopworn platitude whereby we are each and all extolled, then each and all, so ill equipped, summarily abandoned entirely to ones own devices, set up for inertia, failure and disappointment. commitment falls short, even in lunatic faith that, alas, does not actually move mountains, in commitment even such as never wanes, yet fails to carry the freight, manipulatively 'Bright Sided' as we have been, by exhortation to willful positivity and rabid GREENLANTERNism! For urging and enthusiasm of hope that springs eternal and endures, is not a strategy. All that cheering and encouragement at the starting line, quickly fades away into into the distance. No one cares. Because all Pollyanna willfully optimistic blandishment and facile lip service notwithstanding, in ugly truth of banal hypocrisy, individual fulfillment remains at best a distant societal priority, if not actually undermined as a subversive dire threat to status quo. And therefore, rudderless and setup for failure without relevant social support, direction or resources, far from any idealism of subversive and committedly "unreasonable" disruptive civic heroism, many so discouraged then hesitate, become lost and despair, finally to conform and make do or just fall by the wayside.

 

But what is to be done? Well, it's complicated. I have no ready and trite simple answer to complex problems. And I don't want your money or your devotion. And I am certainly no formulaic callow motivational grifter here to psyche you up and then leave you in the lurch! Isn't there already quite enough of that already? And so, in the face of entrenched pervasive institutional indifference, how can anyone fare any better?

 

The masses have tolerated much, only given bygone prosperity. But boom is long gone to bust. And nowadays in the United States, even baring any misfortune of protracted unemployment, the dilemma remains between entry directly into the workforce, and thence failure and poverty, in doing without higher education, on the one hand, and crushing lifelong compounding debt from the burgeoning expense of higher education, even if career pursuit all goes according to plan without a hitch. One way or another, many end up going into business for themselves, less by preference, then when all else has failed. And whatever pragmatic compromise turns out no less difficult, than whatever lofty aspirations therefore sacrificed.

We are all such proverbial square pegs: The customer is always wrong! The program never fails, you fail the program. In  the immortal observations of George Carlin: "Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.” By contrast, our designated rôle models in every conventional option in life, the star student under formal education, ideal employee , perfect disciple or model prisoner alike, are all so consummately well adapted, ever so heteronymously characterized as they remain, beyond mere responsive obedience and passivity otherwise, not only by every obsessive-compulsive eager beaver sore travail, but boundlessly committed initiative in anticipation of their superior's desires, "paying one's dues" life long, excelling without complaint or resistance, never seeking attention by requesting explanation or assistance.

And why can't we all follow their example and be more like them? Because, just as Carlin implies, we all so chafe at the bit! Recalcitrant in such sore travail, obstinately uncooperative toward mind numbing routine as imposed by ever coercive and manipulative self-servingly moralizing authority, all too many typically succumb to ambivalence expressed in resentful and reluctant obedience together with covert passive hostile sabotage, instead of actually choosing between either dignified and whole hearted compliant individual cooperation on the one hand, or else free and open fully effective proletariat uprising on the other hand. And such remains damaged human nature not by innate disposition, but as triggered in suffering and humiliated response to norms of sore travail, deviously guilt tripping tyranny psychologically internalized, in short, of slave morality.

And yet, exactly such adaptation on the part of the aforementioned rôle model, of broken in and enthusiastic approval seeking, will still be so blithely held up as exemplary in order to vindicate systemic failure and disappointment in most every walk of life. And under extrinsic punishment and reward systems by hierarchical design, indeed such provides the benchmark by which for better or worse, most of us will come short and fall by the wayside, make do, for each to learn their place. And hence the burning motivation, the poignant yearning and sheer redeeming Existential disgust, of "unreasonable people," instead to find one another in order committedly together to strive and change and forge anew the world, better to their liking.

 

Not fitting in remains an often debilitating sore travail. But leave us face it: the compromises in fitting are typically even more deranged, impotent, pointlessly laborious, soul destroying, senseless, Existentially Absurd, and over all, egodystonic and shockingly irrelevant to all core values. Alas that capable interaction with even adequately responsible others, is not simply given, and cannot be won by jumping through any hoops set before us. Fortunate are the few truly ever exposed thereto and included therein. But for most of us, capable interaction with even adequately responsible others, remains elusive. And anything less than capable interaction with even adequately responsible others, amounts to an isolation from power, bored, anxious, helpless, oppressed and alone, a frustrating sore travail. Outreach remains random and daunting at best. But what individual recourse can be available?

 

As my own boss, I have fired myself for utter failure and incompetence in the sore travail of life! Tautologically, there can be no self-help, no solitary rugged self-reliant unilateral "well-formed plan," for interaction among more than one individual. And no secret magic of fineness, either. Because power remains a function of capable relationship on ones own terms. Am I then your unmet friend? Expert or layperson in whatever fields, old pro or neophyte aspirant, we each and all bring to the table whatever ones own insights, questions, answers, knowledge, talent, ideas, perspective, experience and connections. -Alas, hard work all too often so vastly unappreciated and blithely squandered...

 

Toxic social reality of cohesive alienation:

 

Not that purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication, or even creativity, via whatever strategy, and all however crucial, remain by any means the only creditable core values of relationship, especially friendship. And yet, nevertheless, purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication remain the only doorway, the only path of connection, so Absurdly slammed shut, to all other desires. The formation of social circles remains so crucial socially, because personal friends remaining unacquainted with one another, are unlikely to invite or include one socially. All thus little more effective than lingering ever friendless.

 

But what manner of social inclusion in precisely what type of interaction? Does it even make any difference? Yes. It matters a great deal. Because Creativity can and Should be Social. Indeed, it should come as no surprise how superficial and pointless distance and suspicion as manifest in purposelessness and triviality (entirely ruling out purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication), the conventional mind dulling panic stricken knee-jerk anti-intellectualism to which we are all held hostage, that, rather than protecting, reassuring or even much amusing anyone, only thwarts human connection and attachment. For such is the Existential Absurdity of that which is called: recreation, that shabbily travesty of playful honest hedonism, soul crushing fake fun passing for any wholehearted pleasure seeking; instead only the desperate effort and struggle to recover, on ones own time and expense, from the continual debilitation of oppression under heteronomy to conventional options in life. Indeed, unlike bogus recreation, even genuine play enfolds substance and creative purpose all its own. Therefore, accept no substitute for purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication! Recreation, so ironically named, so empty, mindless, pointless, superficial and militantly trivial, remains the desperate effort and struggle to recover, on ones own time and expense, from the debilitating learned helpless sheer exhaustion, fear and loathing of every debilitating sore travail inflicted in the course of any oppressive conventional options in life.

Alas there as yet exists no clear, ready and transparent social support system for individual endeavor and outreach. And because popularity and social success ever remain antithetical to true friendship. Because friendship is genuine, substantive and intimate, being predicated upon unguarded and reciprocal psychological visibility. Alas that substance and purpose remain actually shameful, awkward, nerdy, uncool, socially unacceptable and taboo. And if indeed interminable emotionally and intellectually distant, unwelcoming and disingenuous small talk ever keeping it light, remains key to popularity and social success, then such do-nothing busywork dronelike Orwellian anti-intellectual path of popularity and social success, indeed remains antithetical to true friendship.

To reiterate, gentle reader, bonding and attachments of true friendship with psychological visibility, arises not by any rat race of extrinsic societal reward and punishment in the course of inane small talk, uncritical willful positivity, superficial harmony, fearfully conflict avoidant and debilitating headgames of social skill and sycophantic toadying skilled incompetence, but ever only for serious people as byproduct of full engagement in purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication and never otherwise. And no one else need approve!

Because, if indeed interminable emotionally and intellectually distant, unwelcoming and disingenuous small talk ever keeping it light, remains key to popularity and social success, then such do-nothing busywork dronelike Orwellian anti-intellectual path of popularity and social success, indeed remains antithetical to true friendship, because it remains in the very taboo nature of friendship, that friendship must be open, genuine and fully engaged. Indeed, that's Why Nerds Are Unpopular: Because nerds invest their precious time, not in the extensive and complicated dance of popularity, but cultivating genuine interests and values of their own.

But even nigh tautologically, how can alienation ever actually predicate social cohesion? It can and it does. Read on: The much admired and ever cagy social skill of unperturbed patience in tediously hanging around innocuously killing time, is by very nature distant, facile and quite literally, by tactical nature even if not by intention or objective, even somewhat predatory, in that it’s actually all about stalking but without seeming to. Here is the social minefield, an obstacle course, a social filter. But a filter selecting what manner of conformist personality type, other than the very characteristics of the least genuine of cronies and sycophants? For toadying social cognition makes sycophants of us all! And what a racket! Why does no one understand, first of all, how social expectation of such cagey demonstration of endurance of boredom and loneliness, and thereby of submission to conformity and heteronomy, remain the very antithesis of welcome and friendliness, and also such a dangerous criteria for trust?  In the words of Barbara Sher: “Isolation is the true dream killer, not your attitude.”

