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Too serious yet not serious enough, remains such quasi-authoritative rightthink in such picayune enmity with writing style, authorial voice, or even hypertext webdesign, all to such dogged and inane diversionary and obstructive irrelevant soft-flame exclusion of message content from due consideration. And what strange, passive hostile, short attention backhanded invalidation ever can there be, more manipulative and conflicting than whatever craven proffer howsoever ostensibly of such well meaning help and advice, but only while keeping distance? Indeed, without engaging or becoming involved? Indeed, without respect or regard toward substance and authorial intent? Of what relevance?

By contrast, first valid consideration arising and remaining ever crucial in more substantive critique: Any serious author retains every right and bears full responsibility of explicitly seeking indeed whatever manner and kind of feedback as they themselves perceive the need and as most helpful and relevant. And under the human condition, communications struggle replete with all manner of genuine communications errors and failures, remains nigh inevitable. What then best may be done, ever incase of communications failure and reciprocal incomprehension? That is the question! And the answer remains: full collaboration in ever ongoing miscommunication repair.

Because writing is like photography: Easy to do but difficult to do well. In whatever context or application, writing is rewriting, hard work and never a waste of time. But to always get it right the first time, say very little and dare nothing new. And therefore ever the same interminably ubiquitous stock bad writing advice, and especially the witless anti-intellectual semiliterate exhortation to simple minded simple writing style, all be damned!

Honestly, if only I already knew whatever remains unclear in message content herein, how so and why, I would already have revised accordingly. So please, lets just go over it all, line by line, as ever necessary. I do as much for others. So, why all the fuss? Sorry to become so brusque, gentle reader, but the point seemingly escapes and somehow repeatedly and persistently fails to come across.

Therefore, to reiterate and request most emphatically, in any such event here on FoolQuest.com, fully engaged Socratic Dialectical participation in miscommunication protocols and discipline as further expounded herein, remains indispensable to excellence in Miscommunication Competence so crucial towards Conversational Adequacy.
 

 

 

 

 

A trenchant parable of lonely togetherness: Imagine a seminar upon of all things, and strained metaphor just for contrivance of illustration, how to form a regulation Bedrock barefoot bowling team. The great regulation bowling team formation guru, perhaps none other than The Dude Lebowski (Lebrockski? Lebstoenski?), 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. And from the very dawn of time, so solemnly vow do they all.   And from the regulation bowling team organizing guru, indeed no less than The Dude Lebowski, even in such preposterous cartoon preincarnation, they all learn the purportedly foolproof secrets towards each their similar objectives. In precisely all such enduring antediluvian ritual, thus has it ever been, thus shall it ever be!     Afterwards, eyes henceforth forever averted, they all quietly disperse, each once again alone, filing 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. Yes, once again so blithely led about by the nose, flagrantly manipulated and then finding ourselves summarily abandoned each and all to our own devices.

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? As in penetrating dialogue scripted by Bobcat Goldthwait for Robin Williams in the rôle of Lance Clayton in ‘World's Greatest Dad:’ “I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.” Superficially committed to such manic and desperate pep rallies encouraging one another, yet in subtext only inflicting such reciprocal shunning and contempt, what succor will ever rally and penetrate such abysmal defeat and indolent covert masochism? Yaba-daba-don't!

 

 

 

 

 

 

The FoolQuest.com agenda:                       Eudemonia in our time

Asking of others what no one else dares ask, find extolled herein, that which only FoolQuest.com dares even seek to offer:

To wit: On the one hand, a select short but broad compendium, towards applied creativity called: innovation, of very different select sample entrepreneurial new venture proposals of various business startup ideas; and concurrently also, on the other hand, for the sake of pure creativity, of art for its own joy, a curated selection of sample original unfinished stories, writing prompts and provocations.

Because each among dual endeavor such as herein extolled, remains merely differing application of the dazzling power of narrative. After all, sound business planning amounts to feasibility study crafting and telling a persuasively realistic story.

And all, as herein proposed, in open and ongoing creative solution finding and collaborative brainstorming exploration, fully fleshing out right here on FoolQuest.com, all manner of both business startup plans and story ideas alike, via asynchronous text communication.

And by all means gentle reader, go ahead and pitch whatever your own notions!

Thus to initiate a vibrant process of (pre-)incubation online, indeed nurturing all manner of conceivable innovative new venture creation (various business startup), along with with an open ongoing genuine and intensive serious fiction writer's bull session online, for high quality and imaginative collaborative output in drama and Science Fiction. Thereby building team rapport in a culture of helping, wherein, to quote John Storrs Hall: “Ideas should compete, bodies should cooperate.” All such convivial freedom of varied and limitless creativity together, that so many only dare dream of, ours for the having: 

Dual vehicles indeed, for unique and unprecedented close collaboration in creative solution finding and brainstorming. Indeed toward nothing less than social engineering design thinking into the very identification, cultivation and orchestration, gentle reader, stimulation and arousal, of nothing less than your own unique and distinctly individual social and intellectual triggers for happiness, into an intentional social environment. No shit.

