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The FoolQuest.com agenda:                       Eudemonia in our time                              Dialectic and action

“I had an intuition I couldn’t survive corporate America. I hated the hierarchy and just wanted to work with my friends.”

  — David Kelley, IDEO cofounder

 

 

If You Desire Anything You've Never Had, Try Something You've Never Done

Rôle modeling happy people together?

 

 

    

 

Attention, please:

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.” Finding ourselves as each we all, situated in an overstressed attention economy, ever shorter attention ever spread so very thin.  Alas how in the words of Jean Boudrillard: “We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”

 

Alas, ever more clearly, we endure in such a maddening Existentially Absurd monological world, teeming with glorified pack mammals, self-sufficiently Solipsistic bleating sheeple, some quite famous and highly regarded, even venerated. Who only talk and never listen. Not to what anyone else struggling, might be trying so hard to say. Indeed, not even to their own thoughts (indeed as perhaps soliloquizing), much less to one another, to anyone else. With no Point Of View to offer, the inattentive craving attention, void unto void, making interminably vapid small talk, talking with nothing to say about anything whatsoever in the entire universe. Indeed, all said, ever bypassing, which means talking past one another, in blithe and chronically unaware reciprocal communications failure and incomprehension. And indeed Solipsistic with no concept of anyone to say it to anyhow. So: Is that indeed Solipsism, soliloquy? Or is it just me?

All therefore, thank you gentle reader. Because nowadays more that ever, in the immortal words of Simone Weil: “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” And personal happiness may largely depend upon reciprocally optimal and productive exchange of attention, in best sustainable quantity, quality, type and suitability to the needs of participants engaged therein.

All whereof remaining the unprecedented objective of analytic yet strategic design thinking, investigation and implementation into the social engineering of more optimal reciprocally engaged social and intellectual stimulus struggle.

For stimulus struggle to begin with, remains what every living thing is doing all of the time. Indeed, 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. And by extension, social and intellectual stimulus struggle herein denotes the perpetual striving of every self aware human psyche, to regulate, to obtain and maintain, the optimum kind and degree of most optimal reciprocally engaged social and intellectual stimulation and arousal from the immediate social environment. Indeed, everything that we do is in order thereby to modify subjective experience thereby altering consciousness itself. And click here to know more...

 

 

Problem definition and situation analysis

       of vastly underserved intrinsic motivation  

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.” And 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.” Therefore, together bridging abstract and concrete in heady exchange of ideas, change our conversation, reset the agenda, and just maybe, change our world!

And in due course, all such grand endeavor as herein propounded throughout, perhaps may nurture most practically by advancing gradually throughout the incremental institution of intentional community and infrastructure even coalescing into a trustworthy culture of helping and social support conducive to probortunity at hand: Collaboration not only in pure creativity of serious creative writing, but also even into disruptive innovation of entrepreneurship for the rest of us. Indeed, all as hitherto so daunting and obscure for the masses. Or at least initially, more modestly, intentional social circle, club or group formation. Perhaps even an open yet responsible working group and steering committee ever striving to bring all such bold vision into fruition.

In the genesis of any new movement, it may come to pass that the star first flower or ally so desperately sought for, becomes the true leader by example: An influencer, a rôle model blazing the trail, demonstrating how better to relate by together taking initiative even somewhat conspiratorially to innovate, and at long last to begin significantly doing things differently, howsoever more capably together, and to persist.

Because the social skills and shared core values of autonomy, forever vibrant and new, can only remain entirely distinct from those of ever effete, moribund and toadying heteronomy. And this pertains especially to quite leaderless close collaboration among equals, a social phenomenon quite literally inconceivable from entrenched and tragically misguided heteronymous worldview and perception that without firm and resolute guiding authority, there can only ensue aimless strife and chaos. And click here to know more...

And yet, notwithstanding any such tragically misguided authoritarian convictions, and instead in accordance with ancient wisdom of the greatest sages of old as rediscovered in the bleeding edge of modern happiness science, evolutionary neuroscience and the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology: to test the very bold conjecture, that no one can remain unfulfilled, bored, lonely and alienated, when reciprocally so optimally reciprocally, pleasurably and meaningfully engaged, so freely and ebulliently together in creative solution finding, or perhaps even collaborative brainstorming.

