We interrupt this webpage, in response against  agenda hijack in progress, alas entirely burying the lede.

In any event of actual difficulty experienced in reading and comprehension here on FoolQuest.com
Never revenge unclarity in like kind, but strive at clarity indeed even about unclarity itself as ever arising.
Thus to honor good faith communications struggle, and to baffle willful obscurantism.
 
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Gentle reader, should you choose to continue directly, rather than simply skipping ahead to matters at hand:
Find next directly, considered recommendation as to procedure and unique offer of assistance, in case of incomprehension here on FoolQuest.com
Afterwards followed by denunciation and refusal of a certain popular and lionized but truly counterproductive method and agenda hijack in progress
into such flagrant cross-purpose with authorial intent (hopefully anything beyond merely self-indulgence and clutter).
 
What directly follows addresses aggravatingly frequent response such as forestalls intended agenda of FoolQuest.com in such adamant refusal to engage.
    
In desperation in order to obviate all further need of frustrating and unwelcome repetition:
What directly follows reluctantly and yet fully addresses deadlock as arising in obstruction of actually intended topic here on FoolQuest.com
Therefore, at any time, please feel free to scroll on down and skip ahead, (and nothing would please me more!)
should all the directly following be deemed superfluous and unnecessary.
 
Otherwise, nevertheless, have no fear. Be at ease. There is no cause for hostility
Alas how miscommunication and reciprocal incomprehension remain entirely normal and prevalent within the human condition, whether one becomes aware of it or not. After all, message content typically all seems so entirely lucid to whomever the message sender utterly failing to perceive or experience any communications failure, error or ambiguity. And all because unlike any message recipient, any message sender already knows and understands self intended message content. Or at least so believes.
 
And all so, with most profuse apology, please believe me: If  the author, yours truly, already understood precisely whatever herein might remain unclear, how so and why, then sparing no effort, I would already have revised accordingly.
   
But honestly, I do not know. No, not at all. And that is why I sincerely need and explicitly request, and not to impose, but only if anyone might ever be indeed so very kind, nothing more or less than, specific indication of whatever particular ambiguities or specific communications errors in detail.
   
And therefore, with all due gratitude, together with anyone so truly gracious, even going line by line, and word by word, through whatever text in question, or even any so problematic sample line or two. Thus extracted from any so overwhelming chore, a rudimentary and minimal first step or test attempt.

Because often, precisely such persistence at all in attention to detail, will be necessary, for the revision and clarification of prose. Is that not obvious?

And please, in terms of message content, and not merely pedantry only in terms of message form. Not merely malformation of syntax, but specific ambiguity or unclarity as to intended meaning.
 
Socratic Dialectical close collaborative detection and correction of whatever particular ambiguities or specific communications errors meticulously and methodically brought to light, is feasible, capable and reliable without tremendous effort, in effective and lucid revision of written linguistic expression for greater clarity. Alas however, because of ulterior agenda, the process meets with such resistance, evasion and non cooperation, in short: adamant refusal to engage, even after adequate demonstration of effectiveness.
 
Which is a damn shame. Because, available nowhere else, and well worth your effort, gentle reader: An uplifting unique revelatory individual experience of personal attention exchanged, optimal reciprocal engagement in close and careful reading and revision together. Something entirely indispensable, distinctive and innate to fully engaged collaboration among equals as herein extolled. Basic and fundamental to functional literacy and autonomy. Anyone can do it, and ought to learn how. Alas however, formal education as we have all known it and suffered, for the most part, seeks only to turn us all into dullardly worker drones! Please: Let's just try something different! And you might even like it. Because there need be no shame in not understanding, but rather, in the sharing thereof with the author, yours truly, tremendous value and utility.
 
Because writing is like photography: Easy to do, but difficult actually to do well. Indeed, writing is rewriting, patient, hard work and never a waste of time.
      
Much as argument and the practice of controversy, the welcome and appreciated Socratic Dialectical free exchange o genuine criticism, remains the mode of conversation possible in case of perfectly amicable disagreement, similarly close collaboration in Socratic Dialectic of Miscommunication Competent miscommunication detection and repair, remains the coherent mode of conversation possible in case of perfectly amicable and even reciprocal misunderstanding or incomprehension.
   
Alas then how so many people become suspicious not only because of expression of disagreement, but all the mores so by any prospect of howsoever unknown sinister intent or scheming, suspicion indeed simply as triggered by incomprehension, by miscommunication and communications failure.

And all therefore, and most emphatically, unlike what so many have become so used to, and with all due gratitude, the present request for assistance herein detailed, categorically will never insinuate or bear any hint or subtext whatsoever, of any conceivable putdown. No, not at all. Not even in the most harsh of criticism, inherently friendly, valuable, an expression of abiding respect.

And never, perish forbid! invalidation, neither of said reader(s) personally, nor whatever entirely very real difficulties as ever experienced in parsing any part of the present hypertext. Rather, the present request predicates always crucial recognition and validation indeed of all too crucial Miscommunication Competence with intense abiding interest and concern, at last to render lucid text for any reader so confused by whatever existing prose.

Such remains my standing request. And in all good faith striving for clear expression and sensemaking, any serious author retains every right and bears full responsibility, of explicitly seeking and specifying most cogently and precisely, whatever manner and kind of coherent feedback, as they themselves perceive the need, and as most helpful and relevant to authorial intent to begin with. -And never at cross-purpose thereto...

Moreover, in all fair play, any sort of rules or guidelines in writing ultimately must be entirely and supportively subordinate to aforesaid authorial intent, if not merely to external coercion and even somewhat arbitrary conformity. Because in case of the latter, what then would even be the point?

In principle, nothing can ever become too preliminary. But as a matter of practicality, surely there must be limits! Fair enough, though however bothersome, in case at hand: Before actually getting to the point, it might indeed become necessary to frame the question: How best to proceed in case of reader incomprehension of texts? Controversy on this point rages from time immemorial, and no less heated in our times and across the Net. Case in point, the readers' encounter with this very website, FoolQuest.com

  
But in discussion online, at least there might be one idea at all, that seems to have come across clearly. Something so controversial, but actually so blatantly obvious. Because, for whatever conceivable reason, my standing request as preceding, my Epistemological and Methodological procedural considered recommendations towards mitigation of miscommunication, of communication failure, at first simply ignored, in the end have met with such resounding rejection and disapproval. Such outrage, outrage, outrage! Such obsession and obstruction. Indeed so lambasted as though nigh sacrilegious and taboo! Much as so many other ideas here on this website. As promised, something to offend everyone! But not to digress even further.
   
Except to caution how that which might generally be designated as: invited inference, often ensues from context, pattern recognition or world knowledge, rather than strict implication, logically. Invited inference remains entirely distinct from logical inference. All therefore, beware ever taking the bait. Beware how invited inference, so unreliable, need not follow logically and implicitly. And therefore can be either incidentally true, or just untrue.
  
Such as: invited inference of any interest or desire at all for help in understanding anything at first blush not entirely obvious or clear, from simply the expression or indication of personal incomprehension at the moment. Even invited inference as perhaps from any prior experience or observation of ones own, as to the manner in which any eustress of incomprehension might be usefully gratified by whatever ensuing cogent explanation even as technically just volunteered unasked, if not then actually rebuffed. The invited inference from merely claiming not to comprehend, of implicit interest in requested clarification. Again, as reasonable seeming or just polite, nevertheless, never necessarily so.
 
For some, alas, incomprehension even remains a great treasure to be preserved at all cost. So famously to quote from George Orwell's ‘1984’: “War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength.” Especially if doubt and openness as ever heralded by any sanguine acknowledgement of incomprehension, will only be regarded with simmering suspicion and seen as dangerous weakness and heterodoxy into any danger of whatever conceivable unknown sinister intent or scheming.  
 
Beware then alas, and all notwithstanding even simply whatever so innocent and blithely wishful thinking in desire to communicate, then let alone such as nigh directly previous specific invited inferences. All as perhaps taken from anyone merely and perhaps somewhat nebulously and unspecifically complaining of incomprehension even quite politely, let alone howsoever strident and demandingly. For such declaration remains entirely distinct and not even remotely the same intention or agenda as actually engaging and genuinely and attentively requesting whatever salient explanation. And let alone then even seeking whatever incisive and specific particular clarification in any detail orientation. And then actually paying interested regard to whatever response.
  
Truly then all the more, in the immortal words of Simone Weil: “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” Moreover, in corollary  from common aphorism: “Effort is the best indicator of interest.”  And only precisely such genuine, sustained and salient engagement, even at all actually demonstrates effort and persistence, incrementally to gain and improve comprehension. And thereby to inform ongoing revision, changes and clarifications to text ever as flaws revealed and need arising. It might be gratifying and convenient then, if only need of all such effort could be accepted as valid and entirely obvious. And then taken as given and routine, for anything interesting. Alas, not.
Wake up, Sheeple! We can blame extrinsic punishment and reward  systems such as of formal education wherein failure to regurgitate the expected correct response, routinely comes under disapproval and humiliation. Too bad then how so many people experiencing only traumatized and even Behaviorally Conditioned dystress, all rather than intrinsic eustress and fun, whenever they fail to understand anything, might only become irritated and insecure, rather than naturally curious and interested. Indeed, instead of just taking things in whatever spirit as intended, prejudice to the effect that criticism automatically equals insult, is designated as: Anti-Critical Bias. Even as in context at hand, by innocently pointing out and exposing perfectly honest ignorance. Happenstance that ought to be both productive and innocuous. 
For copy/language editing together, in close writing collaboration in Socratic Dialectic of Miscommunication Competent miscommunication detection and repair, bridging abstract principle into concrete implementation, endures as no more than but another application of Sir Karl Popper's faliblism. Indeed, rather than trying to avoid, penalize or hide mistakes, instead, making progress every day via ongoing error detection and course correction, continually learning from mistakes.
  
Not to mention thereby combating the alienated and boredom prone loneliness of intelligent people.

For yet another unthinkable taboo truth forever endures, in very antithesis to everything that we have all been taught, all replete with craven sycophantic socialization that none dare call: indoctrination or even brainwash; and all about facile and social success by fitting in via bland agreeability and ever more vapid small talk.

Indeed such as for that matter, whatever banal chitchat as howsoever threatening no challenge at all, to ever more short attention and witless oversimplification. But not to digress directly ahead of ourselves.

And all because real  agency, more authentic, less arbitrary and higher, more lofty threshold of connection and belonging, relationship and particularly the forging of attachments of true friendship possible only under autonomy, indeed even Eros which is transport in liberating union with alien difference, all arise only for those nerdy unpopular serious people. And without apology, entirely as forbidden byproduct of most frowned upon and reviled seriousness. Indeed all entirely as forbidden byproduct, and without apology, of truly purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication.

And believe it or not, never otherwise.
  
All thus and all as to become well evident, there can hardly be any question of the effort and difficulty in all probortunity at hand here on FoolQuest.com Indeed as shall be seen, given the scope of ambition herein, this should come as vanishingly little surprise. And yet, all consummately worthwhile when only given any chance at all. Or so one might only dare hope. 

But for every abundant richness, quality, complexity, depth and meaning that help to involve and engage an audience, indeed even in that heritage of civilization, no less than such cherished values of Literature as distinguished and most narrowly defined and signified by the much vaunted capital "L", and moreover at all as of of reading and writing at any higher level, and of most effective Active Reading and listening strategy, after all, an art... -All might clearly be expected to feature among very least of unavoidably difficult and ambitious strivings entailed herein on FoolQuest.com Indeed in every unabashed and earnest joy of cogitation, not compliance, and all as applicable to copy/language editing together. And all in close detailed conversation into whatever mode or application of narrative, writing collaboration and Socratic Dialectic of Miscommunication Competent miscommunication detection and repair. Indeed in meticulous critique of one another's prose. All such as directly preceding, might clearly be expected to feature among very least of unavoidably difficult and ambitious strivings entailed herein on FoolQuest.com  

Then low and behold: The current mainstay of science, engineering 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 and even word by word.

Many people stand traumatized, mute and paralyzed whenever they do not understand anything. Never just freeze and dummy up whenever you do not understand anything! But always speak up, question, and even explain your questions!  And this remains essential. No one always immediately grasps everything new. New ideas are often confusing. And to always get it right the first time, say very little and dare nothing new. Because only shopworn and well familiar old ideas are certain always to come across effortlessly.

All therefore, in complete exasperation, I implore, I beg of you all: Speak no more to me of simple writing style!

How seemingly innocent the extol of clear and simple writing style, for any conceivable message content, only seemingly otherwise unrestrained. But indeed only seemingly. And yet so consistently toping various wise, capable and well informed lists online of all too common bad writing advice. But how so?
  
In answer, so famously to quote Marshall McLuhan: “The medium is the message.” Indeed, the massage in the mass age! For lo and behold, pervading characteristics of whatever medium including therein evolving style of presentation, constitute message in their own right, easily overlooked. Ramifications never simple, but all too often ever more convoluted.
    
And yes, all as aforesaid above does apply distinctly to rampant short attention and oversimplification in writing style, linear, straightforward and superficial. Even entirely devoid of creativity, recontextualization, connection, variation, elaboration, expansion, insight, fearless exploration, improvement and modification. Every spur, aspect and value of creative solution finding and brainstorming in facilitation of fully engaged collaboration among equals.
  
All thus and more, indeed as Marshal McLuhan further expounds, precisely any such artifacts of media, not to be overlooked, do indeed effect and affect any society and shape perception by their unique characteristics. As any society's values, norms and methods inevitably become changed over time, then no less  inevitably, social implications eventually emerge. And to reiterate, yes, all of this does apply distinctly to rampant short attention and oversimplification not only in writing style, in all that passes in effectively secret policing thought itself. Oh, double plus good!
  
And so, with continued emphasis's upon case in point: specifically that very fulsome apogee of pointless and trivial agenda hijack at hand, the exhortation and demand and to the exclusion of all else, of simple writing style. Indeed, behold that most unduly venerated among the entire figurative vast herd of proverbial sacred cows, remaining so monumentally irrelevant. Only a broadest cretin implication that complexity must be the cause of communication failure. So just eliminate complexity! And then all will be well. What harm? Plenty! To begin with, beware typical short attention oversimplification in such short shrift to inherent and irreducible complexity intrinsic to whatever message or subject matter.
   
Here's a shocker: Cosmic context, master plan, the verity of my heart of hearts, and whole story in the wisdom of the ages, might not well reduce to insipid bullet points!
   
Indeed, exhortation to simple minded writing style, exists in order to side step any more complicated and laborious striving for truth,* struggle entailing any disputation of often convoluted differing perception, and therein also any integral and necessary sense of fair play.
  
*Knowledge meaning awareness of truth, and truth being correspondence to reality in assertions, and assertions grammatically constituting declarative statements such as employing any conjugation of the verb: to be.
 
And all thus effectively obfuscating what covertly advances an ideological glorification of what amounts to willful semiliteracy. Indeed as much reminiscent of newspeak in George Orwell's ‘1984’ paring down not only range of expression, but increasingly even actually stupefying every depth of thought itself. And all just to make what then passes for brainwork, seem so much easier. Fie! Oceania remains a dull, bleak and lonely place.

Do these people not hear what they themselves are saying??!

Such angry and even so explicitly Orwellian norms pandering to anti-intellectual pressure (and shockingly! even unironically and in the following words:) to dumb everything down (even according to some, explicitly to the level of a small child!), first of all, completely fail to address any particulars at all, in specifics in intelligent and intelligible detail, whatever it might be exactly, that will not be understood, point by point, how so and why. Alas, instead ever heedless fanaticism in the extol of simple minded writing style as an ideal and priority unto itself, may therefore even go so far as to blithely trivialize any importance of authorial intent to begin with. Thus careening into cross-purpose.

And all because ignorance and incomprehension are seen not as gateways in the advance of learning, fair play, adventure of discovery, knowledge and understanding, but merely a nuisance so quickly and cavalierly to be figuratively swept metaphorically under the proverbial rug, purged out of mind and out of sight. Indeed, perhaps most reactionary of all, remains any mischief of seeking to avoid or just burry completely, every mistake, instead of ongoing free and falliblistic error detection and course correction. Ignorance and incomprehension most definitely included. 

And all as above therein, only indeed an agenda hijack: diversionary bait, adamant obstruction, a false and idolatrous proverbial tar-baby, an irritating headgame, a devious power play, an exhortation to waste time and effort. Effectively an invitation figuratively to beat ones metaphorical head against that proverbial wall. All in enactment of rightthink and crimestop, invalidation and adamant refusal to engage.

Whereas, in very antithesis, full engagement reciprocally, ever remains key in any resolution of communications failure. And therefore pivotal in close collaboration in any more lucid revision of whatever texts or verbal expression. And all therefore, then let alone then anything much else. All whereof, short attention oversimplification ever remains antithetical. Just because of such obdurate unaware incompetence, it does not actually follow that substance, much less nuance, will never be lost in the course of such unduly venerated nigh semiliterate oversimplification and short attention. In a word: irrelevancy, denoting: throughout any ongoing deterioration and de-evolution in the death throws of complex systems, greater ease and efficiency within whatever process quite arbitrarily, but alas however, even nevertheless typically so detrimental to any useful and desired external results or service to end users.

Alas, and all too often, once again someone or other regurgitates whatever cretin utter cliché of unquestioned common wisdom, with no clue whatsoever that anyone else might not only have heard it all before, many times and at any length. And even all so, yet arriving at considered decision against choosing whatever such unduly hallowed malagenda as, case in point, of short attention oversimplification. And worse, in the advance of any better informed alternative, for all too many people, so set in their ways and inept, and for whom dissidence or disagreement remains actually unimaginable, the most confusing thing that anyone can say to them remains: Let us together strive for greater happiness even just experimentally, by doing things at all differenly and perhaps just at all howsoever more capably. Whether in the advance of any bold new innovation, or by return to whatever time honored competencies and disciplines.

Alas that whatever to anyone at all, howsoever seemingly functions well enough, may actually only function at a very low level. And there will always be people who extol whatever lowest common denominator, only because they want to keep us all down. Many of whom, for whatever reasons, so desperately yearn forever to be kept down themselves, crushed and comfortably numb! Especially in whatever stupefying desperate hopes that any such conditionality might tender as any adequate cost for unshakable togetherness, indeed even thereby only of at all fitting in socially. Subtext of conditionality, signifying conditional love or acceptance as entirely predicated upon acquiescence in every thought and deed. And otherwise withheld.

Alas, what can there be more lonely, unhelpful and frustrating, than the entirely off target responses and reactions of anyone who entirely fails to grasp whatever it might be that one so struggles to communicate? That is why first of all needs must a striving towards the achievement of Intersubjectivity, being the closer correspondence of message as received and understood, to message content as actually intended by the sender. Only after that, can response become even coherent to subject matter. Obviously, there can be no other functional and practical considerations, until first the the achievement of Intersubjectivity. Not correctness of style, not vagaries of emotional response, not even whatever as deemed flaws or causes of communications failure. Regardless indeed the latter whereof, the remedy remains the same.

And all therefore, in any all too common event of reciprocal incomprehension and communications failure, all so very prevalent in the human condition, therefore without acrimony, ongoing Socratic Dialectic of Miscommunication Competent miscommunication detection and repair ever as necessary, so obviously remains crucial and the least of worthwhile effort and difficulty at hand herein. Indeed, even together combing whatever text line by line and word by word, will often become crucial in order to ferret out whatever every discrete communications errors or ambiguities. To some degree, functional people do as much without a second thought! Because ‘Mistakes are the Essence.’

Indeed Socratic Dialectic together framing questions as arising, not merely any pedantry of message form, but explicitly of message content and intended meaning. And not to impose, this would be my standing request of anyone so very kind. Because there can be no effective or feasible substitute or work around. Nor need thereof.

For such as above initial necessary endeavor of Socratic Dialectic, may even readily emerge as wherein most heady connection and psychological visibility arising amid fully engaged collaboration among equals, actually germinates and thrives. Lo and behold then, the regular and ongoing experience of Socratic Dialectic as ever remaining most ancient and fundamental of tools in the cutting edge lofty objective of design thinking into the social engineering of most optimal reciprocally engaged social and intellectual stimulus struggle, here on FoolQuest.com After all, psychological asymmetry simply means that we are not so odd, but only strangers. The target mindset of FoolQuest.com, passionately intelligent, boredom prone and lonely. But more, anon.

In all as above, among other things, remains all how FoolQuest.com stands out as so unusual and different. And yes, gentle readers; you are all requested and invited !
However, anyone, indeed often and many, only so wrathfully dismissing the preceding entirely out of hand, will only experience angry disappointment here on FoolQuest.com Indeed, no matter how fundamental whatever necessary initial copy/language editing together.
      
There can be no question however, of the effort and difficulty in all probortunity at hand here on FoolQuest.com And as shall be seen, given the scope of ambition herein, this should come as vanishingly little surprise. And yet, as also shall be seen, all consummately worthwhile when only given any chance at all. Or so one might only dare hope.
   
For more. at length and in greater detail and ramifications, upon the fundamentals of Dialectical fully engaged collaboration among equals in overcoming communications failure, just click here.
 Otherwise, at long last, can we just get back on topic already???!!
 
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FoolQuest.com itself is not a business. FoolQuest.com remains free of charge and open to all. However, FoolQuest.com strives toward the inception of a new kind of business (pre-)incubator, a means and process of collaboration among equals in all manner of new venture creation (business startup). Indeed, transparently open ongoing heady collaboration among equals in creative solution finding into new venture creation (business startup), embracing also the lessons of drama and conjecture of true Science Fiction, via the practice of serious collaborative fiction writing. And all in productivity and context of design thinking actually into the social engineering introduction and orchestration of tailor made individual triggers for joy, into an intentional immediate social environment.

And all therefore, along with a reference texts into social engineering design thinking, find also a wide range of tools and guides provided, including:

On the one hand, as creative points of departure into the pure creativity for its own joy, of serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming, a curated selection of sample highly original unfinished stories, fiction writing prompts and imaginative provocations.

And on the other hand: For purpose of businesses and project planning and feasibility study, and thus in divergent yet convergent mode or application of narrative, unfounded conjecture and capable drama, a wide ranging short compendium of innovative and wildly subversive and disruptively most embryonic "kitchen table" stage or phase first concept proposals in ambitious new venture creation (business startup).

Presented directly following right here on FoolQuest.com, comes the most rapturous tale of true sociological Science Fiction brought to life.
Perhaps something of a high concept Utopia, an ideal culture or milieu of more pleasurable and meaningful optimal reciprocal engagement into social and intellectual stimulus struggle. And all yet with any precedent in Empirical reality of observable human interaction, including as in psychological experiments with happy people. And indeed, all in in accordance with with the bleeding edge of modern happiness science in rediscovery of the wisdom of the greatest sages of old. But most specifically, with evolutionary neuroscience and the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology.
Extrapolated then on FoolQuest.com, find as follows, a story, a fictionalized life script, a classic Hero's Journey, whereof collaboration partner participants might ever after conceivably together actually undertake implementation into reality. A narrative of collaboration among equals in creative solution finding and brainstorming, with specific emphasis upon upon collaborative fiction writing and new venture creation (business startup). And more, anon. A self selection process in favor of those genuinely interested and willing to persist or at least to investigate. But first:

Gentle reader, unmet friend:

No, I don't want your money or your devotion. And I might not have what you want. But dare we seek for it together?
Only ask your self: What is it you desire?
What do you want, and realistically, what will it take?

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

These simple and obvious but daunting and demanding questions in life, therefore all too often and consistently remain so blithely skirted.

 
        What is creativity?
How to be intelligent together

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.”

Once upon a time  into the very near future, there emerged a process of design thinking actually into the social engineering introduction and orchestration of tailor made individual triggers for joy, into an intentional immediate social environment. At long last, the very antithesis of manipulative and coercive Behavioral Modification figuratively cutting the metaphorical foot in order allegorically to fit the proverbial shoe. Indeed instead, powerful adaptation of the surrounding world itself, better to suit each end user uniquely. And at long last, all instead of enduring the boredom prone loneliness of intelligent people ever finding ourselves yet again each and all abandoned to our own devices and setup for failure.
   

