“There were always people present who believed in you and there in lies the key. I am no great personality. But every time I did do something remotely spectacular, I always had someone besides me, next in line, ready to help me out if I needed assistance. And as much of a lunatic I am, I have been a lucky person when it comes to such occasions (and) first followers.”

    

— Saransh Kataria on WISDOMGEEK  

      

And lo, the star first follower or ally, first to publicly recognize by fully engaging and interacting with the hitherto misunderstood and isolated lone nut dissident innovator, shall be the true leader and influencer blazing the trail, bridging abstract and concrete, teaching by subversive example, demonstrating for others how to participate, rôle models showing us all how best to relate. If all goes well, more will then follow suit and join in. And even three is a crowd, and a crowd garners attention. You might be mine, or I might be yours.  Or instead we possibly might instead even come together via lifestyle reciprocal peer or group coaching, a curious prospect! One way or another, for any lonesome frustrated desire and outreach tells a story, needs a plan, and calls out for allies, desperately sought for unmet friends. What follows then is comprehensive aggregation upon the much deliberated notion, indeed famously gone viral, with application to endeavor at hand:

Who then shall be first to stand before all others, and enter into any aspect of the inception of ongoing and vibrant dual endeavor and deliberation, in endless possibility, of disruptively innovative new venture creation (various business startup), entrepreneurship for the rest of us, on the one hand, in concurrent synergy interstitial with, on the other hand, pure creativity, art for its own joy, in unprecedented ongoing highly original serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming, an open ongoing writers bull session online?  

Or for that matter, among all several mad schemes and dreams, if need be, fully engaged Dialectical 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. Because new ideas are often confusing. And only shopworn and well familiar old ideas are certain always to come across effortlessly. Not to digress. But fair warning: Here may be, for the unfamilliar, a particularly difficult intellectual practice to embrace, much less actually to rôle model.  

Any questions? Any objections? Any takers? You are all invited! Gentle reader, I am counting on you! Dare we together take action? As observed of capable and happy people, let's talk more seriously! Indeed, every such interaction as herein extolled, remains well within the power of individuals together, intentionally and persistently. Got a better idea? Do tell!

In response, post to the for others to weigh in, orif it's private.

A movement or idea must become public so that more than just the leader remains visible. For any movement to gain momentum, perhaps even shattering whatever squeamish and naughty taboo, and reach a tipping point, current followers must remain visible because new followers emulate or rôle model existing followers and not the leader directly. Fpr such remains informational social influence or: social "proof." And more anon. Then, as more new participants join right in, it need no longer feel so risky finally to get down off from the proverbial fence. They won’t stand out, they won’t be ridiculed, and they can become part of the in-crowd if they hurry not to be left out. But it's more than merely a matter of mob psychology manipulation and domino effect, even however benign. Indeed, everything begins in action of defiance against convention. Because, rather than sweeping the world out of nowhere, even subversion of hierarchy, collaboration among equals, indeed collaborative brainstorming and solution finding, necessarily begins in microcosm, when any two or more individuals interacting and taking initiative, must finally innovate: at long last to begin doing things so differently and howsoever more capably together and persist.

Indeed, when theory by itself, however sound, yet remains less than compelling promotionally out in the wild, the live demonstration online, public electronic conversation, the brilliance on display, of ongoing work product from collaboration, published to the Web, may yet the more effectively entice and recruit others at long last to participate and join in. For any lonesome frustrated desire tells a story, needs a plan, and calls out for allies, outreach for unmet friends. Desperately seeking all therefore, the star first follower or ally! Any questions? Any objections? Any takers? You are all invited! Gentle reader, I am counting on you! Dare can take action? As observed of capable and happy people, let's talk more seriously! Indeed, every such interaction as herein extolled, remains well within the power of individuals together, intentionally and persistently.

And so: Change our conversation, reset the agenda, and just perhaps, change the world! And because, when theory by itself, however sound, yet remains less than compelling promotionally out in the wild, the live demonstration online, public electronic conversation, the brilliance on display, of ongoing work product from collaboration, published to the Web, may yet the more effectively entice and recruit others at long last to participate and join in. For any lonesome frustrated desire tells a story, needs a plan, and calls out for allies, outreach for unmet friends. Desperately seeking all therefore, the star first follower or ally! Only expect backlash and beware cross-purpose! Not to digress.