It remains in the very taboo nature of friendship, that friendship must ever remain open, genuine and fully engaged. And by exploding all such destructive myths of fraudulent social reality, even just between ourselves, and then by collaborative brainstorming and solution finding, of small scale social engineering design, might together set agenda in planning and then doing anything better, for implementation deliberately and intentionally, of purposeful interaction and substantive communication. And such remains the objective of Creativity can and Should be Social. Purposeful interaction and substantive communication for serious people, remains so immediately indispensable to human connection and crucial to fulfillment and authentic wellbeing. Because, given how teamwork remains so crucial to hoped for eventual success, extrinsic deferred gratification, the immediate will to power is fulfilled in openly meeting intrinsic needs for capable interaction with even adequately responsible others, influencing one another, and in a manner even salutary and validating.

Purposeful interaction generally (and all the more so specifically such as entrepreneurship for the rest of us, disruptively innovative new venture creation in  concurrent synergy with serious collaborative fiction writing) involves people more profoundly with one another, uplifting mood and altering consciousness by together confronting questions in reflection upon individual purpose. Substantive conversation, indeed Socratic Dialectic, remains ever integral to purposeful interaction. Philosophical Dialectical honest and skeptical sweet reason, leverages good will and habits of clear thinking, by fearlessly open and fruitful investigation and deliberation together, unfolding in at all responsible due diligence, the practice of controversy consisting in the welcome and invited exchange of criticism, and thereby ongoing error detection and course correction. Gentle reader, search your soul: Does any of this speak to you?  

 

Dialectic and the open society:

The indefatigable enemies of the open society, imbeciles, tyrants and scoundrels, adamantly insist, in trenchant denial simply ignoring all sound reasoning supported by Empirical evidence entirely to the contrary, that cooperation is impossible save by fairly complete agreement and compliance. And thus, under the worldview of heteronomy, collaboration among equals remains entirely inconceivable! But responsible people who disagree actually do cooperate productively only all the time! In the words of John Storrs Hall: "Ideas should compete, bodies should cooperate." Scientist in perpetual disagreement on one point or another, challenge one another to discover Empirical truth by experiment and Scientific Method, and those ever more scarce functional policy makers in good faith, are actually ever known to reach reasonable compromise. And all entirely without consensus. Whereas with no place for dissent, consensus groups remain merely do nothing pep rallies. That is, unless they are scams, in which case whatever the scam's ulterior agenda may indeed be accomplished, whatever good that comes of it. Indeed, wars have been lost by clueless military hierarchies lacking due protocol for the airing of dissent among junior officers, dismissively silenced when they foresaw disaster.

In our deliberations together, let us all then strive for full engagement with neither distance nor acrimony: For should anyone ever openly disagree, then so much the better, affording as disagreement does, every opportunity for Dialectical controversy, the welcomed free exchange of criticism. And criticism is not only productive, but inherently friendly. Indeed, as a matter of Empirical observation, people who disagree are still seen to cooperate all the time, and more meaningfully, freely and authentically in autonomy, than those who together merely submit to uniform heteronomy. Or if anything herein remains unclear, then, gentle reader, please do not be alarmed: Those who only dummy up paralyticly whenever they don't understand are just helpless and insufferably neurotic and frustrating to deal with. Those who will never delve into anything not yet understood, will never surpass all that they already understand as well familiar. For such as they, indeed there will be no new thing under the sun! For such is an arrested intellectual development. We only learn from mistakes, our own or those of others. Mistakes should not be punished. Some procedure of discourse is necessary for bringing comprehension out from incomprehension. Please: Speak up whenever anything remains unclear! And in return, I can be counted upon to do likewise for others. Let us always diligently engage in Miscommunication Competent Dialectical miscommunication repair, with Active Reading and Listening striving towards the achievement of Intersubjectivity being the closer correspondence of message as received and understood, to content as actually intended by the sender. After all, writing is rewriting and never a waste of time. And this obtains no less for collaboration than for solitary composition, and no less for  business or project planning towards new venture creation, no less than for fiction writing, all central and crucial to the present proposal.  

In those wise words of Henri-Louis Bergson: “Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought." Alas that in such reciprocal contempt, thinking and doing remain all too often segregated in our institutional mentality. The result is a great deal of thought gone to no practical avail, and a great deal of ill considered action so blithely undertaken. To quote Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower: “Plans are nothing, planning is everything.” And let no one imagine that planning, action or happiness are ever improved by pressure to choose between conformity or social isolation. In the words of Benjamin Disraeli: “Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” It remains, however, that self-help/improvement and social skills remediation are all nothing but delusion and denial of Existential Absurdity. You are not in control of your life, any more than I am in control of mine. We all find ourselves completely at the whim of uncooperative others in every facet of our lives. And everyone within reach to seek help from, is simply too insecure even to fight for their very lives, much less to stand up for one another. Put more simply then, and in complete good faith, powerlessness, the impotent helplessness of the human condition is terminally demeaning. And even beyond direct action, our influence upon others may often be even the more misguided and deluded. Gentle reader, unmet friend: Where is there to be found, any beginning of collaboration among equals? Thinking in terms of action, in order to act more thoughtfully, there remains only one precious beginning, immediately, over which we, I and thou, may indeed together take responsibility and share any control at all: And that is interaction between ourselves, specifically just discussion at all to begin with, and setting an agenda thereto. Because. in the words of Janine Garner, “Failing to engage Is engaging with failure.” And indeed, all heteronomy is but craven and futile pseudo-engagement.

Sharing ideas, never completely scripted or controlled, sanguine to the risk of disagreement, substantive conversation deals in concepts, themes and problems in whatever discipline employing higher order thinking, making distinctions, applying ideas, forming generalization, and raising questions. And not just the reporting of experiences, information, definitions, or procedures, even collaboration among equals in brainstorming and creative solution finding. Participants respond directly to one another, by explaining themselves or asking questions in order to clarify one another’s statements. Such dialogue builds upon participants’ statements thereby promoting coherent shared understanding of concepts, themes or problems.

Indeed actually as so well epitomized in serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming, but by no means limited thereto, sustained substantive conversations integrates the contributions of all participants sharing coherent understanding. complex and coherent clarifications, explanations and arguments beyond mere concise statement. Substantive conversation exceeds lecture and short-answer formats for transition of information. Full engagement in substantive conversation, involves people more profoundly with one another. Whereas, and all in such trepidation to avoid disagreement at all cost, conventionally expected vapid small talk, deliberately insubstantial and distant conversation and pervading anti-intellectualism, the conviction that disagreement is tantamount to strife, thwarts attachment, bonding and relationship, particularly friendship, thereby starving social and intellectual stimulus appetites, thereby inflicting protracted loneliness and boredom. For such is the human condition.

Individual power in practice and not just in theory, requires the discovery of actionable practical options in the pursuit of happiness, meaning towards whatever one wishes to do, to accomplish, or to become. Alas, in Existentially Absurd social reality, there remain such dystressing user hostile outcomes gap, meaning inherent contradiction and setup for failure with no results no matter what one does. Indeed, in the world as it is, the will to power is all too often frustrated by even actually hostile and arbitrary intractable social challenges, even regardless of whatever solitary individual ability and worthiness. Whereas people disposed to the characteristic motivation of responsibility, thereby obtain a capacity to interact by appeals to responsibility, to sound reasoning and autonomy. But only in dealing with others at all compatibly likewise so disposed. Hence, it may even be broadly asserted that the will to power is fulfilled in meeting ones needs for capable interaction with even adequately responsible others, influencing one another, and in a manner even salutary and validating. But all alone ever deeper out in the wilderness, can there be found any clear path to that great good?

The difficulty remains quite simply that to establish a life of capable interaction with even adequately responsible others, yet remains ever elusive for so many of us. Certainly for yours truly! As beloved standup comedian Rodney Dangerfield used so hilariously to complain: "I don't get no respect, no respect at all!" But then, who does? Capable interaction with even adequately responsible others, is by no means average or the norm, but clearly exceptional, even for that matter, among the most exalted leadership, let alone amid the hapless hoi polloi. Indeed, capable interaction with even adequately responsible others is even celebrated as greatness, yet all but discouraged in widest practice. For the worker drones under heteronomy to behavioral conditioning, all cogs in the machine, formal education and typical corporate culture of employment, foster admiration, but never emulation, of those lionized men and women of destiny rising only actually despite the system, overcoming adversity, effectively quarantined and lonely at the top. But for wretches such as we, there must be no ready escape at all from the only wretched game in town! For such remains the banal rank hypocrisy of glowing lip service to independence while fostering helplessness and dependency.