And thus therein also, just perhaps, a vibrantly better and more agreeable mode and reinvention of social life, outreach for vital connection and networking, even to begin supplanting the ubiquitously ever toxic rat-race of popularity and social success. Indeed, just perhaps, even an escape at long last, from mediocrity and the entire depressing failure of conventionality in every walk of life. 

Because, in those wise words of Henri-Louis Bergson: “Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.” For as John Mason Good observed: “Happiness consists in activity. It is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.” Indeed, to quote Alain de Botton: “One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.” Indeed, to site Martin Seligman's celebrated happiness formula of Positive Psychology: Pleasure + engagement + meaning = intrinsic fulfillment.

And sound business planning amounts to feasibility study crafting and telling a persuasively realistic story. And thence, if all goes well, all the way through to ongoing recruitment, management team formation, multiple rounds of capitalization, detailed implementation, growth and then exit strategy, where and as ever applicable. But not to get ahead of ourselves. There ever will remains far to go and much to do, before the affronter of asking anyone in their right mind, to invest!

Indeed, perhaps most practically, all first via the institution of intentional community and infrastructure of social support conducive to entrepreneurship for the rest of us, no longer so daunting and obscure for the masses. Or at least initially, more modestly, intentional social circle or group formation. Perhaps even an open yet responsible working group and steering committee ever striving to bring all such bold vision into fruition. Although once again, not to get ahead of ourselves.

And all because, one way or another, at least initially, rather than sweeping the world out from left field, any bold, liberating and empowering subversion of hierarchy, not unlike forbidden love, necessarily nurtures in microcosm. Indeed even somewhat covertly and conspiratorially, when any two or more individuals interacting and taking initiative must finally innovate: at long to begin doing things differently and howsoever more capably together and persist. Building team rapport in a culture of helping. Indeed, Eudemonia via, as extolled herein, ongoing collaboration in creative solution finding and brainstorming. A standing and open invitation to all comers, all interested parties.

Indeed even by subversive, disruptive and bold visionary design thinking social engineering innovation and exploration as propounded anon, in an unprecedented pioneering new Social Engineering design process herein extolled. Indeed all towards nothing less than the veritable orchestration of your happiness, gentle reader, by actual design, indeed veritable real life collaborative World Building, via nothing less than implementation and embedment indeed of unique and individually tailored social and intellectual stimuli and arousal into an intentional social environment or scenario.

And all because that which is named: stimulus struggle, remains nothing less than the ongoing and 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. And by extension, more species specific, social and intellectual stimulus struggle in particular, remains the ongoing and perpetual striving of every aware human psyche, to regulate, to obtain and maintain, the optimum kind and degree of social and intellectual stimulation and arousal from whatever immediate social environment. And thereby to modify subjective experience, thus altering consciousness itself.

Alas then as has ever come to pass, how so many people deep down feel one way or another deprived of some or other very personal, specific and favorite but all too scarce, infrequent and sorely missed social and intellectual trigger bringing on most treasured peak life experience.

Or indeed, even so little as an intelligent conversation!

And commonly, one such arousing and empowering social and intellectual stimulus event indeed of  specific and favorite but all too scarce, infrequent and sorely missed social and intellectual trigger, remains any extended occurrence of collaboration among equals in creative solution finding and perhaps even brainstorming together. Indeed upon whatever probortunity as howsoever ratified to agenda. A typically so fondly remembered but alas scarce and infrequent fleetingly joyful chance experience, all at the whims, in whatever context, of whomever our controlling societal betters indeed, who set the agenda for us all, from day to day, whether one likes it or not.

For such remains the probortunity at hand. For the portmanteau: 'probortunity,' from the two words: 'problem' and 'opportunity,' signifies nothing less than golden opportunity as inherent to the most urgent problems. Indeed, the more dire, the more propitious. And as ever, indeed in framing any and all probortunity at hand: Look for the Solution within the Problem!  

Therefore, in any possible better alternative to acquiescence within any malignant status quo, indeed in better autonomy and initiative, only consider the very probortunity at hand, of any conceivable more deliberate course of action: Indeed even conceivably any specific regimen of creative solution finding and brainstorming agenda most optimal for social and intellectual stimulus struggle and Eudemonia therein.

