FoolQuest.com
is dedicated to the
expressive drive and vital interest of reaching beyond the phony
faint
hearted "low hanging fruit" of online culture, to the non-zero-sum
prospect of creative collaboration simply for it's own joy, and also
to the challenge of substantive, realistic, capable and effective collaboration
on ambitious undertakings.
Standing certain of
all one seeks may only demonstrate failure to imagine better. Technology
exists to aid and empower us all to do more and better together. Alas,
it is the culture gone awry that cares ever less. Indeed, anyone still
so callow and venial as to continue pipe dreaming that all on a whim
and without focus or attachment, perhaps reducible to mediation by the
next inane simple-minded paint-by-numbers webgizmo, we can ever actually
maximize our achievement and satisfaction in cyber-Utopia, has cut costs
but lost valuesand just doesn't get it.
If
You Desire Anything You've Never Had, Try Something You've Never
Done
"Attention
is the rarest and purest form of generosity."
— Simone Weil
Your attention,
please! The challenges and dynamic of human relationship are
similar despite individual differences, regardless of context and
specifics:
Do you
even know:What kinds of
interaction do you yourself most acutely lack?
And how,
instead, might such fulfilling social interaction best be
consistently achieved and such happy experience sustained?That
is the question!
Satisfying
interpersonal interaction and connection in order to
successfully resolve
loneliness may very much depend upon
the specific different
choice and change in the very nature
and
deliberate purpose of interpersonal
interactivity.
"Nothing
is more terrible than activity without insight."
—Thomas Carlyle
Trustworthy
reciprocal cooperation elicits unique joy and satisfaction,
as
does proactive creativity.
“The
only truly happy people are children and the creative
minority.”
— Jean Caldwell
Thus our challenge
:
to forge a CREATIVE MINORITY!
Happy
people are sociable, extroverted and
known to reach out, exert effort in
order to actively make things happen, attentively pursue new understandings,
choose creative activities, seek new achievements, and thereby uplift their own thoughts and
emotions, even improving their circumstances by centering
their lives around whatever pleases them most. Activity and
goals
thereof ever
put forth
must be varied and novel yet well-suited to personality,
practiced diligently and
successfully
in a continuous stream
of fresh positive experiences so as to outweigh
negativity bias. Schedule and routine must
also be flexible in order to avoid getting into a rut.
It turns out that staying in high spirits is a actually hard
work!
“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no
happiness without action.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
And in addition, for intelligent creative
personalities, to
best relate and fully and
richly meet the need for communication in order to overcome
the sad, painful frustration of
boredom
and
loneliness, exactly
such volitional or intentional activity cannot merely be solitary,
but must also constitute social activity or most intensely:
real substantive cooperation and collaboration. After
all, volitional or Intentional activity is often
characterized by contact and recognition between
individuals.
The
Capability Approach is the idea that a good life depends
upon accessibility of whatever needed resources, and will be
attainable when human beings are free to chose in actual
practice and not merely in theory, indeed really able to
get what they have reasons to consider important to do or to
be or become. In this sense, human development means human
flourishing while poverty is whatever obstructs or
undermines aforesaid capability.
Hence many argue
that simple beings are most abundantly in truest wealth, enjoying
as they do, easier access to simple pleasures because being as they may be, blissfully ignorant and oblivious so
as thereby to indulge in their pleasures unspoiled by other worries.
For who so increaseth knowledge
and wisdom, increaseth vexation, indignation and sorrow. What then,
has forever eroded all such hitherto innocent simplicity
for humankind?
