Added dimensions of social stimulus struggle unique to humanity, remain ever rooted in massively inbred hideous mutation and the evolutionary neurology of sapient consciousness:

“That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.”  ― Friedrich Nietzsche

“That which doesn't kill me, makes me stranger.”  ― Ćon Flux   

Primarily, Cultural Anthropology defines itself by focus upon, leave us face it: the predominating human mentality as of the packmammals that we are, specifically of hierarchically predictive social cognition or: sycophancy anticipating the responses of others, merely via the recognition of members of one's own social group in order to form direct relationships consistent with rôles of relative social standing, degrees of kinship and rank, recognition of third-party social relationships, all predictive of future behavior. And yet, as per the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology, as an all too fleeting respite from that grind, alas only temporarily suspending the prevailing unhappiness of mediocre heteronomy, their remains the fully engaged low hierarchical distance of creative solution finding, remains an all too rare, ever yearned for and fondly remembered but poignantly transient and even damn near euphoric high point in life, friendship, joy and happiness. And yet precisely such repeatable Empirical observation and salient realization, endures as as the great afterthought of Cultural Anthropology of what differs humanity from other animals biologically: the unique intellectual social stimulus appetites of the highly evolved and massively engorged human brain and neocortex. Indeed, part and parcel of evolution driven by competition within our species, far beyond any needs of survival and adaptation to the surrounding environment, already well achieved. Moreover, the discovery of the wisdom of crowds, might even suggest that human reasoning evolved along with the human brain and society, for deliberation together, comparing individual reasons. More heads are better than one. And disagreement is productive.

Charles Darwin famously wrote of evolution driven by natural selection and reproductive success via “the survival of the fitter,”  which in the popular rubric then became: “the survival of the fittest.” Turning the phrase yet again, in ‘‘The Survival of the Sickest,’ the authors Dr. Sharon Moalem and Jonathan Prince remind us that even howsoever at all advantageous mutation remains only a kinder term for birth defect, gene damage and horrible deformity, accumulating as passed down from generation to generation, because they indeed promoted survival long enough for reproductive success. For example, terminal sickle cell anemia, in the interim protects from malaria, and cellular aging might ever have served as a very costly and ultimately lethal defense against cancer.

As it turns out, humanity diverged from the chimpanzee even more recently in evolutionary history, than had previously been known. Amazingly, only a hand full of key genes differentiate humans from chimps. To wit: Healthy baby chimpanzees walk up right, but begin walking on their knuckles into puberty. However, a genetic birth defect of the pelvis still observed cropping up occasionally among chimpanzees, accounts for adult human beings walking upright, advantageous for wading into the tides and foraging for shellfish. And the weakest bite in the animal kingdom, is that of the human being, because of the most blatant damage and deformation to the genes for our jaw muscles. In distinct stretches of the genetic sequence, one of the two paired chromosomes is actually missing! Such weak and genetically deformed jaw muscles allow the human skull from birth to enlarge over time in accommodation the sheer bulk of the adult human brain affording humanity the wit and innovation to chop, grind and cook food, indeed precisely as necessitated by such weak and disabled jaw muscles, and more efficient at getting more nutrition out of food and thereby economizing upon time and resources. Again. only one of the handful of key genetic birth defects that diverge and differentiate humans from our nearest relatives, the chimps, whereas the calamity of a healthy and genetically whole jaw muscle produces a human with a skull the size of a chimpanzees, a pinhead (Down's Syndrome).

In no vengeful and misogamist caprice of The Lord All Mighty, but merely via evolution from massively inbred hideous mutation, hath multiplied the suffering of women in childbirth: Rather, standing and walking upright has favored the evolution of narrow hips, thereby narrowing the birth canal. No other female animal, but only human women, suffer such agony in labor as the bones of the pelvis must so painfully separate in order to accommodate the tremendous size of the baby's head through a narrowed birth canal. -Indeed, just like passing a bowling ball, exactly as the saying goes. And pregnancy would be even much longer and worse without neoteny, or: infancy, which is a continued gestation even outside of the womb.

Throughout life, the massive human brain places considerable demands upon bodily resources, and yet it still is never enough. Indeed, hyperbaric medicine has discovered that barring intervention, none of us, no matter how normal and healthy, are actually ever getting quite enough oxygen to fully and optimally meet the needs of such freakish and massively inbred hideous mutation as of massively engorged human cerebrality.
 