And precisely that joyful experience is what makes people happy...

And just imagine: All henceforth to be undertaken continually and systematically, repeatably and at will, indeed that one hitherto all too scarce, tightly controlled  and transient respite from the doldrums and dystress of heteronomy to hierarchically predictive social cognition by which so slavishly to gage and conform to peer expectations.

And instead, hard nosed and fully engaged Socratic Dialectical feasibility study, analytic yet strategic, empowering close collaboration among equals in together telling stories and working out plans attempting anything really cool together. And testing the prediction that completely honest, hard nosed and fully engaged Socratic Dialectical feasibility study, analytic yet strategic, as herein right here and now invited for all comers, all interested parties, upon precisely all such agenda of creativity, ambition and daunting challenge, nevertheless will already begin lifting spirits together in true creativity and the will to power.

Indeed, as John Mason Good observes: “Happiness consists in activity. It is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.” Indeed, to quote Alain de Botton: “One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.” And as so iconically ponders Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: “What is happiness? The feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.” And such happiness comes only in meeting ones needs for capable interaction with responsible others, making progress every day. Indeed, in the incisive perception of Henry Ford: “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” So be interested, be interesting. Stay interested. Include me.

All hence for serious people ever finding one another at long last, as in first baby steps upon Laozi's fabled Journey of a Thousand Miles, embarkation ensues upon the all too uncertain and often discouraging real life Hero's Journey forging authentic attachment of true friendship by attempting anything really cool together. Thence entering into whole hearted and trustworthy culture of helping and good faith. And wherein each and all take initiative as arising, then to follow and assist one another, reliably and reciprocally without secretive hesitation or sly reservation. Surely all such portends nothing less than Eudemonia on the path to excellence called: arête!

All therefore, gentle readers, unmet friends: No, I don't want your money or your devotion. Rather, asking then of others what no one else dares ask, find extolled herein, that which only FoolQuest.com dares even strive to offer:

  

Find then herein most heady Eudemonia and arête of optimal reciprocal engagement in social and intellectual stimulus struggle via...  

A most cordial invitation  gentle reader

-- for your attentive and diligent participation and input online via asynchronous text communication in unprecedented entrepreneurial and Literary close collaboration among equals and management team rapport building:

Indeed, into very specific and synergistic dual endeavor expounded herein: In part, the pure creativity for its own joy of 1) dramatic Science Fiction writing collaboration. But together and concurrently with collaborative innovaton in applied creativity that is 2) new venture creation (various possible business startup all from scratch). Not just either but both. These divergent and convergent applications of narrative, empowering close collaboration among equals in together telling stories and working out plans. All remaining such ideal outlet for liberation into heightened social creativity all as herein extolled:  purposeful interaction and substantive communication, forging attachments in values of true friendship in autonomy, attempting anything really cool together.  

Indeed, even beyond entirely serviceable modes of asynchronous text communication, traditional email and electronic message posting forums, groups and the like, there now exist also highly sophisticated online platforms and collaborative writing tools to choose amongst as need arising, even free of charge. Many incorporating such features as versioning, commenting, and change tracking capabilities to support iterative processes. And thereby facilitating multiple participants in close collaboration to simultaneously access and edit an ever evolving narrative. 

All thus at long last to assuage the ever lamentable loneliness of boredom prone intelligent people, nothing less of unprecedented intention, than the following dual endeavor, consisting of:

1) an open ongoing genuine fiction writers' bull session online,

but together entering into creative solution finding and synergy in combination also with

2) an innovative entrepreneurial (pre-)incubator likewise right here on FoolQuest.com

 

Thus, among extensive resources provided here on FoolQuest.com, included toward each above purpose, find provided respectively, two distinctly different collections of purpose tailored working content drafts:

Indeed, all coming replete with 0) various tools and guides, on the one hand, for pure creativity and art for its own joy, find as creative point of departure, not only

1) a scintillating curated compendium of imaginative unfinished stories, writing prompts and provocations,

but also, on the other hand, towards innovation, which is applied creativity, discover as well, a fascinating aggregation of

2) sample embryonic first concept proposals in disruptive new venture creation (various possible business startup all from scratch).