A major
complication and suffering unique to human childbirth is the
sheer size of the babies head squeezing through the pregnant
woman's pelvis during labor. Indeed, for the required resources, the
massive human brain demands up to one quarter of the total
cardiac blood output. All because competition for fitness
within our species, drove evolution of the ever larger human
brain far beyond the initial needs and challenges of
environmental adaptation and survival then eliminated with
human success and comfort, in the process creating new uniquely human
stimulus appetites, all too often underserved and even
repressed as simply inconveniently complex. But as the
saying goes,
elation
is a flower that blooms only when you do,
and that is precisely why:
Hence, the best strivings of human civilization, social
interaction, arts and science, at there very best, comprise
culture that is contrived expressly for the alleviation of
lonelyboredom
without natural privation, danger and violence. And so,
happiness, fulfillment, resilient
self-efficacy and optimal well being derive from the challenge
of achievement,
eustress,
interest therein sustained through the pursuit by
anticipation, no longer of
real safety in any actual
struggle for survival, but instead, of the momentary release from contrasting worry
and frustration following a problem solved, truth revealed, a
new concept grasped, an ideation expressed, a fear resolved and abated
or a desire realized and satiated.
“Reasonable
people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people
attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress,
therefore, depends on unreasonable people.”
—
George Bernard Shaw
All
carrot and
no
stick!
The existential human
condition most particularly as centered about work, is oft times disparagingly compared to the tragic and empty
travails
of the long suffering pack mule, eternally egged on by the
unattainable carrot ever dangled before its nose, and
reluctantly spurred on by the very real sting of the whip stick. How
unreasonably sublime, then, would be howsoever at least relative freedom from all
such harassment, and rich intrinsic reward always genuinely within reach.
But please, never a carrot actually so fulsomely delicious
as to permanently kill all apatite!
The much
maligned
hedonic treadmillin
pursuit of happiness, may even
illicit anticipatory
eustress
rather than distress, only providedongoing, fresh, novel
and active dynamic rather than static
goals
ever
put forth,with the stimulus of
new desires and
ambitions ever to exceed those achieved and gratified,
all
motivating
growth
and thriving progress from novelty with
difficulties sufficient to challenge but never so excessive
as to completely frustrate and deadlock.
For exactly such
is the remedy to boredom
amid all too quickly familiar, accustomed and habituated
modern safety and comfort
barring the suffering of violence and danger.
Pain persists
until cause is removed and injury healed. And such is the
appropriateness of grief. Indeed, Zen
or
bio-Utopian cessation strategies
howsoever of
blotting out the pain might be much like unto simply letting the
mercury out from the thermometer when the temperature climbs too high
and then being surprised at succumbing to heat stroke!
Whereas, much
by contrast, happiness is
transient, impermanent and at best renewable. Happiness
cannot be possessed. Happiness is dynamic. New positive
events must always be experienced in order to sustain
happiness.
And that is as it should be. Because the innate
aggressive imperative of pleasure
principle is
motivation
to avoid pain and thereby harm even while seeking
gratification, immediate and impulsive or else realistically deferred, and thereby,
ultimately,
advantage. And hope is no less indispensible.
Yet how
ubiquitous endures the typical cynical
Nihilistic
heteronymous
perfectionistic
Luddite scorn, despair and lamentation all bewailing that
anything good or pleasant is actually bad and painful
because it only leaves one wanting more! So, obviously,
the real problem is that of all life needs and support,
simply of continual efficacy,
supply and delivery to meet demand,
not damn foolish
Nihilism
of Zenbio-Utopian
cessation, apathetic or ecstatic, quelling or eradication howsoever of desire, met
or unmet.
After all,
Nihilism
is
value
destruction, the empty rejection and dearth of exactly that
known best to sustain
interest and determination and to resists jaded habituation,
namely: active
meaningful
involvement. For it has always been
meaningfulvalues
that captivate and sustains the human imagination.
Alas, however, exactly otherwise so ill-considered is concluded that best simply to
end all striving and submit, conform and go with the
flow or howsoever just to retreat inward
in search of contentment, and never
to engage proactively, risk nor even so much as to hope for happiness
howsoever from the
world outside of the self at all, precisely because
of the nature of the obviously beneficial evolutionary
responsive trait of reactive happiness, of how
increased happiness or decreased unhappiness may ever either
way howsoever arise as expressive of and reactive to
actual
and even ongoing
improvement in
situation
and circumstances, despite never achieving any perfect and permanent
contentment nor with any guarantees against
repeated failure and painful frustration otherwise.