The TED Talks lecture in narration of the YouTube video imbedded following, has long gone viral. The importance  of the star first follower or ally is everywhere elaborated and extolled. But to what avail? Anyone is yet to explain precisely how to reproduce the phenomena at will by finding and recruiting the star first follower or ally, thereby to launch a trend and start a movement. Not to mention whatever setting for staging or inciting any such a seemingly spontaneous  publicity stunt. And such remains the probortunity at hand:

Gentle reader, have you ever bourn witness to potentially valuable ideas squandered from lack of response? Indeed, as the popular saying goes: Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way! I don't want your money or your devotion.  Gentle reader, I'd never let you off so easily! I am too good a friend for that. And I am certainly no formulaic callow motivational grifter here to tickle your ears, psyche you up,  and then leave you in the lurch! Isn't there quite enough of that already? FoolQuest.com remains my own subversive Message in a Bottle cast upon the cyber seas, agenda of frustrated outreach indeed for thoughtful committed citizens, unreasonable people, Desperately soughty for collaboration cofounder candidates.

    

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

    

Desperately seeking collaboration cofounder candidates for arduous and complicated endeavor entirely on spec. Long effort with no end in sight. Success doubtful but epic, forging true friendship attempting anything really cool together. Apply now to join in not merely on the proverbial ground floor, but deep down into the veritably abysmal dank stygian black hole depths of some forgotten subbasement! Desperately seeking the star first follower! And lo, the star first follower or ally blazing the trail, shall herald the true meeting of minds and collaboration among equals in creative solution finding and Eudemonia right here on FoolQuest.com And thus the star first follower or ally shall become the true leader, leading by example, showing others how to relate. Gentle reader, are you ready to become the star first follower or ally? Perhaps leadership as such, might be overrated. Be my wingman/wingchick, a friend to back me up. Indeed, there can be no more noble and better appreciated assertive good example for drawing others in, than CliqueBusters T M and sticking up for the bullied. Not to digress.

Be the star first follower or ally, the true leader, and start a movement! Be my star first follower or ally. Or just maybe or also, I might step in to become your star first follower or ally! It only seems fair. Because, to reiterate, when theory by itself, however sound, yet remains less than compelling promotionally out in the wild, the live demonstration online, public electronic conversation, the brilliance on display, of ongoing work product from collaboration, published to the Web, may yet the more effectively entice and recruit others at long last to participate and join in. For any lonesome frustrated desire tells a story, needs a plan, and calls out for allies, outreach for unmet friends. Desperately seeking all therefore, the star first follower or ally!

Who then shall be first to stand before all others, and enter into the inception of ongoing and vibrant dual endeavor and deliberation, of disruptively innovative new venture creation (various business startup), in endless possibility of entrepreneurship for the rest of us, on the one hand, in concurrent synergy interstitial with, on the other hand, unrestrained pure creativity, art for its own joy, in unprecedented ongoing highly original serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming, an open ongoing writers bull session online?  Any questions? Any objections? Any takers? You are all invited! Gentle reader, I am counting on you! Dare we together take action? As observed of capable and happy people, let's talk more seriously! Indeed, every such interaction as herein extolled, remains well within the power of individuals together, intentionally and persistently. Got a better idea? Do tell!

Because, while it ever remains for the individual visionary to clearly, persuasively and evocatively articulate whatever bold insight greater than oneself, it may come to pass that at first only one singular person shall initially become receptive to whatever the significance thereof. A successful leader in order to recruit the star first follower, must fathom motivation of the star first follower or ally. No one is ever actually in full authority. We all remain ever fallible and answerable. Therefore any successful leader must embrace the star first follower as an equal. The intentional social engineering of informational social influence or: social "proof" produces crucial legitimization for all. Social "proof" eases hesitation and worry, in order help overcome shock, surprise, timid confusion and hesitation. And it can't begin too soon. According to Robert Cialdini, who details the principle of social "proof" in great depth in his ‘Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion’ “we view a behavior as more correct in a given situation to the degree that we see others performing it. So often in situations where we are uncertain about what to do, we would assume that the people around us (experts, celebrities, friends, etc.) have more knowledge about what’s going on and what should be done." And it has always been the courageous initiative of that capable star first follower or ally transforming and dignifying any lone nut with the courage to seem ridiculous, at long last into an actual leader.