Alas, to reiterate, that more sophisticated automated Sociometry, anticipated as the next revolution in social technology, yet remains in its infancy. Since time immemorial, and not withstanding the rise of modern democracy and communications, the tools of social technology, even well intentioned let alone not so much, remain methods of coercion, intimidation, deception and manipulation, whereby to make tools of us all. Hence the inspiration for "unreasonable" frustrated yearning committedly to strive together and change our world better to our liking, likewise continuing from antiquity. We band of buggered! Alas, as  for all such commendable glittering generality, to quote Frederick Law Olmsted: "After all is said and done, much is said and little is done." Though so much is done to us all. And as Edward Snowden observes, oppressors who restrict our options, then pretend that we consent.

 

 

Intentional group formation

 

Intentional community must start somewhere on any smaller scale of intentional social circle or group. Indeed, rather than sweeping the world out of nowhere, subversion necessarily begins in microcosm, when any two or more individuals begin doing things differently together and stick with it. In an intentional group or social circle amongst ourselves together turning away from the social rat-race, and perhaps even together reaching out in the world at large but even at all actually on our own terms. What then is revealed as the actual nature of true success? What is the will to power? Can we be winners? What does it mean to be a winner, larger than life? What else but the attainment and sharing of trustworthy, capable and respectful autonomy support? What but the Menschlichkeit of meeting ones needs by capable interaction with even adequately responsible others? What but the participatory realization of innovation and creativity individually and interpersonally? And what better epitome all thereof, save for serious collaborative fiction writing and the subversive disruptively innovation of new venture creation under entrepreneurship for the rest of us? Or if anything else instead, then by what better sustainable means or vehicle thereto, profit, non profit or Social Entrepreneurship? What better path of arête? For arête remains the quest for the right way of living ones best, called: virtue, courage (as in: moral fortitude), and outstanding excellence with no pretense of fitting in. In any frustrated desire, there always remains a story that might as well be sweepingly dramatic and intriguingly speculative, and that needs a solid plan, a business or project plan calling out for allies on a management team and via the cultivation of strategic partnerships. What better and more relevant agenda? Is none of the aforesaid indeed so unworthy of fully engaged serious and in depth conversation, bridging from general principle into feasibility study of explicit and specific action agenda? Or at the moment are we all even thinking about anything truly more interesting and important?

 

To quote Charles B Forbes: “Large-scale success today is spelled -Teamwork.” Indeed, in the words of Henry Ford: “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." For in the celebrated poetry of John Donne: “No man an island:” And there can be no "well-formed plan," however stalwart and inventive, no adaptive self-help/improvement, no unilateral solution at all, to shortcomings and  deficiencies of social interaction, cooperation and access all thereto. Any frustrated desire tells a story for all that will hear it, needs a plan in the world, and calls out for allies. Effective and capable collaboration partners of integrity, must remain responsive and responsible to one another. In the endeavor at hand, eventually each participant must stand ready to lead in whatever their capacity or expertise, while at the same rime remaining subordinate in likewise reciprocally abetting one another, ever mindful of task interdependency, giving and getting needed cooperation and assistance in a friendly, competent and timely manner. Does any of this appeal, gentle reader? For such remains the objective of the present outreach. Although, to start with, prospective collaboration partners need only begin by each holding up our end of ongoing conversation towards every due diligence. So share your own ideas. As a handy starting point, find here on FoolQuest.com, a selection of unfinished stories to prompt collaborative fiction writing, as well as a range of subversive and disruptively innovative proposals for business planning and feasibility study towards new venture creation. Collaborative fiction writing as conceived, is intended serve as an ongoing bonding and team building exercise for collaborative solution finding, business planning, management team formation and subversive and disruptively innovative new venture creation that may include not only for profit enterprise, but activism and Social Entrepreneurship.

 

The subversive struggle of organizing for change all so much easier said than done: Many people imagine leading happier and more meaningful lives. Many therefore strive to improve themselves and struggle to purge and cast off an unwanted self. But in such flagrant aberration from every timid norm, others more bold yearn instead to change their situation, the very lives that they lead, and even improve the world  in which we find ourselves. Any frustrated desire tells a story, needs a plan, and calls out for allies. In the famous words of George Bernard Shaw: “Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.”  As Hans Selye put it: “‘Realistic people’ who pursue ‘practical aims’ are rarely as realistic or practical, in the long run of life, as the dreamers who pursue their dreams.” FoolQuest.com attempts outreach toward the formation of just such a core group of unreasonable people applying ourselves even to the most daunting problems besetting us. Indeed, to quote Margaret Mead: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” All that will be required for the endeavor at hand, would be the recruitment of even just a small group or social circle fully engaged in ongoing Dialectical endeavor and eustress of creative solution finding, indeed such as entailed in collaborative fiction writing together with subversive and disruptively innovate new venture creation.

 

An outreach herein is further proposed, called: Creativity can be Popular, under the premise that if participation in an intentional creative group or social circle as herein proposed, Creativity can and Should be Social, indeed comes to be perceived by any wider public to produce more gratifying social interaction, then others will be attracted to join in and participate. The question of Creativity can be Popular then will be: how best to leverage Creativity can and Should be Social not only for recruitment, but more importantly in order to improve for participants, individual interpersonal networking and new relationships.

   

Liberation under a new paradigm:

 

We all struggle for personal power, so often in vein. So what is the secret? The open secret remains only in how we have all been overwhelmingly coerced, blithely manipulated, endlessly propagandized, shamelessly lied to, and how, as shall be expounded in full, the simple truth, plain and profane, remains exactly opposite to all that we have always been told. To begin with, genuine success in life will be a product of teamwork with no hurried flimflam and high pressure hustle, and no treachery of interminable procrastination and broken promise, either. To reiterate, the will to power is fulfilled in meeting ones needs for capable interaction with even adequately responsible others. Because any ongoing outreach for cofounder candidates into collaboration among equals in a working group, any unapologetically genuine teamwork with no exploitative ulterior deception or manipulation, no unquestioned myths and ideology, no far fetched pipedream, no puerile headgames of toadying social skill and skilled incompetence, begins philosophically, Dialectically, into the valuable and lucid moral dimensions of friendship and Eudemonia called: Menschlichkeit.

 

How so? By honest and skeptical sweet reason, good will and habits of clear thinking, all quite socially awkward, utterly taboo and reviled under heteronomy! By fearlessly open and fruitful investigation and deliberation together, unfolding in at all responsible due diligence, welcome and invited exchange of criticism, and thereby ongoing error detection and course correction, advancing into the implementation of any serious credible plans of action, even however wildly ambitious, watertight yet flexible under ever changing conditions, in steady small reversible steps steadily at our own pace. For as Aesop teaches us, slow and steady wins the race! 

 

And such, in antithesis to every conventional path of heteronomy, remains the Dialectic of arête and values of autonomy. And not merely in even howsoever extrinsic deferred gratification in hopes for eventual success, but as a vital human interaction in and of itself immediately intrinsic to secure and authentic wellbeing under true abiding respect. Indeed, hence might accrue most optimally fulfilling ongoing Dialectical investment of attention for return in like kind: substantive communication toward purposeful interaction. And woe betide us all should anyone imagine the Dialectic as an objective. It's not. For thought worthy dialogue remains no objective or end result, but the barest indispensable beginning.

 

Because bonding and attachments of true friendship with psychological visibility, arises not by any rat race of extrinsic societal reward and punishment in the course of inane small talk, uncritical willful positivity, superficial harmony, fearfully conflict avoidant and debilitating headgames of social skill and sycophantic toadying skilled incompetence, but ever only for serious people as byproduct of full engagement in purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication and never otherwise.  And no one else need approve! Because, if indeed interminable emotionally and intellectually distant, unwelcoming and disingenuous small talk ever keeping it light, remains key to popularity and social success, then such do-nothing busywork dronelike Orwellian anti-intellectual path of popularity and social success, remains antithetical to true friendship, because it remains in the very taboo nature of friendship, that friendship must be open, genuine and fully engaged. Indeed, that's Why Nerds Are Unpopular: Because nerds invest their precious time, not in the extensive and complicated dance of popularity, but cultivating genuine interests and values of their own.