After all, common
causes of suffering especially for
autonomous intelligent people, even
amid howsoever unnaturally sufficient affluence to negate
direct struggle for survival, relative peace thus making boredom
even possible,
are
loneliness and what
is called: suboptimal utilization of labor, also
termed subemployment or underemployment
defined as howsoever such dismally persistent unsatisfying
circumstance, unclear direction, barriers, limited choices and lack of opportunity, as howsoever fails to exercise, stimulate, challenge and
fulfill, much less cultivate, the full range and extent of ability and potential,
all simply because of whatever available but unwanted
personal resources and abilities howsoever in excess of
currently insufficient demand.
And even far
short of eudaimonia denoting happiness in the
grandest sense of flourishing in wellbeing most broadly and completely, a
most ancient conundrum of
hedonism, the most general
doctrine of the
value
and intrinsic good of pleasure to begin with, remains salient
today. To wit: Are pleasures events, properties, states, or howsoever
some other kind of entity?
For in current
thinking, despite all
the hoopla, quite frankly,
Positive Psychology is
somewhat
problematical, eclectically recycled and largely uninspired
excepting
one notable inclusion wherein review of the past has actually
born any fruit: indeed, the makeshift application of
Utilitarian Calculus to the quest for reproducible external
causes, circumstances or stimuli precipitating happiness,
that has actually yielded a crude
yet salient
value
calculus, a convergence of the
traditional
three paths to happiness
into the much touted and endearingly succinct
happiness formula,
being something of a misnomer, dealing not with happiness
exactly, but seeking optimization of variable
volitional or
intentional activity
towards vastly underserved true fulfillment,
a Full Life of Authentic Happiness wherein, taking
any
motivating
emotions as neithermythical endogenous traits
or disposition being entirely
subjective and
Phenomenal
and hence howsoever amenable to any sort of
stoical
character building via
dishonest
and passive
autosuggestion
(that actually only strives for
detachment in order to stifle
activating
motivation), nor merely as
situation
or
wherewithal
as applicable to
howsoever attainable
objective material or economic needs let alone
joyless workaholismin pursuit all thereof,but
strictly as dynamic individually reactive states variable,
happiness in specific being
an abnormal side effect
resultant only from the dynamic process of pleasurable engagement in
meaningful
activity, gratifying enough to do for it's own
sake: creativity, curiosity, active intervention
necessary in order to observe and extrapolate hidden logic,
order,
meaning and illumination
even amid seeming chaos, and hence all only thus approachable or
achievable
obliquelyand
indirectly in leading life.
where fulfillment
of desireis the measure of
happiness
But because,
even for
volitional or
intentional activity,
time as signified by the letter: 't' and as
applicable duration of events and their frequency, is also a
factor, and indeed as lasting happiness is distinguished from
transitory joy, a more precise formulation might be:
In other
words, only whatever artifice if need be, of simultaneous ongoing (pleasure + engagement
+
meaning) can allow for the
happiness of sustainable
gratification in order to produce and sustain fulfillment.
Of course, in case clarification is necessary, yes:
the word
'meaning'
here is employed not in the simple linguistic
signification of denotation,
but distinctly in any deeper sense.
Also, silly misunderstanding
of the
happiness formula has arisen because the law of
diminishing and negative returns inevitably applies. Thus, as
must be expected, increase of any one resource or
value
may
decline in additional benefit or productivity, even
eventually going negative and detrimental, unless the other
necessary resources or values
also increase proportionally. -Particularly with time and
effort,
resulting in fatigue and discontent, unless, just perhaps,
the level of fulfillment
increases proportionally.
Moreover, the
resource of time, man-hours, remains finite to any
single individual, and even the most authentic happiness must then be delegated,
shared, and if the old saying is true, doubled!
For success
beyond sheer arbitrary
futility can only denote
the progressive realization of howsoever worthy dreams,
goals
ever
put forth
and objectives that one can conceivably ever be either
successful or unsuccessful in achieving even by sheer trial
and error. And it often can be argued that uncaring
complacency, inactive dormancy and exhausting dispirited
over zealousness are each and all far deadlier to eventual
success than any past or current failures alone and in of
themselves.