Or worse, from formal education, traumatized, aversive Behaviorally Conditioned mute and paralytic phobia of being found out without the approved correct answer. And worse still, one way or another actually pitted against one another. Because our oppressors want approval seeking conformity and compliance, not free and competent and capable cooperation amongst ourselves. Indeed, under formal education in extensive preparation for perpetual oppression in ever walk of life, even coordination and sharing of information, will actually be condemned as cheating!
 
But 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. Society is the enemy, and always has been; no conduit of nurture, no primrose path, but only endless discontent upon a crushing and joyless obstacle course. And any conceivably preferable way of life, must hinge upon whatever inherently preferable and convivial mode of human interaction. And at long last, welling up in redeeming Existential disgust, people began opening their eyes to better hope.

For the unthinkable taboo truth endures, in very antithesis to everything that we have all been taught, all replete with craven sycophantic socialization that none dare call: indoctrination or even brainwash; and all about facile and social success by fitting in via bland agreeability and ever more vapid small talk. Because real  agency, more authentic, less arbitrary and higher, more lofty threshold of connection and belonging, relationship and particularly the forging of attachments of true friendship possible only under autonomy, indeed even Eros which is transport in liberating union with alien difference, all arise only for those nerdy unpopular serious people. And without apology, entirely as forbidden byproduct of most frowned upon and reviled seriousness. Indeed all entirely as forbidden byproduct, and without apology, of truly purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication.

And believe it or not, never otherwise.
   
Thence beyond any compartmentalized division of labor, inception of FoolQuest.com online, presenting a bold new concept of creativity transcendent of any mere individual solitary trait, characteristic or mode of expression, but actually as an ongoing phenomenon and process of heightened and more optimal human interaction. Indeed, in more effective and gratifying outreach for every vital individual end user purpose or benefit, as a transparent viable alternative then one day, at least for participants, even coming to supplant boring, lonely, alienating, tiresome, impractical and vastly failed conventional heteronomy to banal and mediocre sycophantic socialization that none dare call: indoctrination or even brainwash; and all about facile and social success by fitting in via bland agreeability and ever more vapid small talk. All proverbially hiding your light under a bushel, instead of helping to illuminate one's surrounding for all and sundry, only concealing ones talents and assets all for fear of drawing the malign resentment of well organized serial bullies.
And all therefore at long last instead, and by very antithesis, an open and transparent entry online, into a genuine intentional community or perhaps initially and more modestly, an intentional social circle or group formation, of collaboration among equals in fully engaged creative solution finding and brainstorming. A heady process both of creative free exchange and exploration of ideas. Because, as it turns out, precisely that all too scarce, underserved  and infrequent yet fondly remembered creative experience together, alas so tightly controlled and repressed in every walk of life, Empirically remains so integral to all that brings those uncommonly happy people such profound and abiding intrinsic fulfillment, authentic and true to thine own self. Indeed. more optimal reciprocal engagement into social and intellectual stimulus struggle.
And all therefore only imagine an alternative to pervasive and ever ubiquitous status quo suffering and doldrums of heteronomy, finally and at long last, such elation and exaltation as above, all rendered repeatable at will, regularly and frequently, transparent and accessible to all online. An open and free exchange of ideas, indeed fearless exploration, variation, elaboration, expansion,  improvement and modification. Indeed, all fueled by the most continually vociferous and ebullient Socratic Dialectic, back and forth. Indeed, nothing less than ongoing criticism/critique, attack and defense of ideas, entirely without acrimony. Because controversy, the welcome and appreciated free exchange o 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 to reiterate, entirely free from acrimony, have so often remained the very 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. Again, all so integral to such creative endeavor and serious conversation known to bring those uncommonly happy people such profound and abiding intrinsic fulfillment, authentic and true to thine own self.

nuts and bolts

Bridging all such as preceding crucial abstract principle into all of the vitality of concrete application and implementation, the proverbial nuts and bolts, still required careful selection of the most suitable more specific range of creative endeavor. And therefore, lo and behold, site visitors to FoolQuest.com found waiting for them there, along with reference texts into social engineering design thinking, also a wide range of tools and guides provided, indeed into happiness in collaboration among equals in creativity and solution finding, including:
   
On the one hand, as creative points of departure into the pure creativity for its own joy, of serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming, a curated selection of sample highly original unfinished stories, fiction writing prompts and imaginative provocations.
    
And on the other hand: In distinctly another different and yet similar application of narrative entirely, instead for purpose of businesses and project planning and feasibility study; a wide ranging short compendium of innovative and wildly subversive and disruptively most embryonic "kitchen table" stage or phase first concept proposals in ambitious new venture creation (business startup).
  
Additionally, many all thereby inspired, also just went ahead and pitched whatever their own brilliant notions, in avidly likeminded and keenly interested fellowship.
For in asynchronous text communication, together online from anywhere in the world, came participants in fully engaged collaboration partners, in serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming of capable works of drama and Science Fiction. But they also applied themselves to a very different mode or application of narrative:
 
Indeed life script of innovative and detailed business or  project plans. And all replete with rigorous feasibility study, for new venture creation, meaning: business startups. Nothing half-baked. All the way from bold ambition, (pre-)incubation most embryonic "kitchen table" stage or phase first concept proposals, through ongoing recruitment, management team formation and rapport building, multiple rounds of capitalization, implementation, growth and even then exit strategy where and as ever applicable.
the hard part
But only when all went extremely well, after all that uplifting creative fun, all mere preliminary, then at last came the hard part, the grueling hardship of implementation. Difficulties seemed insurmountable. The learning curve was very steep, with the devil in the details. But they kept trying and failing and rapidly starting all over again, until one fine day, they finally began to meet with success.
 
But along the way from the beginning, and to make matters worse, there was often friction, discord and even bullying outright, nipping in the bud most every promising opportunity. Indeed, such betrayal might often come from those who had built themselves up as most visionary and indispensable, bent upon systematically undermining and sabotaging their own most cherished dreams by actingout in passive hostility of non cooperation.
  
Because the very participation by others, that at first had so flattered their egos, so rapidly came instead to enflame such jealous rage and envy. And all thus, even the very best ideas fall prey to no end, not only of scams and predation outright, but quite simply pipedreams so typical of ambivalent and inner conflicted narcissistic megalomania.
  
The kind of neurotics, no matter how brilliant, who will prefer all of nothing, to part if something. Often, obsession with unattainable perfection, whereas actually success in any new venture creation (business startup) comes instead, to the first who can do it, not perfectly, but well enough.
  
And yet, all such misadventure, much said and little done,  finally came to be accepted as part of the shakedown. To learn how to survive exposure to knaves and fools. To discover who was serious, reliable and trustworthy in the first place, and for those remaining to cleave together. And then repeatedly to reassemble, adapt and begin ever yet again, indeed so much stronger and wiser for the ordeal. 


 

Post to the for others to weigh in, oremail to: aaronagassi@comcast.netif it's private.
And all serious replies shall be answered promptly.

   

 
 
 
 

 

 

 
   

 

A trenchant parable of lonely togetherness: Imagine gentle reader if you will, a seminar upon of all things, and strained metaphor just for contrivance of illustration, how to form a regulation Bedrock barefoot bowling team. The great regulation bowling team formation guru, perhaps none other than The Dude Lebowski (Lebrocksky, Lebstoneski?), regales the acolytes enthralled, with great purls of wisdom! And the attendees assembled together share all manner of sensitive personal disclosure, reciprocally sworn to silence once the seminar adjourns. Because what happens and all that is said at the regulation bowling team formation seminar, stays at the regulation bowling team formation seminar.

And from the very dawn of time, so solemnly vow do they all. And from the regulation bowling team organizing guru, indeed no less than The Dude Lebowski, even in such preposterous cartoon prior preincarnation, they all learn the purportedly foolproof secrets towards each their similar objectives.

In precisely all such enduring antediluvian ritual, thus has it ever been, thus shall it ever be!

Afterwards, eyes henceforth forever averted, they all quietly disperse, each once again alone, filing out into the dark night of the soul, never to interact again, each having girded their loins for the solitary and arduous networking and recruitment outreach at hand. Yes, once again so blithely led about by the nose, flagrantly manipulated and then finding ourselves summarily abandoned and set up for failure, each and all, so haplessly to our own devices.

And nobody at all even seems to have noticed that there were exactly enough people in the room right then and there, for the formation of a regulation bowling team! Easier said than done of course, but then, what isn't?

Even when coming together in whatever so ritualistic preparation, lo and behold, how people nowadays, then never even think of actual cooperation in whatever sought for interaction, but only conclude by sallying forth, each all alone, even in whatever striving for connection. For somehow, that is what people have been taught. And for anyone who might have missed it, that remains as the moral of the story.

As in penetrating dialogue scripted by Bobcat Goldthwait for Robin Williams cast in the rôle of Lance Clayton in ‘World's Greatest Dad’: “I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.”

Indeed, to quote Gian Vincenzo Gravina: “A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.“

And by that standard, what can there be more boorish than all of those desperate and bludgeoning pep rallies of superficial harmony and malignant subtext of only conditional acceptance? All amounting to threat of such reciprocal shunning and contempt! Indeed, neither solitude nor company, but informal totalitarianism. And what precious little succor will ever actually muster and penetrate such abysmal defeat and indolent covert masochism?

Yaba-daba-don't!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is FoolQuest.com right for you?

Target mindset for FoolQuest.com

Precisely who comprises the intended message recipient(s) of  this very website, FoolQuest.com? Alas how enthusiastically creative and productive individuals may often find themselves denounced online, indeed even in effect and so perfidiously as spammers, for (Le, Gasp!) the much deplored egotistism of self promotion, merely for reaching out to share their works and passions. Alas indeed, for as in the words of George Orwell in ‘Conversation with a Pacifist:’

“Philosophers, writers, artists, even scientists, not only need encouragement and an audience, they need constant stimulation from other people. It is almost impossible to think without talking. If Defoe had really lived on a desert island, he could not have written Robinson Crusoe, nor would he have wanted to. Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.”

Moreover, unwilling to take comfort in howsoever simplistic reasoning, the reflective deep thinker, will never quail and shy from complexity, but even actually enjoy wrestling with  the most densely written and abstruse intricacy. And not only in solitary contemplation, but even the more gratifying in human interaction. And as with most any at all substantive depth of message content, all unfolding then herein, input from the reading thereof, must be processed and not merely consumed. And better still, not merely pondered in solitude, but gregariously deliberated with others. With reading and writing at any higher level. Indeed, Socratic Dialectical effective Active Reading and listening strategy, after all, an art, thinking, not compliance, all remaining entirely integral.
For the open and standing public invitation  and bold innovation of FoolQuest.com presents in a concept of creativity as beyond any mere individual trait, characteristic or mode of expression, actually as a heightened and more optimal process of human interaction. Indeed, in more effective and gratifying outreach for every vital individual end user purpose or benefit, as a transparent viable alternative then one day, at least for participants, even coming to supplant boring, lonely, alienating, tiresome, impractical and vastly failed conventional heteronomy to banal and mediocre sycophantic socialization.

And the unthinkable taboo truth endures, in very antithesis to everything that we have all been taught, all replete with craven sycophantic socialization that none dare call: indoctrination or even brainwash; and all about facile and social success by fitting in via bland agreeability and ever more vapid small talk. Because real  agency, more authentic, less arbitrary and higher, more lofty threshold of connection and belonging, relationship and particularly the forging of attachments of true friendship possible only under autonomy, indeed even Eros which is transport in liberating union with alien difference, all arise only for those nerdy unpopular serious people. And without apology, entirely as forbidden byproduct of most frowned upon and reviled seriousness. Indeed all entirely as forbidden byproduct, and without apology, of truly purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication.

  
And believe it or not, never otherwise.
And there is a plan:
 
 
 

 

 

Calling all brainstormers! Are you ready for social creativity?

Is FoolQuest.com a (would be) cult? Or could there ever be forged, exactly the opposite, the uncult? 

Conceivably, even design thinking into the social engineering of intentional community and trustworthy culture of helping, or perhaps initially and more modestly, intentional social circle or group formation. Even perhaps the forging of a steering committee coalescing in deliberation upon the priorities and order of business, managing the general course of successive pending operations across the long haul.  

Warning: The following, the creative process and fun part, constitutes only in extensive groundwork. Beware then, but only if all goes so extremely well, the ensuing FoolQuest.com solicitation to grueling hardship, throughout then any arduous process actually of implementation.

    
Find then as directly follows, a wide range of tools and guides provided, including: On the one hand, as creative points of departure into the pure creativity for its own joy, of serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming, a curated selection of sample highly original unfinished stories, fiction writing prompts and imaginative provocations. And on the other hand: For purpose of businesses and project planning and feasibility study, and thus in divergent yet convergent mode or application of narrative, unfounded conjecture and capable drama, a wide ranging short compendium of innovative and wildly subversive and disruptively most embryonic "kitchen table" stage or phase first concept proposals in ambitious new venture creation (business startup).
   
And all provided for ongoing free exchange of ideas, exploration, criticism/critique, attack and defense, exploration, modification, variation, elaboration, modification, expansion and improvement, continually in vociferous and ebullient Socratic Dialectic, back and forth. All offering points of departure for fully engaged collaboration among equals in creative solution finding and brainstorming.
Alas how superiority, invalidation, thin skinned Anti-Critical Bias and bitter disrespect, only guarantee passive hostility, sabotage, headgames, protracted dysfunction, interminable primate politics, ever more devious cross-purpose, bullying and betrayal. Moreover, fragile and ill tempered hostility towards salient criticism only makes for denial of reality and rash action as surely as it does all such prodigious volume of ubiquitous and interminable wanker gawdaful badfic. Therefore the embrace of writing critique creatively cultivates instead, the value of criticism first with only art and discipline at stake. But then becoming all the more crucial, ever with anything more on the line.
  
Welcome then to FoolQuest.com, the website dedicated to fully engaged Socratic Dialectic of design thinking into the social engineering of intentional best individually tailored stimuli and triggers of joy, in arousal for contrivance, instigation  and orchestration into an immediate social environment. Just the opposite to any ostensible purpose or intended results sought for by Behavioral Modification. For 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.”  
Indeed, all because of how, as the marketing gurus all concur, that in order to persuade, it remains vitally necessary to appeal to desire. And far then be it from me, ever to dispute them. And so, this pitch had better be appealing! Hence then the burning question: What widely desirable important benefit to one anther, in nothing more or less than participation together into collaboration among equals in creative solution finding? And why, especially, as epitomized  in the pure creativity for it's own joy, of collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming, in synergy concurrently also with innovation, meaning: applied creativity, particularly as most disruptively embodied in the pursuit of new venture creation (business startup)?
Answer: Aside from, as to be expounded in full, objectives of every intrinsic fulfillment all therein, and additionally, even whatever hoped for eventual worldly success in result, is most ebulliently envisaged no more or less than an intentionally more effective and gratifying alternative in human interaction and individual outreach, even social embedment upon which we each depend for every connection to wider resources in the world at large.

For the unthinkable taboo truth endures, in very antithesis to everything that we have all been taught, all replete with craven sycophantic socialization that none dare call: indoctrination or even brainwash; and all about facile and social success by fitting in via bland agreeability and ever more vapid small talk. Because real  agency, more authentic, less arbitrary and higher, more lofty threshold of connection and belonging, relationship and particularly the forging of attachments of true friendship possible only under autonomy, indeed even Eros which is transport in liberating union with alien difference, all arise only for those nerdy unpopular serious people. And without apology, entirely as forbidden byproduct of most frowned upon and reviled seriousness. Indeed all entirely as forbidden byproduct, and without apology, of truly purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication.

And believe it or not, never otherwise.
 
  
Imagine then therein an even somewhat conspiratorial and arduous outreach in paradigm shift of modus vivendi. And all by doing things differently and howsoever more capably together and to persist. And more, anon.
 
How then might the heightened connection, meaningful bonding and emotional attachment, of specific endeavor as herein extolled, ever best be leveraged in order to replace and improve upon the vastly flawed existing social processes, better and less destructively to meet the social and intellectual needs of authentic wellbeing, both intrinsic and extrinsic, of each individual participant? Can the dream ever be achieved, of the mere doing of what you love, then be leveraged into an intentional and readily transparent conduit to all the benefits of more optimal social embedment, extended networking, contacts and the cultivation of quality relationships for each individual participant? And then only secondarily, for recruitment purposes and project expansion... 
 
 

Gentle reader, unmet friend:

No, I don't want your money or your devotion. And I might not have what you want. But dare we seek for it together?
Only ask your self: What is it yo`u desire?
What do you want, and realistically, what will it take?

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

These simple and obvious but daunting and demanding questions in life, therefore all too often and consistently remain so blithely skirted.

 •  The Top 10 Things People Want In Life But Can't Seem To Get - - “I can't get no... ”

 
As envisaged herein on FoolQuest.com, and all via asynchronous text communication, thus readily may ensue work product at our own pace and with each of us on our own schedule. All thus free from inefficiency, obstruction, inconvenience and constraints howsoever of sessions in real time. Indeed, with the odds so very poor, more of those proverbial irons in the fire, for congenial persistence together, trial and error, serial failure and quick turn around back to that proverbial drawing board, all leading just perhaps, into the sharing of eventual success. 

And all hence, find herein extolled and facilitated, nothing less than participation in an open ongoing online writers' bull session of serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming, in all the elation of pure creativity for its own joy. And all replete with tools and guides, including as creative points of departure, a curated selection of sample highly original unfinished stories, writing prompts and provocations.

And find also and similarly provided, synergistically and in divergent yet convergent mode or application of narrative, a wide ranging short compendium of innovative and wildly subversive and disruptively most embryonic "kitchen table" stage or phase first concept proposals in ambitious new venture creation (business startup).

And in either discipline alike, all similarly provided for ongoing exploration, criticism/critique, attack and defense, modification, variation, elaboration, modification, expansion and improvement, continually in vociferous and ebullient Dialectic, back and forth. All offering points of departure for fully engaged collaboration among equals in creative solution finding and brainstorming.
   
And here on FoolQuest.com, indeed all via asynchronous text communication, work product with each of us on our own schedule. All thus free from inefficiency, obstruction, inconvenience and constraints howsoever of sessions in real time. 
  
Indeed, with the odds so very poor, more of those proverbial irons in the fire, for synergy in congenial persistence together, trial and error, serial failure and quick turn around back to that proverbial drawing board, all leading just perhaps, into the sharing of eventual success.
  
Because into the design thinking process, analytic yet strategic, towards the social engineering of most optimal reciprocal engagement into social and intellectual stimulus struggle ever so constant, active and universal to the human psych, FoolQuest.com remains focused upon one singular objective: That of provision to the currently so vastly underserved needs of subversively creative nonconformist value maximizers. Indeed individuals as just perhaps specifically becoming passionate and involved herein, on the one hand, in serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming, and on the other hand, innovation as to be implemented via business or project planning and feasibility study into inception of bold and disruptive new venture creation (business startup).
Indeed, ambitious cutting edge (pre-)incubation, rapport teambuilding from the most embryonic first concept or "kitchen table" inception phase or stage. And not merely towards any extrinsic instrumentality of standard profit driven enterprise, but most especially to lifestyle entrepreneurship and intrinsic fulfillment. And all as no less applicable to Social Entrepreneurship and even grassroots activism. And all to challenge every blatant and systematic failure of conventionality in every walk of life.
  
Unlike casual "add-on" stories, such the like and even far worse generative malagenda, instead the Fiction Collaboratory emphasizes disciplined craft and creative synthesis, with unflinching critique and unfettered creative brainstorming.

Alas then how serious writers, as traditionally immersing themselves in such solitary vocation and hermitlike contemplation, and all despite every highly acclaimed masterpiece of writing collaboration, tend to look down upon collaborative fiction writing online. And alas, for good reason: Because thin skinned collaborative fiction writers online, in their callow enacted fantasy and veritable cosplay as fiction writers, so often and consistently tend so stridently to deplore even the very fundamentals of capably serious writing. And most especially the vital exchange of critique, so crucial to grow and improve in any capably serious fiction writing. Alas then expanding and prevailing conformity into Anti-Critically Biased superficial harmony amid such contempt for expertise in general. And let alone in anything ever so readily dismissed as completely subjective and even arbitrary or entirely a matter of taste, as creative writing (fiction). And thusly they deny all critical standards whatsoever. A dire air headed reverse snobbery all as so lamentably characteristic of a burgeoning short attention philistine anti-intellectual movement and ideology of such mistrust as conceivably even bordering upon the very persecution of experts, all sometimes designated as: the Cult of the Amateur.

And indeed amid cultural manifestations of that which has been named: the Cult of the Amateur, cringe worthy inept fanfic comprising the very least among irritations. All the while with least deserved mistrust and animosity therefore into most bone headed and mendaciously lethal public policy, remaining the dubious distinction and achievement of the anti-vaxers. Because in this sick sad world, if there is any genuine and steadfast authoritative expertise, in their glowing track record of predictions, warnings and lifesaving intervention, and all therein yet ever to fail or betray the public trust, that most deserving of accolades justly falls upon epidemiology. But not to digress.

All nevertheless, the dedication of serious fiction writing, in such squandered potential for the most exalted and intensified intelligent human interaction and connection, may yet be rescued from traditionally solitary isolation hitherto broken only in the all important exchange of critique. And likewise, hitherto so blithely callow collaborative fiction writing online, may yet be redeemed into the disciplines of capable drama hailed by Socrates as most philosophical among the arts, as well as the conjectural speculative element of true Science Fiction, the vaunted Literature of ideas.

Moreover, in divergent yet convergent mode or application of narrative, and so often cited as the single most important document produced in the course of new venture creation, various business startup in endless possibility, a business or project plan, replete with duly diligent feasibility study proverbially into the devil in the details of implementation. Analytic yet strategic, abstract principle into practical application, and theory continually revised Empirically. Indeed all thus so very well beyond mere willing suspension of disbelief so crucial to mere fiction, must therefore present any engaging and dramatic yet persuasively realistic likely story or conjecture of uplifting adventure dawning and glowing profit potential. Yes, embarkation upon the real world Hero's Journey attempting anything really cool together. 

For innovative business or project planning remains nothing more or less than a divergent yet convergent mode or application of narrative, at all important and persuasive for all investment of capital or other resources, and especially initial participation on spec. Meaning: without payment upfront, and in hopes of future equity and profit participation. Indeed, feasibility study together, into the disruptive innovation (game changing applied creativity) of entrepreneurship and new venture creation (business startup). And all no less redolent with drama and conjecture, futuring scenario, even Science Fiction brought to life! beyond mere plausibility and willing suspension of disbelief. A special kind of likely story in any descriptive detail of rhetorical support by sound reasoning and strong evidence. A description and prediction at all striving at correspondence with external reality. Or so one might only dare hope.

Indeed, so often cited as the single most important document produced in the course of new venture creation, various business startup in endless possibility, a business or project plan, indeed well beyond mere willing suspension of disbelief, and with the devil in the details of implementation, must therefore present any engaging and dramatic yet persuasively realistic likely story or conjecture of uplifting adventure dawning and glowing profit potential. Yes, embarkation upon the real world Hero's Journey attempting anything really cool together. 
Therefore, before investment, even if not of money or any other tangible asset or resources, but especially as of sweat equity (part ownership purchased by contribution of time and work) on spec (towards hoped and risked for future equity and profit participation, without payment upfront), in order to keep things honest and rational, always insist to review, or indeed to participate and help to produce, whatever business plan or prospectus, rigorously to ferret out the devil in the details of implementation. And all in order diligently to assay meritable feasibility versus foreseeable and avoidable unfeasibility. Let alone proverbial warning flags of anything actually dodgy or just silly and dull.
Indeed, that is why, even beyond merely Literary creativity all for its own joy, find herein extolled also and concurrently, for the sake of applied creativity called: innovation, entry into business or project planning, coming all replete with tools and guides, including as creative points of departure, not only as aforementioned, a curated selection of sample highly original unfinished stories, writing prompts and provocations, but similarly a wide ranging short compendium of innovative and wildly subversive and disruptively most embryonic "kitchen table" inception stage or phase first concept proposals in ambitious new venture creation (business startup).
And hence the bold first concept of entrepreneurship for the rest of us in a trustworthy intentional community and culture of helping. Because management team recruitment and rapport building remain needs so vastly underserved. Especially with any ready transparency, and at entry level and most embryonic first concept "kitchen table" stage or phase. Indeed, like The Three Musketeers: “All for one, and one for all!” Or else, all for naught. Indeed, as in the pointed aphorism from Henry Ford: “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” Alas then, that as things stand, openings remain so random and scarce, such infrequent long shots. And to make matters worse, so often fraught with such hostility, fraud, folly and even bullying outright. Then all hence every dire need of organizational contingencies in mitigation of any such destructive behavior as ever arising and revealed.
Post to the for others to weigh in, oremail to: aaronagassi@comcast.netif it's private.
And all serious replies shall be answered promptly.
 