And one optimal agenda to that end, remains entry into innovative new venture creation (various business startup), in such freedom of limitless possibility that so many can only dream of. Yes, and if all goes well, all the way through to ongoing recruitment, management team formation, multiple rounds of capitalization, implementation, growth and then exit strategy, where and as ever applicable. But of course, not to get ahead of ourselves.

And even beginning from, for another and different specific solution finding and brainstorming agenda likewise most optimal in propulsion of vibrant social and intellectual stimulus struggle and Eudemonia, there remains as herein extolled, emersion into the pure creativity of serious collaborative fiction writing, no less heady and indeed most purely creative art for its own joy.

Therefore only imagine then, indeed some sort of regimen artfully combining both the two, ongoing, open and accessible to all online. As in vibrant pursuit of autonomy, creative fulfillment, freedom and power in, as herein conceived, an ongoing open collaborative (pre-)incubator online nurturing innovative new venture creation (various business startup). For indeed the possibilities do remain endless! Indeed, entrepreneurship for the rest of us. And beginning from, for pure creativity in art for its own joy, all concurrently and interstitially in tandem also with an open ongoing genuine and intensive serious fiction writer's bull session online, for high quality and imaginative collaborative output in drama and Science Fiction.

Find then provided herein, right here on FoolQuest.com, both a select short but broad compendium, for applied creativity, of various select innovative sample entrepreneurial new venture proposals, and concurrently also for pure creativity, art for its own joy, a curated selection of sample original unfinished stories, writing prompts and provocations.

Because each are merely different applications of the same vibrant power of narrative. After all, sound planning amounts to crafting and telling a persuasively realistic story.

This, with each of either likewise presented similarly, as herein extolled, even beyond even valued, crucial and fully appreciated mere critique/criticism and feedback alone. Indeed likewise, publicly invited further open and ongoing collaborative exploration, actionable feasibility study or merely narrative plot plausibility as applicable, modification, variation, expansion and improvement, back and forth, and all via asynchronous text communication. Fleshing out all manner of both business startup plans and story ideas alike. Therefore, openly discuss: Read and respond. Then read whatever replies, and begin sustained discussion. And by all means gentle reader, go ahead and pitch whatever your own notions!

And indeed, gentle reader, all to test the very hypothesis that completely honest, hard nosed and fully engaged Socratic Dialectical feasibility study, analytic yet strategic, as herein right here and now invited for all comers, all interested parties, upon precisely all such agenda of creativity, ambition and daunting challenge, nevertheless will already begin lifting spirits together in true creativity and the will to power. Indeed even entirely without cognitive dissonance from any of the usual ever manipulative socialization, brainwash and Behaviorist motivational grift of typically inane pep talks, so heartbreakingly insulting to the intelligence. 

And make no mistake: For precisely such as aforementioned dual Literary and Entrepreneurial collaboration, as shall be seen, remains entirely integral in addressing the human situation more broadly. And all so fraught with endless objectively real world dramatic obstacles and complications on nothing less than the Hero's Journey, attempting anything really cool together.  

Indeed, perhaps most practically, via the institution of intentional community and infrastructure of social support. Or at least initially, more modestly, intentional social circle or group formation. Perhaps even an open yet responsible working group and steering committee ever striving to bring all such bold vision into fruition.

And all therefore, only imagine if you can, if we dare, any brand new and ready alternative in very antithesis and sheer Peripeteia to the entire depressing petty and practical oppression as to render every personal freedom so entirely theoretical and thwarted. All such that we have known and suffered under heteronomy and knee-jerk conformity to hierarchical dominance. Indeed instead, any free and pure escape at long last, from the entire dispiriting, unhappy and alienating sore travail of mediocrity: the very rat-race of popularity and social success, along with the entire failure of conventionality in every walk of life.

Indeed even by subversive and disruptive design thinking social engineering innovation as herein propounded, of practical intentional community and infrastructure of social support. Or at least initially, more modestly, intentional social circle or group formation. Perhaps even an open yet responsible working group and steering committee ever striving to bring all such vision into fruition. Actually as herein, at least due social engineering design thinking exploration indeed of the vision herein on FoolQuest.com, of concurrent and interstitial Entrepreneurial and Literary collaboration.

All hence find herein on FoolQuest.com, first concept of a more effective and fulfilling paradigm shift in authentic wellbeing in outreach for vital connection and networking, all serving as crux whereupon shall pivot, from precisely such aforementioned Entrepreneurial and Literary collaboration as herein extolled right here on FoolQuest.com, any more transparent and readily available meaningful and pleasurable optimally reciprocally engaged and fulfilling alternative in social life, to the present conventional, learned helpless, Nihilistic, alienated, oppressive, toxic, stultifyingly superficial and predatory rat-race of popularity and social success.