Indeed, the
happiness formula, however misnomered, may
also readily be
applied to relationships and social life.
Certainly,
intimidation and anxious uncertainty hold people back from
the pursuit of happiness demanding any sense of power at all
over ones own
situation
and circumstances. Indeed, happy and even
successful
people tend to be highly active doing what they
love. Fun and engaging activities
known to increase happiness
tend to involve investment of energy in anything exiting,
novel, social, better still: close, and even
meaningful.
Personal
involvement is best cultivated by a good match between
skills and challenges, in whatever median falling
between overqualified
boredom
and under-qualified frlustration.
But involving engagement manifests not only privately and
individually, but also as to render social interaction
lively and fulfilling. And in any culture of
meaningful
involvement, there are five recommended steps to repeat in a
fulfilling cycle of engagement:
1. Thank others in order to build recognition and
appreciation.
2. Invite others in order to demonstrate intentions
eliciting commitments.
3. Ask critical questions in order to draw attention and
long-term focus.
4. Get feedback from activities in order to further engage
associates.
5. Share assessments and open
dialogue.
So,
what manner of empowering close social interaction or
relationship
involves
investment of tangible reciprocal
support
in high activity such as engages novel
excitement,
meaningfully?
The
group
formation agenda
of
FoolQuest.com
is actually nothing less than to socialize in tangible
reciprocal
support of creative
volitional or
intentional activity, true lifelong learning and improved gratification for the
highly evolved human social intelligence, by the offer of artistic
culture, meaning: purely creative interaction for it's own
joy, and Entrepreneurship in the broadest sense and application,
meaning: initiative and creative problem solving, whole concrete
planning directed towards any gainful purpose, private and/or
public, and to realistically confront all questions and challenges
of what will be required, each from one another, that as a byproduct
may indeed sustain optimal gratification of the highly evolved
human social intelligence, but principally to nurture whatsoever
optimal qualitative productivity from the conduct of all
such collaborative process and maximize any prospect of
success.
The positive
value
of personal
autonomy
enfolds that of self-integration resistant to the
self-alienation and denial of whatever
heteronymously"appropriate" mold. Hence, full
autonomy,
the
actual and effective capacity to develop and pursue ones
own conception of a worthwhile life, can often be extremely
difficult, but at all more readily achievable under however more socially
supportive conditions, transition from vicious to vital
cycle.
FoolQuest.com
is an utterly unique outreach, first of all to initiate and
sustain serious discussion towards the following desirable
goals
of capability as
put forth:
To respect your
intelligence! To network.
For the creative
effort of
brainstorming, writing and
rewritingfiction, together, without
pity, until it becomes readable and innovative. Thus to
share our
gifts sans apology!
Likewise,
incubation,
strategic thinking and planning of implementation logistics
well outside the proverbial box! Recruitment and team
formation, to band together and to depend upon one another
in the furtherance of ambitious plans realistically, with
all due diligence upon the investigation of implementation
logistics in salient detail, from conception through to
execution,
actual
coordination,
cooperation and full collaboration
in Activism, Entrepreneurship
and more:
In the common defense, to counter-conspiratorially
undermine bullying because, being a great evil, devious,
insidious, costly and dangerous, unpunished persists.
All of the above will entail
responsible free exchange between creative individuals, rather than
the compliant and complacent embrace of typically repressive "socialization"
against independent thought and genuine emotion, all just for the comfort
of spiteful dullards.
FoolQuest.com
showcases a range of provocative project proposals for online
collaboration, not only in cutting edge Entrepreneurship but
also grass roots Activism and more, to focuses upon the very
earliest "kitchen table" and even first concept phases of new
venture creation, a topic much neglected and a market segment
vastly under served. Plus creative fiction writing and
brainstorming
as an uplifting group diversion, with extensive resources provided.
Beyond
ongoing revision, ever changing and new content and the maintenance
and improvement of comprehensive online resources, only
FoolQuest.com
exists in order to attempt that which no one else offers:
To open to the online
public, complete beginners and accomplished writers alike, free
participation into the authentic creative collaborative
brainstorming
experience of the
fiction writer's
bull session, from first inspiration, through creative development
and on to final polish.