 

Join right in then, on the one hand, into nothing less than dynamic open, intensive and ongoing

1) dramatic Science Fiction collaborative fiction writing,

but also, on the other hand, concurrently and synergistically, subversive entrepreneurial innovation of

2) disruptive new venture creation together (various possible business startup from scratch).

Not merely one or the other, but open and ongoing dynamic collaborative interplay online, between pure creativity, art for its own joy, and innovation which is applied creativity. For such remain divergent and convergent powerful and synergistic dual application of narrative: Pure creativity for its own joy, and applied creativity of disruptive innovation.  

Collaborative fiction writing so excellently serving as convivial open and standing invitation and entry point for all comers, all interested parties, indeed to participate together as herein extolled, into an invigorating ice breaker and team building exercise together, as only ideal for building rapport, preliminary to new venture creation together (various possible business startup all from scratch).

And all beginning even above and beyond the vital exchange of criticism and Literary critique, or even the most crucial feasibility study and faliblistic ongoing error detection and course correction, all indeed towards nothing less Eudemonic, exalted  and elating, than visionary modification, variation, expansion and improvement, back and forth, creative exploration in depth together, ever more fully to flesh out story and business or project ideas alike, into finished stories and plans respectively. For the entire perpetuated cyclical nature of writing and rewriting, empowers continual refinement, expansion and ongoing re-imagination of shared narrative.

Because: Writing is like photography: Easy to do but difficult to do well. Writing is rewriting, patient hard work and never a waste of time. And after all, a business plan remains merely another kind of likely story: A tale to be told, no less compellingly redolent with drama and conjecture. And yet, prudently constrained, beyond  mere plausibility and willing suspension of disbelief, by all duly rigorous feasibility study investigating external Empirical objective reality. A narrative of prediction and recommendation laboriously smoothing over all obvious and surreal plot holes. Or so one might only hope.

Perhaps eventually arriving at any principle of fertile conjecture transcending mere drama into any range of creative solution finding, synthesis bridging contradiction of abstract (generally why) and concrete  (specifically how), even into the real world. Indeed, progress along what is called: the Backwards Ladder of Abstraction. So named being the steady retreat from utter fantasy and willing suspension of disbelief, gradually into ever more defensible bastion of real purpose and beyond barest possibility, at all actual feasibility. Indeed, in those wise words of Henri-Louis Bergson: “Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.”

And all as well informed by analytic yet strategic social engineering design thinking regarding whatever conceivably more optimally gratifying social and intellectual stimulus struggle, intrinsic fulfillment, authentic wellbeing and Eudemonia. Because all nourishing and sustaining intrinsic joy together in the doing immediately, must precede any deferred gratification of extrinsic reward. Indeed, not to get ahead of ourselves.

Because there shall ever remain far to go, much to say and much to do, and a steep leaning curve besides, long before the timorous sheer effrontery of ever pressing anybody in their right minds, to risk and invest! Indeed, perhaps even ever in due course of resilient serial failure and quick recovery, at long last, ever to arrive at success.

Post to the for others to weigh in, orif it's private.

And all serious replies received, shall be answered promptly.

Indeed, should anything all therein be found at all thought provoking, then join right in! Do not hesitate to respond. And by all means, gentle reader, also go ahead and pitch whatever your own ingenious notions as well!

Because creative people love to share their work with one another, here on FoolQuest.com, self promotion is tobe encouraged! Just so long as it also remains topic relevant. Indeed, seeking for common ground as in the promotional exchange strategy that has been dubbed: dual promotion, engages the creativity to relate ones own passions to those of others. After all, the greatest and most noble mission of all self-promotion, remains in sharing ones greatest gifts in order to advance the wellbeing of others.

Because after all, as Socrates so famously declares: “An unexamined life is not worth the living for a human being.” And thus, all of the preceding convincingly explains why capable and Happy People Talk More Seriously. Indeed Empirically, in repeatable experimental observation, choosing creative effort in the course of talking more seriously, is how happy people interact. Indeed, in deliberation as herein, bridging abstract and concrete. And yes, capable and Happy People, whom we may all do best to emulate, to rôle model, if only we could ever fathom precisely how. And there's the rub!