 
 
 
What follows strives to address a specific incessant diversionary clamor online, a proverbial tar-baby hijacking the agenda and drowning out anything of meaning or value. What follows strives to address a particular misguided ideology among many such, all as inspired by a desperation to avoid mistakes instead of embracing ongoing error detection and course correction, continually learning from mistakes. Indeed, all in most adamant rejection of the hypothetico-deductive method itself, ever closer to truth, but never entirely arriving.  
  
For as cited in various lists online of all too common bad writing advice (among various online resources as compiled by serious and capable writers knowing full well all whereof they expound), prominently featured comes one particular prevailing admonition: The cretin exhortation only toward the most simple writing style, even the often as so vastly underestimated level of a small child, and entirety to the exclusion of all else and under any context or circumstance. Ill fitting expectations so artlessly transposed from one very narrow and particular genre of popular "low brow" nonfiction, upon every other conceivable style or content whatsoever. Indeed, all as coming replete only with ever so very brief, bland, easy and convenient short attention readily digestible and callow snippets of information. Indeed, eviscerating every depth of nuance, such oversimplified writing style, all doing so precious little justice dumbing down anything truly imaginative, insightful or thought provoking; certainly any subversively disruptive true innovation.
   
And with every angry and semiliterate sense of entitlement for their toxic anti-intellectual expectations universally to be catered to. For the adherents of this lamentable ideology indeed tenaciously embrace their ever more reputable yet no less crackpot doctrine as universal and unassailable. In their echo-chambers, so blithely ignorant and unaware do they remain, of all controversy upon the matter raging not only across the net, but from well before the information revolution. 
 
Decidedly no, the writer will never at all become obliged somehow to dumb everything down for the benighted glorification of mediocrity and willful stupidity all as a nothing more or less than an ideological lifestyle choice. What then, if anything at all, does the author truly owe to their audience? Emphatically, no writer or speaker must ever impose responsibility for their own expressive shortcomings, onto whatever audience so troubled and put upon. Yes, all too true: Every effort on the part of the author to write more clearly, spares successive readers the imposition of needles aggravation. Such trouble spared even perhaps by any somewhat inconsiderate or confused writer, even from antiquity, accrues multiplied struggle and needless irritation plaguing any such future readers, even across the ages, unto the present day and into the future. It's never easy.
 
And notwithstanding all glorification of intellectual laziness and torpor, and in most any context, the well familiar clear and concise great ideas whereupon 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 again and again. All therefore, utter mediocrity remains by far the more efficient. Indeed, only the most shopworn and well familiar old ideas are certain always to come across effortlessly and consistently.
 
And like any other manifestation of fallibility, ongoing communications struggle, communications failure and reciprocal incomprehension, remain endemioc, entirely normal and nothing anomalous, within the human condition. Hence bypassing denotes the all too common situation or circumstances even of completely unaware gainsaying, of talking past one another indeed in such  blithe and chronically unaware communications failure and reciprocal incomprehension. For writing is like photography: Though easy to do, nevertheless so difficult actually to do well. Indeed, writing is rewriting, patient, hard work and never a waste of time. And and all therefore, fie upon all fanatical exhortation to oversimplified writing style. Because barring such change deliberately, of course, streamlining and simplification must never be allowed routinely to take priority over accuracy of expression and preservation, of actual intended message content. Nor for that matter, should richness and artistry of unique authorial voice, tone, and style ever be standardized into oblivion.
 
And so, gentle reader, all therefore, with most profuse apology, please believe me: If I already understood precisely whatever might remain unclear, how so and why, I would already have revised accordingly. Moreover, in all good faith striving for clear expression and sensemaking, any serious author retains every right and bears full responsibility, of explicitly seeking and specifying most cogently and precisely, whatever manner and kind of coherent feedback, as they themselves perceive the need, and as most helpful and relevant to authorial intent to begin with.
   
Therefore, as between serious writers and thinkers, and because ‘Mistakes are the Essence,’ please freely and systematically question whatever is not understood. And in substance beyond whatever mere grammatical, or otherwise even somewhat pedantic formal error. That would be of great help and most appreciated!
  
Let us then always diligently engage in Socratic Dialectic of Miscommunication Competent Dialectical 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. Indeed, going over whatever howsoever unclear text, even line by line, in order in all diligence together to ferret out every discrete miscommunication, communications error or ambiguity in actual message content.
        
Or gentle reader, as so many have been, do you experience even howsoever ungovernable resentment in being all thus so tremendously inconvenienced and put upon? Because life can be complicated that way. And yet the very difficulty can also turn out worthwhile. For as the saying goes: “Effort is the best indicator of interest.” -An attachment of desire and value.
  
And to quote 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.” And yet, the meaning of life remains a quandary of irreducible intricacy, ever nuanced and complex, ever defiant of lionized short attention and undue confidence in vastly oversimplified writing style to the exclusion of all else no matter what.
  
Quite the contrary: In accordance with the bleeding edge of modern happiness science in rediscovery of the wisdom of the greatest sages of old, the key to life and escape from the demeaning doldrums of herd mentality, stands revealed as nothing more or less than, so oppressively infrequent and tightly controlled in every walk of life, that infrequent, scarce and vastly underserved pleasure taken in fully engaged, heady, meaningful and nuanced depth of detailed emersion into collaboration among equals in creative solution finding. Indeed, in the exaltation of together telling stories and working out plans. A peak experience that can and should instead become reproducible at will. And thus widespread, regular and frequent, especially online right here on FoolQuest.com
 
And emphatically, never any braindead anti-intellectual product of oversimplified writing style. Because barring such change deliberately, of course, streamlining and simplification must never be allowed routinely to take priority over accuracy of expression, transmission and preservation, of actual intended message content. Nor for that matter, should richness and artistry of unique authorial voice, tone, and style ever be standardized into oblivion.

And all hence, find herein extolled and facilitated, nothing less than participation in an open ongoing online writers' bull session of serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming, in all the elation of pure creativity for its own joy. And all replete tools and guides, including as creative points of departure, a curated selection of sample highly original unfinished stories, writing prompts and provocations.

And find similarly provided, in divergent yet convergent mode or application of narrative, a wide ranging short compendium of innovative and wildly subversive and disruptively most embryonic "kitchen table" stage or phase first concept proposals in ambitious new venture creation (business startup).

And all provided for ongoing exploration, criticism/critique, attack and defense, modification, variation, elaboration, modification, expansion and improvement, continually in vociferous and ebullient Dialectic, back and forth. All offering points of departure for fully engaged collaboration among equals in creative solution finding and brainstorming.
And here on FoolQuest.com, all via asynchronous text communication, work product with each of us on our own schedule. All thus free from inefficiency, obstruction, inconvenience and constraints howsoever of sessions in real time. Indeed, with the odds so very poor, more of those proverbial irons in the fire, for congenial persistence together, trial and error, serial failure and quick turn around back to that proverbial drawing board, all leading just perhaps, into the sharing of eventual success.
But nothing is ever easy. And therefore, in all fair warning, the FoolQuest.com solicitation to grueling hardship as inexorable from the management of unflaggingly risk tolerant and resilient perseverance in the face of repeated serial failure.
  
After all, success in entrepreneurial new venture creation (business startup) remains well known as no more or less than the product of intensive ongoing serial failure and quick turn around. Hardship all demanding fortitude, extensive preparation and quick recovery to pick ourselves up and start all over again from scratch, with no guarantees, as many times as it takes until, if ever at all, eventual success.

For the unthinkable taboo truth endures, in very antithesis to everything that we have all been taught, all replete with craven sycophantic socialization that none dare call: indoctrination or even brainwash; and all about facile and social success by fitting in via bland agreeability and ever more vapid small talk. Because real  agency, more authentic, less arbitrary and higher, more lofty threshold of connection and belonging, relationship and particularly the forging of attachments of true friendship possible only under autonomy, indeed even Eros which is transport in liberating union with alien difference, all arise only for those nerdy unpopular serious people. And without apology, entirely as forbidden byproduct of most frowned upon and reviled seriousness. Indeed all entirely as forbidden byproduct, and without apology, of truly purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication.

And believe it or not, never otherwise.

And all therefore find provided herein within the dense and voluminous FoolQuest.com hypertext, a substantive range of of tools and guides, including both a curated selection of sample highly original unfinished stories, writing prompts and provocations, as well as a wide ranging short compendium of innovative and wildly subversive and disruptively most embryonic "kitchen table" stage or phase first concept proposals in ambitious new venture creation (business startup). Therefore, read and respond.
  
 
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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 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 to modify subjective experience thereby altering consciousness itself. And all thus to combat pandemic alienation, boredom and loneliness.
 
All hence, as herein proposed, design thinking into the social engineering of social and intellectual stimulus struggle would contrive the deliberate introduction of specific social stimuli and social interaction, into an immediate social environment, in order better to optimize social and intellectual stimulus struggle.
 
Find then herein extolled, an application of design thinking process, analytic yet strategic, in order best to revolutionize the fields of social engineering and intentional community (or perhaps initially and more modestly, intentional social circle or group formation) for participants together striving purposefully at more optimally reciprocally engaged social and intellectual stimulus struggle.
 
And all via distinctly unconventional interpersonal interaction, tailored for combating the alienated and boredom prone loneliness of intelligent people. And all in facilitation and optimization of outreach and connection in value maximization not only of intrinsic individual gratification and fulfillment, but also of all too crucial networking and practical utility and resource of social embedment.
  
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.” And hence gradual institution of any nescient infrastructure, the forging of a steering committee coalescing in deliberation upon the priorities and order of business, managing the general course of successive pending operations across the long haul. All therefore: Change our conversation, reset the agenda, and just maybe, change our world! All therein, first baby steps, for serious people ever finding one another at long last, along Laozi's fabled Journey of a Thousand Miles.

Indeed, all as in accordance with with ancient wisdom of the greatest sages of old as rediscovered in the very latest bleeding edge of modern happiness science. To wit, how the vastly neglected and underserved elation of together telling stories and working out plans, in fully engaged collaboration among equals in creative solution finding, remains ever integral to authentic wellbeing, more optimal social and intellectual stimulus struggle, and flourishing of all thereby altered human consciousness itself.

For the unthinkable taboo truth endures, in very antithesis to everything that we have all been taught, all replete with craven sycophantic socialization that none dare call: indoctrination or even brainwash; and all about facile and social success by fitting in via bland agreeability and ever more vapid small talk. Because real  agency, more authentic, less arbitrary and higher, more lofty threshold of connection and belonging, relationship and particularly the forging of attachments of true friendship possible only under autonomy, indeed even Eros which is transport in liberating union with alien difference, all arise only for those nerdy unpopular serious people. And without apology, entirely as forbidden byproduct of most frowned upon and reviled seriousness. Indeed all entirely as forbidden byproduct, and without apology, of truly purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication.
 
Because, as according to peer reviewed Empirical experimental results as published by Dr. Matthias Mehl: Choosing creative effort, making things happen and attentively pursuing new understanding, all in the course of talking more seriously and making less small talk, is how happy people, (indeed in accordance with Martin Seligman's celebrated happiness formula of Positive Psychology) so pleasurably, meaningfully and fulfillingly engage. And dare imagine, so should we! After all, as Socrates so famously declares: “An unexamined life is not worth the living for a human being.”
  
But of course, and not to jump the gun, correlation need not imply causation. And therefore the open question yet remains: Which is cause and which is effect? Does serious conversation result in happiness, or is serious conversation and even prosperity and social success, merely among the resultant symptoms of happiness? And for that matter, what if both might be true at the same time?
  
If just perhaps so happy a process might actually become reciprocal, functioning in either direction, back and forth, then just conceivably an ever escalating virtuous cycle might ensue, perpetually improving only once implemented, and entailing no more that whatever even tacit ratification amongst those who interact. Indeed, close and trustworthy culture of helping, agency (le, gasp!) even entirely without wider peer approval.

For at least initially, rather than sweeping the world out from leftfield, instead, any bold and radical paradigm shift of modus vivendi into liberating and empowering subversion of hierarchy, not unlike taboo forbidden love, necessarily nurtures in microcosm. Indeed even building somewhat covertly and conspiratorially, when any two or more individuals interacting and taking initiative, even in  small reversible steps, must finally innovate: at long last to begin significantly doing things differently and howsoever more capably together and persist.

And yet, despite all widespread enthusiasm of prevailing infotainment online, for the Empirical observations and experimental discoveries of Dr. Matthias Mehl, not to mention the enduring popularity of the Positive Psychology and happiness formula of Martin Seligman, only here on FoolQuest.com, find presented any known proposal, analytic yet strategic, of ever at long last implementation putting either theory into practice. Let alone both. Indeed, even merely toward participatory informal experiment, and even simply in order to discover the truth of the matter. For to quote Benjamin Disraeli: “Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” Moreover, as the saying goes, action speaking louder than words.
  
And all ripe for such liberating free exchange and optimal reciprocal engagement of social and intellectual stimulus struggle as thereby testing a specific bold prediction: That, as in accord with evolutionary neuroscience and the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology, as to how collaboration among equals in creative solution finding and even collaborative brainstorming, all in imaginative yet unflinchingly honest, hard nosed Socratic Dialectical feasibility study and analytic yet strategic planning, will by itself already begin lifting spirits and honest hope, authentic wellbeing, and the will to power. And indeed as per as herein, standing invitation online for all comers, all interested parties, upon precisely all such agenda of eustress and sustainable euphoria of creative tension, ambition and daunting challenge.
And all because, to quote Alain de Botton: “One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.” And in the words of Linus Pauling: “The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.” Indeed, as John Mason Good observes: “Happiness consists in activity. It is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.” Moreover, to quote Sabrina Pasterski: “Talking more can help improve ideas.” And again to site Martin Seligman's celebrated happiness formula of Positive Psychology, Ongoing pleasure + engagement + meaning = ever self renewing fulfillment.
 
And yet, despite all widespread enthusiasm of prevailing infotainment online, for the insights of Martin Seligman, only here on FoolQuest.com, find presented any known proposal, analytic yet strategic, of ever at long last implementation putting theory into practice, even merely toward participatory informal experiment. For again to quote Benjamin Disraeli: “Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” Indeed, as the saying goes, action speaking louder than words.

And all such remaining probortunity at hand. The very portmanteau: 'probortunity' from the two words: 'problem' and 'opportunity,' so optimistically signifying opportunity as inherent to problems, and the more dire, the more propitious.

 
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Dire Situation Analysis and Probortunity at Hand

Generally speaking, perhaps we are all such hapless nebbishes, so frequently inept at achieving happiness or for that matter, even acting in ones own self interests and survival, let alone towards any altruistic greater values, all because of how we are all pressured to proceed in accord with expectations, craven, bogus, toadying, sycophantic and facile social skills, instinctively, indeed inductively and unquestioning. All led about by the nose, then abandoned each and all, to our own devices and setup for failure.

Indeed, we have all been lied to, and in every walk of life, nothing seems to work, not even for good little girls and boys, approval seeking eager beavers, who all stick with the program or else prevail despite and not because of all that supposed tough love. Because society is the enemy, no conduit of nurture, no primrose path, but an obstacle course. Not unlike academic peer review, a massive bureaucratic filter favoring mediocrity by weeding out substandard incompetence and excellence, rebellion and innovation, all alike. All falling by the wayside and therein finding our stations in life. 

And what a racket! A racket, no matter how reputable, can be any dishonest scheme or ongoing transaction, all not as it contrives to present itself and as is tacitly accepted or endured by the majority of those involved, no greater good, but in actuality, indeed, a myth, scam or fraud of heteronomy, a deceptive domineering practice of bullying, coercion and manipulation conducted for whatever benefit of a few cronies at the expense of the many.

And all instead of any autonomy of hypothetico-deductively questioning, investigation, open close collaboration in trial and error. A design thinking social engineering core agenda and objective of paradigm shift in modus vivendi, working out better methods and understanding together. And all towards freedom in an unfree world.

 
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A call to action:
BLUEPRINT and SOLICITATION for CREATIVE COMMUNITY
alpha test and informal social experiment / collaborative brainstorming club
    
Not only that Creativity Can and Should be Social, but that Creativity Can and Should be Popular.
What freedom and creativity are and are not. How and why creativity is persecuted.
Why any of it matters, and how to proceed.
 
 
 

 

Dedication:
As Johann Wolfgang von Goethe said: “Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” Alas then, in the words of Jean Boudrillard: “We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.” For 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.” As indeed finding ourselves as we do, each we all, situated in an overstressed attention economy, ever shorter attention ever spread so very thin. 
But manipulative consensus of short attention anti-intellectual avoidance and such virulent mistrust of complexity, leaving only superficial harmony over short, often undue confidence in vastly oversimplified easy and convenient snippets of information, generally undermines any true depth of comprehension indeed into inevitably inherent complexity and irreducible intricacy: Insights just possibly, as one may only hope, instead at all better facilitated via faliblism and asynchronous text communication delving into any such as the present voluminous and densely written FoolQuest.com hypertext. Alas then, in the biting wit of Dorothy Parker: “You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.”
 
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.” Moreover, in corollary  from common aphorism: “Effort is the best indicator of interest.”
 
  
  

 

 

Eudemonia in our time:

 

The correct indefinite pronoun denoting the definite article of 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 better operant, more interesting and truly responsible question remains: Why don't/can't We...?

 

 

 

 Sympathy is never enough
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Alas, many who disagree inevitably take such virulent offence, welling up with simmering indignation, perhaps because, one way or another, they have invested so very much for the sake of mortal terror management, into whatever prevailing rightthink; and find any dissent whatsoever, not only unheard of, but actually quite inconceivable. Cretins in their echo chambers, so blithely ignorant are they, of widespread and ongoing controversy not just online, but since the very dawn of civilization! But a precious few others instead who have endured all manner of tribulation, and can relate, may even experience any howsoever momentary emotional validation. Emotional validation arising as the soothing balm of whatever recognition or affirmation that a person or their feelings, experiences, perceptions or opinions, even actually however fallible, remain valid or worthy, after all.
  
Alas, to quote Olmstead: “After all is said and done, much is said and little is done.” And even in most profound epiphany and relief however hitherto so sorely absent, and even no matter how particular and individually well suited and then however perfectly filling so aching a void, can there be no more to reach out for even on the Internet, than for any such instant and convenient online supply of any whatever such emotional validation? Indeed, why do the search engines all seem so constantly to assume that the only conceivable agenda or (entirely laudable) reasons why anyone might ever need to talk, are psychotherapy, emotional support and suicide prevention? Although, in all fairness, even suicide remains more popular than FoolQuest.com!
                 
Alas, actually the most soothing emotional validation even however comforting, often becomes narcotic and paralytic unless and except as a bare beginning. A classic case of nigh totalitarian mass economy and easy efficiency prioritized over far more complicated, difficult and inconvenient individual end user wellbeing. And thence frequently, dissenting individual validation gives way instead to communal validation of groupthink. And precisely such Transactionally ulterior subtext conditional only into docile submission in the face of each and every discontent, remains no more than another thinly disguised classic teambuilding into uncritical Zen Mystical sublime apathy and passive nonattachment. But all such ready and knee-jerk marshmallowing may eventually come to ring ever more hollow and trite, when nothing ever actually improves. For to quote Benjamin Disraeli: “Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” And indeed, as the saying goes, action speaking louder than words, nothing validates quite like sincere, unflagging and wholehearted assistance and cooperation, all in pursuit of whatever one's own agenda in a genuine culture of helping.
 
Moreover, the unthinkable taboo truth endures, in very antithesis to everything that we have all been taught, all replete with craven sycophantic socialization that none dare call: indoctrination or even brainwash; and all about facile and social success by fitting in via bland agreeability and ever more vapid small talk. Because real  agency, more authentic, less arbitrary and higher, more lofty threshold of connection and belonging, relationship and particularly the forging of attachments of true friendship possible only under autonomy, indeed even Eros which is transport in liberating union with alien difference, all arise only for those nerdy unpopular serious people. And without apology, entirely as forbidden byproduct of most frowned upon and reviled seriousness. Indeed all entirely as forbidden byproduct, and without apology, of truly purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication.
  
And believe it or not, never otherwise.
   
 
 

Gentle reader, unmet friend:

No, I don't want your money or your devotion. And I might not have what you want. But dare we seek for it together?
Only ask your self: What is it you desire?
What do you want, and realistically, what will it take?

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

These simple and obvious but daunting and demanding questions in life, therefore all too often and consistently remain so blithely skirted.

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What widely desirable important benefit to one anther, in participation together into collaboration among equals in creative solution finding?
And why, especially, as epitomized  in the pure creativity for it's own joy, of collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming, concurrently also with innovation, meaning: applied creativity, as most vibrantly embodied in new venture creation (business startup)? All that and so much more!
Are you intelligent, boredom prone and lonely? Gentle readers, curb your enthusiasm! Don't crowd up all at once! Excluding sheer timidity and reservation in the face of taboo ever looming, hawking cherished dreams of scarce satisfaction, even of forbidden fruit, indeed, of blazing a trail to freedom in an unfree world, should all be as effortless and inexorable as peddling dopamine! Indeed, the marketing gurus all concur that in order to persuade, it remains vitally necessary to appeal to desire. And far then be it from me, ever to dispute them.
  
Indeed, every yearning for any life less ordinary in a culture of helping. Even design thinking into the social engineering of more optimally reciprocally engaged social and intellectual stimulus struggle. Of intentional arousal of best individually tailored social and intellectual stimuli orchestrated into an immediate social environment. Of fully engaged collaboration among equals in creative solution finding, wherein, to quote Sabrina Pasterski: “Talking more can help improve ideas.” The heady thrill together of telling stories and working out plans. And all because as according to prediction from Empirical observation from the very latest bleeding edge happiness science in vibrant rediscovery of ancient wisdom from the greatest sages of old, indeed the heightened shared experience of collaboration among equals in creative solution finding, remains ever integral to authentic wellbeing and flourishing of human consciousness itself. Consciousness thereby altered and spirits uplifted. Alas however, crucial, intrinsic and innate social and intellectual stimulus appetite, so  completely neglected, under aroused, and vastly underserved.
 
Yes, ever thwarted, frustrated and repressed in most every walk of life, human consciousness remains uniquely characterized, altered and uplifted, by collaboration among equals in creative solution finding. Indeed, as herein extolled, via innovative feasibility study of design thinking into the social engineering of Eudemonia and arête. In fully engaged Socratic Dialectical feasibility study, analytic yet strategic. And all as most specifically epitomized as proposed here on FoolQuest.com, by collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming in concurrent synergy with entrepreneurial business or project planning toward development into organization and implementation of new venture creation (business startup).
  
Indeed, like The Three Musketeers: “All for one, and one for all!” Or else, all for naught. Indeed, as in the pointed aphorism from Henry Ford: “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”  
Yes, the pure creativity for it's own joy, of collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming, concurrently also with innovation, meaning: applied creativity, as most vibrantly embodied in new venture creation (business startup). And proposed implementation via design thinking, analytic yet strategic, into the social engineering of deeper, better operant and more gratifying alternatives in more fulfilling human interaction. Congenial persistence together, trial and error, serial failure and quick turn around back to that proverbial drawing board, all leading just perhaps, into the sharing of eventual success.

And all ripe for testing the very bold prediction at all: that in liberating free exchange and optimal reciprocal engagement in imaginative yet unflinchingly honest, hard nosed and fully engaged Socratic Dialectical feasibility study, analytic yet strategic planning, indeed collaboration among equals in creative solution finding and even collaborative brainstorming, upon precisely all such agenda of eustress and sustainable euphoria of creative tension, ambition and daunting challenge, will by itself already begin lifting spirits and honest hope, authentic wellbeing, and the will to power. And all as herein invited for all comers, all interested parties.