Actually nothing less than an innovative social engineering design thinking vision of and outreach actually for an unprecedented new and subversively disruptive alternative way or modality of social life and function. And all centered upon as aforementioned, creative solution finding and brainstorming: Entrepreneurial and Literary collaboration among equals in a culture of helping. A veritable Action Salon, online! 

Indeed even by subversive and disruptive design thinking social engineering innovation as herein propounded, of practical intentional community and infrastructure of social support. Or at least initially, more modestly, intentional social circle or group formation. Perhaps even an open yet responsible working group and steering committee ever striving to bring all such vision into fruition. Because, as Sir Karl Popper held forth, actual social change and liberation must be brought about most effectively by the forging of bold new lasting social institutions. Indeed as herein, via social engineering design thinking exploration and implementation, indeed of precisely the vision herein on FoolQuest.com, of as aforesaid, concurrent and interstitial Entrepreneurial and Literary collaboration.

For as John Cleese expounds: “Creativity is not a talent: it's a way of operating.” Indeed beyond any mere individual trait, characteristic or mode of expression, creativity remains a key aspect of more optimal social and intellectual stimulus struggle and authentic wellbeing. Not only that Creativity can and Should be Social, but even how Creativity Can and Should be Popular.

Not merely valued, but charming, engaging and attractive, duly celebrated and no longer dorky, awkward, bullied and routinely persecuted. And because, the forging of attachments of true friendship possible only under genuine and authentic autonomy, therefore arises only and entirely as a byproduct of purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication and believe it or not, never otherwise. 

For the masses remain ever languishing at the mercy of the Terrible Trivium, the more alienated with every breath, lonely enough to die, and just bored to tears.

Alas then, how under ever stifling authoritarian heteronomy, autonomy, independent thinking, solution finding creativity, innovation,  and especially truth to power, all remain so utterly threatening to that entire mindset. That is, until at long last, inevitably, as howsoever deemed by whatever great and good powers that be, precisely autonomy, independent thinking, solution finding creativity, innovation, and wonder of wonders, even bald faced truth, all become even momentarily indispensable in the face of whatever imminent and otherwise insurmountable probortunity, as ever, the more dire, the more propitious.

Alas however, that any such highly unusual occasions ever remain so few and far between. And intelligent and sensitive people must no longer remain endlessly compelled ever to wait for such all too brief, scarce and infrequent liberation!

All therefore, find herein, standing open invitation right here on FoolQuest.com, for all comers, all interested parties, into ongoing collaborative brainstorming and creative solution finding, so heady and fondly remembered but alas needlessly infrequent and generally taboo experience, always most salutary for participants therein. Indeed, all generally as according to the very latest peer reviewed bleeding edge Empirical happiness science arriving at rediscovery of the most enduring wisdom from the greatest sages of old. Indeed, as proposed herein, yet even the more uplifting and productive endeavor as optimized, as indeed foreshadowed, via the following very specific and special dual foci:

Indeed, open and standing invitation for all comers, all interested parties, as herein proposed, into a gratifying and fulfilling Eudemonistic creative solution finding agenda for collaboration among equals, of innovative (pre-)incubation, feasibility study, planning and organization for all manner of innovative new venture creation (various business startup), the possibilities ever remaining endless. And in tandem as herein proposed, with an ongoing genuine and intensive fiction writer's bull session online.

Specifically, on the one hand, 1) together to pursue and undertake as herein proposed, in any among the multifarious glowing and ever popular dreams of entrepreneurship. Whether for profit or nonprofit, indeed Social Entrepreneurship, doing well by doing good, and even just perhaps adventure into grassroots politics and activism. Indeed, in heady pursuit of autonomy, creativity, freedom and power in, as herein conceived, an ongoing open (pre-)incubator online nurturing innovative new venture creation (various business startup) and entrepreneurship for the rest of us. Indeed, the possibilities remain endless!

And if all goes well, ever onward and upward in endless possibility, into the entire known gamut of subversive and disruptive innovative new venture creation (various business startup). Indeed, the possibilities remain endless! Indeed, if all goes well, all the way through to ongoing recruitment, management team formation, multiple rounds of capitalization, implementation, growth and then exit strategy, where and as ever applicable.

And also for building team rapport, as herein expounded directly, all concurrently, interstitially, additionally and distinctly with, on the other hand, starting with invitation into pure creativity, art for its own joy, via 2) entry as herein directly proposed, into an unprecedented open ongoing and extended genuine and intensive fiction writer's bull session online, replete with high quality and imaginative serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming of drama and Science Fiction.