But ego and narcissism drawing attention to the leader or specific team members, rather than selflessly onto the followers and the movement itself, inhibit growth of a movement, by limiting focus. And by informing policy, this becomes problematic, given cherished values of individual initiative, creativity and even dissidence. Because controversy remains the welcome and appreciated exchange of criticism and rebuttal. And for together choosing the best ideas, controversy, the welcome and appreciated free exchange of genuine criticism, remains nothing to fear, nothing threatening or hostile. Because criticism remains inherently friendly, valuable, an expression of abiding respect. Ensure then that everyone finds voice, and let them shine. Nurture those who follow in order to breath life into any movement. Indeed, to quote Barbara Sher: “Isolation is the true dream killer, not your attitude.” And to quote Mark R. J. Lavoie: “Life dies inside a person when there are no others willing to befriend him." Indeed, as George Orwell observes, even at all thinking clearly, becomes increasingly difficult in bored and lonely isolation without expression. For as any craven and malignant socially isolating Relational Bullies well understand, bereft of that star first follower, there can be no movement. Be More Than an apathetic bystander. Stay alert and never bystand and thereby passively enable Relational Bullying.

And lo, it shall be with that all too often forgotten and underappreciated star first follower or ally, that active conversion of anyone else begins, by example and then imitation and reciprocation. By informational social influence or: social "proof." Therefore let it be a positive example, from initiation thereof and thereby, triggering at last, that coveted domino effect, a cascade, that all so heady veritable snowballing avalanche, in attracting and recruiting more followers each in turn to participate, and by their example likewise to demonstrate and recruit. Indeed, as Derek Sivers further expounds, the second follower makes three. And “three's a crowd, and a crowd is news!” For indeed, “..and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.” (Ecclesiastes 4:12) Because a movement must become public and obvious, even convenient, outsiders must be presented with, and thereby must perceive, more than just any leader, however charismatic, or even the very best and most appealing of new ideas, but indeed a movement as above detailed.

It ain't rocket surgery! The star first follower or ally, supportive and well aligned with the vision of their leader, and generally as a positive influence, enacts the admirable, advantageous and appealing principles of the movement. The virally famous star first follower or ally comes forth engaging with the leader, hitherto just a lone nut, to publicly rôle model for all comers, how likewise to become followers (participants), publicly demonstrating how to follow (participate) indeed as collaboration cofounders. Therefore, let us strategize upon how to conduct outreach, locate and engage our public, enacting conduct as to be modeled and imitated.

Embarkation thus ensues upon the bridge from abstract principle (generally why) into  concrete application (specifically how), in deliberation analytic yet strategic, and the devil in the details, setting agenda and implementation, together taking coherent action. And in those wise words of Henri-Louis Bergson: “Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.” For to quote John Mason Good: “Happiness consists in activity. It is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.” Indeed, as Benjamin Disraeli declares: “Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”

Alas however, so very, very far from anything so serious, anything even resembling action and ambition, both capable storytelling (barring the fairytale surreal) and competent planning, will likewise never honestly withstand gaping plot holes and gaps or errors in applicable logic.  Because, when theory by itself, however sound, yet remains less than compelling and persuasive recruitment outreach promotionally out in the wild, the live unfolding demonstration online, public electronic conversation, dazzling creativity, clever promotion, the brilliance on display, of ongoing work product from collaboration, published to the Web, may yet the more effectively entice and recruit others at long last to participate and join in collaboration among equals in creative solution finding. Specifically: Hitherto unprecedented serious ongoing collaborative dramatic Science Fiction fiction writing and brainstorming on the one hand, unrestrained pure creativity for its own joy, concurrently in endless objectively real world possibility, with the applied creativity of innovative new venture creation (various business startup) and (pre-) incubation, on the other hand. And all as beginning from a select short compendium of innovative sample new venture proposals, together with  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, back and forth. Thus, viola: Eudemonia!