For yes, gentle readers you are all invited! 

Because not ever more interminably vapid small talk and primate politics, but bullshit free ready and transparently unobstructed deeper and more genuine human connection, so crucially integral to authentic wellbeing and human flourishing, building team rapport in a trustworthy culture of helping, and the forging of attachments of true friendship possible only under genuine and authentic autonomy (indeed even as in the heady adventure of attempting anything really cool together) therefore all arises, and without apology, only and entirely as forbidden byproduct of purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication. And believe it or not, never otherwise. 

 
And precise implementation all thereof as proposed in detail, follows: 
  
 
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 Getting started

“Getting in on the ground floor” for whatever hoped for advantage later on, endures as time honored idiom denoting involvement in whatever new project or venture from very inception. Or indeed, in yet further turn of phrase, into whatever proverbial basement or subbasement. Which is to say: even earlier still and all from scratch. Another idiom entirely, alluding to beginnings with no preexisting advantage or foundation at all. Indeed, as without using, or even actually rejecting or entirely dispensing with, anything already existent. Indeed, all even so daunting as unto proverbial burial alive, figuratively clawing one's way up from whatever metaphorical abysmal stygian strata! 
   
Because, in deliberation of practical philosophy, much as in the real world, nothing can be entirely too preliminary. No matter how early in whatever process one thinks to begin, one may yet rightly ponder, vex and imagine precisely at all how even to arrive at whatever such ostensible starting position whatsoever. Because nothing is simple or easy. And wishful thinking notwithstanding.
   
Indeed gentle reader(s), how to even get you here reading this at all! Let alone to respond. And let alone, relevantly, please.
First of all:
Just suppose that the reader experiences howsoever whatever any difficulty even merely in comprehension of this very text content?
 Indeed, even within whatever common language etc., what if any of us utterly fail in communication with one another? Would any such then constitute such intractable impasse? After all, how can anything as yet not understood, at least not fully, ever even at all be discussed?
  
Answer: Bypassing denotes the situation or circumstances of talking past one another in blithe and chronically unaware communications failure and reciprocal incomprehension. And bypassing ever remains all too easy and common place. Indeed, people so often have whatsoever no idea what they are talking about, let alone whatever anyone else so desperately struggles to express! And they do not even perceive the trap that they have fallen into. They cannot even disagree coherently!
Nevertheless, even reciprocal incomprehension remains only a hopeful beginning, and not such an impasse at all! Indeed, probortunity at hand, the more dire, the more propitious. But only barring any sly headgames of animosity, derision, short attention, mistrust, ulterior agenda and bad faith. And only given instead, any good faith curiosity and forthright determination in shared objective howsoever merely of successful communication at all. And despite whatever possible and even likely disagreement inevitably to spark controversy once elucidated. And yes, elucidation nevertheless the fruit only of hard work together. For as the saying goes: “Effort is the best indicator of interest.” Only then does any sense of urgency whatsoever emerge, for whatever commitment to a protocol in mitigation of communications failure as after all, must be accepted as an aspect of ongoing communications struggle entirely normal and endemic to the human condition. An effective, reciprocal and powerfully intricate process together for raising signal out from noise.

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But even the more alarming: Beware the FoolQuest.com solicitation to grueling hardship as intrinsic to the management of unflaggingly risk tolerant and resilient perseverance in the face of repeated serial failure. Because, into the most embryonic first concept "kitchen table" stage or phase, eventually, beyond whatever initial most casual deliberation, brainstorming and most cursory feasibility study, speaking all the more of hard work, difficult ambition must rear its ugly head! Because success in entrepreneurial new venture creation (business startup) remains well known as no more or less than the product of intensive ongoing serial failure and quick turn around. All demanding fortitude, extensive preparation and quick recovery to pick ourselves up and start all over again from scratch, with no guarantees, as many times as it takes until, if ever, eventual success. Because, honestly, and in all fair warning, nothing less will even ever begin actually to advance such ambitious objectives of collaboration among equals as herein extolled. But realistically and at best, what else might one expect? It's never easy. But it might just be fun together.

  • Indeed, just suppose, what if, in bold paradigm shift just to flip the script, one fine day, hitherto so restricted, taboo, scarce and fleeting tantalizing forbidden fruit so vital and elating collaboration among equals in creative solution finding, uncompartmentalized truly free exchange, all so routinely and dysfunctionally repressed and quashed n most every walk of life, instead where somehow to be instituted, perhaps even just in any new particular social context or intentional community, and as the abiding new norm? Indeed at all much more frequently, more regularly, optimally, reciprocally and over longer periods of time building team rapport under an autonomy supportive culture of helping... And moreover as regarding any whatever hitherto so routine status quo heteronymous appeal to authority, instead and even however ad hoc and exceptional, to be evoked, never routinely or preemptively, but in minimal and judicious application only as ever whatever passing need when and as actually at all arising...
    •  
    And all because, to quote Alain de Botton: “One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.” And in the words of Linus Pauling: “The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.” Indeed, as John Mason Good observes: “Happiness consists in activity. It is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.”
       
    Indeed, precisely how might any imagined life less ordinary, ever become more readily achievable? Subject then to further elaboration and clarification presently, unique agenda herein consists, only if ever upon our own initiative, barest and most generally and loosely, in the following enumerated overarching objectives of collaboration among equals telling stories and working out plans. And all in disruptive subversion of plodding and dullardly hierarchy and heteronomy all thereto.

    1) Collaboration in fiction writing, together in pure creativity for its own joy...

    2) Empowering entrepreneurial collaboration in disruptive innovation...

    3) New frontiers in the social engineering of better operant and more gratifying alternatives in ongoing social interaction:

    a) Design thinking investigation towards definition, discovery, and actually instigation, orchestration and production of whatever most optimally gratifying individually tailored social and intellectual stimuli, arousal and satisfaction, into whatever immediate social environment...

    b) The uncult, the very opposite of a cult: In most embryonic, inception or: "kitchen table" stage or phase first concept, and in very antithesis of how cults operate by such false friendship and subtext of conditionality, meaning: conditional love or acceptance as entirely predicated upon acquiescence in every thought and deed. But instead, indeed likewise an ongoing recruitment effort, but by contrast, just to flip the script, as merely a quasi-authoritative but reciprocally autonomy supportive and social supportive pretext for individual outreach, networking and the forging of new friendship. Indeed, the very opposite of a cult. Unprecedented paradigm shift and Peripeteia in modus vivendi, a vibrant revolution in autonomy supportive social support, at long last making you the PR priority. 

    And all just perhaps therein arising, the fully engaged Socratic Dialectical detail oriented piecemeal social engineering design probortunity at hand, such that in due course, all such grand endeavor as propounded herein, perhaps yet may nurture most practically by advancing gradually throughout the incremental institution of intentional community. Or perhaps initially and more modestly, intentional social circle or group formation. And thence forward momentum into an authentic and trustworthy culture of helping and autonomy supportive social support.

    Indeed, all therein, gradual institution of any nescient infrastructure, the forging of a steering committee coalescing in deliberation upon the priorities and order of business, managing the general course of successive pending operations across the long haul. All first baby steps, for serious people ever finding one another at long last, along Laozi's fabled Journey of a Thousand Miles.

    And find therefore provided herein, all manner of tools and guides, including, correspondingly, on the one hand, for full engagement into together sharing the hitherto more often so solitary and lonesome pure creativity of serious collaborative fiction writing.

    1) For serious collaboration in fiction writing, drama (hailed by Socrates as most philosophical among the arts), and the conjectural speculative element of true Science Fiction (the vaunted Literature of ideas), find provided here on FoolQuest.com, a curated selection of sample highly original unfinished stories, writing prompts and provocations... 

    -- And on the other hand, for collaboration among equals in exuberant creative solution finding; and therein living the dream of entrepreneurship for the rest of us; and all in pursuit of disruptive innovation, which is the name given unto applied creativity changing the world:

    2) A wide ranging short compendium of wildly subversive and disruptively most embryonic "kitchen table" stage or phase first concept proposals in ambitious new venture creation (business startup). All points of departure for feasibility study, business/project planning, and the crafting of ambitious actionable agenda of entrepreneurship for the rest of us: Of organization all from scratch, into whatever various conceivable business startup(s): profit, nonprofit, Social Entrepreneurship, and even grassroots politics. 

    Or by all means gentle reader, also go ahead and pitch whatever your own brilliant notions!

    For what sense can be made or even direction and procedure followed, of any yearning for new beginnings in creative collaboration from scratch, however, as some do, whilst mysteriously eschewing entirely both fiction writing and entrepreneurial new venture creation and startup? Or worse, in stubborn adherence to systematically ghod awful badfic, let alone whatever grandiose bad faith business pipedream and folly?

    Indeed, so often cited as the single most important document produced in the course of new venture creation, various business startup in endless possibility, a business or project plan must present any engaging and dramatic yet persuasively realistic likely story, conjecture to persuade candidate recruits on spec and prospective investors alike, of uplifting adventure dawning and glowing profit potential. Yes, embarkation upon the real world Hero's Journey attempting anything really cool together.  

    Therefore, before investment, even if not of money but of any other asset, especially as of sweat equity (part ownership purchased by contribution of time and work) on spec (towards hoped and risked for future profit participation), to keep things honest and rational, always insist to review, or indeed to participate and help to produce, whatever business plan or prospectus, rigorously to ferret out the devil in the details of meritable feasibility and foreseeable and avoidable unfeasibility. Let alone warning flags of anything actually dodgy or just silly and dull.

    After all, any business plan remains merely divergent mode or applications of narrative, no less redolent with drama and conjecture. But a special kind of likely story in any rhetorical descriptive detail of support by good logic, sound reasoning and strong evidence. A description and prediction at all striving at correspondence with external reality. Or so one might only dare hope.

    Both 1 & 2 alike, remain integral as divergent yet convergent modes or applications of narrative. And the first may serve excellently for team rapport building into the second.

    Both 1 & 2 alike, are similarly provided for ongoing exploration, criticism/critique, attack and defense, modification, variation, elaboration, modification, expansion and improvement, continually in vociferous and ebullient Dialectic, back and forth, collaboration among equals in brainstorming towards creative solution finding. Therefore, read and respond.

    Or by all means gentle reader, also go ahead and pitch whatever your own brilliant notions!

    3) New frontiers in the social engineering of better operant and more gratifying alternatives in ongoing social interaction. Indeed, the preceding agenda items 1 & 2 alike, are only presented as proposed better operant and more gratifying alternatives in ongoing social interaction. But not to digress.

    3a) A multistage design exercise is delineated, into intentional arousal via the production and implementation of individually tailored social stimuli, into an intentional immediate social environment. And all for an analytic yet strategic design thinking investigation and creative exploration then to ensue, into the social engineering of intentional, systematic and sustainable implementation of whatever ones own unique individual triggers for joy, into an intentional immediate social environment.

    In ‘The Conquest Of Happiness’ ’Chapter 1: What makes people unhappy?‘ Bertrand Russell writes: “The typical unhappy man is one who, having been deprived in youth of some normal satisfaction, has come to value this one kind of satisfaction more than any other.” But perhaps Russell is too quick to dismiss as mere fixation, whatever one's favored, most valued and cherished kind of unmet satisfaction. Instead, there might be here an important personal Axiology, relevant self-FoolQuest.com of what one craves most dearly. Can such various satisfactions be investigated and categorized, and then actually socially engineered for deliberate introduction and orchestration into an intentional immediate social environment?   

    Let us begin by choosing and categorizing any individual deprived, scarce and therefore prized and frustrated satisfaction of ones own. What then is the corresponding social stimulus appetite? The crucial difference between a satisfaction as conceived by Russell, and a stimulus appetite or hunger, is that a satisfaction, provided or deprived, takes place even over a life time, whereas a stimulus is an immediate event of arousal. Stimulus appetites or hungers are not only intrinsic and innate, but by such token, impulsive. And so: What specific category of social stimulus as we might discover, gentle reader, are for you personally gratifying to whatever aforesaid underserved and frustrated satisfaction? How, in the past, has whatever this kind of stimulus, by whatever happenstance, ever arisen or come about to arousal, as a feature of whichever social environment or milieu, all as in the course of what is known as stimulus struggle? And finally, how might whatever discovered category of beneficial social stimulus conceivably be reproduced at will in future? Indeed, even in quest of nothing less than Heaven on Earth!

    The design thinking in the social engineering of social stimuli and arousal, constitutes the very antithesis of banal, oppressive and manipulative Behavioral Modification, even ostensibly however practical and adaptive. For as 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.”

    The preceding three proposed endeavors, all open at will, present multiple proverbial irons on that metaphorical  fire, for participants together more fully to explore, criticize/critique, modify, flesh out, develop and expand upon.

    Because, to quote Alain de Botton: “One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.” And in the words of Linus Pauling: “The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.” Indeed, as John Mason Good observes: “Happiness consists in activity. It is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.”
    And so, gentle reader, go ahead and dive right in!

    And by all means, gentle reader, also do go right ahead and pitch whatever your own inspired notions as well.

    3b) That proverbial tail figuratively wagging the metaphorical dog!
            
    No detailed and better fleshed out operational procedure or how-to for the uncult as yet exists. Only find herein proffered, general principles and aspiration. Indeed, merely the most embryonic and even at all somewhat half-baked general first concept of probortunity at hand, set forth for deliberation, evaluation, and collaboration among equals in creative solution finding. And so, without further adieu:  
       
    Unprecedented and intentionally socially engineered paradigm shift and Peripeteia in modus vivendi: Inception of a vibrant revolution in social support, making you the PR priority. A revolution in social life: The social engineering design probortunity of optimizing the PR and recruitment outreach ostensibly in pursuit of the preceding three endeavors, but primarily actually for purposes of more operant and fulfilling individual social life and networking of participants, pioneering collaboration cofounders all!
     
    Because, not only indeed that Creativity can and Should be Social, but moreover, Creativity Can and Should be Popular. No longer awkward and nerdy, instead creativity should actively bring people together, no longer to stigmatize and isolate us.

    So, you wanna have an orgy?! Easier said than done. And generally speaking, the more hot talk, the less carnal action. And yet, in remarkable group cooperation, cult members often so shamelessly employ all manner and every lengths of seductive sham techniques of alas most often entirely false friendliness, all in order to socially include and thereby to groom prospective new recruits and also to help retain current members. For even however fraudulent, exploitative and destructive, all manner of typical cult scams so often deeply appeal to even to core value, all that people hold to be most enticing and profoundly important. And much may be learned therein.

    And so, only imagine instead of any sort of cult, in whatever walk of life, the uncult, in wildly subversive and disruptive opposite or antithesis, even intentional real world Peripeteia (περιπέτεια, meaning reversal of fortune), unprecedented paradigm shift (fundamental alteration in approach or underlying assumptions) in modus vivendi (method or manner of living) indeed entirely the opposite of a cult. Yes, the uncult as conceived for social engineering, wherein actually, instead, recruitment becomes merely the pretext, and every purpose of individual connection and networking, the sly ulterior motive.

    A community should exist to advance the varied interests, advantage and even authentic wellbeing of each individual participant. Eschewing then all so typically pervasive and ubiquitous toxic subtext of conditionality (conditional love as entirely predicated upon acquiescence in every thought and deed), instead, individuals should never be pressed to demure and curry favor. Only perhaps encouraged and assisted in service and support to one another.

    Indeed, like The Three Musketeers: “All for one, and one for all!” Or else, all for naught. Indeed, as in the pointed aphorism from Henry Ford: “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”  
      
    All thus as conceived and  envisaged, FoolQuest.com is to emerge as prime resource and connection for most comprehensive and robust autonomy supportive social support.
    For instead of false friendliness so typical of cult recruitment, only dare imagine, even via deliberate and intentional Peripeteia (περιπέτεια, meaning reversal of fortune), just the very opposite: recruitment outreach primarily as a ruse or excuse, no more or les than the intentional legitimizing vehicle for the true priority, that of most optimal individual participant networking and connection for every personal purpose. Collaboration among equals in subversion of hierarchy and status quo.
      
    And let such vibrant outreach and networking proceed and connect, never solely by ever so gracious invitation to join in and help in whatever ongoing endeavor, but reciprocally and perhaps more importantly, by persistently displaying entirely sincere and genuine interest and offering assistance, ever to aid and abet in whatever another's passion projects, even however embryonic or unusual. At long last somewhere to turn. True welcome in the spirit of creative autonomy, and never devious peer pressure to conform and fit into whatever prevailing heteronomy.
        
    For “... as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.” Luke 6:31, KJV, the Golden Rule.
    And all hence, the unique agenda and vision of FoolQuest.com An agenda and vision of reliable reciprocal assistance and logistical support. And most especially via contrivance of social engineering, social psychology, even somewhat theatrical performance and convincing informational social influence or:  social "proof." But all well beyond merely the usual concoction of any impressive sounding title. 
    Indeed, as already detailed, nothing less in social engineering than the flexible systematic authoritative institutional promotion and legitimization of individual outreach and networking towards every individual purpose in the lives of all participants, pioneering collaboration cofounders all! Indeed, precisely as conceived herein, the uncult making you the PR priority!
     
    Again, no detailed and better fleshed out operational procedure or how-to for the uncult as yet exists. Only as herein proffered, general principles and aspiration. Indeed, merely the most embryonic and even at all somewhat half-baked general first concept of probortunity at hand, set forth herein for deliberation, evaluation, and collaboration among equals in creative solution finding into design thinking of social engineering and probortunity at hand. Our work cut out for us!

     

     

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    First of all, the complicated and densely written FoolQuest.com interactive hypertext hyperlinks a wide range of pertinent resources and materials, internal and external links, throughout which to choose and navigate, for intelligent and Effective Active Reading and listening strategy, after all, an art. Thus, for further detail on any point as ever required, desired, or howsoever need arising, try not to chip a nail clicking on the hyperlinks!
        
    Moreover, FoolQuest.com offers point of departure for further deliberation via asynchronous text communication. Asynchronous text communication with precision and convenience of input from participants at will. For asynchronous text communication affords historically unprecedented quick turn around of correspondence actually into ongoing dialogue, ease of full engagement and real end user efficiency. And with each of us on our own schedule, free from inefficiency, obstruction, inconvenience and constraints howsoever of sessions in real time.

    Indeed, by contrast with whatever various synchronous methods and formats of communication, asynchronous text communication allows time and leisure for deeper reflection, more thoughtful and productive response, and a fulfilling sense of ongoing collaboration among equals in creative exploration.

    And even beyond entirely serviceable modes of asynchronous text communication (such as traditional email and electronic message posting forums, lists, groups and the like), to avail ourselves of anything more elaborate ever as need arising, there now exist also highly sophisticated online platforms and collaborative writing tools to choose amongst as need arising. Even readily available and even free of charge, online. Many incorporating such features as versioning, commenting, and change tracking capabilities to support iterative processes.

    And all thereby ever more richly facilitating multiple participants to simultaneously access and edit an ever evolving narrative, whether in business, creative writing, or anything else.

     

         
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    And now, for anybody not already frightened off, then, as promised:
    A directory of select project proposals

     

     

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    Showcased here on FoolQuest.com find a select short compendium, for applied creativity, of sample innovative embryonic first concept "kitchen table" stage or phase entrepreneurial new venture business startup proposals. Ideas for the organization and inception of original game changing businesses and other projects. New ideas, innovations to address so vastly underserved needs and fill market gaps. These are presented for ongoing exploration, criticism/critique, attack and defense, modification, variation, elaboration, expansion and improvement, continually in vociferous and ebullient Dialectic, back and forth, collaboration among equals in brainstorming towards creative solution finding. Therefore, read and respond. Or by all means gentle reader, also go ahead and pitch your own! 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!  

    As aforementioned, a key component in dual collaboration among equals for Eudemonia as herein extolled, serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming circle: Provided for pure creativity, art for its own joy, sweeping drama and unfettered Science Fiction speculation, a vibrant anthology of sample highly original unfinished stories, writing prompts and provocations. Creativity Can and Should be Social: In endless possibility of subversive proposal in pursuit of fulfillment via intentional creative culture by design, focused upon entrepreneurship for the rest of us, innovative new venture creation (various business startup) in interstitial synergy concurrently with serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming Science Fiction.

    Creativity can and should be Popular: Not IDEO, but DIO (Do it Ourselves!) The yearning for fulfillment in creative collaboration and solution finding, is the reason why there are so many of us so dearly wishing that instead of whatever present humdrum existence, they could be working at anything the likes of IDEO, the world renowned ultra progressive design work place. However of course, such highly desirable and coveted positions of exaltation in convivially creative employment, remain privileged, in tremendous demand, short supply, extremely qualified, scarce, tantalizing out of reach. Certainly not entry level. And so, just in case any such prized position remains unavailable, Creativity can and Should be Social is an entirely feasible proposal for an intentional creative solution finding social circle engaged in collaborative fiction writing together with subversive and disruptively innovative new venture creation (various business startup) (pre-)incubator. One might expect that as well as fulfilling intrinsic motivations, association within any similar creative corporate culture of helping the likes of IDEO, would also enhance access to more optimal social embedment, extended networking, contacts and the cultivation of quality relationships for participants. Similarly, Creativity can be Popular raises the question of how best intentionally to maximize such social benefits for collaboration among equals on the part of cofoundes in Creativity can and Should be Social. An outreach herein is further proposed, called: Creativity can and should be Popular, under the premise that if participation in a creative intentional community or at least initially, more modestly, smaller intentional social circle or group as herein proposed, Creativity can and Should be Social, indeed comes to be perceived by any wider public to produce more gratifying social interaction, then others will be attracted to join in and participate. The question of Creativity can be Popular then will be: how best to leverage Creativity can and Should be Social not only for recruitment, but more importantly in order to improve for participants, individual interpersonal networking and new relationships.

    And thence, only secondarily, to inspire and help recruit a varied range of trustworthy capable talent, knowledge and skill sets, in mutual respect, to join in and fully participate on spec and all from scratch. Yes, even from the most embryonic first concept inception or: "kitchen table" stage or phase, through management team formation, business or project planning and feasibility study, indeed if all goes well, through successive rounds of Venture Capitalization and all the way to successful implementation and marketing. Embarkation thus upon the all too uncertain real life Hero's Journey, forging true friendship attempting anything really cool together, entrepreneurship for the rest of us.  

    As envisaged in endless possibility and proposed herein, the outreach agenda in endless possibility of new venture creation (various business startup) indeed all the way from (pre-)incubation, pertains to the heady ambitious and complex multitask interdependent interdisciplinary process of developing and transforming whatever new idea, innovation or technology, into a business of whatever kind (profit or nonprofit, traditional, Social Entrepreneurship or even grassroots politics and activism. Indeed perhaps even at long last, filling the yawning gap in support for entrepreneurship for the rest of us neophytes and wannabes at our own pace), that can even conceivably succeed, and therefore just might possibly even begin attracting investment of the very earliest Venture Capital.

     

    Planet Frolic TM  As proposed, an enriched immersive playspace environment also very much for adults! Curious? Know more...

    Project Kriosgrad:  A subversive and disruptive new business model in rehabilitation of Cryonics, the ultimate heroic measure, via lateral integration and strategic partnership with organ donation in such deadly short supply and grizzly pillage. Because the option of becoming an organ donor helps people feel worthy of the prospect of living again! Free Cryonic Neurosuspension for post mortem cadaverous donors. From reviled taboo into greatest blessing. It's a win-win.  Know more...

     

    Automated Sociometry: The concept of a universal filter of artificially Intelligent sophisticated compatibility profiling for all manner of recommendations, secure and private, constantly gathering and analyzing new information from end user activity and interaction online and at home, ever asking more and different questions, all for purposes of matching of individuals to others individuals and to groups or social circles, fostering improved social embedment, as well as offering all manner of other precision accurate recommendations of activities, purchases and more, a universal information filter ever learning and tailoring itself to individual needs, for every conceivable purpose, personal or professional, forging connection in order to foster improved social embedment, and optimally compatible friendship towards human flourishing and authentic wellbeing. In the future, everyone will be influential! Know more...