And pertaining in the present standing invitation for all interested parties, along with various tools and guides, as a crucial initial facilitation, find provided both a select short compendium, for applied creativity, of innovative sample entrepreneurial new venture proposals, and concurrently also for pure creativity, art for its own joy, a curated selection of sample original unfinished stories, writing prompts and provocations.

With each of either likewise presented similarly, as herein extolled, beyond even valued and fully appreciated mere critique/criticism and feedback alone, for likewise publicly invited further open collaborative exploration, modification, variation, expansion and improvement, back and forth, and all via asynchronous text communication. Therefore, openly discuss: Read and respond. Then read whatever replies, and begin discussion. And by all means gentle reader, go ahead and pitch your own ideas!

Madness, yet method in't!

Indeed, gentle reader, all to test the very hypothesis that completely honest, hard nosed and fully engaged Socratic Dialectical feasibility study, analytic yet strategic, as herein right here and now invited for all comers, all interested parties, upon precisely all such agenda of creativity, ambition and daunting challenge, nevertheless will already begin lifting spirits together in true creativity and the will to power.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                             The solicitation

     

Desperately seeking entrepreneurial cofounder candidates for difficult, protracted, immersively laborious and necessarily innovative risk-tolerant undertaking together in endless possibility of new venture creation (various business startup) even with complete strangers coming together in a uniquely tailor made new online intentional community or at least initially, more modestly, intentional social circle or group formation, by social engineering design thinking.

“We happy few.” “We band of buggered!”  — The Scoobs  

Hard work on spec, no wages upfront, long odds and overwhelming despair in unknown daunting obstacles at every turn. Gruelingly concurrent, collaborative and extensively voluminous, complicated and convoluted deliberation, interstitial and interdisciplinary research and due diligence, throughout (pre-)incubation, feasibility study, planning and organization, and if all goes well, all the way through to ongoing recruitment, management team formation, multiple rounds of capitalization, implementation, growth and then exit strategy where and as ever applicable.

With unflaggingly resilient perseverance in the face of repeated serial failure, demanding extensive preparation and quick recovery to pick ourselves up and start all over again from scratch, as many times as it takes. Because truth to tell, nothing less will even ever begin actually getting anything done. But realistically and at best, what else might one expect? It's never easy.

Every conceivable pitfall as only to be expected at every turn, of needless folly, bullying, drama, with bitter disappointment in untrustworthy dishonest and boneheadedly distant, unrealistic, petty and devious cross-purpose.

Indeed, beware the unaware incompetent, nowhere know-it-all so bereft of all Socratic Wisdom, so set in their ways, so blithely ignorant of all venerated traditional competence and capability, yet remaining so averse to all bold new innovation and anything different.

Alas, all too often, pearls cast before swine: Good faith trammeled under bad faith, leaving only bitter disappointment in untrustworthy dishonest and anxiously short attention boneheadedly distant, unrealistic, petty and devious cross-purpose, half measures and pipedream. Indeed, at every turn, every conceivable pitfall of obvious folly, flagrant bullying and needless drama. Ill prepared and failing to cope with all such strife and passive-hostile obstruction that needs to be expected, accepted and contingency planned for, ambitious endeavor already so tenuous, thence typically dissipates. And what a downer! Instead, in order to maintain cohesion, participants in earnest must commiserate and support one another in occasion of crisis and betrayal.

Again, and striking to the very heart of functioning individual self determination and autonomy, in the incisive perception of Henry Ford: “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” In the human condition, all so simple in principle, but daunting and complicated in practice. And yet happiness comes in meeting ones needs for capable interaction with responsible others, making progress every day. Likewise so clear and simple in principle, yet daunting and hard to come by in actuality.

Progress all therefore doubtful.

Flexible hours within any responsible timely manner to task interdependence. Task interdependence denoting the interconnection of tasks such that accomplishment of each task in turn becomes impossible save by first completion of necessarily preceding tasks. Thus in fluidity of collaboration among equals and culture of helping, unflinching reciprocity, leadership superordinate over others in initiative arising, yet service subordinate to one another throughout. Fortunate and successful are those who accomplish this. And lost are the rest of us, to malignant conditionality and passive hostility.

Like The Three Musketeers: “All for one, and one for all!” Or else, all for naught.

Thus for serious people ever finding one another at long last, fame and fortune in case of resounding success in doing well by doing good. And all in quest of Eudemonia and authentic fulfillment together along the way, heeding the call to adventure in embarkation proceeding at our own pace, upon the all too uncertain real life Hero's Journey, forging true friendship and authentic human connection attempting anything really cool together.

 

 

 

 

 

Look for the Solution within the Problem!

