- The science of happiness: 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. Because probortunity is opportunity presented by problems for brainstorming towards creative solution finding. Probortunity at hand, the more dire, the more propitious. Alas 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 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.
The only truly happy people are children and the creative minority. Jean Caldwell
- Happiness in the experience of favorable situation, therefore accrues in genuine autonomy meeting ones needs for capable interaction with even adequately responsible others, making progress every day. Bearing all in mind, perhaps an effective remedy for prevailing malaise might become feasible via unprecedented social engineering design of eustress and sustainable euphoria (good euphoric stress, as opposed to bad suffering of dystress) in more optimal social and intellectual stimulus struggle, in a word: Eudemonia, authentic wellbeing. Why else go to such lengths as so stridently extolled herein?
- Indeed, in the famous words of Immanuel Kant: Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something too hope for. A theme emerges in review of evidence supported current science all about Eros, liberating union with alien difference and the joy in creative expression together that human beings naturally crave. To wit: as 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. Moreover: the frequencies with which people report happiness and the negatively valued affective states appear to be negatively correlated. Indeed, function of exposure to environmental risk factors for happiness, to borrow the parlance of R P Bentall's A proposal to classify happiness as a psychiatric disorder, perhaps as a subtype of hypomania. 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, not withstanding proposed pathologization, 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. Happy people 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. Indeed, 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. 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 episodes 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. Hence the rest of the time, such 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 engage intentionally and at will. And such remains the probortunity at hand: What specific active strategy in the social engineering design of Eudemonia and authentic wellbeing via more optimal reciprocally engaged social and intellectual stimulus struggle, shall be derived in deliberation analytic yet strategic from the above passive Empirical observation and broadest abstract principle?
- Again, if indeed, and in accordance with the notably liberal and egalitarian grand afterthought to the overarching hierarchically 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, and the passionate arousal of engorged human cerebrality. And because Eudemonia of capability in important close human relationship with psychological visibility, Eros which is liberating union with alien difference, and particularly true friendship in autonomy, arises entirely as a byproduct of purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication, and never otherwise. If only could be derived 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 may depend in due course, upon the inception of intentional community: intentional social circle or group formation online, for unprecedented serious ongoing collaborative dramatic Science Fiction fiction writing and brainstorming concurrently with innovative new venture creation (various business startup) and (pre-) incubation. as accessible to meet a crying underserved need for the requisite capable respectful culture of helping and autonomy supportive social support in order to facilitate 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 unprecedented serious ongoing collaborative dramatic Science Fiction fiction writing and brainstorming concurrently with innovative new venture creation (various business startup)? No one can remain unfulfilled, bored, lonely and alienated, when so optimally reciprocally engaged together ebulliently in brainstorming towards creative solution finding. As for anything less, how's that been working for ya'? Gentle reader, what would convince you? Please fully explain. Even if I do not have what you need, gentle reader, dare we seek for it together?
- Neo-Socratic Paradigm of present endeavor: Paradigm means philosophical and theoretical framework, archetype or pattern, with basic assumptions, imitable ways of thinking and Epistemological Methodology. To wit: Socrates hailed drama as most philosophical among the arts serving as they do, to reflect reality, but drama perhaps in greatest depth. Whereas on the path of Dialectical enlightenment by refutation, later day Socratic Sir Karl Popper, the favorite philosopher of scientists, discovered in the distinctly provisional and openly uncertain hypothetico-deductive process of business planning, Popper's Philosophy of Science and Scientific Method, applied Epistemological Methodology, named: falliblism, non justificationism, or non verificationism, Popper's model for unqualified, fallible, unjustified, unverified, unfettered speculation and conjecture, for all intents and purposes: fiction, only then subject to critical preferable and the systematic doubt of scientific skepticism, and even only then, to Empirical reality testing. Thus ongoing error detection and course correction, learning from inevitable mistakes instead of the sheer futility if not of infalliblism outright, then of what Popper denounced as: justificationism, or verificationism: Struggle in vein to overcome, avoid or circumvent error by building upon whatever chimerically putative firm foundation of science, or by appeal to whatever scientific justification, either as standing in for the impossible infallibility of yearned for connection to any mythic Deity as divine guarantor of certainty and freedom from doubt. Thereby liberating free scientific and philosophical inquiry, ever closer to truth, in other words: less wrong, Popper declared that there can be no certainty, no firm foundation or justification, and indeed, little need any thereof! Popper thence clarified and simplified Metaphysics into a field more amenable to scientific honesty and hence any hope of intelligibility. Popper's Philosophy of Science also informed Popper's democratic and Empirically businesslike politics of piecemeal engineering, in rejection of insight, and instead, response to immediate problems ever as arising, in small reversible steps. All in emulation of the free market, so creative and effective in meeting immediate challenges and demand. And instead of just staying the course in the ever prevailing and calamitous tendency to misguided and often dogmatic and even sweeping megalomaniacal long range ideology and central planning plaguing politics and policy even to this day. Acumen in turn defining the career of notable Popperian, the disruptive philanthropic financier George Soros, who's personal foreign policy indeed of piecemeal engineering, has consequently seen greater success than that of any nation.