    CliqueBusters TM Until the advent of automated Sociometry into widest availability as the universally preferred mode and conduit of social life, what can remain feasible in the here and now CliqueBusters TM remains the most radical and subversive known proposal of low guile in combating threatening dangerous pandemic serial bullying and cronyism that so dangerously undermines social connection in our times. The appalling destructiveness of serial bullying always arises eventually to thwart every conceivable constructive endeavor, and urgently must be addressed. Know more ...

    The Green Pro-Space Agenda: Asteroids: Menace from above or tantalizing resource? What is Astro-Environmentalist Activism? Know more..

    Solar furnace An audacious concept from Inventor/engineer Jerry Scovel, for cost effective climate regulation, clean water and power by way of lasers diffracted and focused from orbit about the sun! Solar hydrogen power from outer space.

    Real meat without animal suffering? Is it possible yet? A piecemeal engineering low tech solution.

    Zinc Alpha 2 Glycoprotein: Not a hoax, not a dream, not an imaginary story! Pandemic obesity and complications is needless, and can be eradicated now! The thin pill has long been discovered, completely effective and safer than diet and exercise, indeed actually a potentially life saving breakthrough in medical safety, and yet for fifty years or so languishing in obscurity, is still withheld from the public by the clearly indispensable yet ever dysfunctional Food and Drug Administration, with no human trials in sight. And now there is also nannobubble water. Know more...

    Time travel venture: A barest feasibility study. Can such a thing as traveling backwards in time, ever even at all become possible? And what meager beginnings even dare we to ponder in the here and now? 

    Introduction to the   FoolQuest.com design exercise:

    An innovative and pioneering new social engineering design process proposed: Nothing less than the individually unique veritable orchestration of your happiness!

    Rotating Moderation is a highly effective and very open method of community outreach and organization in Israel, in omni purpose highly informal bricolage of Socratic method and parliamentary process. 

    Rotating Moderation as a vehicle for the FoolQuest.com Master Plan: The FoolQuest.com Master Plan remains much reliant upon asynchronous text communication online. Therefore, raising the FoolQuest.com Master Plan to agenda under Rotating Moderation, may require preliminarily a motion to adapt and make available Rotating Moderation for asynchronous text communication online, in order thence to proceed.

     Lifestyle reciprocal peer coaching.

    Love bombing de-weaponized? We am Bizarro uncult!

     

     

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    To reiterate: Put forth to agenda for discussion by all interested parties, Creativity can and Should be Social as proposed, is conceived of, most concretely, as the inception of ongoing concurrent and vibrant dual endeavor, endless possibility of 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 novel and unprecedented ongoing serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming. Moreover, new venture creation herein shall be taken to include both profit and nonprofit, indeed Social Entrepreneurship, doing well by doing good, and even just perhaps adventures into grassroots politics and activism.

    The term: "Creativity can and Should be Social" hyperlinks to a presentation upon the proposal so named. While the term: "new venture creation" hyperlinks to a short list of innovative sample proposals for further development together. But by all means, pitch your own! It hardly seems in dispute, that aspiring entrepreneurs often meet with isolation, inertia and frustration. Therefore the term: "entrepreneurship for the rest of us" hyperlinks to a social engineering design exposition upon proposed intentional community or at least initially, more modestly, smaller intentional social circle or group, with provision and code of conduct towards the frustrated and unmet needs of more transparent and ready entry, even for the novice aspirant and experienced old pro together, into precisely such manner of collaboration among equals.

    And the term: "fiction writing" hyperlinks to a resource upon creativity most broadly, along with brainstorming, dramatic  fiction writing and Science Fiction speculation, including also a list of sample unfinished stories, writing prompts and provocations, indeed, for collaboration in fiction writing together. For which, find online message posting forum provided. And by all means, do pitch your own story ideas. And the distinct pre-qualifier: "serious" hyperlinks to an exposition upon the nature of serious fiction writing, exchange of critique, and the venerable discipline of the writing craft from time immemorial. All as in the traditionally solitary practice of serious fiction writing, plus the speculative element and unfettered conjecture of Science Fiction and futuring scenario. All as alas hitherto so absent from prevailing half-assed philistine dilettante gawdawfull fiction writing collaboration travesty online, in such ideological contempt towards writing competency and literacy. A wanker travesty alas so hypersensitive and resentful of all critique.

    The term: "Creativity can and Should be Social" hyperlinks to the one proposal to bind them all! Creative people need one another. Practice of hitherto unprecedented serious fiction writing collaboration can and should instead become available as a mode of social interaction, indeed even as herein proposed, indeed in endless objectively real world possibility, ancillary to innovative new venture creation (various business startup), entrepreneurship for the rest of us; a vision of unprecedented dynamic interstitial synergy concurrently between pure creativity on the one hand, and innovation on the other hand, via concurrent dual creative endeavors all as herein proposed.   

    The term: "Creativity Can and Should be Popular" hyperlinks to a page of discourse upon even zany outreach and recruitment strategy for Creativity can and Should be Social named: Creativity Can and Should be Popular, and not just nerdy, unpopular and awkward. Creativity should actively bring people together, not stigmatize and isolate us.

    For the term: "Social Engineering" hyperlinks indeed to a brief entry upon Social Engineering. (Disambiguation, no: Not hackers scamming and phishing for passwords.) And probortunty ensues regarding novel and unprecedented Social Engineering by design, of  stimulus struggle. For in accordance with the Arousal Theory of Motivation, the expression: "stimulus struggle" endures as 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 the term: "stimuli" hyperlinks internally to crucial and salient disambiguation of present usage. It's a fine point that matters. And the term: "arousal" hyperlinks externally to a brief entry upon arousal. All highly relevant in the never ending strife and striving against ongoing pandemic boredom from lonely understimulation. And the term: "design" hyperlinks to an exposition (to put it without false modesty!) upon an innovative and pioneering new Social Engineering design process proposed indeed towards nothing less than the veritable orchestration of your happiness by actual design of uniquely individual gratification, via embedment indeed of tailored social and intellectual stimuli into intentional social environment.

     

     

     

     

     

    Divergent yet convergent modes or applications of narrative to probortunity at hand
    The heady thrill of telling stories and working out plans
      
    Any business or project plan, at all important and persuasive for all investment or otherwise participation on spec, remains merely divergent mode or applications of narrative. All no less redolent with drama and conjecture. A special kind of likely story in any rhetorical descriptive detail of support by good logic, sound reasoning and strong evidence. A description and prediction at all striving at correspondence with external reality. Or so one might only dare hope.

    And yes, even aspiring writers no less than even wannabe entrepreneurs, must prize and guard each our very own individual integrity. But then and therefore, must writers, never mind entrepreneurs, ever remain so solitary? For serious writers in common embrace the discipline of the writing craft as ever premised upon the principles of drama and also the speculative element of true Science Fiction. Alas then that indeed except for the indispensable exchange of Literary critique, by and large, serious writing remains solitary, with fiction writing collaboration remaining at best occasional for serious writers, and by no means any regular event or practice. Indeed, despite the renown of particular great works of writing collaboration.

    Moreover, serious fiction writing becomes insolated and forgotten amid an ever more prevailing conformity and contempt for expertise in general as so lamentably characteristic of a burgeoning airheaded short attention anti-intellectual movement sometimes designated as the Cult of the Amateur.

    And in the face of such colossal and arrogant ignorance, the discipline of the writing craft, a valuable body of knowledge, culture and capability so long open to everyone, instead of being effectively promoted and transmitted, looses all traction amid the great unwashed online. They who will never accept that writing is like photography: Though easy to do, nevertheless so difficult actually to do well. Indeed, writing is rewriting, patient, perpetually fulfilling hard work and never a waste of time.

    And what squandered opportunities therefore remain. And not only for salient and informative interaction across levels of proficiency, competence and capability, and even most specifically for collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming so wonderfully serving towards management team rapport building into new venture creation (business startup). But most generally, fundamentally, and for all involved, more optimally reciprocally engaged  social and intellectual stimulus struggle throughout the most heady collaboration among equals in creative solution finding. For social and intellectual stimulus struggle herein denotes the perpetual striving of all human consciousness (indeed consciousness altered and exalted thereby), in order to regulate, to obtain and maintain, the optimum kind and degree of social and intellectual stimulation and arousal from whatever immediate social environment.

    And indeed if ever precisely as extolled herein, by intention, readily, repeatably, open and at will, then indeed a triumph in analytic yet strategic design thinking into the social engineering of ever more meaningful and pleasurable optimally reciprocally engaged social and intellectual stimulus struggle. A tailored peak experience for participants. Indeed, all herein as epitomized in the pure creativity for it's own joy, of collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming, concurrently also with innovation, meaning: applied creativity, as most vibrantly embodied in new venture creation (business startup).

    Because Eudemonia and autonomy, best in life, remains the most meaningful and wise investment of individual time, attention and creativity, into straightforward helpful and free flowing non-zero-sum Transaction that consistently accrues the most pleasurably meaningful and therein highest return in like kind: value maximization in individual time, attention and creativity, for everyone involved and with highest signal to noise ratio.

    Particularly, as herein, Eudemonia in the pure creativity for it's own joy, of collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming, concurrently also with innovation, meaning: applied creativity, as most vibrantly embodied in new venture creation (business startup). With implementation via design thinking, analytic yet strategic, into the social engineering of better operant and more gratifying alternatives in more fulfilling human interaction so essential to authentic wellbeing, congenial persistence and eventual success.

    And gentle readers you are all invited! 
     
     
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    Beware the FoolQuest.com solicitation to grueling hardship
     Know thyself: People can be most terrified of all that they most desire. And often, not without good reason.

    “We happy few.” “We band of buggered!”  — The Scoobs

     

    Desperately seeking entrepreneurial cofounder candidates for difficult, protracted, immersively laborious and necessarily innovative risk-tolerant undertaking together in endless possibility of new venture creation (various business startup). Indeed, even with complete strangers coming together in a uniquely tailor made new online intentional community. Or at least initially, more modestly, an intentional social circle or group formation. And all by social engineering design thinking.

    Flexible hours within any responsible timely manner to task interdependence. Grueling hard work on spec, no wages upfront, long odds and overwhelming despair in unknown daunting obstacles, astonishing bad faith and folly at every turn.

    Progress all therefore doubtful.

    Indeed, concurrent, collaborative and extensively voluminous, complicated and convoluted deliberation, interstitial and interdisciplinary research and due diligence, throughout (pre-)incubation, feasibility study, planning and organization, and if all goes extremely well, all the way through to ongoing recruitment, management team formation, multiple rounds of capitalization, implementation, growth and then exit strategy where and as ever applicable.

    And all therein and thereby, brilliant success.

      

    Task interdependence denotes the interconnection of tasks such that timely accomplishment of each task in turn becomes impossible save by first completion of necessarily preceding tasks. Indeed, like The Three Musketeers: “All for one, and one for all!” Or else, all for naught. Indeed, as in the pointed aphorism from Henry Ford: “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”

    A universal frustrated yearning, and all so much easier said than done. For only in fluidity of collaboration among equals and authentic culture of helping, steady and unyielding growth into unflinching reciprocity, leadership superordinate over others in initiative arising, yet in service, subordinate to one another throughout wherein: I'm your boss when I need your cooperation, and you're the boss when any of you need anyone else's including mine. Fortunate and successful are those who accomplish this. And lost are the rest of us, to malignant conditionality and passive hostility.

    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 and share 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.

    Alas, all too often, perhaps in foolish naivety, are pearls cast before swine: Good faith trammeled under bad faith, leaving only bitter disappointment in untrustworthy dishonest and anxiously short attention boneheadedly distant, unrealistic, petty and devious cross-purpose, half measures and pipedream. Indeed, at every turn, every conceivable pitfall of obvious folly, flagrant bullying and needless real world drama. Ill prepared and failing to cope with all such strife, heated misdirection, and passive-hostile obstruction that needs to be expected, accepted and contingency planned for, ambitious endeavor already so tenuous, thence typically dissipates. And what a downer!

    Instead, in order to maintain cohesion, participants in earnest must commiserate and support one another in every inevitable occasion of crisis and betrayal. For such and no less, remains the fabled power of love, with never enough to go round.  

    Progress all therefore doubtful.

    Why, however, and well may one ask, must this very passage of text, seem even so deliberately and so tremendously discouraging? Answer: In appeal to the yearning for worthy challenge, of course. But seriously, and more to the point: Also in all fair warning to the ill prepared. Because, not delusionally optimistic willful positivity and blind determination, but unvarnished professionalism of all due and honest pessimistic realism and the positive power of negative thinking, remains ever fundamental and crucial in surmounting every rightly and naturally discouraging extreme difficulty for ever at long last achieving whatever cherished and yearned for success.

    With unflaggingly resilient perseverance in the face of repeated serial failure, demanding extensive preparation and quick recovery to pick ourselves up and start all over again from scratch, as many times as it takes. Because truth to tell, nothing less will even ever begin actually getting anything done. But realistically and at best, what else might one expect? It's never easy.

     
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    To make matters worse, people frequently disappoint:

    Additionally, find every conceivable pitfall as only to be expected at every turn, of needless folly, bullying, drama, with bitter heartbreaking disappointment in sly and domineering untrustworthy dishonest and boneheadedly distant, unrealistic, petty and devious cross-purpose, even bullying outright.

    And in the progress of any group endeavor, there will be an initial shake down of who stays the course and who fades back and drops out, who can be counted on and who not, leaving if anyone at all, only those ever at all truly serious to begin with.

    Indeed, in order to prevent group de-cohesion and dissolution, there must be instituted due and explicit protocol and procedure in commitment toward recovery and even beginning anew. -figuratively back to the proverbial drawing board.

    Specifically, should anyone no matter how expert and having built themselves up as seemingly indispensable, indeed taking a leadership position, might then just go on strike while howsoever pretending otherwise. Indeed, the kind of angry narcissist who would rather keep all of nothing, than gain part of something, figuratively pulling the proverbial rug metaphorically out from under, by actingout in passive aggression: Undermining all progress, indeed even by such sabotage wresting defeat out from the very jaws of victory... Then, in such case, what must be done?

    Instead of playing out that headgame of such helpless and stunned dependency, there must be fall back plans in expectation of precisely all such defection, no matter how seemingly catastrophic, shocking and disappointing. Anyone simply losing interest must be set free, their obligations written of as a bad debt. Or perhaps the offender may be prevailed upon to help recruit their own replacement or assistant, should they ever simply tire of doing whatever their own job.

    There is always another way, even if seemingly howsoever at all less advantageous. When such controlling passive aggression no longer paralyzes and destroys the group, by such Transactional Antithesis the Ulterior Transaction or: headgame will quickly lose its appeal, and the offender may even decide to mend their ways instead of simply finding themselves alone and left out not by howsoever actually being excluded, but simply by their own inaction and nonparticipation as the others just move on together. Or more likely, the offender may lash out all the more.

    Together participants must remain brave, undiscouraged, agile, creatively adapt on order to find other ways, even such as outreach recruiting other more reliable partners in collaboration.

    Alas how exploitation and sly bullying abuse flourish in social isolation. Hence, unlike the insular and untrustworthy, the trustworthy remain ever inclusive, cheerfully networking with with others, sharing their contacts with you, and following up on yours.  All so flagrantly antithetical to untrustworthy and exploitative and manipulative Relational Bullying, conniving isolation and exploitation.

    Alas then all the more, how in any event of unfortunately misplaced trust. Because that reflects so poorly. Indeed, wherein as of howsoever networking a good contact to a bad one, one thereby risks alarming and alienating the good contact, often so fragile and even tenuous a connection. That is, unless whomever aforesaid good contact will agree to such risk, be a fast friend, and for the sake of trial and error, forgive such all too common and easy misstep.

    All therefore, in the fine advice of Coco Chanel: “Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.” Alas how often we all find ourselves so haplessly abandoned each and all, to our own devices and setup for failure.

    And it can only remain ever crucial to proceed at whatever our own pace, with neither undue haste, nor undue delay. For with all due respect to Aesop, neither the tortoise nor the hare will hardly even begin the race, much less ever win it. And they will drag all others down, burning up in reentry and crash-landing from their doomed orbit.

    For both the hare, a frantic high pressure hurried grifter, and the inner conflicted ambivalent and passive-hostile neurotic foot-dragging tortoise, in whatever their putative innovation or singular genius, may typically begin by making themselves at least seemingly somehow uniquely indispensable. And for that alone, some contend that they ought to be fired on the spot! Because no one should be allowed the temptation of abuse of power and inertia that comes from becoming indispensable.

    And lest either tortoise or hare only bring liability of poor character, squandered talent and grandiose know-it-all unaware incompetence so bereft of all Socratic Wisdom and contemptuous of all other knowledge and expertise. Indeed devious and domineering, first flattered but then increasingly envious and threatened by the very assistance they solicit and attention that they so crave.

    Fortunately however, such are seldom truly so indispensable. Because there is always as proverbially, more than one way figuratively to skin that metaphorical cat. More than one technology or strategy. More than one untapped advantage. Even howsoever less perfect or elegant.

    Indeed, in the admonition of François-Marie Arouet, better known as Voltaire: “The best is the enemy of the good.” Because it will seldom be the one who perfects an innovation who makes it big, but more often actually the first one to achieve the breakthrough in practicality of simply doing what ever it is, merely well enough.

    And the value of any trustworthy partner in collaboration, comes in how they can be relied upon and what they openly contribute, not from raised expectations and artificial scarcity in whatever that they so calculatingly withhold, real or imagined, and even howsoever dazzling in concept. 

    And beware the unaware incompetent, nowhere know-it-all so bereft of all Socratic Wisdom, so set in their ways, so blithely ignorant of all venerated traditional competence and capability, yet also remaining so averse to all bold new innovation and anything different.

    In dealing with such scammers and neurotics, instead of surrendering to escalating discouragement, allowing all endeavor to grind to a halt, hope to dissipate and collaboration to dissolve, the most constructive deterrent in Transactional Antithesis to bypass and nullify all such destructive power plays, active or passive, might consist of casting our net more widely. Indeed, a standing policy of ongoing solution finding in order simply to keep strategy open. And meanwhile ongoing outreach in ongoing recruitment as ever required and qualified in order to help pick up whatever the slack.

    Such measures will best take the joy and sly destructive domineering power out of whatever hurried hustle ongoing fools errand or interminable foot-dragging passive-hostile sabotage, alike.

    Thus ever remaining unsurprised and well prepared to regroup again and again in solidarity after all manner of crisis, disaster, needless folly, recklessness, malice, inevitable betrayal and even pandemic serial bullying; for serious people ever finding one another at long last: fame and fortune in case of resounding success in doing well by doing good.

    Indeed, precisely to mitigate such nigh inevitable danger, all participants together must all explicitly prepare and contingency plan to persevere, endure and move on from all too common bullying betrayal and falling out, in order then to re-strategize together, support one another, and begin anew, rising undaunted to all challenge of crisis, shock and disappointment, and salvage whatever endeavor, as best one may.

    Until at long last one fine day, nevertheless all goes extremely well, then eventually, all the way through to implementation, just perhaps, and fat chance! throughout the steep learning curve of rapid and agile indefinitely repeated serial failure, ever arriving at success.

    Again, and striking to the very heart of functioning individual self determination and autonomy, in the incisive perception of, yes, go figure: no less than that plutocratic juggernaut and raving anti-Semite Henry Ford: “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” In the human condition, all so simple in principle, but daunting and complicated in practice.

    And yet happiness comes in meeting ones needs for capable interaction with responsible others, making progress every day. Likewise so clear and simple in principle, yet daunting and hard to come by in the real world.

     

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    Monological world

    Only look around you: Society is not your friend. Society is the enemy. Society is the oppressor. Society is not nurturing. Alas, quite to the contrary, there remains a user hostile outcomes gap. Instrumentality equals zero: Meaning that there can be no relationship between performance and outcome or even enjoyment aside from tangible results. It all makes no difference. 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.” A dire situation whereof the individual ought not to be deemed at all personally responsible, beyond no more than for whatever their own part, and never for everything vastly beyond ones own personal control. For in the words of Barbara Sher: “Isolation is the true dream killer, not your attitude.” Embracing common cause as herein extolled, let us then at long last, break isolation together into taboo collaboration among equals.

    Indeed, collaboration among equals all throughout, staunchly eschewing any cognitively dissonant untrustworthy dishonest and manipulative socialization that none dare call: indoctrination or brainwash. Because all such flagrant denial and repression, can only exacerbate ever mounting ambivalence and inner conflict. Which will be most unpleasant. And besides, there can be no solitary rugged self-reliant self-made bootstrap DIY (Do-It-Yourself) "well-formed plans."

    So much then, for all of that callow Behaviorist motivational grift and strident false hope, of typically inane pep talks. Of delusional willful positivity and Anti-Critically Biased superficial harmony, such heartrending insult to the intelligence. And thus all as yet again so blithely led about by the nose, flagrantly manipulated and then finding ourselves summarily abandoned, so haplessly each and all to our own devices. Indeed, as so excellently and eloquently expressed in that Postmodern driving staccato refrain of The Godfathers: “Birth, School, Work, Death...!”

    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, denoting the situation or circumstances of 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?

     
     

     

     

     

     

    ..Subversion refers to any even deliberate process, for good or ill, and even howsoever devious, whereby the values and principles of any system in operation may be undermined, contradicted or reversed throughout endeavor even most proximately, to transform whatever homogenous established social order under whatever authoritarian frameworks of power, heteronomy, authority, and especially social norms. And most especially, subversion of hierarchy, autonomy and interaction in defiant circumvention of whatever prevailing chain of command or societal pecking  order.

    Because, as the saying goes: "Old ways won't open new doors." Dare we imagine different? Life doesn't have to always be the way that it has always been. Nevertheless, rather than sweeping across the world out of nowhere, subversion necessarily begins in microcosm, via the even secret intimacy of collusion, wherein any two or more defiant souls initiate and persist together through interaction howsoever different, even taboo. Indeed perhaps actually most taboo of all, instead of just going with the flow, setting against the grain and violating expectation by acting purposefully, worse doing so not just individually but in concert, co-validating.

    Because even such little can become profoundly subversive, one step forward in any yearning for a life at all less conventional, bored and lonely. So often even in sly defiance of conformism and pandemic serial bullying. And what can there be more important?

       
     

    For in our deepest heart of hearts, like Hamlet's everyman slave to passion, everyone individually fashions in their very own most secret most transgressive thoughts, true Eros and yearning for understanding, for psychological visibility, indeed some even barest subversive social engineering design fantasy even hypothetically of whatever fulfilling situation might conceivably best fill that gap. Especially if whatever one yearns for does not even seem already manifest and existent, much less readily accessible to all. And here is a rousing tale untold, a seed perhaps ever at last finding fertile soil in the ready minds and shared core motivation so characteristic of countless others, desperately sought for unmet friends.

    Rather than sweeping the world out of nowhere, instead, much like unto forbidden love, subversion necessarily begins in microcosm, when any two or more individuals interacting and taking initiative, even somewhat covertly and conspiratorially, must finally innovate: 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, disruptively leaderless subversion of hierarchy, 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.

      

     

    threatens taboo subversion of hierarchical dominance                       
                              Why there has always been such resistance to true liberation                
    Subversion of hierarchy means whatever even conceivable causality, action or situation which as consequence negates, moderates, diminishes or undermines hierarchical dominance and sycophantic predictive social cognition, in any system or organization, formal or informal. Subversion of hierarchy promotes the deconstruction and relaxation of coercion and dominance generally. Hierarchy or "pecking order" is oppressive social regulation whereby people, groups or institutions, find themselves effectively classified, ranked or graded, indeed thereby empowered and disempowered, into different levels or priorities of authority according to status or social standing. Whereas, power and autonomy, free from submission to heteronomy, remains ever an objective of functional relationship on ones own terms, capable interaction with responsible others, throughout any true to life Hero's Journey.
     