Down to the proverbial brass tacks

 

 

In the words of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” And to quote Sir Isaac Newton: “You have to make the rules, not follow them.” Find then proposed agenda herein, nothing less than paradigm shift into the most liberating and uplifting conceivable focus, regimen, circumstances or situation, of collaborative brainstorming and solution finding for the probortunity at hand. A problem so dire and so redolent with opportunity into the very meaning of life, with our work therefore so well cut out for us:

Individually unique, true to thine own self, and false to no one, all as according to programmer Gary Hamilton’s not unoften cited rules in social engineering by design thinking, for guiding all to rights in undertaking whatever ones' own conceivable and unique game of life:

If the game is rigged so you can’t win, find another game or invent your own.

If you’re not winning because you don’t know the rules, learn the rules.

If you know the rules but aren’t willing to follow them, there’s either something wrong with the game or you need to change something in yourself.

Don't play the game in a half-baked way. Either get all the way in or all the way out.

It shouldn’t be necessary for others to lose in order for you to win. If others have to lose, re-evaluate the game’s goals.

And all hence then here on FoolQuest.com, the striving at the imagination and inception, as above delineated, of any new and better game of life. In such parlance, anything passing beyond Postmodern Existential Absurdism and any purely performative notion of life as a grand gesture. Indeed, actually learning whatever applicable rules, expectations and just real causality that simply cannot be escaped. But no less importantly, in attaining the self-knowledge of what shall be discovered to be individually personally amenable, whole heartedly.

   

But precisely how might all such as above ever be accomplished?

   

Answer: First of all, in every due feasibility study towards any conceivable non-zero sum scenario for all, wherein indeed, no one has to loose.

     

But with no guiding agenda or vision indeed from intrinsic motivation, there can only be only confusion and resistance. And with no plan of action and no action  agenda, there can only be ill conceived, ill prepared and ultimately preemptive false start.

 

Our work cut out for us. Look for the Solution within the Problem!  Indeed, surely there remain as many categories of social dysfunction (society existing only as a relationship among participants, after all), as there are kinds of dysfunctional relationships to begin with. And likewise, there may also arise better observable and conceivable alternatives, progress, and even in paradigm shift, corresponding Transactional Antithesis to whatever preceding malaise.

 

  

Alas however, and there's the rub! that Hamilton's vaunted rules might easily come across as just a little glib. Because, beyond whatever kind of veritable solitaire just to pass the time, indeed perhaps any disciplined lone slacker hobbies and learning, all the best games require capable outreach for other players. A daunting challenge!

  

After all, tautologically, there can be no unilateral self-help, no reliable solitary rugged self-reliant self-made bootstrap DIY (Do-It-Yourself) "well-formed plan" for interaction among more than one individual. All therefore, as to practical execution as per Hamilton's rules, who has ever actually achieved such nigh dharmic arête of Eudemonia, and precisely just how?

One might expect that as well as fulfilling intrinsic motivations, association within any similar creative corporate culture of helping the likes of IDEO, the world renowned ultra progressive design thinking work place, indeed by social engineering design thinking as herein extolled, would likewise also enhance access to more optimal social embedment, extended networking, contacts and the cultivation of all manner of quality relationships.

Likewise, just in case any such prized position remains tantalizingly beyond reach, the ancillary exploration: Creativity can be Popular raises the question of how best intentionally to maximize such social benefits for collaboration among equals on the part of cofounders participating in the primary proposal: Creativity can and Should be Social.

   

Indeed, outreach herein further proposed, called: Creativity can be Popular, ensues 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. Moreover, the interaction brought about in the progress of Creativity can and Should be Social  will bring new people into socially and intellectually stimulating contact and arousal. 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.

And as shall be made plain in all whys and wherefores, anon, the probortunity at hand in collective decision and action, remain, not IDEO but DIO (Do-It-Ourselves) entrepreneurship for the rest of us, social engineering design thinking indeed actually efficacious even beyond playful Existential Absurdist life as a grand gesture.

Because together crafting the best possible game of life, remains in setting the most optimal brainstorming and creative solution finding agenda. The invitation for all comers, all interested parties, gentle reader, into deliberation, analytic yet strategic, all whereupon.

An what shall become the focus of such as above proposed Eudemonistic deliberation? Answer: Nothing less than an agenda of collaboration among equals in entrepreneurship in tandem with creative writing, indeed as shall be seen directly, all towards best possible intentionally optimized social and intellectual stimulus struggle: Namely, the heady experience of brainstorming and the eustress, the sustainable euphoria of creative tension, in creative solution finding together.

 

Because indeed in collaboration among equals in brainstorming and creative solution finding, a fondly remenered and needlessly infrequent experience so joyful and uplifting for participant therein...