- And so, as to paradigm at hand, of Socratic Popperian dual endeavor, it may then bear examination at this juncture, how for both each different application of narrative creativity, even from suitability of whatever initial premise, the criteria crucially contrast: mere hypothetical plausibility for pure creativity in serious fiction writing, but intensive feasibility study and reality testing, for innovation in business or project planning. In other words, a business or project plan is another kind of story, a futuring scenario of foreseen and desired results from calculated action. And yet, neither narrative mode likewise will ever honestly withstand gaping plot holes, lazy writing and gaps or errors in applicable logic and critical preference. However, water tight planning and demonstration from sound reasoning and Empirical evidentiary support, vastly exceeds mere evocative propaganda and vividly compelling illustration in even the most ripping yarn. Indeed, whereas, at least barring the outright surreal, a compelling work of fiction, in pure creativity, only needs to seem even plausible to willing suspension of disbelief, a viable business or project plan, in order to withstand the most unyielding criticism and skeptical scrutiny, must be rendered rigorously feasible and realistically flexible even under ever changing circumstances and complications. Fiction embodies speculation, conjecture from which all discovery begins, and planning feasibility study remains the realistic filter. And for the sake of compelling presentation, the narrative might as well be dramatic.
Not that things often actually go according to plan in reality and in business, any more than in any plot twist, obstacle, complication and Peripeteia of suspenseful action-adventure. 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. Plans remain static, but the Dialectic exploration of the planning process, of necessity becomes ever more dynamic, connective and informative. And participants together gain far greater scope of insight and rapport, than any meager wisdom in whatever fixed ideas and work product. As per summary aggregation of the notorious multiple p's: Properly Purposeful Pre-Planning and Prior Preparation Prevents Preemptive Production of Painfully Piss Poor Performance.All wherein, the Dialectical practice of controversy, which is the open, free and invited exchange of criticism/critique, inherently friendly, valuable, 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, wherein indeed, the wisdom of drama, so anciently at the very root of all psychology, informs not only motivation and therefore marketing, but an entire strategic gamut of relevant human condition, karma, dharma, right action and situation. Indeed, just as an unfeasible plan might yet inspire a plausible work of fiction, similarly the creative freedom in a work of fiction might yet derive credible course of action. Drama remains an asset to new venture creation (various business startup), presentation and the human condition, whilst realistic planning and research, an enhancement to vivid fiction. Clearly, the two converging disciplines exceedingly well complement and enhance one another. Therefore, how can beneficial synergy therein best be optimized?