The  FoolQuest.com subversive proposal submitted to the agenda: Creativity can and Should be Social together with the concomitant outreach concept as proposed dubbed: Creativity can and Should be Popular, is to strive in the social engineering and design of a better way of life, more optimal social and intellectual stimulus struggle, via intentional community of friendship and wellbeing, wherein the individual may remain more genuine and at ease. Indeed, creativity is found most productively to flourish by continual alternation flowing between creativity in lone contemplative solitude and vibrant expressive creative interaction together.

On the one hand, group dynamics often remain unimaginatively hidebound to prior socialization, however toxic and dysfunctional, or else to the other extreme, abandoning all propriety, group dynamics often co validate and normalize any conceivable deviance no matter how senseless and destructive. Alas, both extremes remain depressingly common. Indeed, elements of both may often coexist and manifest in the group dynamics of the self same social circle. For there may often be found no more staunch conservatives and conformists than the most flagrant deviants, and no deeper deviance and conviction than such blithely Absurd hypocrisy in desperate mimesis of all that one can never truly be. Indeed, such remains true to life Comedy of Manners. But for those most fortunate few, there can also be at all more functional and congenial social circles characterized, perhaps some day soon, also for any of the rest of us, even intentionally and by design, guided by whatever more congenial, productive and laudable values in action, networking for one another first and foremost for each our own best interests and delight, but never for anything more devious, manipulative, ulterior, strange, dangerous and exploitative.

Indeed, in more functional alternative to conventional Absurd alienation and futility of bankrupt social expectations, an intentional social circle or group, remains free to experiment in deliberate paradigm shift, subversion turning accustomed priorities on their head. Obviously, if only any two or more individuals can imagine different, then relationship ensues, a new more proximate experimental superseding closer social reality, taking precedence. Indeed, smaller social circles or relationships of two or more individuals, are well known to forge their own unique social contracts and expectations amongst themselves. By social engineering design of intentional community online, Creativity can and Should be Social.

We are all seeking not only pleasure but meaning and fulfillment, perpetually engaged as are we all, in social and intellectual stimulus struggle against boredom and loneliness. For stimulus struggle is the name coined by anthropologist Desmond Morris in 'the human zoo,' for the perpetual striving of all living things, to regulate, to obtain and maintain, the optimum kind and degree of stimulation and arousal from the surrounding environment. For such remains the endless struggle with loneliness and boredom. Everything that we do is in order to modify subjective experience thereby altering consciousness. For in accordance with evolutionary neuroscience and the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology, such remains the human condition. All hence, as to be expounded in full, the social engineering of social and intellectual stimulus struggle would contrive the deliberate introduction of specific social stimuli and social interaction, into the social environment, in order better to optimize social and intellectual stimulus struggle. 

And so, gentle readers, are you with me? And lo, the star first follower shall become the true leader and influencer, showing others how participate and to relate, blazing the trail! But how might social engineering as proposed, of more optimal social and intellectual stimulus struggle via purposeful interaction and substantive communication of disruptively innovative new venture creation in  concurrent synergy with collaborative fiction writing, possibly ever be rendered feasible? Is it even truly desirable?

Be a mensch! In the words of Benjamin Disraeli: “Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” And yet, thoughtless action is reckless.  Therefore to quote Henri-Louis Bergson: “Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought." And in the words of  C. S. Lewis: “Two heads are better than one, not because either is infallible, but because they are unlikely to go wrong in the same direction.” For any lonesome frustrated desire tells a story, needs a plan, and calls out for allies. Indeed therein, by the Dialectical crafting of narrative imagination, by planning and outreach, obtains the method in the madness, if only...  For as John Cleese expounds: “Creativity is not a talent: it's a way of operating.” Creativity can and Should be Social! And so, gentle readers, are you with me? And lo, the star first follower shall become the true leader and influencer, showing others how to participate and to relate, blazing the trail! 

In accordance with the happiness formula of Positive Psychology, Eudemonia remains attainable via pleasurable engagement in meaningful collaboration among equals. And such accrues from eustress of creative tension in solution finding together, of substantive communication into purposeful interaction and thereby friendship in authentic wellbeing, achievable by social engineering design of intentional community online. All following in in accordance with evolutionary neuroscience and the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology. Because pleasurable and meaningful optimal reciprocal engagement remains key to better optimized ongoing social and intellectual stimulus struggle against ever looming  boredom and loneliness. For such is the human condition.

Wake up, Sheeple! It's all about how human social order as the glorified pack mammals that we are, has come to fall so vastly short of innate needs and appetites of social and intellectual stimulus struggle entirely unique to ever more massively engorged human cerebrality: Specifically, for  collaboration among equals together in creative solution finding. A joy alas far too infrequent under conventional paradigm of stultifying heteronomy to hierarchical dominance. And the consequences to authentic wellbeing could not be more dire.

And, bridging the general and abstract theoretical at last into the concrete, practical and specific, Eudemonia in more optimal social and intellectual stimulus struggle, remains best to be attained upon the subversive path of disruptively innovative new venture creation in concurrent synergy with collaborative fiction writing. -all as herein expounded. For disruptively innovative new venture creation in concurrent synergy with collaborative fiction writing, remains the most readily empowering creative outlet enfolding purposeful interaction and substantive communication indispensable to human connection and crucial to fulfillment and authentic wellbeing. 

• Addressing unmet needs: Serious fiction writing collaboration online and entrepreneurship for the rest of us.

A call to action: Gentle reader,you are invited  to join in and together attempt emulation neither of the facile and conniving popular kids nor of those phony success gurus, but rather the fulfillment in welcome pleasurable engagement in meaningful serious conversation and creative interaction as Empirically and repeatably observable of happy people who talk more seriously and with less small talk, fully involved together in creative endeavor. Because  Creativity must be acknowledged as a phenomena exceeding mere lone individual character and disposition, as John Cleese expounds: “not a talent: it's a way of operating.” indeed, wherein creativity is found most productively to flourish by continual alternation flowing between creativity in lone contemplative solitude and vibrant expressive creative interaction together. For to quote Michel Eyquem De Montaigne: “There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.”

“Philosophers, writers, artists, even scientists, not only need encouragement and an audience, they need constant stimulation from other people. It is almost impossible to think without talking. If Defoe had really lived on a desert island, he could not have written Robinson Crusoe, nor would he have wanted to. Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.”

 — 'Conversation with a Pacifist' by George Orwell

Indeed, Creativity can and Should be Social. And in the words of Barbara Sher: “Isolation is the true dream killer, not your attitude.” Therefore  let us each bring our own considered ideas to share, explore, criticize and modify together. Because, all in accordance with evolutionary neuroscience and the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology, such is Eudemonia.

Wake up, Sheeple! It's all about how human social order as the glorified pack mammals that we are, has come to fall so vastly short of innate needs and appetites of social and intellectual stimulus struggle entirely unique to ever more massively engorged human cerebrality: Specifically, for  collaboration among equals together in creative solution finding. A joy alas far too infrequent under conventional paradigm of stultifying heteronomy to hierarchical dominance. And the consequences to authentic wellbeing could not be more dire.

Because, as it turns out, work or play, exactly that creative process together, is what truly makes people happy. Therefore let us proactively plan an ongoing intentional and purposeful exercise of precisely such human interaction, instead of only waiting, so helplessly, for such lamentably infrequent occasion of human thriving in creative solution finding at long last again to arise at the whim of whatever powers that be.

And the crucial first step towards close collaboration among equals and thereby Eudemonia as herein advanced, before undertaking anything more, will be simply to initiate and to sustain pertinent ongoing discussion, analytic yet strategic, in subversive deliberation online upon the agenda at hand. To reiterate: It will be predicted and recommended herein that fulfillment, authentic wellbeing and human flourishing in collaboration among equals remains most optimally achievable via dual application of the dynamic power of narrative: Specifically, in serious collaborative fiction writing in audaciously unprecedented synergy concurrently with disruptively innovative new venture creation, entrepreneurship for the rest of us.