Whereas fiction writing, indeed of Science Fiction, the Literature of ideas, and of drama, hailed by Socrates as most philosophical among the arts, together open every vista of pure creativity for its own joy...

Many endless possibilities in entrepreneurial new venture creation (various business startup) may yet serve as the very fulcrum from scratch, for action together towards actual realization of imagined bold innovation.

And because in the never ending  battle with boredom, loneliness and alienation...

    

Whereas stimulus struggle remains the ongoing and 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...

   

And by extension, more species specific, social and intellectual stimulus struggle in particular, remains the ongoing and perpetual striving of every aware human psyche, to regulate, to obtain and maintain, the optimum kind and degree of social and intellectual stimulation and arousal from whatever immediate social environment.

    

And thereby to modify subjective experience, thus altering consciousness itself.

However, beware: Because eventually, in so far as resultant quality of stimulus struggle at all even most broadly, let alone social and intellectual stimulus struggle specifically, on any true path of entrepreneurial new venture creation (various business startup) even in endless possibility as presently herein extolled, one must expect, in due course, even actually dystressful hard work on spec, no wages upfront, long odds and overwhelming despair in unknown daunting obstacles at every turn. Gruelingly concurrent, collaborative and extensively voluminous, complicated and convoluted deliberation, interstitial and interdisciplinary research and due diligence, throughout (pre-)incubation, feasibility study, planning and organization.

Indeed, if all goes well, ever onward and upward into endless possibility of the entire known gamut of subversive and disruptive innovative new venture creation (various business startup). Yes, all the way through to ongoing recruitment, management team formation, multiple rounds of capitalization, implementation, growth and then exit strategy, where and as ever applicable.

But for serious people ever finding one another at long last, as in first baby steps upon Laozi's fabled Journey of a Thousand Miles, indeed embarkation upon the the all too uncertain real life Hero's Journey forging true friendship and authentic human connection attempting anything really cool together.

Perhaps among most optimally fulfilling of possibilities in social and intellectual stimulus struggle, in the heady experience of creative solution finding together, brainstorming in collaboration among equals.  

Therefore, find herein standing and open invitations for all comers, all interested parties, before plunging right into all entrepreneurial and Literary collaboration in earnest, perhaps first into even whatever even most preliminary discussions and questions as in due course arising. And only then:

Standing open invitation right here on FoolQuest.com, for all comers, all interested parties, on the one hand, 1) together to pursue and undertake as herein proposed, in any among the multifarious glowing and ever popular dreams of entrepreneurship: Indeed, in heady pursuit of autonomy, creativity, freedom and power in, as herein conceived, an ongoing open (pre-)incubator online nurturing innovative new venture creation (various business startup) and entrepreneurship for the rest of us. For the possibilities remain endless!

Also as concurrent and interstitial as herein expounded directly, additionally and distinctly with, on the other hand, invitation into pure creativity, art for its own joy, via 2) entry as herein directly proposed, into an unprecedented open ongoing and extended genuine and intensive fiction writer's bull session online, replete with high quality and imaginative serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming of drama and Science Fiction.

The the latter excellently serving as convivial open and standing invitation for all comers, all interested parties, indeed to join together as herein extolled, into an invigorating ice breaker and team building exercise together, as only ideal for building rapport, preliminary indeed to the former!

And let new venture creation (various business startup) herein be taken to include either for profit or nonprofit, indeed Social Entrepreneurship, doing well by doing good, and even just perhaps adventure into grassroots politics and activism. The possibilities remain endless!

And pertaining in the present standing invitation for all interested parties, along with various tools and guides, as a crucial initial facilitation, find provided both a select short compendium, for applied creativity, of innovative sample entrepreneurial new venture proposals, and concurrently also for pure creativity, art for its own joy, a curated selection of sample original unfinished stories, writing prompts and provocations.

With each of either likewise presented similarly, as herein proposed and extolled, for publicly invited further open collaborative exploration, modification, variation, expansion and improvement, back and forth, in asynchronous text communication. Therefore, openly discuss: Read and respond. Then read whatever replies, and begin discussion. And by all means gentle reader, go ahead and pitch your own ideas!

Because, in those wise words of Henri-Louis Bergson: “Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.” For as John Mason Good observes: “Happiness consists in activity. It is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.” Indeed, to quote Alain de Botton: “One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.”  

However, just to lower the stakes at least initially, and better in every life lesson and wisdom of drama and dharma, plus the unfettered conjecture of Science Fiction and futuring scenario, to accustom and all better prepare us each as creative collaboration partners among equals, participants might, at least initially, all have that much more fun and be far better off, precisely as herein publicly invited, in serious collaborative fiction writing of drama and Science Fiction, in an open ongoing genuine and intensive fiction writer's bull session online. Indeed only to consider, in endless objectively real world possibility, new venture creation (various business startup), indeed entrepreneurship for the rest of us, at all later on and in due course.