What is there to be learned from the salient example of the gifted? 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. And yet, mere interests and diversions in common, indeed so frequent among misguided criteria of group membership, remain perhaps among the least of determinants of personality profiling and
compatibility and all that human beings actually yearn for from one another.Eudemonia arises 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, conventional life options, 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 nothing less subversive than full engagement in quality and process of purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication and never otherwise. And no one else need approve!All thereby,
bonding and attachments of true friendship with psychological visibility, arises not as any 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 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 again, no one else need approve! Therefore, accept no substitute! Indeed, putting aside such daunting hard work, even play enfolds substance and purpose all its own.Indeed, all the above might help better explain why
gifted students, bright, insightful and emotionally sensitive, among their own true gifted peers, mysteriously no longer require that great and good boon of socialization, unwelcoming, toxic and sanctioned, that emotional violence and neglect which none dare call indoctrination, behavioral conditioning or brainwash. Indeed, the conventionally expected distant and disingenuous willful positivity, patiently keeping everything light and innocuous, all simply in order to escape notice from bullying, "hiding ones light under a bushed" and thereby so blandly to fit in socially, can be excruciatingly bored and lonely, painful and harmful, for sensitive, intelligent creative people. And so, just perhaps, instead of so brutally dumbing down our best and brightest "for your own good, dear!" might it not be so much more noble, happier and better to do exactly the opposite throughout life, and immerse even the most ordinary people into such interaction as so characteristic of the gifted, thereby cultivating, welcoming and bringing forth each ones own inner giftedness?- I and thou, 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, valuable, 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. line by line, word by word. Writing is rewriting, hard work and never a waste of time. Instead, to always get it right the first time, say very little and dare nothing new.
- 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 third part 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, as per the present proposal, Creativity can and Should be Social, 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 flagrantly 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, valuable, 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.
What is there to be learned from the salient example of the gifted? 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. And yet, interests in common, indeed so frequent among misguided criteria of group membership, remain perhaps among the least of determinants of personality profiling and
compatibility and all that human beings actually yearn for from one another.All thereby,
bonding and attachments of true friendship with psychological visibility, arises not as any 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 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 again, no one else need approve! Therefore, accept no substitute! Indeed, putting aside such daunting hard work, even play enfolds substance and purpose all its own.Indeed, all the above might help better explain why
gifted students, bright, insightful and emotionally sensitive, among their own true gifted peers, mysteriously no longer require that great and good boon of socialization, unwelcoming, toxic and sanctioned, that emotional violence and neglect which none dare call indoctrination, behavioral conditioning or brainwash. Indeed, the conventionally expected distant and disingenuous willful positivity, patiently keeping everything light and innocuous, all simply in order to escape notice from bullying, hiding ones light under a bushed" and thereby so blandly to fit in socially, can be excruciatingly bored and lonely, painful and harmful, for sensitive, intelligent creative people. And so, just perhaps, instead of so brutally dumbing down our best and brightest "for your own good, dear!" might it not be so much more noble, happier and better to do exactly the opposite throughout life, and immerse even the most ordinary people into such interaction as so characteristic of the gifted, thereby cultivating, welcoming and bringing forth each ones own inner giftedness?
I and thou, 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,
meaning 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,
valuable,
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.
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 third party 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, as
per the present proposal, Creativity can and Should be
Social, 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 flagrantly
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
and
valuable
as 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.
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The wool over our eyes: Therefore, do not be fooled. Accept no substitutes for genuine value. Because sublimation remains Existentially Absurd bait-and-switch. But it's not your fault! The setup for failure remains systemic and fraudulent. And indeed what a racket! Wake up, sheeple! We've all been had! A racket, no matter how respectable, can be any headgames, dishonest bad faith scheme or ongoing Transaction, all not as it contrives to present itself. And yet 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 cliquish cronies at the expense of the many. Thus, it never works for anyone else, because it cannot work. Therefore, no measure of denial, delusional wishful thinking and lunatic faith or willful positivity and perseverance will ever prevail. The moral of the story? Never be socialized by douche bags! With due apology to the mythically sinister Borg : Compliance is futile!Alas for the present call to action, that there ever persists such entrenched groupthink as of those so set in their ways, that some people just seem unable even to comprehend any very suggestion of learning anything new and at all ever doing things quite differently. And there are different needs