    Subversion of hierarchy, a hallmark of autonomy, remains ever taboo under heteronomy. Alas, at very worst, hierarchy, especially when all too fragile and easily threatened, all too often promotes hostility and even serial bullying. In knee-jerk reaction, authoritarian flunkies become so easily threatened, terrified and even lash out, at any prospect at all of subversion of hierarchy, indeed any egalitarian concept whatsoever. But so do even the most lowly, insecure and codependently submissive of sheeple. Whereas, actually at all more significant authority figures may tend to remain at all better educated and equipped, civil, canny, secure in their own threat levels, subtle and scheming, choosing their battles.
     
    And yet so many balk at this simple truth, among all other conceivable points of view upon any range of subject matter ever cogitated in sublime equanimity. Tell them instead, that the Earth is flat and that alien lizards deceive us. Declare that  that nothing is real anyhow, because actually, we all live in the Matrix. Yes, that most ancient and interminable canard of clich d Zen Mystical tripe, still hailed as great profundity and ever new. But can there be indeed any manner of hoax convincing us all that our dreams are inherently false? The fantastical premise or Solipsistic metaphor of the maya is popularized for the cinema in the Matrix movie franchise. But actually the maya remains anything less than actually supernatural. Rather the maya, like samsāra, remains metaphor merely for our Existential conundrum of hapless bumbling involvement as the offish hard luck chumps, losers and utter schlimazels that we are. Only explain the metaphor, indeed that the real true to life Matrix has always been that tenacious chimera, that toxic will-o'-the-wisp and Absurd Existential hangover, which is nothing more or less in sore travail, than constructed mass delusion in action called: social reality, poignant investment wherein we are all so brazenly extorted. Well then, that will be another matter entirely! And quite unthinkable. For again, as George Orwell laments: “A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.”
     

     

     

     

    Look for the Solution within the Problem!

     
     
    In the words of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” And to quote Sir Isaac Newton: “You have to make the rules, not follow them.” Find then proposed agenda herein, nothing less than paradigm shift into the most liberating and uplifting conceivable focus, regimen, circumstances or situation, of collaborative brainstorming and solution finding for the probortunity at hand. A problem so dire and so redolent with opportunity into the very meaning of life, with our work therefore so well cut out for us:

    While the rest of the book appears to consist merely of more ever the same noxious  motivational snake-oil, Brezsny, Rob (2005) ‘Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings.’ Berkeley: Frog, Ltd., 2005, pg. 84) includes (though no specific source appears to be referenced) programmer Gary Hamilton’s not unoften referenced rules (actually at all pertinent to social engineering by design thinking), for guiding all to rights in undertaking whatever ones' own conceivable and unique game of life:

    If the game is rigged so you can't win, find another game or invent your own.

    If you re not winning because you don't know the rules, learn the rules.

    If you know the rules but aren't willing to follow them, there's either something wrong with the game or you need to change something in yourself.

    Don't play the game in a half-baked way. Either get all the way in or all the way out.

    It shouldn't be necessary for others to lose in order for you to win. If others have to lose, re-evaluate the game's goals.
    And all hence then here on FoolQuest.com, the striving at the imagination and inception, as above delineated, of any new and better game of life. In such parlance, anything passing beyond Postmodern Existential Absurdism and any purely performative notion of life as a grand gesture. Indeed, actually learning whatever applicable rules, expectations and just real causality that simply cannot be escaped. But no less importantly, in attaining the self-knowledge of what shall be discovered to be individually personally amenable, whole heartedly.

    But precisely how might all such as above ever actually be accomplished?

    Answer: First of all, in every due feasibility study towards any conceivable non-zero sum scenario for all, wherein indeed, no one has to loose.

    But with no guiding agenda or vision indeed from intrinsic motivation, there can only be only confusion and resistance. And with no plan of action and no action  agenda, there can only be ill conceived, ill prepared and ultimately preemptive false start.

    Our work cut out for us: Look for the Solution within the Problem!  Indeed, surely there remain as many categories of social dysfunction (society existing only as a relationship among participants, after all), as there are kinds of dysfunctional relationships to begin with. And likewise, there may also arise better observable and conceivable alternatives, progress, and even in paradigm shift, corresponding Transactional Antithesis to whatever preceding malaise.  

    Alas however, and there's the rub! that Hamilton's vaunted rules might easily come across as just a little glib. Because, beyond whatever kind of veritable solitaire just to pass the time, indeed perhaps any disciplined lone slacker hobbies and learning, all the best games require capable outreach for other prospective candidate players. Ever a daunting challenge! For who has ever actually achieved such nigh dharmic arête of Eudemonia, and precisely just how?

     

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    The scourge of superficiality

    Why bother? Most specifically: Why go to such lengths in particular, as herein extolled? After all, as most commonly attributed to Burt Lance: “If it ain't broke, don't fix it!” Because: “The program never fails. You fail the program.” And how's that been goin' for ya, folks? Bah, humbug!

    Just what will it take to shake such blithe and blind faith? There are many reasons for all the bother instead, of going to all such lengths as herein extolled. Indeed, as beginning with recognition of the sheer extent of probortnity at hand, as ever, the more dire, the more propitious.

    For the unthinkable taboo truth endures, in very antithesis to everything that we have all been taught, all replete with craven sycophantic socialization that none dare call: indoctrination or even brainwash; and all about facile and social success by fitting in via bland agreeability and ever more vapid small talk. Because real  agency, more authentic, less arbitrary and higher, more lofty threshold of connection and belonging, relationship and particularly the forging of attachments of true friendship possible only under autonomy, indeed even Eros which is transport in liberating union with alien difference, all arise only for those nerdy unpopular serious people. And without apology, entirely as forbidden byproduct of most frowned upon and reviled seriousness. Indeed all entirely as forbidden byproduct, and without apology, of truly purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication.

    And believe it or not, never otherwise.
          
    No matter how mightily one strives and struggles to master whatever craven, bogus, toadying and facile social skills of heteronomy and membership identity.

    And that may be how and why, as so famously to quote Hennery David Thorough, The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” And in the words of Brad Meltzer: “Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.”  

    For as Barbara Sher declares: “Isolation is the true dream killer, not your attitude.” And as Mark R. J. Lavoie attests: “Life dies inside a person when there are no others willing to befriend him.” 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.

    All therefore, and make no mistake: Psychotherapists see two kinds of patients because, with  scarce exception only of those uncommonly happy few, by and large and to begin with, there remain distinctly two kinds people: Those so desperately unhappy, because of just not fitting in socially, and those no less desperately bored, lonely and dystressed,  because they dare never be genuine and truly known. Indeed fitting in socially and consummately so. And miserable because of it. Indeed, because of every sacrifice, ever so phony, chameleonic and closeted throughout the popularity rat-race.

    Indeed, as per dialogue scripted by Bobcat Goldthwait for the fictional character of Lance Clayton as portrayed by actor Robin Williams in ‘World's Greatest Dad’: “I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.”

    Indeed, to quote Gian Vincenzo Gravina: “A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.“

    Loneliness might make it harder to establish a true sense of connection with others. Having to socialize with others without achieving a sense of connection might feel particularly draining and meaningless, damaging one's psychological well-being.

      — ‘ Alone in a Crowd: Is Social Contact Associated with Less Psychological Pain of Loneliness in Everyday Life?’
    Olga Stavrova and Dongning Ren of Tilburg University in the Netherlands.

    Damned then if you will, but damned if you won't! Alas that only a happy few indeed so well adjusted or merely fortunate, have ever actually escaped this very dilemma in order to belong to neither quietly desperate and unhappy population.  
    Alas that what is all too often most wonting to begin with, remains mere transparency. Indeed, it may often be that the usual prevailing common sense unserious bad social advice extolling all those dreary chores purportedly requisite to popularity, social success and meeting new people, beg all much the same questions as in any business or project planning in order to make any kind of rational and serious projections and expectations:
     
    What skills are first requisite? What extensive background knowledge and experience? What are the expectations? What is the realistic investment? Is there the wherewithal? What will the experience actually be like? And what best results must one be willing to settle for?
     
    For example: How many personals posting must be answered and followed up, even to get that first cup of coffee? At what cost in time and money, much less self esteem? And in truth, the skill sets and expectations are even more unspoken, particular and extensive, than in any lifetime employment or career experience.
     
    It was once that fortitude in whole hearted and sincere unflagging effort and dedication just fitting in by performing and living up to social expectation, all in order to get along, where praised, lauded and expected. But now they are become obscured, yes: in traumatized indolence with every sore travail, and consequently then in utter denial and defeat. Alas that nowadays, the pertinent tacit knowledge is taboo, never made plain, expectations therefore imparted and poorly expressed by the blithely least self-aware and empathetic most blithely people pleasing conformists and utter tools, and only inductively by evasive and dishonest manipulative socialization that none dare call: indoctrination, Behavioral Conditioning or most honestly: brainwash and invalidation.

    Indeed, we have all been lied to, and in every walk of life, nothing seems to work, not even for good little girls and boys, approval seeking eager beavers, who all stick with the program or else prevail despite and not because of all that supposed tough love. Because society is the enemy, no conduit of nurture, no primrose path, but an obstacle course. Not unlike academic peer review, a massive bureaucratic filter favoring mediocrity by weeding out substandard incompetence and excellence, rebellion and innovation, all alike. All falling by the wayside and finding our stations in life. Again, brutality once embraced for whatever greater good, but now confused and obscured as so unpleasant.

    The very language we use to describe the self-made ideal has these fault lines embedded within it: To pull yourself up by your bootstraps is to succeed by dint of your own efforts. But that s a modern corruption of the phrase s original meaning. It used to describe a quixotic attempt to achieve an impossibility, not a feat of self-reliance. You can t pull yourself up by your bootstraps, anymore than you can by your shoelaces. (Try it.) The phrase s first known usage comes from a sarcastic 1834 account of a crackpot inventor s attempt to build a perpetual motion machine.

    The Self-Made Man

    The story of America s most pliable, pernicious, irrepressible myth.
       By John Swansburg

    In truth, any even partial and imperfect achievement of indeed rightly admired social success dharma, especially as in any conceivable harmony at all also with intrinsic wellbeing and happiness, remains subtle, opaque, baffling, complicated and often oversimplified and thereby distorted under heteronomy to the ever pervasive cult of socialization.

    Alas then, that not indeed those howsoever admirable and truly well adjusted, reasonable and rational, but merely they who by their shining example of operant behavior and adaptation, either by such emotionally broken, eager, unwavering and toadying compliance so convenient to whatever self-righteous and overbearing powers that be, or else of rugged lone independence entirely to spare all others any bother or concern, are held up to redeem an inept, unaccommodating, unsupportive and exploitatively domineering dysfunctional and broken down system, such incompetence and Neoliberal crushing oppression without qualm. Because if indeed they the most industriously compliant can succeed, then why won't the rest of us pathetic indolent wretches? Yes, cut the foot to fit the shoe! Bah, humbug!

    And what a racket! A racket, no matter how reputable, can be any dishonest scheme or ongoing transaction, all not as it contrives to present itself and as is tacitly accepted or endured by the majority of those involved, but in actuality, indeed, a myth, scam or fraud of heteronomy, a deceptive domineering practice of coercion and manipulation conducted for whatever benefit of a few cronies at the expense of the many. Any Absurd Big Lie to enflame dependency and the adoration of Big Brother, and thence retreat into that mythic embodiment of whatever soulless Borg collective, and thus to turn us each and all away from one another as individuals.

    All therefore pandemic alienation, boredom and loneliness in perpetually ambivalent cognitive dissonance, ever mounting inner conflict, in ideological struggle, rightthink and crimestop, all in order to meet conventional expectations in an ever changing world. Alas that heteronomy to conventional socialization and toadying hierarchically predictive social cognition, falls so far short of real motivating intrinsic human fulfillment.

    And all because popularity and relentlessly facile distant social success ever remain antithetical to true friendship, because friendship is genuine, substantive and intimate, even sometimes intense, being predicated upon free and unguarded and reciprocal psychological visibility. Alas that all to often, substance and purpose remain actually shameful, awkward, nerdy, unpopular, uncool, socially unacceptable and so taboo.

    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).

    Thus the stultifying rat-race of popularity, people pleasing and approval seeking all notwithstanding, indeed contrary to all of that thuddingly dull obdurate superficiality of prevailing common sense bad social advice: As Eve Tushnet expounds in Eros and Education, Eros which is transport in liberating union with alien difference, moreover the forging attachments of true friendship in autonomy, capable human relationship, and psychological visibility to begin with, indeed meaning in the very deepest sense, Eudemonia, optimal reciprocal engagement... All these and so much more, arise entirely as byproduct indeed, and without apology, of authentic attention, of often tabooed and sometimes emotionally risky purposeful interaction and/or no less so, substantive communication. And categorically, never otherwise. Therefore accept no substitutes!

    But neither purposeful interaction nor substantive communication can ever be any objective, desired result, payoff or extrinsic reward howsoever to ever be permitted, obtained or achieved. Rather intentionally purposeful interaction and/or intentionally substantive communication are, much the same as with adequate and respectful social support, building team rapport in a culture of helping, not any hoped for objective or reward, but the only viable beginning as vital as the breath of oxygen to the heat of fire. Indeed a precondition to human thriving, intrinsic and integral to personal disclosure, psychological visibility and interpersonal relationship. Otherwise, all important and much lionized social integration remains unduly conditional, even therefore invalidating if not actually somewhat Faustian, bitter, disappointing, empty and Existentially irrelevant, pointless and Absurd.

    Furthermore, in the words of John Storrs Hall: “Ideas should compete, bodies should cooperate.” And so, rather than allowing ourselves to be pitted against one another, instead 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.

    Instead of heavy handed maximal authority simply for keeping everyone in line as mindless drones, by direct contrast, among the cherished values of democracy, first and foremost remains freedom under only most minimal authority and coercion absolutely necessary. Only imagine then, flipping the script. Rather than stifling and oppressive heteronomy to hierarchical dominance as prevailing norm, indeed as per the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology, resorting only temporarily to near egalitarian solution finding finding only as and when completely indispensable, only imagine the very antithesis or sheer Peripeteia of any such closed society. A better liberated situation or circumstances named by Karl Popper as: the open society.

    Indeed, even somewhat conspiratorial, subversive and disruptive paradigm shift into ongoing collaborative brainstorming and creative solution finding together among equals as the norm, with appeal to authority serving only as ever actually needed or helpful.

    All therefore, let us together stop just going with the effluent flow of our shitty little lives, and instead set any meaningful agenda and begin moving with any purpose, and good reason why. For as the wise and venerable old saying goes: “No question is too stupid to ask, and no answer too wise to be given.”  

    Because indeed as so disastrously acceding to that entire gamut of onerous and erroneous common sense as constituting prevailing bad social advice... All towards the great and good boon of heteronymous socialization... And all so desperately in order to gain acceptance:

    Everything that we have been taught, one way or another, about remaining so staunchly cheerful, agreeable, upbeat and bland...  All of that stands so blatantly exposed and debunked as yet another sad, pointless and pernicious propaganda manipulation! 

    And all therefore remaining why, at long last, something  must be done differently. However, 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.

    And then collective endeavors of intentional community, or at least initially and more modestly, intentional social circle or group formation, can actually be organized by social engineering design thinking, no longer for petty intimidation and domination, but instead only so as to foster whatever most desired and dynamic interaction between participants, intentionally.

    All hence, as herein proposed, the social engineering of most optimal social and intellectual stimulus struggle, would contrive by social engineering design thinking, the deliberate introduction of specific social and intellectual stimuli and social interaction, into an accessable social environment, in order better to optimize uniquely human social and intellectual stimulus struggle. And such remains the probortunity at hand: 

     

     

     

     
     

    FoolQuest.com hereby proudly extends actionable public invitation 

                  to lively ongoing collaborative brainstorming and creative solution finding among equals:
     
     
     
     

     

    Join the creative conspiracy: Madness, yet method in't!

     

    To quote George Orwell: “A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.” Thence lost, ridiculed and silenced opposition message herein ensues, in response to ideology and conduct so commonplace as to escape notice. Indeed, in any practice of controversy and Socratic Dialectic, the welcome and appreciated exchange of criticism among equals, in any ebullient contest of argumentative and free critical thinking, open disagreement presents no obstacle but the entire point. Whereas cagey passive hostile silence and obstruction, even censorship and Relational Bullying outright, remains the Anti-Socratic enemy of expressive Epicurean freedom, friendship and thought. And therefore of autonomy supportive social support in any conceivable culture of helping and of  creativity as human interaction beyond mere individual trait, characteristic or mode of expression. Rather, creativity may perhaps best be understood as a heightened and more optimal process of human interaction.

    Responsible and feasible piecemeal engineering for the rest of us: Indeed all may be readily accomplished even without the uncommon power and influence to bring about broadest sweeping social change. In the words of Sir Karl Popper: “The piecemeal engineer knows, like Socrates, how little he knows. He knows that we can learn only from our mistakes. Accordingly, he will make his way, step by step, carefully comparing the results expected with the results achieved, and always on the look-out for unavoidable unwanted consequences of any reform: and he will avoid undertaking any reform of a complexity and scope which makes it impossible for him to disentangle causes and effects, and to know what he is really doing.... Holistic or Utopian social engineering, as opposed to piecemeal social engineering...aims at remodeling the 'whole of society' in accordance with a definite plan or blueprint.” For such the latter remains of fanatical ideology ever biting off more than they can chew, and then ending in perpetually escalating disaster.  

    All as bearing in mind the above, therefore, at least initially, rather than sweeping the world out from leftfield, instead, any bold and radical paradigm shift into liberating and empowering subversion of hierarchy, not unlike taboo forbidden love, necessarily nurtures in microcosm. Indeed even building somewhat covertly and conspiratorially, when any two or more individuals interacting and taking initiative, even in  small reversible steps, must finally innovate: at long last to begin significantly doing things differently and howsoever more capably together and persist. And that is how! Because society is not any entity in its own right, but but in aggregate, an interaction along ongoing and defining relationship among people. With subtext of tacit coercion, an all too often abusive and terrifying relationship. A restrictive but ultimately malleable and dreamlike constructed and ultimately chimerical social reality or culture, virtually augmented from time immemorial, no maya or samsāra, but merely the society of the spectacle, the real world Matrix!
           
    And yet again to reiterate, no human being can remain so woebegone, powerless, frustrated, unfulfilled, bored, lonely and alienated when, alas as all far too  infrequently in the human condition, circumstances or situation, pleasurably and meaningfully engaged and fulfilled together among equals; indeed, optimally and reciprocally so ebulliently sharing eustress and sustainable euphoria of creative tension in brainstorming and creative solution finding. Indeed as in accordance with the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology, an all too infrequent peak experience that the masses, as it turns out, under such oppressive status quo, yet remain so badly starving for. And therefore the FoolQuest.com Master Plan strives explicitly to elicit and engage these specific modes of interaction between participants, in order thereby more readily and immediately, to offer precisely such alas currently all too infrequent peak experience to anyone so inclined. Who, what, where, when, and above all: Why, oh why!
          
    And all well within the power of individuals together, intentionally and persistently. Indeed, entirely feasible within any coalition of the willing, however informal. Indeed, all even in such microcosm so conspiratorially, to render the currently infrequent peak experience of collaboration among equals in brainstorming towards creative solution finding, henceforth more readily accessible, frequent and routine for anyone so inclined. All epitome whereof, intentionally by social engineering design, as to be  more regularly and abundantly supplied in a genuine ongoing turnkey solution as indeed extolled herein.

    Creativity may perhaps best be understood as a heightened and more optimal process of human interaction. 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, of only, in gloriously subversive and disruptive paradigm shift, one fine day collaboration among equals in creative solution finding ever becomes more widely practiced, public and better appreciated. But in the meantime, let us proudly come together amongst ourselves for precisely that joy.  

    Indeed, as Empirically observed in scientific experiments, respectful, trustworthy, 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!), who are sociable, extroverted, known to reach out and thrive, Talk More Seriously, and all with so much less of all that inane, incessant, boring and superficial small talk, such a happiness killer! Indeed, happy people remain more likely to choose creative activities, seek new achievements, and thereby uplift their own thoughts and emotions, and actually known to achieve greater success and even to make more money. And all by meeting the need for capable interaction with responsible others.

    Little wonder then, how gifted students, bright, insightful and emotionally sensitive, among their own true gifted peers, mysteriously no longer require that great and good boon of heteronymous socialization, unwelcoming, toxic and sanctioned, that emotional violence and neglect which none dare call: indoctrination, Behavioral Conditioning or most honestly: brainwash. Indeed, the conventionally submissive and  expected distant and disingenuous willful positivity, patiently keeping everything light and innocuous, all simply in order to escape notice from bullying, by hiding ones light under a bushed and thereby such complacent mediocrity all so blandly merely in order 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! can there be no better alternative? Might it not be so much more noble, productive, happier, and in defiance of the ever pervasive and ubiquitous cult of socialization, better to do exactly the opposite throughout life, and continually immerse even the most ordinary people into such interaction as so characteristic of the gifted? Indeed, thereby cultivating, welcoming and drawing forth each ones own inner giftedness... And just perhaps, there can be a way. An actual detailed and specific implementation strategy. What then even at all beginning in the fairly short term, can actually be done better and differently, dare say and so to speak: more giftedly, even merely amongst ourselves, I and thou, and thou? Our work cut out for us!
        
    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.

    The probortunity at hand: Can it be possible to meet such underserved needs of hideous inbred deformity and freakishly engorged human cerebrality (evolutionary neurology consequent under ‘The Survival of the Sickest’) intentionally by social engineering design? Indeed, by any conceivable turnkey solution, made readily available? Indeed, a unique, novel and unprecedented new social institution, a place to turn to and join right in. A proposed entirely different kind of intentional community online. Or at least initially and more modestly, smaller intentional social circle, group, club or ongoing sustained interaction.

    But with no guiding agenda or vision indeed from intrinsic motivation, there can only be only confusion and resistance. And with no plan of action and no action agenda, there can only be ill conceived, ill prepared and ultimately preemptive false start. Our work cut out for us. Look for the Solution within the Problem!  Indeed, surely there remain as many categories of social dysfunction, which is a relationship after all, as there are kinds of dysfunctional relationships to begin with. And likewise, there may also arise better observable and conceivable alternatives, progress, and even in paradigm shift, corresponding Transactional Antithesis to whatever preceding malaise.
       
        
    And so, how would any of this ever actually even work? What to do? Suffice how this very text moves from the general to the specific, and from the declarative to the imperative: First whatever desirable circumstances must be described, and then proposal advanced as to how to bring such desirable circumstance about, intentionally. Indeed, the FoolQuest.com Master Plan explicitly strives to elicit and engage exactly whatever desired salient interaction between participants, indeed, optimally and reciprocally so ebulliently sharing eustress and sustainable euphoria of creative tension in brainstorming and creative solution finding, in order thereby to offer that very experience to anyone so inclined. Indeed, every such interaction as herein extolled, remains well within the power of individuals together, intentionally and persistently. Indeed, entirely feasible within any coalition of the willing, however informal. But if only we can organize and stop just going with the flow.  
        
    Indeed, even online and around the world, Eudemonia and authentic wellbeing via optimal reciprocal engagement together ever heightening eustress, sustainable euphoria and creative tension of social and intellectual stimulus struggle, not by any ever shorter attention endless instant gratification and time-suck of bleeding edge Virtual Reality, but even simply via the time tested electronic low tech and readily accessible power and enduring literacy of asynchronous text communication. Thus affording the leisure to compose one's thoughts, followed up with the hitherto unprecedented quick turn around for timely dialogue in written correspondence. Thus congenial, uplifting and productive alternation between the fulfilling outreach and extroversion of Dialectical collaboration and the introversion and retreat of solitary reflection and inspiration that so refreshes the mind. First whatever desirable circumstances are described, and then proposal is advanced how to bring such desirable circumstance about, intentionally. Indeed, the FoolQuest.com Master Plan explicitly strives to elicit and engage exactly that salient interaction between participants, in order thereby to offer that very experience to anyone so inclined. Indeed, every such interaction as herein extolled, remains well within the power of individuals together, intentionally and persistently. Indeed, entirely feasible within any coalition of the willing, however informal. But if only we can organize and stop just going with the flow.
       
    And what if I told you that such Eudemonia of Dialectical collaboration in endless possibility of creative solution finding, as herein conceived, must pivot upon dual concurrent endeavor of subversive and disruptively innovative new venture creation (various business startup) undertaken concurrently with highly original serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming?  
          