Therefore, read and respond, back and forth, as publicly as possible, thereby becoming the star first follower or ally. Or by all means gentle reader, go ahead and pitch your own! Lead and perhaps draw forth as your own star first follower or ally, yours truly. After all, the Golden Rule: Do unto others. 

 

 

And lo, the star first follower or ally, first to publicly recognize by fully interacting with the hitherto misunderstood and isolated lone dissident innovator, shall be the true leader and influencer blazing the trail, teaching by subversive example, demonstrating for others how to participate, r le models showing everyone how to relate, bridging abstract and concrete.

For any lonesome frustrated desire and outreach tells a story, needs a plan, and calls out for allies, desperately sought for unmet friends. Therefore: Change our conversation, reset the agenda, and change the world!  And because, when theory by itself, however sound, yet remains less than compelling promotionally out in the wild, the live demonstration online, public electronic conversation,  the brilliance on display, of ongoing work product from collaboration, published to the Web, may yet the more effectively entice and recruit others at long last to participate and join in. For any lonesome frustrated desire tells a story, needs a plan, and calls out for allies, outreach for unmet friends. Desperately seeking all therefore, the star first follower or ally!

Desperately seeking: first of all, persistent and open minded conversationalists upon the agenda at hand. Who out there might actually be prevailed upon with the requisite wherewithal? Indeed, should you, gentle reader, then yet at all decide indeed for whatever your own good reasons, to persevere and continue navigation of FoolQuest.com, then never simmer in deadlock and frustration. Because as the saying goes, no question is too foolish to ask, and no answer too wise to be given. Therefore question freely in case of incomprehension. Because even incomprehension is nothing so dreadful or awkward, no menace to be so assiduously avoided, no dire impasse at all, not the end, but actually a beginning. For communication is struggle. After all, writing is rewriting and never a waste of time. But there is method toward the achievement of Intersubjectivity, whereof intrinsic motivation and Active Reading remain ever crucial. And thank you, gentle reader, unmet friend. Because we live in an attention economy.  And in the words of Barbara Sher: Isolation is the true dream killer, not your attitude. And to quote Mark R. J. Lavoie: “Life dies inside a person when there are no others willing to befriend him.” Indeed, as George Orwell observes, even at all thinking clearly, becomes increasingly difficult in bored and lonely isolation without expression. Therefore in the immortal words of Simone Weil: Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. And by way of corollary from common aphorism: “Effort is the best indicator of interest.”     

Desperately seeking: responsible trustworthy partners for innovative new venture creation (various business startup), entrepreneurship for the rest of us. For the possibilities remain endless!

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

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

Desperately seeking: cofounder candidates, in accordance with evolutionary neuroscience and the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology, in true subversive Epicurean cultivation of freedom, friendship and thought, relationship in new paradigm via Intentional community or just intentional social circle by social engineering design; for better optimized social and intellectual stimulus struggle via ongoing collaboration among equals, pleasurable and meaningful optimal reciprocal engagement intrinsic to fulfillment, authentic wellbeing and human flourishing; all as characteristic and Empirically observed of honest, responsible, trustworthy, capable and respectful happy people who thrive in autonomy, prosper and succeed, together intentionally and purposefully engaging in creative endeavor, often hard work evidently so unclear to many. At least initially, rather than sweeping the world out from leftfield, 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 begin interacting and taking initiative must finally innovate: at long last to begin doing things differently and howsoever more capably together and persist.  And then collective endeavors of intentional community can be organized and designed so as to foster most desired interaction between participants.