  

Alas despite the renown of the best works of authorial collaboration, and not withstanding massive and meticulously encyclopedic projects of collaborative World Building and shared continuity online, there remains such lamentable dearth of ongoing serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming either as such, online. Only a glut of endless travesty. But more, anon. And hence the present outreach.

   

And resources for entrepreneurship, barring all manner of scams, even howsoever reputable, only seem actually to begin for established, advanced and successful serial entrepreneurs, after all, who can pay. Those rugged individuals overcoming all obstacles before them. And not catering at all, to any whatever howsoever somewhat quite different needs by contrast, ever as experienced by any of us softy frustrated wannabes! But more, anon. And hence the present outreach.

Moreover, not only indeed can and should Creativity be Social, but moreover, Creativity Can and Should be Popular. Not merely valued, but charming, engaging and attractive, duly celebrated and no longer dorky, awkward, bullied and persecuted throughout the entire conventional, lonely, alienated, boring and ever dystressful rat-race and racket of stultifyingly superficial popularity and social success that throttles and undermines all better value.

Therefore, in subsidiary proposed initiative, the ancillary concept of Creativity Can and Should be Popular explores the most probortune prospect of outreach by social engineering design thinking, towards better and more rewarding individual social life and more productive interpersonal networking, indeed as pivoting upon Creativity can and Should be Social as better alternative indeed to the entire conventional, lonely, alienated, boring and ever dystressful rat-race and racket of stultifyingly superficial popularity and social success that throttles and undermines all better value.

Now, Creativity can and Should be Social as conceived, if ever achieved, could surely deliver nothing less than all remaining truly best in life! Indeed, at last to provide any ready alternative to the entire dreary and soul crushing conventional, lonely, alienated, boring and ever dystressful rat-race and racket of stultifyingly superficial popularity and social success, in every walk of life.

Surely endeavor interesting and worthy of ratification to agenda of creativity and deliberation together, herein, pertinent to discovery and implementation indeed, of all that can be best in life.

And so in resumption of outreach herein and probortunity at hand, asking of others what no one else asks, and offering in return, all of that which only FoolQuest.com offers: Only imagine in due course, similar creative process as herein extolled in creative writing, but soon after repurposed together in cultivation also of subversively disruptive entrepreneurial innovation, all as merely another different application of the same power of narrative and critical thinking.

To quote Sir Francis Bacon: “Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.” However, whereas, barring the surreal outright, any good story or ripping yarn, only needs indeed to seem at all plausible, business or project planning remains a matter of rigorous, prediction, feasibility study and exploration of projected outcomes from proposed intentional action. And no less exiting and informative a presentation all thereof. Indeed of sweeping drama, bold conjecture, tantalizing futuring scenario, thorough research and laboriously task interdependent and objective real world feasibility study, all beginning from most embryonic first concept "kitchen table" stage or phase.

Indeed, so often cited as the single most important document produced in the course of new venture creation, various business startup in endless possibility, a business or project plan must present any realistic likely story, conjecture to persuade candidate recruits on spec and prospective investors alike, of uplifting adventure dawning and glowing profit potential.

   

Therefore, before investment, even if not of money but any other asset, especially as of sweat equity (part ownership purchased by contribution of time and work) on spec (towards hoped and risked for future profit participation), to keep things honest and rational, always insist to review, or indeed to participate and help to produce, whatever business plan or prospectus, rigorously to ferret out the devil in the details of meritable feasibility and foreseeable and avoidable unfeasibility. Let alone anything actually dodgy or just silly and dull.

   

Thus ever oppressive and downright unprofessional self deception of willful positivity all be damned. Because skeptically and credulously filtering out the unfeasible and unprofitable, steering away the unwary, from doomed ventures, may be the most important purpose of business or project planning. And for would-be entrepreneurs, also including all questions not only of skills and aptitudes, but concomitant temperament and thence expected experience of whatever expected activity as foreseeably entailed in whatever proposed participation, subjectively pleasant or unpleasant.

    

What skills are first requisite whatever action, interaction, rôle, function and duties undertaken and expected according to plan? What extensive background knowledge and experience? Indeed, what are the rational expectations including all realistic investment? Is there indeed the wherewithal? To reiterate, what will the experience actually be like? And what best results must one be willing to settle for?

    

All as taking priority only behind the values of criticism, error detection, and ongoing course correction, that has ever brought about eventual success: Indeed, all as remaining the crucial product of every due caution, named: pessimistic realism, the positive power of negative thinking!