    Indeed the  FoolQuest.com Master Plan strives at nothing less than Eudemonia via immersive heady regimen of collaboration among equals, indeed, optimally and reciprocally so ebulliently sharing eustress and sustainable euphoria in endless possibility of creative tension in brainstorming and creative solution finding, specifically in unprecedented asynchronous dual endeavor online, a novel innovative and subversive model of new venture creation (various business startup) (pre-)incubation and collaboration among equals, derived from drama and the and the hitherto largely solitary discipline of the writing craft: subversive and disruptively innovative new venture creation (various business startup) undertaken concurrently with highly original serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming. Thus both format and content for ongoing intensive close Socratic Dialectical collaboration among equals, any two or more people, indeed in brainstorming and creative solution finding. A concrete implementation right here online, complete with tools, guides and directories of challenging unfinished drafts in either field: Or by all means gentle readers, go ahead and pitch your own! Many metaphorical irons in that proverbial fire, figuratively to hammer out, render, expand and perfect together. Because, in the words of  Alain de Botton: One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on. Indeed, a most admirable and sublime capability so much easier praised and recommended than actually cultivated by any individual for themselves, let alone by any concievable social engineering design, systematically provided for the masses. But just perhaps, there is a way:
                  
    The  FoolQuest.com Master Plan for addressing the probortunity at hand for unprecedented Eudemonia and more optimal reciprocal engagement in social and intellectual stimulus struggle online, pivots upon hitherto so cherished but alas so infrequent collaboration among equals in brainstorming and creative solution finding. Something so much fun to do together from the beginning, outcome as may, later on. Because, prior to any long deferred extrinsic reward and punishment and, if ever, even tangible material success, cherished but alas so infrequent collaboration among equals in brainstorming and creative solution finding remains meaningful intrinsic stimulus appetite, trigger and arousal of social and intellectual stimulus struggle, being: the perpetual striving of any human consciousness to regulate, to obtain and maintain, the optimum kind and degree of social and intellectual of stimulation and arousal from the enfolding social environment. All such joy of peak experience so very elusive. The gap to be filled, the vastly unmet need that participation here on FoolQuest.com seeks to address.      
     

     
     

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    Paradigm Shift
    in flagrant subversion of hierarchy

     

           

    The probortunity at hand indeed stands revealed in tantalizing glimpse of an ideal or optimal situation and unprecedented paradigm shift in modus vivendi arising in accordance with the anomalously democratic grand afterthought to the generally hierarchical and authoritarian paradigm of Cultural Anthropology: For, lo it shall come to pass, in whatever special circumstances at the judgment of whatever great and good powers that be, that even the lowly rank and file, perhaps corporate employees or students in formal education, shall be enlisted and tasked with collaborative solution finding for any particular probortunity of the moment, crisis or windfall as ever arising. For such will ever be those those rare, exceptional and special times of probortune collaboration in creative solution finding, necessarily and characteristically egalitarian in nature. Because routine heteronomy systematically and intrinsically stifles all such human brilliance so uplifting in freedom, power, productivity, progress and elation, and therefore must be only carefully suspended, lest the masses, enjoying ourselves too much, then rise up in permanent liberation. But to begin with, why so privileged, or else otherwise for most so scarce and infrequent and event? And must it ever be so?

     
    Because, what if there was truly a strategy in very antithesis, utter reversal, indeed sheer Peripeteia of all heteronomy to hierarchical dominance? Indeed, an actionable plan for flouting taboo, actually for open and productive, non-zero-sum fully engaged uplifting and egalitarian low hierarchical distance of collaborative creative solution finding, somehow perhaps one day even going viral, in order become instituted as the ongoing default, and whatever kind of responsible authority the special case, a fall back position reserved for and resorted to only as and when the need whereof ever actually arising? And no longer merely, as all too often, any transitory event of collaboration among equals in creative solution finding, such as any one time assigned task and then afterwards so haplessly abandoned, or any sort of short term scheduled workshop, contest or seminar, typically concluding and vanishing entirety without any trace. Indeed even any sort of frantic and intensive "boot camp" ending in exhaustion with no debrief, no path any further, nor any follow up at all. There is a vastly underserved need for any long term ongoing alternative. Success never comes quick or easily. And therefore, the effort had better be be gratifying in and of itself, with relative ease of entry. Any questions? Any objections? Any takers? You are all invited! Gentle reader, I am counting on you! Dare we take action? As observed of capable and happy people, let's talk more seriously! And as the saying goes: “Effort is the best indicator of interest.”
     
       
    Imagine then therein, a new social contract and social order, a fundamental paradigm shift into collaboration among equals in brainstorming and solution finding as the ongoing default, and whatever kind of responsible authority, even however ad hoc, the special case, a fall back position reserved for and resorted to only as and when the need whereof ever actually arising. Thus an end to routine status quo of hierarchical dominance, that allows so poignantly and fondly remembered collaboration under low hierarchical distance (near equality) in creative solution finding, only ever at all, temporarily and all too  infrequently, when deemed absolutely necessary to transient crisis or opportunity. Or workshops and such that end with no continuity or follow up. What is needed the instead, is new and lasting and ongoing institution and paradigm shift, perhaps even such as herein delineated. First whatever desirable circumstances such as above, are described, and now proposal is advanced how to bring such desirable circumstance about, intentionally. Indeed, the FoolQuest.com Master Plan explicitly strives to elicit and engage exactly that salient interaction between participants, in order thereby to offer that very experience to anyone so inclined. Indeed, every such interaction as herein extolled, remains well within the power of individuals together, intentionally and persistently.  
         
    After all, a notable key tenet of TRIZ, the much renowned Russian theory of inventive solution finding, remains in the insight of how aside from entirely new scientific discoveries, the rarest most important, fertile and powerful innovations arise in the transfer and reapplication of knowledge and methods across disciplines. And such also must remain friendly and egalitarian, in order to prevent competing experts from jockeying for power instead of learning and cooperating. It has even been inferred from the much celebrated discovery of the wisdom of crowds, that human reasoning evolved along with the human brain and society, for deliberation together, comparing individual reasons. Even only if, as to quote C.S. Lewis: “Two heads are better than one, not because either is infallible, but because they are unlikely to go wrong in the same direction.” 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.” Indeed, as George Orwell observes, even at all thinking clearly, becomes increasingly difficult in bored and lonely isolation without expression. Alas that both hopeful entrepreneurs and aspiring fiction writers much alike, are often and notoriously self-reliant and solitary, indeed especially in their respective vocations, if not, also, to begin with, in personality or character. Because individual creativity, indeed so often bullied, shunned and persecuted, remains so bereft of autonomy supportive social support towards capability, under prevailing heteronomy.
      
      
    Which is such a shame. Because in either endeavor, new venture creation (various business startup), fiction writing, and so much greater endless possibility, most arousing and stimulating to creativity and productivity, again according to prediction from Empirical observation of the very latest cutting edge science in rediscovery of ancient wisdom from the greatest sages of old, there shall be notable uplifting ebullience in scarce opportune occasion of collaboration among equals in brainstorming and creative solution finding together socially. And so, not withstanding all social awkwardness and marginalization in conventionally constructed social reality, why can't all we wanna-be creators and prime movers intentionally together partake even online, in such productive free exchange in which we so excel, more regularly and more often? Why dare we never seize command of our own values and socialization? Such remains the present subversive disruptive social engineering design objective and the vastly underserved probortunity at hand.
         
    Why then do the masses,We, the Sheeple, so abjectly fail to coordinate and rise to responsible initiative together, indeed intentionally, merely for the joy of brainstorming in Dialectical collaboration among equals towards creative solution finding more frequently and regularly? To begin with, why not I and thou, gentle reader(s)? And precisely how to go about it? By what presence of mind or proactive wherewithal? And by what outreach in a world of such festering social isolation? Indeed, again in the words of Barbara Sher: “Isolation is the true dream killer, not your attitude.” How then, even most proximately, to break isolation by coming together via social engineering design, into intentional community or at least initially, more modestly, smaller intentional social circle or group, in order to institute drastic paradigm shift: As herein proposed, the very antithesis, utter reversal, indeed sheer Peripeteia of all heteronomy to hierarchical dominance. For heteronomy to hierarchical dominance remains situation such wherein egalitarian collaboration in creative solution finding occurs if at all, only as all too infrequent fun and fondly remembered rare exception. But in imagined antithesis, Peripeteia, utter reversal indeed sheer Peripeteia of all norms of prevailing heteronomy to hierarchical dominance, instead egalitarian collaboration in creative solution finding becomes predominant as the invigorating new norm, with any appeal or resort to whatever responsible authority arising only as need ever actually arising. And how better for teambuilding, than by ongoing and vibrant dual endeavor 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? 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.
          
    It may bear mention at this juncture how the very term: 'Individualism,' was only coined as a pejorative in disparagement towards a perceived trend of retreat from civic-virtue, favoring instead whatever responsibility merely to each ones own more proximate relationship networks. But what reason for such a trend? Perhaps what is more capable and operant, less superficial and more mature and genuinely happy, is actually to be found in Emotional Intelligence, the vulnerable empathy of  to one another first, I and thou, one to one, before even worrying about finer points and challenges of group dynamics, let alone whatever Social Intelligence and social skills or aptitudes in such desperate and toadying sycophantic quest of broader approval and social integration with every coveted reward of status, power and better more preferential access to vital resources in society. For that matter, here on FoolQuest.com, CliqueBusters TM advocates unique organized nonviolent resistance against even the most quasi-legislative bullying, such civil disobedience likewise unthinkable unspeakable indoctrinated crimestop taboo subversion of such hierarchy as so deplorably advocating and instituting, for all intents and purposes, knee-jerk dysfunctional submission and legitimization of whatever jumped up authority as imposed by bullying, indeed by any bullies at all under any circumstances whatsoever. For the cronyism and quasi-legislative power of bullying amounts to the ability of bullying cliques for all intents and purposes to fabricate, rationalize and to enact rules and expectations even quite without any sort of legal or constitutional legitimacy, indeed hypocritically self-serving, self-righteous and blithely immoral intimidation and abuse in disregard of individual rights, endangerment and harm to the targets of bullying and to whatever community at large.
        
    In the words of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” And to quote Sir Isaac Newton: “You have to make the rules, not follow them.” Therefore: What then if instead failed conventionality of heteronymous priorities and hierarchically predictive social cognition could be completely flipped in radical social contract revision, and in paradigm shift, utter subversion of hierarchy,  permanently turned upon their head? Indeed, only imagine in utter reversal, indeed sheer Peripeteia, of all conventional heteronymous priority and domineering hierarchically predictive social cognition so familiar within the generally authoritarian paradigm of Cultural Anthropology. Only imagine instead setting collaboration in creative solution finding, hitherto the highly infrequent more democratic sensibility and special exemption, hence forth, as the new default, the new norm. With recourse beyond merely  rule and domination, to intervention of legitimate responsible authority, rational and accountable, true leadership in service, even however ad hoc. And most importantly, only as fall back position reserved for and resorted to only howsoever as and when real need whereof in due course ever actually arising.
        
    Even with no need of steady and authoritative ongoing control so long as informal and friendly collaboration among equals runs smoothly on its own most of the time, even add hoc formal moderation may be called upon however occasionally for guidance in resolution of persistent deadlock, or for maintaining order in the face of intractable disruption, as in cases of hostile flaming and bullying. But better still Transactional Antithesis. After all, hostility is rightly ruled out of bounds in the practice of controversy, so vital to to brainstorming free exchange in solution finding and collaboration among equals. Controversy is just such Dialectical fun! For the Socratic Dialectic, the even vociferous practice of controversy, remains the welcome and appreciated exchange of criticism and rebuttal, conjecture and refutation. Because 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. And that is how even people who disagree even however strongly, but entirely without acrimony, are often the best at cooperation even quite without needless ongoing hierarchical dominance so oppressively quelling all dissent, honesty and creativity. For the latter remains maximal authority simply for keeping everyone in line as mindless drones. By contrast, among the cherished values of democracy, first and foremost remains freedom under only most minimal authority and coercion. For as the wise and venerable old saying goes: “No question is too stupid to ask, and no answer too wise to be given.”
        
    To reiterate: In better alternative in the first place to present heteronymous status quo, so very clearly, paradigm shift towards autonomy supportive social support in a culture of helping, Epicurean freedom, friendship and thought! Accept no substitute. Indeed, paradigm shift favoring rather than routine and perhaps even fairly benign well meaning exercise of authority, let alone worse, instead ongoing Dialectical collaboration among equals in brainstorming towards creative solution finding. Indeed, reserving recourse to whatever mode of authority as the even somewhat rare exception, as ever need actually arising. Because ongoing Dialectical collaboration among equals in brainstorming towards creative solution finding, continues to be discovered as most conducive not only primarily to Eudemonia, to authentic wellbeing, of such paramount intrinsic value and fulfillment, but thereby indeed also excellence called: arête. Indeed perhaps even extrinsic value of networking and material success, but actually through doing what you love. And all because Eudemonia, capability, important close human relationship with full complicity in psychological visibility in order to penetrate psychological asymmetry, evokes Eros which is not so much co-validation in whatever even superficial similarity, as as just the opposite, collusion and transport of liberating union with alien difference. And thus the forging of attachments of true friendship in autonomy, arises entirely as a byproduct, and without apology, of purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication and believe it or not, never otherwise. Accept no substitutes! After all, psychological asymmetry simply means that we are not so odd, but only strangers. And so we wallow each in our own pervasive and inexhaustible reservoirs of secret anxiety and vulnerability, never suspecting much the same of others beneath ever crumbling facade of exterior presentation.
       
    Of course, any such notion of routine and ongoing collaboration among equals as characteristic of open societies, all in such flagrant subversion of hierarchy, remains strictly taboo, completely unspeakable, utterly unthinkable, under the restrictions of heteronomy and closed society. Although many taboos, none the least of which including all manner of subversion of hierarchy, feature special exemptions and occasions that across the ages may become forgotten. So many taboos have at their very root, the taboo under heteronomy, upon subversion of hierarchy. Indeed, to begin with of course, most ancient, most universal, and most appalling of all known taboo, remains that of incest, the first subversion of the first hierarchy from which all other hierarchy evolves, namely that of family. Can it be that dread of incest remains dark and stygian secret inspiration for knee-jerk awe even towards even the most petty, inept and ginned-up trappings of authority? Or is that just too Freudian?
         
    But for timidity and reservation in the face of taboo, hawking such a cherished dream of scarce satisfaction, of blazing a trail to freedom in an unfree world, should be like peddling dopamine! Indeed, the marketing gurus all concur that in order to persuade, it remains vitally necessary to appeal to desire. And far be it from me to dispute them. Despite that responsibly thinking for oneself about such proposals as the one at hand, also prompts as larger question as to whatever desires: What then becomes the objective? Is it feasible? How so? And what action shall be required of oneself? Therefore, who are you, gentle reader, what do you love to do and why?
      
    Desire and endless possibility, motivation so often leveraged in career marketing appeal, remains high ambition and the will to power, intrinsic creative fulfillment and arête or: excellence. Many yearn for the individual freedom and independence to become entrepreneurs, in challenge of applied creativity called, to innovate and strive at new venture creation (new business startup). Indeed ventures of every kind even conceivable, profit or nonprofit, traditional, Social Entrepreneurship or even just perhaps, grassroots politics and activism. And then again, many aspire to pure creativity, art for its own joy, as in becoming artists and authors, indeed fiction writers of evocative high drama and brilliantly speculative Science Fiction. But why be limited? Why go it alone? Why choose? Why not reach for it all, and together leverage dual endeavor bringing to bear the entire full range of each our interests, passions and life long learning?
      
     
     
     

    Never otherwise

    Beware the cult of socialization and  the scourge of superficiality!

    “Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”   — Coco Chanel
       
    “If I continually get a door wrong, is it my fault? No. In fact, if you continually get it wrong or if other people continually get it wrong, it s a good sign that it s a really bad door.”

      — Don Norman as cited in: ‘Frustration is a design opportunity’

      

    Alas how so many remain ever emotionally invested in false promise of prevailing common sense and heteronomy, amounting only to manipulative empty pandering propaganda for the very status quo monopolizing our lives. Good little girls and boys therefore balk at the Empirically obvious, the failure of all the lies that we all have been told, myth stubbornly ignoring Empirical observation and experience of objective reality, only forever to soldier on in such abject futility, as we find ourselves ever yet again, abandoned to our own devices and setup for failure.

    For 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.

    After all, psychological asymmetry simply means that we are not so odd, but only strangers. And so we wallow each in our own pervasive and inexhaustible reservoirs of secret anxiety and vulnerability, never suspecting much the same of others beneath ever crumbling facade of exterior presentation. And therefore, so very far from interminably vapid small talk, instead capable human relationship, especially true friendship, indeed meaning in the very deepest sense, full complicity in psychological visibility in order to penetrate psychological asymmetry, Eros remaining not so much co-validation in whatever even superficial similarity as instead, quite the opposite, Eudemonia of transport in liberating union with alien difference. Indeed, most especially as into attachments of true friendship. And even, perhaps most frightening of all, nothing so heartless, forcedly cheerful and upbeat, but instead compassion for the appropriateness of grief. All these and so much more, arising only as byproduct, and without apology, of authentically attentive optimal reciprocal engagement in often tabooed and sometimes emotionally risky purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication. And categorically, never otherwise.

    No prize, reward, objective or desired end result of patient compliance and diligent social skills of good little girls and boys. Rather, substantive communication, let alone purposeful interaction, remains a barest beginning or starting point under autonomy, whence ever at all follows anything much more.

    And no, not by any dullardly craven socialization, that which none dare call: indoctrination or brainwash, and all about facile and sycophantic social success by fitting in via bland agreeability and ever more vapid small talk. And no matter how mightily one strives and struggles to master whatever inane, bogus, toadying and facile social skills or aptitudes of heteronomy and membership identity. And no matter how mightily one strives and struggles to master whatever craven, bogus, toadying and facile social skills of heteronomy and membership identity. Dullardly socialization and propaganda are no remedy, but the very malaise!

         In the words of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”

    Alas then, that if one needs someone to talk to, the search engines reflect a prevailing assumption online, and with such staunch and blithe conviction, that one merely seeks someone to listen, and not much actually in the way of real conversation. And  further more, that the reason must be for psychotherapy, emotional support, or suicide prevention. With lives at stake for individuals in such crisis, these foci remain priority for the algorithm. Indeed, precisely as the Google AI mode explained it to me!

    Alas and so blithely, no other agenda save for psychotherapy, emotional support, or suicide prevention, is acknowledged or considered as any reason that anyone might ever need to talk. Not to disparage any of the latter life saving interaction. But when in any typical bogus support group, actively trying to render for one another, any practical advice or assistance, such may actually be penalized or ostracized. Only "marshmallowing" ensues. Emotional support then functions only as manipulative Behavioral Modification to sooth and pacify those who suffer ever more helplessly for it.

    Moreover, from searching the web, the further impression might be gleaned  that substantive conversation is only ever something to be inflicted upon students in formal education. No other context or situation ever comes to light. All notwithstanding, the persistent unthinkable taboo truth remains in how by very antithesis to all everything we have all been taught (all about craven socialization and indoctrination, brainwash and all about facile and sycophantic social success by fitting in via bland agreeability and ever more vapid small talk) real  agency, a more discerning and authentic, less arbitrary, higher and less arbitrary threshold of connection and belonging, relationship and particularly the forging of attachments of true friendship possible only in autonomy, even Eros which is transport in liberating union with alien difference, all arise only for those nerdy unpopular serious people, entirely as the forbidden byproduct, and without apology, of most frowned upon and reviled seriousness. Indeed all entirely as a byproduct of truly purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication.
      
    And believe it or not, never otherwise. No matter how mightily one strives and struggles to master whatever craven, bogus, toadying and facile social skills of heteronomy and membership identity.
      
    Because everything that we have been taught, one way or another, about remaining so staunchly cheerful, agreeable, upbeat and bland, indeed 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, and all so desperate in order to gain acceptance, remains consistently futile and ever debilitating.
         
    Not that purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication, or even creativity, via whatever strategy, and all however crucial, remain by any means the only creditable core values of relationship, especially friendship. And yet, nevertheless, purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication remain the only doorway, the only actual path of connection. All alas all so vastly underserved and actively discouraged.

    The formation of social circles remains so crucial socially, because personal friends remaining unacquainted with one another, are unlikely to invite or include one socially. All thus little more effective than only lingering ever friendless. But what manner of social inclusion in precisely what type of interaction? Does it even make any difference? Yes. It matters a great deal. 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: Change our conversation, reset the agenda, and just maybe, change our world! Even into analytic yet strategic design thinking investigation and social engineering systematic and sustainable implementation of whatever ones own unique individual triggers for joy.

    For 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.

    Everything that we have been taught, one way or another, about remaining so staunchly cheerful, agreeable, upbeat and bland, indeed as acceding to that entire gamut of prevailing bad social advice, yes, the great and good boon of heteronymous socialization, all so desperate in order to gain acceptance, all can only arrive inevitably at no more than ever the same most user hostile outcomes gap and meaningless futility. All standing so blatantly exposed with all concomitant righthink debunked as yet another sad and pernicious tragic big lie!  

    Loneliness might make it harder to establish a true sense of connection with others. Having to socialize with others without achieving a sense of connection might feel particularly draining and meaningless, damaging one's psychological well-being.

      — ‘ Alone in a Crowd: Is Social Contact Associated with Less Psychological Pain of Loneliness in Everyday Life?’
    Olga Stavrova and Dongning Ren of Tilburg University in the Netherlands.

    Indeed, as per dialogue scripted by Bobcat Goldthwait for the fictional character of Lance Clayton as portrayed  by actor Robin Williams in ‘World's Greatest Dad’: “The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.”

    Indeed, to quote Gian Vincenzo Gravina: “A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.“

    Not everyone so blithely comes to associate social interaction in general, with comfort and safety. Nevertheless, many remain ever so staunchly and Pollyanna determined to Fake It Till You Make it. And yet, many others recoil. 

    In truth, traumatic rejection and hostility, especially in upbringing, may tend adversely to shape lifelong insights, perceptions and expectations even most generally regarding social interactions at all. And one way or another, even merely the lack of acceptance, quite without bullying active hostility or reproach, indeed even short of overt shunning and mobbing, can become tantamount to rejection and therefore debilitating and only all the more lonely.

    In those most famous words of Henry David Thoreau: “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” And indeed psychotherapists generally treat two kinds of patients, because with such enviable rare exception, there remain two kinds of people: Those so desperately unhappy, because they just don't fit in socially, and those no less desperately bored, lonely, unknown and dystressed, precisely indeed, because, ever so  chameleonic, closeted and "well adjusted" in realistically lowered expectations, they do fit in so very well indeed, socially. But only under such ego dystonic conditionality and following an even somewhat robotic expected Transactional life script. Because of the masks that must be worn, and constant dedication to peer co-validation and the social rat-race to the exclusion of all else. Phoniness or else social isolation, is no acceptable choice for any human being. Catch-22, the only winning move is not to play! But its the only game in town! Hence the dire need of anything truly new and different, indeed perhaps even such as extolled herein.

    Emphatically, upbeat superficial people can indeed become ever more popular and yet remain only even more desperately lonely, when they can never be honest and appropriately grieve. Popularity and relentlessly facile distant social success ever remain antithetical to true friendship, because friendship is genuine, substantive and intimate, even sometimes intense, being predicated upon free and unguarded and reciprocal psychological visibility. Alas that all too often, substance and purpose remain actually shameful, awkward, nerdy, unpopular, uncool, socially unacceptable and so taboo. 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).

    Moreover, to quote Dr. Matthias Mehl: [In experimental Empirical observation of happy people] “...substantive conversation seemed to hold the key to happiness for two main reasons: both because human beings are driven to find and create meaning in their lives, and because we are social animals who want and need to connect with other people.” Indeed as Socrates so famously declares: “An unexamined life is not worth the living for a human being.” Because capable human relationship, especially true friendship, indeed meaning in the very deepest sense, psychological visibility, Eudemonia, optimal reciprocal engagement, all these and so much more, and without apology, arise as byproduct indeed of authentic attention, of often tabooed and sometimes emotionally risky purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication. And categorically, never otherwise. Accept no substitutes!