for change, even aside quite simply from discrete mistakes to correct or wrongs that must be amended. For one thing, there remains unaware incompetence: Blithely ignorant erroneous practice in need of correction in accord with existing and even venerable bodies of competency even as enshrined in tradition, knowledge and capable practice, growth into mastery whereof so crucial to any hope of success. Worse, willfully unaware incompetence is often buttressed and compounded with skilled incompetence and sycophancy. All quintessentially to the probortunity at hand, as in the malagenda of collaborative badfic online, just Gawd awful! Similar malagenda alas all the more costly in business. But another driver for change and inspiration, similarly spurned by knave and fools, is true innovation and real progress in any creative endeavor. Probortunity at hand, opportunity presented by problems as ever arising, for brainstorming towards creative solution finding, the more dire, the more propitious. Alas, as so many people complain, when they reach out for connection, others do not seem equally interested. Typical social life remains a lonely chore and a bore of mindless conformity and approval seeking. And yet, many even who suffer the most, continue to profess conformism, commitment to normative challenge, and undying faith in status quo. But some are more serious than others. There are some that walk the talk, and others who don't. Some rigorous and systematic, and others only wrapped up in lip service. Either way, they balk at facing the crushing reality. Nevertheless, only unflinching situation analysis as undertaken herein, might possibly reveal any proportion and necessity of going so far a field as herein proposed. Or even simply discussing the matter seriously! They are not punished for their superficiality, but by their own superficiality. Because, even while like John Milton, condemning such loneliness they suffer, as the first thing that God's eye nam'd not good, yet so staunchly cleaving to the folic and toadying First Commandment of the ubiquitous cult of socialization, that interminably vapid small talk ever keeping it light and willfully cheerful, ever remains key to popularity and social success.
A woeful diagnostic catalogue of prevailing dysfunction under heteronomy Recreation, so-called, remains the desperate effort and struggle to recover, on ones own time and expense, from endless debilitation in every oppressive sore travail and soul crushing fake fun, that shabbily travesty of any wholehearted pleasure seeking. The insular masses, still like unto the Victorians, even to this day typically partake in a certain counterfeit of socializing. Often, instead of reaching out to others they encounter, they only go out together and keep to themselves. Going out alone to meet new people, then becomes pointless. And so instead, patience and false hope endure. Indeed, doctrines of timid learned helplessness, perpetual supplication and over reliance upon chance propinquity. Like Cinderella except for perpetually hiding isolated in plain sight: Some day my prince will come! For such remains all preference toward inaction and Not-Doing, with paralysis extolled as the very key to life. Bah, humbug! Alas, most every known conventional option in every walk of life so blithely unexamined, so perilously fraught with Existential Absurdity of interminably vapid small talk, uncritical willful positivity, superficial harmony of popularity and social success, all remain so desperately oppressive. So empty, futile, alienating and boring. That is why people secretly resent small talk, and rightly so. Indeed circumstances so crushingly lonely and isolated, not merely in solitude, but even amid the teeming masses, the madding crowd. And even more extreme, outright rejection, shunning, serial bullying and sanctimonious hypocrisy. For inevitably all such pettiness and bullying, mean spirit and pure evil, ensues under prevailing socialization, fraudulent toxic headgames, systematic reward and punishment of manipulative Behavior Modification and indoctrination. All that none dare call: brainwash! For to quote Russell Brand: Society is collapsing and people are starting to recognize that the reason they feel like theyre mentally ill is that theyre living in a system thats not designed to suit the human spirit. Such remains the daunting probortunity at hand, interesting and important. Why do we serve one another so poorly, if we don't like it? Why in such Absurd Existential futility must we cast about for connection in the great world, when here we are, I and thou? To quote Ralph Waldo Emerson: The only way to have a friend is to be one. Purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication are intentional and can't be faked by going through the motions or by any counterfeit of conditional strokes, because purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication is intrinsically motivated by meaningfully engaged attention. We live in in such a tightly strained attention economy. In the words of Simone Weil: Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
Indeed, by and large, psychotherapists see two kinds of patients: Those who remain unhappy because they just don't fit in, and those who are so unhappy because of the ego dystonic price that they must pay in order to fit in. All so onerously that they must attend to, and all so dear that they must foreswear. 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. Even the very least of hierarchically predictive social cognition and cynical popularity contest, relentless punishment and reward behavioral conditioning making such utter tools of us all, 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. Little wonder then, the outcomes gap, meaning: futility, no results no matter one one does, only continual frustration under ever the same sycophantic user unfriendly Existential bait-and-switch. For life is ongoing bait-and-switch, a sore travail! Bait-and-switch is when bait, the chimerical allure of any one desirable good on howsoever advantageous terms, is dangled out to beguile and ensnare the mark into the switch, reluctant and bewildered Transaction for some other, lesser and more costly approximation entirely. Resignation, exhaustion and defeat ensue, selling out and buying in. Thereafter, desperate hopes may endure, of later someday somehow trading the investment of life long compliance, for ones actual hearts desire all along, and thus at last recovery of ones own long lost and craven bartered soul. But all for naught!