Indeed arguably, the unique and distinct challenge of the human condition, can be defined in terms of social and intellectual stimulus struggle. For stimulus struggle to begin with, remains what every living thing is doing all of the time. Indeed, 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. And by extension, social and intellectual stimulus struggle herein denotes the perpetual striving of every self aware human psyche, to regulate, to obtain and maintain, the optimum kind and degree of most optimal reciprocally engaged social and intellectual stimulation and arousal from the immediate social environment. Indeed, everything that we do is in order thereby to modify subjective experience thereby altering consciousness itself. And click here to know more...

All hence, as herein proposed, the bold and unprecedented participatory agenda of the social engineering of more optimal social and intellectual stimulus struggle. Indeed, all such as actually to contrive the deliberate introduction of specific social and intellectual stimuli and indeed intellectual social interaction, into whatever immediate social environment, entirely in order better to optimize social and intellectual stimulus struggle. And all towards more sustainable, productive and together more truly validatingly heightened individual peak experience. An analytic yet strategic design thinking investigation and systematic and repeatable implementation of whatever ones own unique and absorbing individual triggers, all repeatable at will. And click here to know more...

And all hence so dazzling a vision of an hitherto so tightly restricted and infrequent but fondly remembered genuinely fulfilling and welcoming peak social and intellectual experience. Indeed, no longer so starved, but at long last rendered frequent and repeatable at will. And click here to know more...

Discover all therefore, in all such as thus far envisaged, vibrant remedy not only to the present sorry state of fiction writing collaboration at large online, but also addressing the difficulty of actually finding any functional entry level from scratch, into even at all any quality discourse pursuant to true entrepreneurial collaboration and ever into disruptive innovation of new venture creation (various business startup).

However, in fair warning, beware the grueling FoolQuest.com solicitation to hardship! Least of all, to begin with, as herein proposed, even into creative writing collaboration just for fun. Because: Writing is like photography: Easy to do but difficult to do well. Indeed, this applies not only to the pure creativity for its own joy, in the joint authorship of drama and Science Fiction, but no less and with far more at stake, into the production of business plans, well understood as the single most important document into the intensive collaboration of new venture creation (various business startup).

 

Indeed eventually, in so far as resultant quality of social and intellectual stimulus struggle (as defined presently), on any path of interdisciplinary collaboration throughout (pre-)incubation, research, due diligence, feasibility study, recruitment and planning, one must expect in due course, difficulty, complexity and effort.

Indeed, dystressful hard work on spec, grueling hardship with no wages upfront, long odds and overwhelming despair in unknown daunting obstacles, with needless folly and betrayal at every turn. And click here to know more...  

But why then anything whatsoever so arduous, complicated and fully engaged? — Let alone, specifically and particularly, such Literary and entrepreneurial collaborative dual endeavor as herein extolled... And for that matter, what remains so toxic and misguided in more conventional notions of whatever key to life and path? Well may one ask. And the answer arises from understanding and full appreciation of such key aspects of the human condition as social and intellectual stimulus struggle. Which remains why not just any arbitrary pretext for bringing people together into ongoing interaction, even at all successfully, will thereby consistently yield happiness rather than frustration and emptiness. And click here to know more...

All hence, as herein proposed, the bold and unprecedented participatory agenda of the social engineering of more optimal social and intellectual stimulus struggle. Indeed, all such as actually to contrive the deliberate introduction of specific social and intellectual stimuli and indeed intellectual social interaction, into whatever immediate social environment, entirely in order better to optimize social and intellectual stimulus struggle. And all towards more sustainable, productive and together more truly validatingly heightened individual peak experience. An analytic yet strategic design thinking investigation and systematic and repeatable implementation of whatever ones own unique and absorbing individual triggers, all repeatable at will. And click here to know more...

And in one proposed implementations of the above principles, indeed as to be fully expounded and extolled anon, open invitation online, together into as aforementioned heady key Literary and entrepreneurial dual endeavor. But why? After all, various and more simple even intentional projects in common, may actually be found at all effective in helping to promote and sustain reciprocal engagement in ongoing conversations. All thereby helping to connect and nourish all manner of relationship, thereby to combat boredom and loneliness. Or so one might only hope.