Paradoxical as that may seem, even as an entirely practical matter, there can be no escaping philosophy. For in the words of Aristotle: “All things in life are philosophical.“ Because philosophical examination is the application of reason in setting consistent principles and values to guide decisions in life. And that is why, as Socrates so famously declares: "An unexamined life is not worth the living for a human being." Because every solution, bridging abstract principle into concrete application, even as to the very MEANING of LIFE, first requires cogent problem statement indeed even as herein, of the human condition itself:  For even the celebrated constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, can proffer no guarantees of success in any such striving. Alas, mere mortal pursuit of happiness frequent only reaps Ecclesiastical vanity and futility. Indeed, as Epicurus most anciently observes, nebbish human beings are by enlarge so frequently inept at achieving happiness or for that matter, even acting in ones own self interests and survival, let alone towards any altruistic greater values. We often tend to find ourselves figuratively barking up that proverbially wrong metaphorical tree. Self destruction ambivalence and headgames however actually motivated psychologically and emotionally, every toxic flavor of prevailing misguided and even irrational inoperant behavior does seemingly correspond also cognitively with all manner of notable false premise and expectations as to the means and causes of happiness. To wit: 

Indeed, one way or another, a common theme of Existential Absurdity, remains the constant diversionary allure of extrinsic reward and punishment, and thereby away from true fulfillment of relevant intrinsic motivation. Therefore, unless the Enlightenment age of sweet reason was all naught more than a poignantly wishful fever dream, indeed if we truly remain free agents at all, at all in command of own individual faculties, indeed autonomously as in accord with Positive Disintegration, actuated by profoundly individual values all of our own, then before ever just taking the bait even one more time, let us first reflect each upon our own scarce, unique and prized moments of joy. And then, let us reason together. And woe betide us all should anyone imagine the Dialectic as an objective. It's not. For thought worthy dialogue remains no objective or end result, but the barest beginning and indispensable.

In fear and loathing, in ever mounting anxiety and depression, in the most toxic of extrinsic motivation and coercion, punishment and reward, social life often depressingly resembles formal education. Toxic lessons are propagated and enacted in every theater of life. Social success, much like good grades, remains predicated upon remaining silent and conditioning to behaving as expected. Critical thinking, challenge and thereby growth, must be assiduously avoided.

Life is senseless suffering. But must we suffer so? And why, oh why, Dear Lord? Answer: Actually not by any caprice of divine wrath and judgment, but  from Frankensteins of our own making, institutions entirely of human creation. Because conventional paths in life for meeting social expectation, sore travail so rightly and roundly condemned and rejected here on FoolQuest.com, offer no escape from an Existentially Absurd social reality of dystressing user hostile outcomes gap, meaning such vastly inherent contradiction and setup for failure with no results no matter what one does.

And everything that we've been told to the contrary, remains nothing more than yet another appalling big lie. Social failure and isolation may come as no surprise, in consideration of our most blatantly damaged specimens of humanity, most plainly awkward and even actually deficient in personal hygiene, let alone subtleties of social skill, all thereby so woefully inadequate to heteronymous expectations of conformity. But abject social failure and isolation is also the wretched fate, not only all too often also of the most harmlessly innocuous and ordinary of people, and all to frequently, even of our best and brightest, sensitive and well spoken. The Elephant in the Room, the taboo begged question, yet remains: Why must it require such nigh dharmic consummate social skill, simply in order to function even adequately and get along in society? As it turns out, according to  journalist and science correspondent Shankar Vedantam, interviewed on on NPR, population studies have revealed that that social skills make practically no difference for adults when it comes to social connections. Indeed, lonely people actually exhibit superior social intelligence and acuity.

So why not, as only behooves flourishing democracy, any kind of system more direct and transparent? Some therefore even dare suggest that beyond whatever individual deficiency or maladaptation, there exist even the most dire systemic problems and dysfunction. That society itself, in aggregate, might be said to display and may even be said to suffer from any manner of actually entrenched pervasive developmental disorders. And the only winning move is not to play. But is there any alternative to what seems the only game in town? Answer: Yes, but only if we get serious together, in order to stop playing such toxic headgames. And never just by metaphorically going with the allegorical flow, indeed  ever figuratively circling that proverbial drain. Because failing to plan is planning to fail. Because when the going gets tough, nerds, gifted peers, work the problem. To wit:

Life is suffering. And all that We the Sheeple have so flagrantly bought into and desperately sold out for, is an irredeemable stifling toxic big lie! The truth is that both popularity, social success, on the one hand, and failure, social isolation in rejection by society on the other hand, only make most everyone lonely and miserable but only in slightly different ways. One cannot serve two masters, love, signifying intrinsic value, and mammon denoting any kind of  extrinsic reward and thereby false or dubious object of reverence and devotion. Balance is chimera, will o' the wisp. Either love or mammon must assert guiding priority over the other. And again, both out comes make most everyone miserable. Either mammon, the all consuming, grinding and oppressive social rat race for popularity and social success endures, in poignant and secret hope that love sacrificed will somehow materialize from the either, despite every true to life dramatic obstacle thereby set in its path, or love defiant, as manifest in the quest for relationship and endeavor informed by intrinsic value and autonomy, persists towards ever more difficult practical fruition.

Alas there as yet exists no clear, ready and transparent social support system for individual endeavor and outreach. And because popularity and social success ever remain antithetical to true friendship. Because friendship is genuine, substantive and intimate, being predicated upon unguarded and reciprocal psychological visibility, while popularity and social success depend upon purpose defeatingly facile superficiality ever keeping distance, keeping conversation light and innocuous, endlessly perpetuating pretence of fake fun. Such is the enactment of prevailing mythology enshrined in regressive social expectation and world view. But by exploding all such destructive myths of fraudulent social reality, even just between ourselves, and then by collaborative brainstorming and solution finding, of small scale social engineering design, might together set agenda in planning and then doing anything better, for implementation deliberately and intentionally, of purposeful interaction and substantive communication. And such remains the objective of Creativity can and Should be Social.

Because there can be no objectives of unilateral "well-formed plan" except for solitary endeavor within the meager constraints of lone individual recourse. Indeed, all unilateral social skills advice for the individual is tautologically inoperant, simply because free social interaction requires more than one consenting participant. Indeed, as it turns out, not everyone has been copied on exactly the same benighted social contract. And whatever might be deemed implicit to one, may be dismissed as blatantly obtuse by another. There is no real consensus, only such blithely concealment of controversy by sly oppressive means of intimidation and suppression of dissidence. In truth, one size fits all unilateral social skills advice online for the individual, indeed similar myth much as typically arising in casual conversation anyhow, tends implicitly toward frustratingly over simplistic and even attachment disordered mindblind dehumanizing unreliable prediction regarding the interaction and responses of others, very different people, indeed even complete strangers under very different situations. Such is socialization, behavioral conditioning that none dare call indoctrination or: brainwash. Such are the most dangerous myths of fraudulent social reality, so urgently in need of exploding. “Follow your bliss!” is the shopworn motto whereby we are each and all extolled, before being each and all summarily abandoned to our own devices.

Can there then be any systematic program of implementation towards any actual Empirically observed sustainable happiness? In answer there remains one hope even of any subversive beginning or starting point to agenda for discussion, one particular clue, one repeated salient Empirical observation: Again, that trustworthy, capable and respectful happy people talk more seriously and thrive, together engaging in creative endeavor. And all with less small talk. Happy people thrive, are more creative and productive, earn more money, attract more friends, enjoy better relationships, and even stay healthier and outlive less happy peers. Happy people are sociable, deriving fulfillment in meaningful and pleasurable engagement. Subjective happiness, beyond characteristic individual disposition alone, remains a reactive state variable of inner condition, responsive to favorable external circumstances as arising, situation in objective reality. Happiness in the experience of favorable situation, therefore accrues in meeting ones needs for capable interaction with even adequately responsible others, making progress every day. Happy people extrovertedly reach out, Talking More Seriously, fully engaged in purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication, and make less small talk, exerting effort in order to actively make things happen, attentively pursuing new understanding. happy people choose creative activities, seek new achievements, and thereby uplift their own thoughts and emotions, even improving their circumstances by centering their lives around sharing whatever pleases them most. In the words of John Mason Good: “Happiness consists in activity. It is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.”  All however, so much easier said than done.

And that is why the social engineering design of more optimally fulfilling social and intellectual stimulus struggle remains key. Social engineering is an application of social science in effort to influence particular attitudes and social behaviors as desired in whatever target population great or small, from vast nation states to  beginning far more modestly with smaller and more intimate intentional working groups and social circles as herein proposed. And in perpetual combat with loneliness and boredom, stimulus struggle is what every living thing is doing all the time, and no more or less than the perpetual striving to regulate, to obtain and maintain, the optimum kind and degree of stimulation and arousal from the surrounding environment. And in accordance with evolutionary neuroscience, for human consciousness, stimulus struggle uniquely entails the gratification of crucial social and intellectual stimulus needs and appetites, to which, in accordance not only evolutionary neuroscience, but with the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology, the unique and fully engaged Dialectic ebullience of collaboration among equals in creative solution finding and brainstorming, ever remains key. -Ambition and value to be excellently well served by serious collaborative fiction writing in unprecedented synergy concurrently with disruptively innovative new venture creation. And that is the premise and thrust of the proposal: Creativity can and Should be Social.