 

The key pertinence of evolutionary neuroscience, to consciousness, creative solution finding and human social stimulus struggle:

The  social engineering feasibility study at hand, remains precisely how, in what way or manner and by what strategy of means, step-by-step process or procedure, to optimize social stimulus struggle via the implementation of whatever more gratifying and effective modes of social interaction, after all else has failed, that which has actually been yearned for all along, perhaps achieved by the purposeful introduction of key social stimuli into the social environment, even doing so intentionally and at will.

It remains so disheartening  how many people experience the same frustrated yearnings, and yet so utterly fail to find one another and connect, for wont not only of the wherewithal, the channels and the means, but often of the sheer imagination. The average person, inexperienced of anything more vibrant and meaningful, has become blithely jaded and accustomed to a profound social, emotional and intellectual deprivation in which so many of us find ourselves imprisoned. Effort and struggle may be all quickly dismissed and condemned as mere hardship, intolerable frustration and Existential futility. But there can also be the true life human drama of progress and satisfaction, growth, self-definition and discovery, perhaps even success. Besides, exactly what are the alternatives? Many extol a choice only between acceptance and despair, merely flavors of the same intimidation. Indeed, in the famous words of George Bernard Shaw: “Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.” 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 endures in persistent outreach toward the formation of just such a core group of unreasonable people applying ourselves even to the most daunting problems besetting us.

Just for example, in the Virtual Reality of a video game for children, it will be simple enough to program, so that all of the non-player characters will all respond by dancing in joyous approval, whenever the player successfully ties their shoes. But one might never need to tie ones shoes. What if, only given the option, one wears only loafers or buckle shoes? Then all such extrinsic rewards and contrivance of Behavioral Modification will have gone to waste! Moreover, such conditional strokes might be more difficult to achieve in reality, especially in any intentional situation instead of cheating and just using actors instructed in whatever desired responses. However, placing by design, among social stimuli featuring in an intentional social environment, even a single dancer throwing Frisbees pleasurably engaging passersby into playing catch, would be far more straightforward. And it just might raise a smile. True, human needs are often for desired kinds of responsiveness. Nevertheless instead it may be more practical simply to take initiative, to feature by design whatever social stimuli within an intentional social environment, than to by whatever means to socially engineer desired even complex responses.

Innate intrinsic impulses and appetites may be elicited or stimulated no less readily than behaviorally conditioned responses can be triggered. Why then are social stimuli generally assumed to consist of social cues, meaning sly subtext of conformity and heteronymous coercion? after all, social stimuli can be, quite to the contrary, permissive or gratifying. As shall be seen, they can even be uniquely individual, and perhaps even intentionally so tailored, implemented and tested. When the surrounding physical and psychological environment features cues howsoever associated or connected by whatever contrivance, to whatever set target objectives, the subject may thereby be directed towards whatever those objectives, by whatever open, simple and clear instructions, or else as by whatever at all more sinister advertising or propaganda manipulation and coercion. For such is subjugation under Behavior Modification having no other criteria save for compliance that will be deemed adaptive. And that is like cutting the foot to fit the shoe! It then falls to "unreasonable people"  with the audacity instead to help change our world for the better. To wit: The present social engineering design challenge in the optimization of social stimulus struggle will be to investigate, design and then feature and empower in a surrounding environment, whatever might be discovered actually missing and yearned for, and not any cunning Existential bait-and-switch of manipulative sublimation or coercion. To provide social stimuli and outlets correspondent to motivating intrinsic appetites, without extrinsic reward or punishment. Liberation, freedom, after all, is power, meaning opportunity to act upon and gratify individual desires.

"Motivation-Reaction Units" as dubbed by Dwight Swain, are micro level scene structure, wherein something happened and then someone reacts, stimulus followed by response. And the concept applies no less in real life drama and World-Building. Stimuli prominently feature in an environment, whereas responses are hidden, waiting, for good or ill, to be triggered. We all yearn for an environment responsive to our needs, but plot oriented featuring stimuli are by far simpler to design and to script, implement and direct, than character driven response. Indeed, stimuli featuring in the surrounding environment effectively engage the individual subject, without waiting to be triggered. Hence, for the sake of simplicity and reliability, featuring stimuli will be the focus herein, rather than responsiveness. It is intended that individuals suitably triggered and stimulated, with more readily engage one another more responsively. (Take that any way you like!)

 

 

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.

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.” For 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, 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.

 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! Therefore. accept no substitutes!

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.