Desperately seeking: Volunteer advisors/mentors simply regarding outreach, how even to initiate/ignite entirely from scratch and then to sustain, in quality and process, open ongoing public discussion online upon the present agenda. How might even that most modest initial objective somehow to initiate or to trigger sustained open ongoing public discussion online at all, upon the present agenda, ever be achieved? With the help and advice that we each need, it may become possible to break isolation toward even collaboration in exploration and feasibility study of whatever the kind of probortunities that one finds interesting. Alas, I have no ready and trite simple answer to all manner of complex problems that plague us all. Sustained substantive communication and purposeful interaction, successful team work, can be hard work undertaken by serious people. Nevertheless, relationship, Eros which is transport in liberating union with alien difference, and particularly friendship, arise in autonomy and entirely as a byproduct of full engagement in in quality and process of purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication and as shall be seen, never otherwise.

   

Therefore, accept no substitutes! And no one else need approve. That remains what shall be at stake, throughout. For in the words of Barbara Sher: Isolation is the true dream killer, not your attitude.  So I don't want your money or your devotion. Gentle reader, I'd never let you off so easily! I am too good a friend for that. And I am certainly no formulaic callow motivational grifter here to psyche you up and then leave you in the lurch! Isn't there quite enough of that already?

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

 

As observed of capable and happy people, let's talk more seriously! For in the words of Barbara Sher: Isolation is the true dream killer, not your attitude. Indeed, in the words of Barbara Sher: Isolation is the true dream killer, not your attitude. And to quote Mark R. J. Lavoie: Life dies inside a person when there are no others willing to befriend him.

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

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

 

 

For whom, why and wherefore, FoolQuest.com

No less vivid and passionate than any rising emotion, emerging belief at any moment, though truth ever uncertain, should not appear as any comforting choice and mechanism of denial, but as an often uncomfortable compulsion of inescapable reasoning dawning in the face of unfolding Empirical reality. Alas then that instead, whatever one believes may often result from whatever one has repeatedly been told, even to the point of irrationally doubting the evidence of ones own senses and experience, let alone that of barring any pure intellectual autonomy. Indeed especially such extreme autonomy as essential in due investigation and rational consideration of whatever even seemingly outrageous and bizarre dissident views as perhaps even somewhat hyperbolically expounded herein.

     

Suffice then that indeed as herein, dashing all conventional strategy and hope of ever breaking profound isolation and alienation of often secret and shameful loneliness, may be found quite rightly upsetting. Especially for normal folks as so typical amid the anxious masses. Those ever bent upon continuing to do precisely as one has always been accustomed. Indeed, societally approved to establish identity and membership in such eager and Quixotic desperation to belong, called: heteronomy. In short, we all find ourselves betrayed by such prevailing perniciously misanthropic nonsense! As the old joke goes: We must be a mushrooms, because we are kept in the dark a fed such bullshit! Hence all the more, philosophy and habits of clear thinking remain essential to capable sensemaking at all. Because there remain worse dangers quite conversely from paralysis by analysis, which is actually ambivalence (inner conflict), anyhow. As is said: Who hesitates is lost, nevertheless, look before you leap!

  

Behold now in all things, in universal application, greater efficiency ever extolled! In powerful utilization of Scientific Method, division of labor leveraging for each whatever their own most capable forte, and tracking the results. Increase all such interaction as to enhance value, and decrease such as remaining only wasteful or actually detrimental. What principles could ever become more widely applicable? Inflicting upon us all our unhappy system of formal education and indoctrination into heteronomy, all under the guise of efficiency, that great and good captain of industry, John D. Rockefeller so famously declared: “I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers.” A tragic and cretin superficial efficiency to this day so formative to all modern Existentially Absurd and oppressive Behaviorist failed conventionality.

     

Extending then beyond historically initial and sensible context of corporate productivity, with such enthusiasm into every walk of life, and indeed into maximizing any actual ongoing benefit for any individual person, what due calculus of greater efficiency then actually obtains in striving to precisely what end value? Indeed, in  due salient analysis bearing in mind individual happiness, does all idle hedonism and reflection only remain so profligate and effete? So worthy only of Moralistic scorn on the part of our betters?

     

In the immortal observations of George Carlin: “Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit." After all, to quote Anthony Marra: “Work isn’t meaningful just because you spend your life doing it.” Indeed, in the words of J. M. Barrie: “Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.” And to quote: Maxim Gorky: “When work is pleasure, life is joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.” And in the words of George Orwell: “The main motive for 'nonattachment' is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual is hard work.” ( ...said the little red hen...)