It has even been inferred, from the much celebrated discovery of the wisdom of crowds, that human reasoning evolved along with the human brain and society, for deliberation together, comparing individual reasons. More heads are better than one. And disagreement remains ever productive. Rhetoric of the proposal at hand therefore consists in good faith, of pathos which is emotional appeal to cherished and laudable values, together with logos, logic of best available rational relevant supporting information and reasoning. Because opposing rhetoric figures in the practice of controversy which is the invited, welcome and appreciated free exchange of criticism, even brutally candid yet no less inherently friendly, an expression of respect. For such is cogent presentation of an argument, persuasive polemical yet analytic and strategic, planning aligning activities with objectives of action agenda. But even the most relevant, contentious and vociferous controversy and incisive criticism in Socratic Dialectic and the crucible of truth, of enlightenment by refutation, only serves to hone and temper unflinching problem statement towards collaboration in brainstorming, creative solution finding and the narrative of planning.

Wake up, Sheeple! It's all about how human social order as the glorified pack mammals that we are, has come to fall so vastly short of innate needs and appetites of social and intellectual stimulus struggle entirely unique to ever more massively engorged human cerebrality: Specifically, for  collaboration among equals together in creative solution finding. A joy alas far too infrequent under conventional paradigm of stultifying heteronomy to hierarchical dominance. And the consequences to authentic wellbeing could not be more dire.

Indeed, in accordance with evolutionary neuroscience, for human consciousness, stimulus struggle uniquely requires the gratification of crucial social and intellectual stimulus needs and appetites, to which, in accordance with the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology, the unique and fully engaged Dialectic ebullience of collaboration among equals in creative solution finding and brainstorming remains key, and for which as proposed, Creativity can and Should be Social, the dual and synergistic and dynamic applications of the power of narrative, collaborative fiction writing and entrepreneurial disruptively innovative new venture creation, remain so ideal.

One way or another, however rarely though nevertheless in accordance with repeated Empirical observation informing the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology, how members in whatever sort of tribe, community or any manner of social institution, may however infrequently find themselves called upon by whatever powers that be, to participate and become involved in creative solution finding together. This may occur, for examples, when whatever employers  perceive the need of creative solutions to new problems as ever arising. Or the opportunity mat arise in some context of formal education. For whate4ver the preciously scarce and fondly remembered special occasion of collaboration in creative solution finding typically offers one fleeting bright spot of happiness and near equality amid forever grinding and typically authoritarian oppressive sore travail. Hence Creativity can and Should be Social is the subversive concept instead, of just the opposite, in flagrant reversal of all authoritarian norms and priorities of heteronomy, all for the sake of authentic wellbeing. Creativity can and Should be Social is the social engineering proposal that whatever appeal to authority ought to remain in reserve, arising only as and when actually ever needed, so that collaboration among equals in creative solution finding, should prevail as a new norm, even obsoletizing the entire depressing social rat race, at least within a fortunate intentional social circle or test group.

For example, even with no need of steady and authoritative ongoing control so long as informal and friendly collaboration among equals runs smoothly on its own most of the time, even add hoc formal moderation may be called upon however occasionally for guidance in resolution of persistent deadlock, or for maintaining order in the face of intractable disruption, as in cases of hostile flaming and bullying. After all, hostility is rightly ruled out of bounds in the practice of controversy, so vital to to brainstorming free exchange in solution finding and collaboration among equals. Controversy is just such Dialectical fun! For controversy means the welcome and appreciated exchange of criticism and rebuttal. Because for together choosing the best ideas, controversy, the welcome and appreciated exchange of genuine criticism, remains nothing to fear, nothing threatening or hostile. Because criticism remains inherently friendly, an expression of esteem. And that is how people who disagree even vociferously, but entirely without acrimony, are often the best at cooperation even quite without needless ongoing hierarchical dominance so oppressively quelling all dissent, honesty and creativity. For such is maximal authority simply for keeping everyone in line as mindless drones. By contrast, among the cherished values of democracy, first and foremost remains freedom under only most minimal authority and coercion. For as the venerable old saying goes: No question is too stupid to ask, and no answer too wise to be given.

Gentle reader, search your soul: Can you be trustworthy and responsible? Again to quote Frederick Law Olmsted: "After all is said and done, much is said and little is done." But why is such so often the case? Might there be discovered any correlation between the quality of discourse and viability of ensuing action? That is the question! For in the words of Benjamin Disraeli: “Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” Indeed, to quote Henri-Louis Bergson, so eloquently bridging abstract principle into concrete application: “Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought." And sound deliberation into right action will be best served  by meeting ones needs for capable interaction with even adequately responsible others competent in collaboration among equals and creative solution finding, instead of the inconsistent and meaninglessly futile unexamined life, so famously decried by Socrates as unfit for any human being, and still foisted upon the masses even after all these thousands of years of civilization. And the disruptive innovation of effective collaboration among equals requires honest transparency via the practice of controversy which is the invited, welcome and appreciated exchange of criticism, a joy in and of it self so crucial to authentic wellbeing and to relationship, especially friendship, and all in defiance of all unexamined and misguided insipid conventional wisdom, long standing myths to be exploded.

As Socrates so famously declares: “An unexamined life is not worth the living for a human being." Striving together, let us then begin most modestly by even testing the very hypothesis, that even full Dialectic engagement in analytic yet strategic deliberation together as proposed, and Socratic  enlightenment by refutation, will reveal true hope and already begin lifting spirits and at all improve happiness. Perhaps then as awareness propagates online, others, welcome, will come forth and  join in, networking and contributing their own resource and talent. For in that proverbial journey of a thousand miles that begins with but one single step, herein find outreach for just such "unreasonable" collaboration cofounders, a steady and gentle yet disciplined learning curve together beginning simply by welcoming sustaining ongoing serious analytic yet strategic and pertinent discussion, indeed bridging the abstract (generally why) and the concrete (specifically how), in thoughtful action agenda. In the words of Henri-Louis Bergson: “Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought."  For any lonesome frustrated desire tells a story, needs a plan, and calls out for allies. When all else has failed, what has actually been desired all along? Gentle reader, I do not have what you want, but dare we seek for it together? We might succeed dare we try! 

Change our conversation, reset the agenda, and change the world!

And lo, the star first follower shall become the true leader and influencer, showing others how to participate and to relate, blazing the trail of welcome!

For any lonesome frustrated desire tells a story, needs a plan, and calls out for allies

 

Surely, candid and open yet realistic serious conversation, hopefully upon such an important, interesting and uplifting topic, and barring unmanageable trepidation of decidophobia, remains the very minimum initial and tentative commitment to any purpose. It might even be fun! Of course, there can be no guarantees. But if even that little will be just too much bother, just too much to ask, nerdy, socially awkward, taboo and timidly dismissed out of hand, then pray do tell: Precisely what permitted measures are there so much more easy and effective, and to what end? And so, gentle reader, which among opposing inclinations do you intend to feed?

 

Let us then together test the very hypothesis, that even full engagement in analytic yet strategic conversation as proposed, will reveal true hope and already lift spirits, entirely free from any of the usual self manipulative motivational chicanery of bogus willful positivity, dangerous and destructive myth so interminably foisted and inflicted upon the unwitting hapless masses.

Question: Does philosophy any longer strive for arête, or merely investigate in the abstract? Answer: Towards Eudemonia, practical philosophical investigation must bridge the abstract and the concrete, sharing and cultivating habits of clear thinking and expression crucial to effective action in welcome of collaboration among equals in creative solution finding as in, as proposed, the sustained exercise of the pure creativity in collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming, in liberating synergy concurrently with subversive and disruptively innovative entrepreneurial new venture creation, purposeful interaction all requiring substantive communication and psychological visibility,.

Gentle reader, do you long for an unconventional life? Then where to begin? And what is of essence? Stimulus struggle, what every living thing is doing all of the time, remains no more or less than the perpetual striving to regulate, to obtain and maintain, the optimum kind and degree of stimulation and arousal from the surrounding environment. And in accordance with evolutionary neuroscience, for human consciousness, stimulus struggle uniquely demands the gratification of crucial social and intellectual stimulus needs and appetites, to which, in accordance with the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology, the unique and fully engaged Dialectic ebullience of collaboration among equals in creative solution finding and brainstorming remains key, and for which as proposed, Creativity can and Should be Social, the dual and synergistic and dynamic applications of the power of narrative, collaborative fiction writing and Entrepreneurial disruptively innovative new venture creation, remain so ideal. Indeed, trustworthy, capable and respectful happy people talk more seriously and thrive, together engaging in creative endeavor. And all with less small talk. There will be far more important and interesting agenda at hand: Indeed, such happiness embodies the very antithesis of all ever toxic and sanctioned expectations enacted in antisocial and distant insubstantive superficial )_ to which so many have become accustomed and socialized into.