Because, anywhere
else online, actual fiction writing collaboration, such as it is,
compromises utterly on the openness, creativity, critical standards,
discipline and diligence of any genuine fiction writing effort.
To solicit,
incubate and showcase ambitious
and innovative first concepts in Entrepreneurship, Activism and
more, with the express purpose of recruitment and organization towards
realization, all from scratch.
To embrace all due
diligence. To persevere even in all such the most daunting challenge
openly and
honestly.
To realistically confront the barriers to entry, ascertain all requirements
for attaining whatever desired conditions from current circumstances
and then to follow through.
Because, beyond the
undertaking of simply the most modest and pedestrian of various
retail operations, nowhere else at all are the
actual challenges and
difficulties of planning, development, networking and organizing
the very beginning of ambitious and innovative Entrepreneurial or
Activist projects and hurdles towards getting off the ground at
all, especially for the
real utter beginner aspiring Entrepreneurs
and creative thinkers, even social misfits and certainly business
outsiders, explicitly and seriously considered, much less genuinely
fostered.
To delve into and to intelligently
confront all that frustrates the serious creative individual from fulfilling
and productive collaboration, essential to the only truest fraternity
of peers.
To establish
FoolQuest.com
as the online community nexus of such endeavor. And to these ends,
outreach to interested parties.
GOALS
To
establish
FoolQuest.com
as the nexus and starting point online 1) for free collaboration
in the creativity of fiction writing collaboration,
actual
brainstorming
for the serious effort at readable quality output and 2) for team
building for new venture creation entirely from scratch, from innovative
first concept to completion and execution, in such areas as Entrepreneurship,
Activism and more.
Collaboration in the
authorship and ongoing maintenance, improvement, revision and updating
of Entrepreneurial, Activist and other
proposals.
Inviting wider participation
and soliciting new ideas.
Team formation towards
business / project planning in earnest for follow though to prospecting
for capital for completion and execution, as applicable.
Effort and inquiry towards
a minimal code of responsible conduct and reciprocity crucial to sustaining
viability and improving accessibility of effective collaboration, especially
outside the structure and framework of existing social institutions,
and without their resources.
Maintenance, revision,
improvement expansion and updating of the various resources provided
on FoolQuest.com
Strategic partnership
and promotional exchange.
FUNDING
FoolQuest.com
is open to the online public free of charge. And before there
can be any monetary investment there must first be sweat equity,
an investment of effort such as offered by yours truly, the webmaster,
reciprocally with other interested participants. Only with diligence
and persistence will all ever be in readiness to prospect for Venture
Capital.
CAVEAT
These
are as yet, only proposals.No promises are expressed or implied.
Does
any of this sound like hard work? Because how could it ever not be?
As should be expected, this website is filled with long wordy and extensively
hyperlinked texts struggling with daunting and complicated problems.
You have been warned!
So, be
prepared to interactively chart your own path through the hypertext
pursuant to whatever your own interests and concerns, by scrolling lengthy
pages, choosing and clicking many links in succession. And while for
many as much goes with out saying or worth much mention as the very
nature of the World Wide Web, for others just such has emerged as a
matter of much staunchly uncooperative fuss and pother.
Moreover,
as regards human interaction, much as creativity may derive from the
broadening and expanding frame of reference of of unusual associations,
nevertheless, communication and exchange of new ideas, which so often
consists of the negotiation of reciprocal incomprehension, will
often depend upon the infinite patience that comes more easily to some
than to others, with the fine points, hair-splitting in order to "connect
the dots" and ferret out whatever true crux of misunderstanding that
only then may be addressed, let alone confronting the vexing central
unanswered questions of this website.
Only such
care derives accuracy in the investigation of
reality at all whatsoever,
from what would otherwise only degenerate into bypassing tangents of
sheer fantasy. A crucial consideration in even the barest beginning
of any serious effort at substantive
real change in an indifferent universe.
But what is there to lose?