However, at what individual sacrifice and aggravation with the Terrible Trivium? Indeed, as alas all too common, debilitating superficiality and knee-jerk suspicion, simply in unending insecure desperation and vigilance only in order to fit in socially? Because, as it actually turns out, all unflagging determination notwithstanding, not just any half-baked project or chores arbitrarily whatsoever, will turn out genuinely fulfilling and welcoming. Let alone ever bringing forth arête and Eudemonia via most optimally reciprocal engaged social and intellectual stimulus struggle.

But just conceivably, there can yet be anything so much better. Indeed, most specifically, and to reiterate, in open invitation online, together into heady key Literary and entrepreneurial dual endeavor, as herein delineated, in together telling stories and working out plans attempting anything really cool together. All as to be further expounded and extolled, anon.

And all because, to site Martin Seligman's celebrated happiness formula of Positive Psychology:

Only Pleasure + engagement + meaning = intrinsic fulfillment.

And hence, here on FoolQuest.com,:

[Fiction + entrepreneurship] of [equals + collaboration] → [creative solution finding (brainstorming)] → modern Eudemonia.

For to reiterate, in accordance with ancient wisdom of the greatest sages of old as rediscovered in the bleeding edge of modern happiness science, evolutionary neuroscience and the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology, no one can remain unfulfilled, bored, lonely and alienated, when reciprocally so pleasurably and meaningfully engaged, so freely and ebulliently together in creative solution finding, or perhaps even collaborative brainstorming. Indeed, hard nosed and fully engaged Socratic Dialectical feasibility study, analytic yet strategic, empowering close collaboration among equals in together telling stories and working out plans attempting anything really cool together. And click here to know more...

And further to reiterate, all hence, as to be fully expounded and extolled anon, open invitation online, together by analytic yet strategic design thinking and repeatable implementation into such key Literary and entrepreneurial dual endeavor as heady ideal focus for all as above.

 

Worse than you think

Only look around you: Society is not your friend. Society is the enemy. Society is the oppressor. Society is not nurturing. Society remains distinctly user hostile and unworkable. A dire situation whereof the individual ought not to be deemed at all personally responsible, only no more than for whatever their own part, and not for everything vastly beyond ones own control. Indeed, to quote Russell Brand: “Society is collapsing and people are starting to recognize that the reason they feel like they’re mentally ill is that they’re living in a system that’s not designed to suit the human spirit.” Indeed, alas how as things stand, the masses ever languish at the mercy of the Terrible Trivium, the more alienated with every breath, lonely enough to die, and just bored to tears.

For the unthinkable taboo truth remains in how by very antithesis to all that we have been taught, the forging of attachments of true friendship possible only in autonomy, arises only for those nerdy unpopular serious people, entirely as the forbidden byproduct of most frowned upon and reviled seriousness. Indeed specifically, friendship arises entirely as a byproduct of truly purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication. And believe it or not, never otherwise. 

And all no matter how mightily, determinedly and unflaggingly one strives and struggles to imbibe, completely absorb and at long last fully to master whatever bogus and facile social skills of heteronomy, membership identity and peer expectations. Remaining all as ever desperately bored, lonely, toxic, meaningless and futile indeed as unseen faith itself. And click here to know more...

Alas then, as things stand, so famously to quote Edward Bernays: “We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.” But not all of them so unsung. Indeed, across the ages, an impressive degree of terrified and phobic creativity has been invested and expended into so oppressively undermining not only individual liberty, but indeed so brutally stifling creativity itself. Moreover, to quote Bertrand Russell: “Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.” Perhaps because as John Dewy wrote in: ‘Experience and Nature’: “Let us admit the case of the conservative [...] If we start thinking no one can guarantee what will be the outcome, except that many objects, ends and institutions will be surely doomed. Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril, and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place.”  Indeed, to quote Ashley Viola in ‘How America Keeps Its Citizens Uneducated’: “If we wise up, we rise up.” Whereas, a less intelligent population remains more readily manipulated, preyed upon, pitted against one another and then abandoned each to our own devices.

Indeed, all of that is how and why even most anciently in the curriculum of Plato's Academy, mind numbing boredom was deliberately inflicted upon students as a conservative measure to test in favor of heteronomy and conformity by weeding out boredom prone original thinkers and innovators, purveyors of dangerous novelty, from ever rising to influential positions in society. And as it turns out, just as from time immemorial, even most extreme and disciplined tolerance for boredom remains ever essential in all well approved subservient heteronomy ever doubling down into conformism.