For even such prospect merely of Dialectic engagement, even most anciently demonstrates promise of escape from the Existentially Absurd perpetual bait-and-switch dilemma between blatant lonely isolation and unhappiness inflicted from not fitting in, or else more devious lonely isolation, indeed the painfully lonely boredom of inauthentic conditionality of fitting in, often such an all consuming full time occupation. Heteronomy, conformism and the endless dance of popularity frequently become Orwellian, all consuming, draining and tremendously costly, undermining not only autonomy, independent thinking and ambition, but even the human capacity to genuinely relate to one another, to form relationship and friendship. Indeed, that's Why Nerds Are Unpopular: Because nerds invest their precious time, not in the extensive and complicated dance of popularity, but cultivating genuine interests and values of their own. But in fundamental paradigm shift, can creativity conceivably become actually popular? After all, creativity is found most productively to flourish by continual alternation flowing between creativity in lone contemplative solitude and vibrant expressive creative interaction together.

Yes: Creativity can and Should be Popular!

FoolQuest.com advances the unique analytically strategic and subversive agenda of Creativity can and Should be Social, a specific and relevant purposeful human interaction of  pure creativity in collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming, in liberating synergy concurrently with subversive and disruptively innovative entrepreneurial new venture creation, purposeful interaction all requiring substantive communication and psychological visibility, and all via specific intentional formation of a more welcoming and open minded yet skeptical immediate social circle or group. Clubs that meet regularly, are known thereby to provide for propinquity. Although, with a little outgoing initiative and persistence, and given the opportunity, so can the telephone, if only the other party is receptive. It's nice to be needed! Not to digress. In particular, cooperation on group projects, even somewhat arbitrarily, has been observed to bring people together and promote friendship, But any sense of arbitrary meaningless and pointlessness thereby remaining Existentially Absurd, may instead backfire, aimlessly risking needless peril of bored and lonely dystress of ever increasing alienation and futility, far from friendship and attachment.

Be all that as it may, one possible and applicable strategic explanation of the greater efficacy in social outreach of groups working together in social situations, over the lone efforts of any single individual, might be found, at least in any part, in the phenomena of informational social influence or: social "proof" wherein individuals are informed and then imitate the behavior of others around them. After all, that fabled star first follower transforms a lone nut into a leader. And: "When in Rome, do as the Romans do." But as to any deliberate strategy in purposeful application of informational social influence or: social "proof," indeed such as striving to appear popular by being seen in public together with others, all of this presents a catch-22, a double bind, unless one is already blessed with the requisite social support, networking connections and resources.

 

Because secure and effective social embedment is also important to wellbeing. Does then social success remain elusive without social success already? An outreach herein is further proposed, called: Creativity can and Should be Popular, under the premise that if participation in an intentional creative group or social circle as herein proposed, Creativity can and Should be Social might naturally come to exert informational social influence or: social "proof." when desirable experience and/or salutary results for participants in  Creativity can and Should be Social readily becomes Empirically observable to others and then word spreads. The outreach probortunity then of Creativity can and Should be Popular will be not only how best to leverage Creativity can and Should be Social not only for ongoing recruitment, but as actually the greater priority, in order to facilitate and improve for participants, individual interpersonal networking and forging and improving relationships. Creativity can and Should be Popular: a concept of making you the PR priority!

Indeed, if only any two or more individuals can imagine different, then relationship ensues, a new more proximate experimental superseding closer social reality. Smaller social circles or relationships of two or more individuals, are well known to forge their own unique social contracts and expectations amongst themselves. On the one hand, group dynamics may remain unimaginatively bound to prior socialization, or else on the other hand abandoning all propriety, they may co validate and normalize any conceivable deviance no matter how senseless and destructive. Both extremes remain depressingly common. Indeed, elements of both may often coexist and manifest in the group dynamics of the self same social circle. For there may often be found no more staunch conformists than the most flagrant deviants, and no deeper deviance and conviction than such blithely Absurd hypocrisy in desperate mimesis of all that one can never truly be. Indeed, such is true to life Comedy of Manners.

But for those most fortunate among us, there can also be at all more functional and congenial social circles characterized, perhaps even intentionally and by design, guided by whatever more congenial, productive and laudable values in action, networking for one another first and foremost for each our own best interests and delight, but never for anything more devious, manipulative, ulterior, strange, dangerous and exploitative.

After all, whereas immutable physical reality neither seeks nor requires approval or consent, social reality, sore travail even as all to often no less Absurd, remains a direct product of human acquiescence and participation, even as all to often, quite dysfunctional. For such is the dynamic power of narrative and the stories we buy into or not. And hence the ambition of Transactional Analysis, instead to live out happier stories, via Antithesis, a cunning repertoire of stock radically honest curve ball responses, in order to derail toxic Ulterior Transactions or: headgames. And thus intentionally enacting better narratives of our own invention, and even by researching, investigating and rôle modeling from more trustworthy happier people, rather than blindly following the most toxic of prevailing norms, insipid myths and misguided social expectations. Indeed, even by the social engineering design of more optimally fulfilling social and intellectual stimulus struggle.

Creativity can and Should be Social is a proposed ongoing endeavor of pure creativity in collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming, in liberating synergy   concurrently with subversive and disruptively innovative entrepreneurial new venture creation. Because collaboration in storytelling and business or project planning remain similar and related applications in the dynamic power of narrative and therein of creative solution finding. A business or project plan is a kind of story, an even dramatic futuring scenario rigorously detailing a projected path to success. But whereas, at least barring the outright surreal, a good story only needs to seem plausible, a viable plan must be rendered rigorously feasible. And yet both remain excellent means to pleasurable and meaningful optimal reciprocal engagement, most important among intrinsic social and intellectual human stimulus appetites, congenial and indeed fully engaged path to social support, mastery and success. For any lonesome frustrated desire tells a story, needs a plan, and calls out for allies. Gentle reader, I do not have what you want, but dare we seek for it together? We might succeed dare we try! 

 

The importance of proceeding steadily at our own pace in small reversible steps:

To quote Ernest Hemingway: "Never confuse movement with action." Indeed, as Thomas Carlyle put it: “Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight."

Neither high pressure facile flimflam of hurried hustle and deceptive manipulation, nor passive hostile stalling and foot-dragging metaphorically pulling out the figurative rug metaphorically out from under, but responsibly proceeding in true collaboration among equals steadily at our own pace in small reversible steps, business or project planning together, creative solution finding, and capable management team formation.

Remaining realistic in the ongoing practice of controversy which is the invited, welcome and appreciated exchange of criticism, and proceeding steadily at our own pace in small reversible steps, each participant must be held accountable in all good will, if only in ongoing open discussion, assessment and solution finding, of whatever problems, and delays as ever arising. Also by making place for dissent, sympathetically and effectively addressing all sincere dissatisfaction. Alas, all too often, responsibility may demand confronting also any mounting passive foot dragging and disinclination or animosity.

In such eventuality, instead of then surrendering to escalating discouragement, allowing all endeavor to grind to a halt, hope to dissipate, and collaboration to dissolve, the most constructive deterrent in Transactional Antithesis to nullify all such destructive passive power plays, might be a standing policy of ongoing solution finding in order simply to keep options open and thereby simply bypass just such aggravations, and of outreach in ongoing recruitment as ever required and qualified in order to pick up the slack. This will take the joy out of passive hostile sabotage.

If all goes well in the progress of new venture creation, entrepreneurship for the rest of us beginning with serious ongoing collaborative fiction writing as a bonding exercise and in order to initiate and nurture creative interaction, all with anything less at stake at first, it will remain ever important to proceed steadily at our own pace, with neither hasty high pressure nor interminable delay and paralysis, neither forcibly or hurriedly urged forward underhandedly and precipitously hustled and dishonestly scammed, nor at the other extreme, subject to bad faith passive hostility of unreliable stalling and  foot-dragging delay with everyone waiting in exasperation, of being deliberately slow to do something that one is supposed to do because actually one simply does not want to, and indeed actual never will. Beware of those who like to keep others perpetually on hold, simply in order to keep their own options open. They talk big and never deliver. To mix metaphors, the sheer passive hostility of ever stalling, foot dragging and making promise with no intention of ever keeping them, pulls the rug our from others who have lamentably misplaced their trust in anyone so flagrantly unreliable and untrustworthy. The typical procrastinator does not feel like taking action at whatever time or juncture, waiting instead until indeed feeling more like it. But of course, they never will.