While intrigued by the difficulties that people seemed to be having when The Heart of the Matter: Love, Information and Transactional Analysis' By Claude Steiner PhD
Alas, character development and growth in embarkation upon the all too uncertain real life Hero's Journey forging true friendship attempting anything really cool together, ever remains fraught with clas sic dramatic obstacles. Because from birth through adolescence, surrounded by others older, more experienced and better able to cope, and hence traditionally positioned in authority, we each find ourselves cast in rτles of inadequacy and dependency, and strongly discouraged from heeding any call to adventure. Indeed from engaging in emotional attachments except those few socially approved. And thus the timid awkwardness of childhood becomes entrenched lifelong. And thus does boring, lonely and oppressive drone like heteronomy repress the vitality of autonomy. And alas thereby, true close collaboration among equals is rendered quite inconceivable.Society in aggregate, remains unavoidably more powerful than any minority of one, the lone individual. And this tends to foster injustice and alienation because only people have rights. Corporations and zygotes are not people! Society to begin with, is not a person, a consciousness in and of itself. Society is legitimately merely a means, a process for serving the security, needs and desires of different people. Otherwise society and its institutions increasingly become a Frankenstein, an entity of our own creation, run amok and out of our control, burdensome, pointless, meaningless and futile. Hence injustice and alienation. And in the in the famously mangled aphorism of Walt Kelly's beloved Pogo Possum: We have met the enemy, and he is us!Paradoxically, it is only autonomy that truly fosters collective responsibility and better kindness to one another: What if instead of entirely burdening and shaming the individual to conform, and exempting society from all responsibility to us each, healthy, functional and operant Social Transaction between the individual and society where to evaluated more in the way that they are between individuals, equals and one another? Then impositions so blithely placed upon the individual might be more readily acknowledged and we might even ever try to stop making excuses for arbitrarily ganging up on one another all the time.Again to quote Russell Brand: Society is collapsing and people are starting to recognize that the reason they feel like theyre mentally ill is that theyre living in a system thats not designed to suit the human spirit. Alas, so much of what may be so lauded as socially adaptive, remains at the same time, so desperate, dishonest, repressed, maladaptive and inherently contradictory to authentic well being. For never ending combat against ever mounting dystress of loneliness and boredom, stimulus struggle, so named, a literal meaning of life! ever prevails: Stimulus struggle, the natural and perpetual striving of all living organisms, to regulate, to obtain and maintain, the optimum kind and degree of stimulation and arousal from the surrounding environment. Indeed, social and intellectual stimulus struggle, everything that human beings do, is in order to modify subjective experience, thereby altering consciousness. And any situation of social order, extracting sacrifice of, rather than rendering service to, individual stimulus struggle, can only result in a milieu of dutifully quiet desperation.
Trustworthy creditable Menschlichkeit in order favorably to impress, and to allay the responsible caution of, the wealthy, powerful and influential, in order thereby to gain access to their resources and connections, begins in ever relevant demonstration to candidate recruits on spec and prospective investors alike, of capable collaboration among equals, indeed entrepreneurship for the rest of us in new venture creation (various business startup) or even just in serious fiction writing together. And if all goes well, ever further outreach, recruitment, management team formation, all the way through to Venture Capitalization, all to climax finally in implementation followed by a dιnouement of exit strategy ever as applicable. A steep learning curve together, inception and evolution whereof from the previous two phases of operation. Therefore ensure then that each and all find voice, and let them shine. 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, motive, drive, effort, hard work, experience and connections. And autonomous individuals relate positively to one another in any suitable environment wherein to exercise free choice and cultivate new skills. For such are the motivating intrinsic needs of authentic well being and self-esteem. Even for the rest of us neophytes and wannabes, beginning from the most vulnerable and vastly underserved tentative and embryonic first concept inception or "kitchen table" stage or phase of new venture creation (various business startup), and proceeding steadily at our own pace in a culture of helping and reciprocity in task interdependency, each leader in ones own field, and follower in another's.