And all in a milieu of relentless peer pressure, bullying, intimidation, prevailing anti-intellectualism (hostility and mistrust towards intellect, intellectuals, intellectualism, and deprecation of culture whatsoever) but perhaps more precisely designated as: anti-intraception (a discomfort or opposition in very principle, toward the subjective, the imaginative, the tender minded).

Indeed, following in precisely that time honored and malignantly oppressive tradition, so magnanimously bequeathing us all our enduringly  unhappy system of formal education and mass indoctrination of heteronomy into conformism, 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 of workers.” Of Marching Morons, of veritable Borg drones, so happy to comply! And all in the purest ideological holy name of collective efficiency. And what a racket! Efficiency perhaps, but even so, for whom and to what end or priority? There remains no fine line, but indeed a vast gulf, an abyss, between the lucid materialism of scientific rationalism, and the anti-philosophical ideology and value-destruction of soul crushing crass materialism: How Existentially Absurd for each to do our part in even the most tangible and needful collective practical objectives, and yet thereby so poorly to serve the drives of each living and breathing end user.

And all hence the entire consistently futile norms and ever debilitating malagenda of everything that we have been taught, one way or another, about remaining so staunchly cheerful, agreeable, upbeat and bland. And all so desperately in order to gain peer acceptance. Indeed all as acceding to that entire gamut and prevailing big lie of Anti-Critical Biased bad social advice. Yes, the great and good boon of heteronymous socialization into the Terrible Trivium of interminably vapid and non threatening small talk, along with  recreation as so-called. Yes, recreation, that shabby travesty of hedonistic play and fun, actually nothing more or less than the crushingly standardized desperate effort and struggle to recover, on ones own time and expense, from the debilitating learned helpless sheer exhaustion, fear and loathing, of every efficiently routine sore travail. And click here to know more...

Alas, there remains a user hostile outcomes gap. Instrumentality equals zero: Meaning that there can be no relationship between performance and outcome. It makes no difference. Nor is it any fun, but only boring and lonely, indeed even somewhat invasive, completely senseless, dystressful and alienating. 

Indeed, leave us face the ugly truth: Tautologically, there can be no unilateral self-help, no reliable solitary rugged self-reliant self-made bootstrap DIY (Do-It-Yourself) "well-formed plan" for interaction among more than one individual. And no secret magic of fineness, either. Nothing works, simply because, inherently, it cannot work.

Alas then how we are each and all exhorted and tantalized: “Follow your bliss!” Existentially Absurd empty commencement blandishment, hand waving and broken promise all easier said than done. As we are all then summarily abandoned each and all to our own devices, setup for failure and sore travail.

 

But now, gentle reader, unmet friend, at last we have found one another. Therefore as the old saying goes, let no burden be shouldered alone, but shared and halved, whilst every joy shared and doubled. And no dream need remain solitary.

Firstly: The correct indefinite pronoun denoting society can never be ‘it,’ but only ‘We.’ Therefore: the very expression: “Why doesn't/can't it...?” may generally pose entirely the wrong question. Rather, the interesting and responsible question remains: “Why don't/can't We?

Because bonding and attachments of true friendship wherein psychological visibility at long last penetrates psychological asymmetry, believe it or not, arises never by any rat-race of extrinsic societal reward and punishment in the course of inane small talk, Anti-Critically Biased willful positivity, superficial harmony. Nor via any fearfully conflict avoidant and debilitating headgames, racket and rat-race of social skill and sycophantic toadying skilled incompetence. And let alone so called recreation, that shabby travesty of hedonistic play and fun, actually nothing more or less than the crushingly standardized desperate effort and struggle to recover, on ones own time and expense, from the debilitating learned helpless sheer exhaustion, fear and loathing, of every efficiently routine sore travail.

Instead, Creativity can and Should be Social. Creativity as a by far superior and elevated mode of social interaction, will always better serve and intrinsically fulfill, than any blithely prevailing and oppressive systematic stifling of everything free and genuine in the human condition. Moreover, Creativity Can and Should be Popular. Not merely valued, but charming, engaging and attractive, duly celebrated and no longer dorky, awkward, bullied and routinely persecuted. Because creativity is more than merely any individual trait, characteristic or mode of expression, but rather, as John Cleese expounds: “Creativity is not a talent: it's a way of operating.” 