The most obvious objection then, to any plan of action that after all can only add to the workload, will be either that it cannot achieve results, or else that it remains unnecessary. And the most obvious rebuttal comes, if whatever is already and routinely being done indeed does not achieve desired results, and needs to be discontinued. And this in turn will be resisted by faith in order to stay the course. Either with every effort, or just by lip service. Indeed by utter denial, willful malignant optimism, and even by taking blame for interim failure. It's only natural to cleave to the tried and true. To value tradition. As most commonly attributed to Burt Lance: “If it ain't broke, don't fix it!” Alas then that we have all been lied to, and need to become better informed.

   

For whom then, why and wherefore, FoolQuest.com? Who then shall be the target audience of FoolQuest.com Who might be interested, and why? The relevance of demographics herein, becomes dubious. Actual human motivation remains key. Indeed, in the celebrated words of Margaret Mead: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” And so famously to quote George Bernard Shaw: “Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.” FoolQuest.com then, remains fervent outreach to prospective unreasonably thoughtful and committed citizens. Because FoolQuest.com remains an invitation for serious people to engage in extensive feasibility study: The very question, realistically, of whatever schemes and dreams: How much of our precious effort and attention, gentle reader, will any of such engagement actually require? And would such intensity of engagement seem actually uplifting or merely oppressive, gentle reader? And there's the rub! Not judging, just asking.

And so, indeed therefore, in all due gratitude, rises the fervent hope that nothing herein shall actually become more extreme, more dangerous, difficult and complicated than as entirely due, reasonably to be expected, and consequent from all manner of worthwhile but daunting lofty ambition replete with extensive information resources gathered herein. Indeed for all manner of subversive expression and disruptive first concepts. And more, anon. Indeed, ever at all most interesting and appealing to site visitors, and most importantly, to desperately sought for unmet friends and allies for the author, yours truly. Again, all whereof, defining for whom, why and wherefore, FoolQuest.com, the invitation for serious people to ongoing feasibility study together: The very question, realistically, of whatever schemes and dreams: How much of our precious effort and attention, gentle reader, would likely be required? And would such intensity of engagement seem actually uplifting or merely oppressive, gentle reader? And there's the rub! Not judging, just asking.

In the words then, of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” And as per Sir Isaac Newton: “You have to make the rules, not follow them.” Because we each and all find ourselves situated in an overstressed attention economy, attention ever spread so very thin. Indeed to quote Herbert Simon: “What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.” And alas, in the words of Jean Boudrillard: “We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.” But at least level of engagement remains under ones own personal control. Or does it? Indeed, is pleasurable and meaningful engagement a personal choice, or a matter of efficiency and priorities, or actually stimulus and arousal in the elicitation of response, indeed the trigger of a compulsion? For as the saying goes: “Effort is the best indicator of interest.” And as one might hope, not merely of casual interest or idle curiosity, but of abiding individual value and importance, indeed of true fulfillment. Effort and attention comprise the added value contributed in the course of individual engagement, attachment and involvement. Anything less remains perfunctory and robotic. All therefore, thank you kindly, most gracious gentle reader. Because nowadays more than ever, in the immortal words of Simone Weil: “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”

How then actually, is attention and effort most commonly allocated? One dramatic and psychological answer, as John Steinbeck writes in ‘East of Eden:’ “People are only interested in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen…a great and lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting—only the deeply personal and familiar.” (Actually, in contrast with traditional drama, persuasive and intelligent depiction of the wondrously different and unfamiliar, is the most compelling  accomplishment of true Science Fiction writing. Not to digress, however.) Indeed, it has frequently been observed how people, often so self-centered, tend to become most interested in themselves and their own best interests, not to mention: Existential Validation and self justification. Alas as so long well known and understood, precisely such effort and attention so focused into the intrapsychic regulation of inner state and emotion, often serves to divert effort and attention away from any prospect of dangerous and anxiety provoking relevant action out in the world. And that is how, paradoxically, even affirmation so often deviously functions as negation.