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 unfulfilled, bored, lonely and alienated, 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 Survival of the Sickest and the evolutionary neuroscience of hideously inbred mutation and massively engorged human cerebrality, and consistent also with the anomalously democratic grand afterthought of the generally authoritarian theoretical framework that is Cultural Anthropology. Indeed, according to Martin Seligman's celebrated happiness formula of Positive Psychology: Pleasure + engagement + meaning = intrinsic fulfillment. 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, capability, important close human relationship with psychological visibility, Eros which is transport in liberating union with alien difference, thus forging attachments of 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. Pleasure + engagement + meaning = intrinsic fulfillment. Indeed, no one can remain unfulfilled, bored, lonely and alienated, when so pleasurably and meaningfully engaged, optimally and reciprocally. But especially when so ebulliently together in brainstorming towards creative solution finding. Alas, a taboo joy of psychologically visibility together in unfettered speculation without foundation or justification, and thence full collaboration among equals, and thereby subversion of authoritarian hierarchy. All therefore so forbidden, infrequent and scarce in every walk of life. Thus creative solution finding, as it turns out, remains crucial and vastly underserved social and intellectual impulse and stimulus appetite. Indeed motivation so very uniquely characteristic to human consciousness, stimulus struggle and the human condition, yearning to breath free. Therefore, gentle reader, and convention be damned, the responsible question remains: Why not indulge together more regularly? And how to go about it? And with any particular focus? Indeed, precisely from such very questions, recursively emerges as the probortunity at hand, our first agenda. Indeed collaborative brainstorming towards creative solution finding of best implementation actually of sustained ongoing collaborative brainstorming and creative solution finding in the first place. Any questions? Any objections? Any takers? And moreover, just perhaps as herein predicted, and as must we dare the attempt, ongoing Dialectical deliberation all whereupon, already uplifting even in and of itself. All redolent, as per Friedrich Nietzsche's iconic definition of happiness, with the feeling, free at last! that power increases and that resistance is being overcome. And yet, when theory by itself, however sound, even as couched in rhetoric however eloquent, yet remains less than persuasive and compelling promotion out in the wild, what then? Answer: Perhaps the forthright live demonstration online, public electronic conversation, the brilliance on display, arκte of ongoing work product, both entrepreneurial and artistic, from collaboration, all published to the Web, may yet the more effectively entice and recruit talent, 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, outreach for unmet friends. Desperately seeking all therefore, the star first follower or ally to lead by example! Yea verily, first bold recruit among collaboration cofounders, steadily forging a steering committee coalescing in deliberation upon the priorities and order of business, managing the general course of successive pending operations across the long haul. Any questions? Any objections? Any takers? Thirdly, framework and practice of continual interaction: Outreach for ongoing participation, recruitment for cofounder collaboration partners, in vibrant artistic and innovative interstitial concurrent synergy, together to advance, as preceding, both each different application of narrative creativity, contemporaneously. And as a modest beginning in 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 vibrant anthology 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. And in the words of Henry Ford: Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.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 unprecedented serious ongoing collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming, but actually new venture creation (various business startup), even meeting the vastly underserved need of the requisite capable respectful culture of helping and autonomy supportive social support in order to facilitate entrepreneurship even for the rest of us neophytes and wannabes, at our own pace. Alas that both hopeful entrepreneurs and aspiring fiction writers are often and notoriously self-reliant and solitary, indeed especially in their respective vocations if not also characteristically. 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 and the empty illusion of social life. Not to digress. |
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