One way or another, scammers of whatever ilk one way or another typically subject the mark to endless delay, never delivering as promised, and/ or, indeed even at the same time, even the same scammers, so urgently rush the mark to hurry and act quickly. Procrastinators are typically ambivalent, unready to ever make up their minds. -in denial and just lying outright, if only to themselves.  And similarly, the frantic and hasty hustler, Munchausens or cult like confidence trickster peddling pipedream, will never come around to responsibility or reform themselves, come clean and honestly embrace reality, no matter whatever even so earnestly lofty ends to justify whatever destructive and  dishonest means of scamming so blithely glossed over. 

Both types, the passive hostile neurotic and the frantic high pressure hurried grifter, may typically begin by making themselves at least seemingly somehow indispensable, but they bring only liability of poor character, squandered talent and glandulous know-it-all unaware incompetence, contemptuous of other knowledge and expertise. But they are never truly indispensable, and there is always another better strategy multipotential polymath cross discipline. The value of any trustworthy partner in collaboration, comes in how they can be relied upon and what they openly contribute, not from raised expectations and artificial scarcity in whatever that they so calculatingly withhold, real or imagined. 

Alas that the mistake of introducing a good contact to a bad contact, may often result in the alienation and the loss of the good contact. But that is not the path of serial failure until success. Let us then cultivate the resiliency and good faith to recover together from upsets, instead of just coming apart in disappointment. Neither undue haste nor entrenched inertia, but as Aesop teaches us,  slow and steady perseverance wins the race. And better still, without catastrophic sacrifice and like George Soros in adherence to the recommendation of Sir Karl Popper, in soundly deliberated small and reversible steps.

In philosophical defense of the Creativity can and Should be Social agenda of serious collaborative fiction writing and disruptively innovative new venture creation: Most broadly, even beyond deferred gratification in success in any whatever yearned for outcomes, the Eudemonistic probortunity at hand remains that of desired ongoing interim experience of social and intellectual stimulus struggle, disruptive innovation ever striving to combat boredom and loneliness via gratification and fulfillment of intrinsic social and intellectual human stimulus appetites as determined by evolutionary neuroscience and in accordance with the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology.

Wake up, Sheeple! It's all about how human social order as the glorified pack mammals that we are, has come to fall so vastly short of innate needs and appetites of social and intellectual stimulus struggle entirely unique to ever more massively engorged human cerebrality: Specifically, for  collaboration among equals together in creative solution finding. A joy alas far too infrequent under conventional paradigm of stultifying heteronomy to hierarchical dominance. And the consequences to authentic wellbeing could not be more dire.

 

But what if one simply mistrusts philosophy, after all a discipline of such long and widespread ill repute, and for that matter generally cares neither for storytelling nor business? Of course, everyone is different. But no good sense making comes from simply ignoring philosophy in grappling with any plainly philosophical questions. Indeed, to quote Aristotle, and indeed as Axiological dimensions of the very probortunity at hand must well attest: “All things in life are philosophical.“ Because philosophical examination is the application of reason in setting consistent principles and values to guide decisions in life. Hence as Socrates so famously declares: “An unexamined life is not worth the living for a human being.” And no human skill is automatic or self evident, much less the digestion and evaluation of ideas, philosophy and habits of clear thinking.

Alas many condemn philosophy as completely abstract and thereby entirely impractical. Because philosophy indeed deals in the most broadly applicable abstraction. And all too true, abstract principle not informed by objective reality and practically, remains no less deranged than supposedly practical consideration devoid of thoughtful guiding abstract principle. Therefore philosophy indeed becomes effete except by bridging the gap and maintaining the connection between generality of abstraction on the one hand, and Empirical practicality on the other hand. Said compartmentalization between the abstract and the concrete, remains a prevalent and highly effective memeplex, undermining both Empirical science and transfer from scientific discovery to practical strategy. Again to quote Ernest Hemingway: “Never confuse movement with action.“ Indeed, as Thomas Carlyle put it: “Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.”

There also remains the lamentable common misconception that disagreement equals strife. Therefore many condemn philosophy as judgmental and miserable. Nevertheless  the disputants in Plato's Dialogues do seem to be enjoying themselves. And so should we all. Anti-intellectualism condemn philosophy as agitation, whereas people should remain blithely content, endure and conform, just by second nature. Indeed, those who won't just take a hint, may even find themselves certified as blithely intensive, behaviorally inoperant, psychiatrically disturbed, generally loony and obdurate. But in truth, philosophy merely helps to articulate and perhaps even ever howsoever to combat, all manner of objectively real existing causes and matters of morally sincere and perfectly honest, legitimate and entirely reactive discontent.

To wit: If and when we come together, shall indeed we be richer for it? What is most crucial to that fabled opposite of loneliness and boredom, that most favorable social situation of authentic individual wellbeing? To begin with, there will be more myths to be exploded: Firstly, successful social cohesion can be no value in and of itself, because even social cohesion alone can actually be so tremendously unhappy, profoundly dysfunctional and outright malignant. Therefore oppressively arbitrary social cohesion is to be avoided like the very plague that it has always been. As George Orwell so clearly understood, the alienation of individuals from one another, remains too high a cost for the typical brutality of heteronymous social cohesion. Empirically, even such factors as typical granfalloon membership in group identity and even interests in common, remain empty and unfulfilling distraction at best, and actually remain quite ineffective in bringing about interpersonal bonding and attachment. Indeed, like group identity or membership, shared interests in common are perhaps among the least predicators of interpersonal compatibility.

Alas to make matters worse, that entrepreneurs, not unlike like writers, are often characterized as solitary self reliant loners, with such difficulty just getting out of their own way, even notoriously incapable of delegating. The struggle for individual freedom and capable power as expressed in the the ambition of Entrepreneurship and disruptively innovative new venture creation, so often remains solitary in no small part because the wannabe Entrepreneur much like the aspiring writer, sallies forth alone without the corporate resources of employment. Anyone aspiring and yearning to experience creative fulfillment in Entrepreneurial success, in new venture creation, has surely become well cognizant of the most embryonic first-concept inception or: "kitchen table" stage or phase of new venture creation, following from the metaphor of aspiring cofoundes gathered round the proverbial kitchen table, concretizing their vision. And those will be so fondly remembered as the happiest days of friendship. Creativity can and Should be Social, beyond mere individual character and disposition. Indeed, creativity is found most productively to flourish by continual alternation flowing between creativity in lone contemplative solitude and vibrant expressive creative interaction together.

 

And yet, all fond enthusiasm notwithstanding, as yet there remains virtually no readily accessible community, support for, or even literature, regarding the most embryonic first-concept "kitchen table" stage or phase of new venture creation, let alone outreach and recruitment thereto. Perhaps this is because the learning curve, the challenge, let alone the magnitude of solution finding, only boggles the mind, and the sheer volume of labor rightly anticipated will be so daunting. Or because the lone aspirant with no comrades in life struggle, or at any rate, no one trustworthy, will be summarily dismissed, deemed such lost and lonely souls, unpopular beyond any bother of salvation. Or perhaps the probortunity arises merely in reflection to the penchant of dronelike formal education to so slavishly admire, but never actually to teach and emulate, the lofty greatness of leadership on the part of exceptional men and women of destiny, so lonely at the top. Or perhaps, actually, this is all simply because there is just no money to be made in catering to the actual capability needs of those who are not as yet actually already showing any profit as serial Entrepreneurs, not withstanding the importance of serial failure until at last reaching first success, leveraging the learning curve towards first overcoming all manner of inertia. As Edward Snowden observes, oppressors who restrict our options, then pretend that we consent. Because for wretches such as we, there must be no ready escape at all from the only wretched game in town! For such remains the banal rank hypocrisy of glowing lip service to independence while fostering helplessness and dependency.

 

But true capability accrues in the accessibility of whatever needed resources as individually perceived, attainable in freedom to chose in actual practice and not merely in theory. Alas,  to reiterate, the market only caters to successful serial Entrepreneurs already making money in business, who can and will pay. And meanwhile, desperate wannabes are ever scammed with no end of dazzling but dubious offers and so-called opportunities. In better alternative, social support is so often deemed the single greatest predicator of success. Alas then, that not everyone is ever availed of likeminded social support, even to  muddle haphazardly in efforts at new venture creation and entrepreneurship for the rest of us. Creativity can and Should be Social is conceived to at all fill that gap with a more welcoming new kind of community.