Of course, for the author, it will always be gratifying, indeed perhaps even at all validating, whenever anyone for whatever their own good reasons and personal situation, discovers value of their own, in content here on this very website, FoolQuest.com Astonishingly, such uncommon paragons among readers never complain of finding the prose or composition herein unclear. They may, even without derision or allegation of pretension, sans irony whatsoever, even praise all whereof indeed others might cringe and complain, as resonant and evocative writing style and tone. Because they so deeply relate. As it happens, over the years, exactly such has been the most favorable response to a specific section of FoolQuest.com, titled: CliqueBusters TM. And more, presently. Why, they never even notice all admittedly awful webdesign! Indeed, the denseness of these comprehensive hypertexts even deemed a positive feature, by those so fully engrossed and pouring over the information compiled, for whatever reasons, so interesting and important to them. However well, or even at all, any of that converges with any of the actual motivating concerns, objectives and desires in the agenda of the author, yours truly, webmaster of FoolQuest.com including CliqueBusters T M. All whereof, so plainly, not many do at all relate. Therefore: We shall not overcome. And there's the rub!

Alas then all such craven and oppressive slave mentality motivated by such unquestioned knee-jerk sycophantic conflict aversion, being; the timid people-pleasing adamantly defenseless inhibition of someone constitutionally unable to stand up for themselves, much less anyone else, ever at all to push back when pushed, never rising up. The sort of blithely high-minded cowardice and irresponsible moral pretense, that confers upon even the most courageous Pacifism, such unjustly ill repute.

Again to quote George Orwell: “A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.” Because: News Is What Somebody Does Not Want You To Print. All the Rest Is Advertising. And as per the Yiddish Proverb: “A half truth is a whole lie.” Indeed alas, to make matters worse for unfashionable opinions, fearful taboo unspoken, may yet lurk behind the most genuine enthusiastic praise notwithstanding and in stubborn blithe disregard. Indeed, as Dr. Chen Yehezkely observes, precisely such conservative subterfuge of half truth, is common in the study of formal education, as a method to lionize yet deviously eviscerate all revolution. Just such taboo, in very principle, even as against bridging from lofty abstract principle into anything more concrete, specific and practical. Let alone ever actually taking action.

Taboo indeed, just for case study example, against ever fighting back, even however nonviolently and covertly, in the face of bullying, indeed as according to a new protocol as expounded in CliqueBusters T M, the most radical and militant known anti-bullying page online, right here on FoolQuest.com Now with brand new even more objectionable content and violation of ever squeamish taboo! Guaranteed vice-signaling, something to offend everyone! Not to digress. And yes, I do suspect that there might have been educators, among those who so love all the passion and insight, indeed everything about CliqueBusters T M, except the entire point of strategic resistance which they so determinedly refuse to address. So propagates oppression amongst the oppressed. All begging the question: What will be required of us all, for safety and freedom from pandemic well organized organized serial bullying? And are we actually up for it? For whatever reasons, many, clearly, are not.

Especially not those craven enablers of bullying, those conflict averse slippery appeasers and their bogus support groups, punishment and reward system for "marshmallowing" pacification via soothing sympathy and validation to the enforced exclusion of any effective active response whatsoever, indeed anything beyond emotional support only. Because, those are the rules! A restriction which may make any sense as a guideline only in order to focus upon any actually insightful and cathartic group therapy beyond merely emotional support of consensual validation. But not otherwise. Because, what happens if instead of complacent engineered consensus of empty sympathy, righteous indignation, dissident practicality and true good will shall ensue? What if anyone actually wants to help, realistically? Or seeks real tangible options, support and assistance? Worse, what if they ever dare criticize? And then they wont take a hint and back down? Answer: Online censorship, scorn and exclusion. Indeed, particularly toxic victim blaming against vulnerable and defenseless people, targets of bullying actually subject to hostility and risk, among others who need a whole lot more than just sympathy and understanding, crocodile tears of well organized and adamantly controlling passive hypocritically apathetic bystanders.

And beware! For there are even more blatant and conniving false flag operations, ostensible support for the bullied, but actually retraumatization traps, online communities and forums that turn out actually to be run by well organized covert serial bullies! Not even further to digress.