Therefore creativity must no longer shame and socially isolate creative people. Indeed, not only can and should creativity be social, but creativity ought actually even to make creative people popular, if only, in gloriously subversive and disruptive paradigm shift actually in social infrastructure, one fine day collaboration among equals in creative solution finding ever becomes more widely practiced, public, with nonconformity all therein and thereby, at long last better appreciated.

Moreover, appreciated and invited criticism and controversy remain inherently friendly, valuable, an expression of abiding respect. And all of that is how, in the emotional maturity of ever striving to take things in spirit as intended, even people who disagree even however strongly, heatedly and vociferously, and yet entirely without acrimony, are often the best at cooperation even quite without sycophantic toadying skilled incompetence or needless and slavish ongoing heteronomy to social cognition and hierarchical dominance so oppressively quelling all dissent, honesty and creativity. And click here to know more...

Indeed, even reciprocal incomprehension outright, need constitute any barrier, roadblock or menace of perfidious unknown intention. But only a barest beginning from Socratic Wisdom and the ongoing Dialectic of collaborative miscommunication detection and repair. For indeed ongoing Dialectical collaborative miscommunication detection and repair, and nothing less, has been discovered to remain ever crucial and key to conversationally adequacy at all. And click here to know more...

Gentle readers, unmet friends: I might not have what you want, but dare we seek for it together?

 

Only ask yourself:

What is it you desire?

What do you want, and what will it take?

And exactly what and how much can you feel happy in (expending your ongoing time, effort and attention) doing about it?

For in the words of Barbara Sher, “Isolation is the true dream killer, not your attitude.” Indeed, as George Orwell observes in ‘Conversation with a Pacifist,’ even at all thinking clearly, becomes increasingly difficult in bored and lonely isolation without expression: “your thoughts are never entirely your own. The secret freedom which you can supposedly enjoy [in oppressive isolation] is nonsense, because your thoughts are never entirely your own. Philosophers, writers, artists, even scientists, not only need encouragement and an audience, they need constant stimulation from other people.” Indeed, to quote Mark R. J. Lavoie: “Life dies inside a person when there are no others willing to befriend him.”

For in the words of John Storrs Hall: “Ideas should compete, bodies should cooperate.” Indeed, coming together and choosing the best ideas, by engaging in 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. And that is how even people who disagree even however strongly, heatedly and vociferously, and yet entirely without acrimony, are often the best at cooperation even quite without needless and slavish ongoing heteronomy to social cognition and hierarchical dominance so oppressively quelling all dissent, honesty and creativity.

And let that the truth will out in very antithesis of all unthreatening but interminably vapid small talk as ever pandering to the most malignantly thin-skinned Anti-Critical Bias. And indeed, in defiance of all such irrelevant Terrible Trivim among all other conventional heteronymously toadying social skills in the ever venial rat-race of social success and popularity. For the competent and capable social skills of autonomy remain entirely different. Indeed, as it turns out, in sheer Peripeteia to all toxic common expectation: Indeed, that building team rapport in a culture of helping, the forging of attachments of true friendship possible only under genuine and authentic autonomy, all most vibrantly to challenge insight and creativity, therefore arises only and entirely as a byproduct of fully aware purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication. And believe it or not, never otherwise. And that is why Happy People Talk More Seriously.

And hence the present outreach by social engineering design, ever bearing in mind not only that Creativity can and Should be Social, but moreover that Creativity Can and Should be Popular. Not merely valued, but charming, engaging and attractive, duly celebrated and no longer dorky, awkward, bullied and routinely persecuted.

After all, one way or another, at least initially, rather than sweeping the world out from leftfield, any any bold, liberating and empowering subversion of hierarchy, not unlike forbidden love, necessarily nurtures in microcosm. Indeed even somewhat covertly and conspiratorially, when any two or more individuals interacting and taking initiative, must finally innovate: at long last to begin significantly doing things differently and howsoever more capably together and persist.

To wit, as according to peer reviewed Empirical experimental results as published by Dr. Matthias Mehl: Choosing creative effort in the course of talking more seriously, is how happy people interact. Yes, happy people, whom we may all do best to emulate, to rôle model, if only we could ever fathom precisely how. And there's the rub!