    After all, at least according to truism, in order to build any kind of a social life, first just get a life! Meaning that before one may, for whatever purpose, actively build relationships and engage with others socially, one must prioritize one s own wellbeing, interests, and personal fulfillment. Because, essentially, by establishing such a life that one can in that way enjoy on one s own part, one becomes that much more proximate and interesting to others as indeed to oneself. And therefore, thus better capable of forming meaningful connections with others. All so much easier said than done. And therefore, your mileage may vary.

    Of course, in accordance with wide spread and emotionally impoverished social norms for so many, social life as remaining predicated upon public intoxication, is deemed as adequately filling that gap! Which typically leaves the earnest  and sober so frustrated and isolated. Not to digress, however.

    At least initially, rather than sweeping the world out from leftfield, any bold, liberating and empowering subversion of hierarchy, instead, not unlike taboo forbidden love, necessarily nurtures in microcosm. Indeed even building somewhat covertly and conspiratorially, when any two or more individuals interacting and taking initiative, must finally innovate: at long last to begin doing things differently and howsoever more capably together and persist. And that is how! Because society is not any entity in its own right, but but in aggregate, an interaction along ongoing and defining relationship among people.

    And community is truly strengthened not by any so blithely alienated, distant and fraudulent sycophancy and self censorship so desperately fitting in, but instead by more deeply connecting with one another. Indeed, community is better forged not in any heteronomy so terrified, mindless and idle, but most competent and simply in making plans together and then keeping them. Even to begin with, merely in setting agenda and then initiating and sustaining ongoing discussion. And all because, as it turns out, true friendship in autonomy, arises entirely and without apology, as forbidden byproduct of purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication and indeed believe it or not, never otherwise.
     
    And this plain truth well puts the big lie to all such toxic craven exhortation so foisted upon us all under the ever pervasive and ubiquitous cult of socialization, to socially skilled popularity and facile social success though superficial harmony, empty headed and even somewhat drunken  forced good cheer. And all whilst submissively knowing thy place. A chore and a bore. A sore travail. Bah humbug then, to all such oppressively irrelevant Terrible Trivium and unwholesome travesty of togetherness! Of persistently striving to incrementally improve performance within such a toxic paradigm in the first place. All said them, what then can be done indeed better and differently, even, to reiterate, merely amongst ourselves? An answer at last, The FoolQuest.com Master Plan! 
        
    The most obvious objection to any plan of action, will be either that it cannot work, or else that it remains unnecessary. And the most obvious rebuttal comes, if and in that whatever is already and routinely being done does not achieve desired results. 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, and even by taking blame for interim failure. It's only natural to cleave to the tried and true. To value tradition. In aphorism as most commonly attributed to Burt Lance: “If it ain't broke, don't fix it!”

    Correlation is not causation. And all manner of deceptive bias is often known to arise by ignoring or overlooking often howsoever obscure failures and counterexamples likewise bearing in common whatever purported hallmarks or strategies of success often actually somewhat coincidental. Might then this very principle apply no less, to social skills, social success and popularity? It's never simple. It's always complicated.

    Alas then how we have all been lied to! Propaganda Orwellian rightthink and crimestop have overwhelmed and cast into doubt as quite unthinkable, all individual experience of Empirical reality. Thus, from top to bottom, indeed at every strata and walk of life, 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.”  Alas, in Existentially Absurd social reality, there remains such dystressing Sisyphusian user hostile outcomes gap, wherein instrumentality equals zero, meaning, even causally and deterministically, no relationship between performance and outcome, no real hope, no results no matter what one does, other than mounting frustration and defeat. So much then, it might seem, for individual real world freedom and capability. In every walk of life, in every sphere of endeavor, personal or professional, society is no conduit to success, but a filter of the incompetent and noncompliant alike and without distinction, a crushing and threatening obstacle course to be overcome, an unremitting chore and a bore, each and all abandoned so haplessly to our own devices and setup for failure. Thus to self-esteem, a proverbial death by a thousand cuts. And any claims to the contrary, are just part of the racket. Indeed, from any end user standpoint, the existing system has remained broken from time immemorial. Alas the masses abide in false hope from blinding propaganda myth. And what a racket! A racket, no matter how reputable, can be any dishonest scheme or ongoing transaction, all not as it contrives to present itself and as is tacitly accepted or endured by the majority of those involved, but in actuality, indeed, a myth, scam or fraud of heteronomy, a deceptive domineering practice of coercion and manipulation conducted for whatever benefit of a few cronies at the expense of the many.

    To wit: It may be generally accepted that common and even niche interests and passions remain a key factor in building relationships. But in actuality, interests in common may turn out to be the least predicator in interpersonal compatibility. Just another superficial granfaloon chimera of membership identity! Indeed, interests in common need not correlate with shared core values or character, by far more profound. And alas even more shallow and facile, it may be generally accepted that people make friends as a result of chance propinquity and by spending casual time with one another. But don't you believe that either! Alas in truth, given protractedly limited options and endemic emotional distance, folly and superficiality, people often at last just timidly make do, even with toxic relationships, fear and isolation as all under a prevailing extol of lowered expectations and normatively glorified alienation. Don't expect too much! So we are admonished. A sore travail and disappointment.
        
    For as it turns out, hobbies, interests, whatever such interests or passions in common stand revealed as the least predicators of interpersonal compatibility. Just another superficial granfaloon chimera of membership identity! Indeed, just such interests in common need not correlate with shared core values or character, by far the more profound.
        
    After all, a notable key tenet of TRIZ, the much renowned Russian theory of inventive solution finding, remains in the insight of how aside from entirely new scientific discoveries, the rarest most important, fertile and powerful innovations arise in the transfer and reapplication of knowledge and methods across disciplines. And similarly, Eudemonia, capability, important close human relationship with full complicity in psychological visibility in order to penetrate psychological asymmetry, evokes Eros which is not so much co-validation in whatever even superficial similarity or casual contact and leisure, as just all the opposite, collusion and transport of liberating union with alien difference. And thus the forging of true friendship in autonomy, arises, and without apology, entirely as forbidden byproduct of purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication and believe it or not, never otherwise. Accept no substitutes! And what shall so seldom come about spontaneously and organically by chance propinquity, may yet and more reliably begin intentionally. Because the usual failed conventionality and Terrible Trivium of guarded superficiality, superficial harmony and relentlessly banal small talk, all remain so vastly excruciatingly bored and lonely!
         
    Just the opposite, to the very antithesis, indeed as Empirically observed in scientific experiments, respectful, trustworthy, capable and happy people, whom we may all do best to emulate, to rôle model, to rôle model, if only we could ever fathom precisely how (And there's the rub!), who are sociable, extroverted, known to reach out and thrive, Talk More Seriously with less small talk. Indeed, happy people remain more likely to choose creative activities, seek new achievements, and thereby uplift their own thoughts and emotions, even improving their circumstances and situation by freely centering their lives around sharing whatever pleases them most. Indeed, happy people, that minority whom we all may all do best to emulate, to rôle model, if only we could ever fathom precisely how (And there's the rub!), are actually known to achieve greater success and even to make more money. And all with so much less of all that inane, incessant, boring and superficial small talk, such a happiness killer!
          
    Pending then any future advent of extremely sophisticated and widespread advanced automated Sociometry (not to digress), in the interim to fill the gap, some other innovatively congenial, capable, empowering and effective process is needed in order to improve interpersonal outreach, extended networking, more optimal social embedment, autonomy supportive social support, widest access to resources, contacts and the cultivation of quality relationships of every kind and for any human purpose. Indeed, all envisaged as an additional beneficial side effect for participants, of purposeful interaction and substantive communication in the course of ongoing collaboration, brainstorming and creative solution finding as herein extolled and expounded in such detail. But any such revolution ensues only in paradigm shift by straying outside the box, if need be even flouting shopworn taboo.
         
    Thence growing ever more actionable and specific, indeed most revolutionary of all, in subversion of routine hierarchical dominance, to reiterate: No human being can remain so woebegone, powerless, frustrated, unfulfilled, bored, lonely and alienated when (alas so routinely and systematically oppressed and therefore as all far too  infrequently in the human condition) circumstances or situation, pleasurably and meaningfully engaged and fulfilled together among equals; indeed, optimally and reciprocally so ebulliently sharing eustress and sustainable euphoria of creative tension in brainstorming and creative solution finding. And all in accordance with the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology. And ultimately consequent from evolutionary neurology of freakishly engorged human cerebrality. Indeed, hideous inbred mutation under nature's witless and merciless trial and error, ‘The Survival of the Sickest’. Not to digress, however.
          
    Thus knowing now and better understanding full well the desirable change to be brought about, what must be done, and then by whom none other than I and thou, and thou, gentle readers, and even why precisely, the question remains: Just how? By what means? To reiterate: At least initially, rather than sweeping the world out from leftfield, instead, any bold, liberating and empowering subversion of hierarchy, not unlike taboo forbidden love, necessarily nurtures in microcosm. Indeed even building somewhat covertly and conspiratorially, when any two or more individuals interacting and taking initiative must finally innovate: at long last to begin doing things differently and howsoever more capably together and persist. And that is how! Because society is not any entity in its own right, but but in aggregate, an interaction along ongoing and defining relationship among people.
       
    And beware, for while any well established corporation or the like, might possess the wherewithal to survive all manner of self inflicted wounds and endure the drain and recourses to spare for getting the job done at all, any business startup or other new venture in formation will thereby likely be well nipped in the bud. And this may be one salient reason why all to often, to quote Olmstead: “After all is said and done, much is said and little is done.”  Even given all the virtues of preventative pessimistic caution, all purpose of evasion or withholdance will not merely reduce efficiency or injure morale, but paralyze and then dash any hopeful project that much more quickly and decisively. For no matter advance in connective communication and information technology, the challenge remains to the in depth quality of human interaction with autonomy and respect. There can be no hope of success in untrustworthy manipulative passive hostility at whatever conceivable cross-purpose or conflict of interests. Beware indeed the irrational bullying passive hostility of devious cross-purpose and betrayal. To quote Augustine, such “Resentment is like taking poison and hoping the other person dies.” But Augustine is mistaken: The self-destructive resentment of one remains toxic for all others involved. Indeed, by contrast, even grifters outright at least might be understood in any terms of one sided rational advantage. Make no mistake: In entrepreneurship for the rest of us, task interdependency and therefore, beyond mere solitary division of labor, actually working together closely in reciprocal support, ever remain crucial. Like The Three Musketeers: “All for one, and one for all!”  Or else, all for naught. 

    And so, for better or worse, the very hope of self reinvention together, of rewriting our personal stories, all begins as above delineated, in free exchange, in open discussion and deliberation upon dual endeavor precisely as herein expounded and extolled, facilitated herein via subversively interstitial provision of various helpful action  agenda tools and guides thereto, none the least remaining those two lists provided above. And beware: For writing remains easy to do, but difficult to do well. 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!   

             
    Alas then the cult of socialization, yes: socialization and indoctrination that none dare call: brainwash, and mortal terror so vested all therein. All such panic and mendacity remaining as they do, Terrible Trivium nigh tautologically antithetical to the genuine close involvement ever essential of autonomy, values and true friendship. And these agonizingly inattentive petty small minded evils, even short of serial bullying and worse abuse, include: heteronomy, futility, meaningless mediocrity, craven social skills and hierarchically predictive social cognition of an utter tool, ever facile calculating sycophancy of emotionally distant simple minded popularity and social success. Ever such persists as the vacuous inrush only filling the Existentially Absurd,  futile and meaningless void so hatefully bereft of tabooed creative purpose and substance.   

    It may be generally accepted that common interests and passions remain a key factor in building relationships. But in actuality, interests in common may turn out to be the least predicator in interpersonal compatibility. Indeed, interests in common need not correlate with shared core values or character, by far more profound. And also, it may be generally accepted that people make friends as a result of chance propinquity by spending casual time with one another. But clearly, this latter precept remains no less erroneous than the former. Alas in truth, given protractedly limited options, people often timidly make do, even with toxic relationships, fear and isolation under lowered expectations. A sore travail.  

    And for most, employment, ever mounting anxiety of wage slavery ever less secure, and much like formal education in such submissive disciplined preparation and investment all thereto, and all on ones own time and expense with usurious compounding interest, remains most prevalent among dire options of interminably protracted burden and sore travail of failed conventionality. And ever at all alleviated only by that shabbily travesty of hedonistic play called: recreation, the desperate effort and struggle to recover, on ones own time and expense, from such endless debilitation. By contrast, even wholehearted play enfolds uplifting purpose and substance all of its own.

    The reader may therefore forgive and forbear longwinded exposition, because there remain so many distinct begged questions. And the present work is no mere linear document, but branching hypertext with direction freely to choose. Therefore gentle reader, indeed do feel free to return to to the proposal at hand. But first, well may one ask: What purpose actually if any? Might not the proposal at hand constitute yet another typical solution in search of a problem? And why anything so radical? Because too many even among those who so abjectly reject and denounce whatever status quo, often find no clear agenda and see no particular path forward, not even of any coherent discussion towards any serious planning of action in order ever to unite and rise to overcome whatever such dire adversity.

    Indeed, as for Eudemonia as herein extolled, indeed close human relationship with full complicity in psychological visibility in order to penetrate psychological asymmetry, Eros which is less co-validation in whatever even superficial similarity, as just the opposite, transport in liberating union with alien difference, thus forging true friendship in autonomy, precisely why never otherwise than ever as arising, and without apology, entirely as forbidden byproduct of purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication? Why such contrarian rejection and condemnation, such scorn so heaped upon all time tested practice? Are there not already all manner of fairly cut and dry procedures already extensively provided in society, for finding ones way in life without need of proverbially reinventing the metaphorical wheel? For precisely that is indeed what many even somewhat in indignation, actually do tend to believe simply as a matter of course. And yet, everyday, more and more become frustrated, disaffected, disillusioned and just fed up. And especially the suffering targets of serial bullying. Not to digress.
        
    Question: As regarding Eudemonia as herein extolled, indeed close human relationship with psychological visibility, Eros which is transport in liberating union with alien difference, thus forging true friendship in autonomy, precisely why never otherwise than as arising, and without apology, entirely as forbidden byproduct of purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication? (Let alone, more specifically, Dialectical collaboration among equals in brainstorming toward creative solution finding. Or even most specifically, via disruptively innovative and subversive new business venture creation, entrepreneurship for the rest of us, and undertaken concurrently with highly original serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming.)
       
    Answer: To reiterate, because popularity and relentlessly facile distant social success ever remain antithetical to true friendship, because friendship is genuine, substantive and intimate, even sometimes intense, being predicated upon free and unguarded and reciprocal psychological visibility. Alas that all too often, substance and purpose remain actually shameful, awkward, nerdy, unpopular, uncool, socially unacceptable and so taboo. 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).
    And that is how purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication are stifled under heteronomy.
       
    Indeed, and to further reiterate, Eudemonia, which is important meaningful close human relationship with psychological visibility, Eros which remains less of co-validation in whatever even superficial similarity, as quite the opposite, transport in liberating union with alien difference, thus forging true friendship in autonomy, arises entirely, and without apology, as forbidden byproduct of purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication and believe it or not, never otherwise. Accept no substitutes! Because that is why, as Empirically observed in scientific experiments, happy people, whom we may all do best to to emulate, to rôle model, if only we knew how, talk more seriously and thrive in autonomy, prosper and succeed, together engaging in creative endeavor. And all with less small talk, ever so interminably banal. Indeed, beware interminably irksome, obstructive  and pointlessly belabored empty vacant superficial boring small talk, a happiness killer, so often forced and awkward, only leaving one actually the more depleted, empty and discontent, all urgent need of truly important expression still mute and frustrated. That is why people secretly hate small talk.
    And rightly so!

    After all, a notable key tenet of TRIZ, the much renowned Russian theory of inventive solution finding, remains in the insight of how aside from entirely new scientific discoveries, the rarest most important, fertile and powerful innovations arise in the transfer and reapplication of knowledge and methods across disciplines. And such also must remain friendly and egalitarian, in order to prevent competing experts from jockeying for power instead of learning and cooperating. 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. Because Eudemonia and autonomy, best in life, remains the best meaningful and wise investment of individual time, attention and even creativity, into optimal reciprocal engagement, straightforward helpful and free flowing non-zero-sum Transaction that consistently accrues the pleasurable highest return in like kind: value maximization in individual time, attention and creativity, for everyone involved and with highest signal to noise ratio.

    Alas how superiority, invalidation, thin skinned Anti-Critical Bias and bitter disrespect, only guarantee passive hostility, sabotage, headgames, protracted dysfunction, interminable primate politics, ever more devious cross-purpose, bullying and betrayal. Moreover, fragile and ill tempered hostility towards salient criticism only makes for denial of reality and rash action as surely as it does all such prodigious volume of ubiquitous and interminable wanker gawdaful badfic. Therefore the embrace of writing critique creatively cultivates instead, the value of criticism first with only art and discipline at stake. But then becoming all the more crucial, ever with anything more on the line.

    Inded, 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 in ‘Conversation with a Pacifist,’ even at all thinking clearly, becomes increasingly difficult in bored and lonely isolation without expression.

    It has even been inferred from the much celebrated discovery of the wisdom of crowds, that human reasoning evolved along with the human brain and society, for deliberation together, comparing individual reasons. Even only if, as to quote C.S. Lewis: “Two heads are better than one, not because either is infallible, but because they are unlikely to go wrong in the same direction.”

     
     

     

     

     

     

     
    Not IDEO, but DIO:
    Our Own Private IDEO?
    Alas that only a fortunate few ever experience either job satisfaction or enthusiasm in learning. For most, employment, ever mounting anxiety of wage slavery ever less secure, and much like formal education in such submissive disciplined preparation and investment all thereto, and all on ones own time and expense with usurious compounding interest, remains interminably protracted burden and sore travail, squandering the better part of time, attention and effort. And ever at all alleviated only by that shabbily travesty of hedonistic play called: recreation, the desperate effort and struggle to recover, on ones own time and expense, from such endless debilitation. The yearning for fulfillment in creative collaboration and solution finding, is the reason why there are so many of us so dearly wishing that instead of whatever present humdrum existence, they could be working at IDEO, the world renowned ultra progressive design work place. However of course, such highly desirable and coveted positions of exaltation in convivially creative employment, remain privileged, in tremendous demand, short supply, extremely qualified, scarce, tantalizing out of reach. Certainly not entry level.
    But wait: Can access and supply even conceivably ever be improved? One might even foresee that association within any creative corporate socially supportive culture of helping perhaps at all even in emulation of IDEO or in any situation, perhaps even online, adequately similar, could also greatly enhance social life, more optimal social embedment, interpersonal outreach, extended networking, widest access to resources, contacts and the cultivation of quality relationships of every kind and for any human purpose. All in all, perhaps the best conceivable circumstances pending advances in automated Sociometry, the anticipated next revolution in social technology (not to digress). And such remains the objective in the here and now, of the FoolQuest.com outreach as conceived, Creativity can be Popular, towards better social life by such above criteria for social engineering design, everything falling into place.
        
    The answer then, can never be IDEO nor DIY (Do-It-Yourself), but DIO: Do-It-Ourselves. And in difficult striving together even in loftiest ambition, and all from scratch, it will indeed be any sense of intrinsic fulfillment, indeed Eudemonia, that affords any congenial persistence and fighting chance, even from most vastly underserved and neglected embryonic first concept kitchen table stage or phase of innovative new venture creation (various business startup), in endless possibility of entrepreneurship for the rest of us.
         
    Entrepreneurship for the rest of us as herein conceived, entails the entire vast scope in endless possibility of disruptive new venture creation (various business startup) undertaken concurrently with highly original serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming. Because of the interstitial synergy between the two creative endeavors: between innovation on the one hand, which is applied creativity, and on the other hand, pure creativity for its own joy. Because business or project planning is only another applications of narrative, another mode of story telling, however yet transcending the mere willing suspension of disbelief (barring the outright surreal) ever remaining so essential for motivated drama, grfting or propaganda.
       
    Because whereas any good story or ripping yarn only needs to seem plausible, indeed despite how business or project planning only begins from such thrilling unfettered speculation as nurtured in ever metastasizing Science Fiction futuring scenario, Nevertheless innovation must exceed and transcend mere fictive plausibility into objective real world feasibility. Not to get ahead of ourselves, however. The very portmanteau: 'probortunity' signifies opportunity as inherent to problems, the more dire, the more propitious. And as ever, to the probortunity at hand: Look for the Solution within the Problem!

    The probortunity in particular, indeed of the very human condition, begins in ubiquitous desperate and Existentially Absurd panic stricken mortal terror management strategy of sycophantic socially skilled toadying skilled incompetence and pervasively toxic cutthroat anti-introspective anti-intellectual unrelenting popularity contest for facile and distant social success amidst the Sheeple, ever remaining precisely antithetical to true friendship. Because far from the usual bogus bullshit exhortations to willful positivity and small talk ever keeping things light, quite to the contrary, true friendship is genuine, substantive, intimate, and predicated upon autonomous, free, candid, unguarded and reciprocal psychological visibility. Moreover, 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? For: Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. - Proverbs 27:17 (KJV) Indeed, friendship among  serious people, Ecclesiastically far superior for purpose of mortal terror management, remains the only effective and ever subversive antidote to loneliness and boredom, even if not mortality. All therefore, capability, important close human relationship with full complicity in psychological visibility in order to to penetrate psychological asymmetry, Eros which remains less of co-validation in whatever even superficial similarity, than quite the opposite, transport in liberating union with alien difference, and particularly as into friendship, arises, and without apology, entirely as forbidden byproduct of optimal reciprocal engagement in purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication, and never otherwise. And this explains much. Therefore, accept no substitutes!

    After all, psychological asymmetry simply means that we are not so odd, but only strangers. And so we wallow each in our own pervasive and inexhaustible reservoirs of secret anxiety and vulnerability, never suspecting much the same of others beneath ever crumbling facade of exterior presentation. Therefore,  ongoing purposeful and substantive communication, let alone purposeful interaction, is no prize, reward, objective or desired end result of compliance and diligent social skills of good little girls and boys. Rather, substantive communication, let alone purposeful interaction, remains a barest beginning or starting point under autonomy, whence ever at all follows anything much more. Alas instead, so many, remaining ever emotionally invested in false promise of prevailing common sense and heteronomy, amounting only to manipulative empty pandering propaganda for the very status quo monopolizing our lives. Good little girls and boys therefore balk at the Empirically obvious, the failure of all the lies that we all have been told, myth stubbornly ignoring Empirical observation and experience of objective reality, only forever to soldier on in such abject futility. Even intentional community or at least initially, more modestly, smaller intentional social circle, institution or group project, with clear agenda objective merely of sustaining propinquity through sense of involvement in any specific ongoing interaction, even however arbitrarily, and all simply in order to draw participants together, by itself easily remains at best only partial solution, inadequate without stimulating creativity.

    Because boring, meaningless and alienating sore travail of mediocrity ever persist in the face of Existentially Absurd mortality. Moreover, by very nature, creative inquiry and expression, so pivotal to Eudemonia as herein extolled, by far exceeds any merely solitary individual trait or characteristic. Rather, creativity may perhaps best be understood as a heightened and more optimal process of human interaction. For again as John Cleese expounds: “Creativity is not a talent: it's a way of operating.” Indeed, creative expression remains social and intellectual stimulus appetite and arousal. Therefore creativity remains wasted and unfulfilled as any mere lonely individual character trait. And for more optimal gratification in social and intellectual stimulus struggle, creativity, beyond even at last becoming social, should actually become popular, not only valued, but charming, engaging and attractive, duly celebrated and no longer nerdy, unpopular, awkward, bullied and persecuted.
       
    And speaking of bullying, alas mean spirit and the decline of civility. Because far better than all such fawning sycophantic social skills, hierarchically predictive social aptitudes and cynical popularity contest, remains any true social grace of honest, trustworthy and creditable Menschlichkeit whereof there remain 15 purported signs. And in the words of George MacDonald: “To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.”
      
    Therefore beware the 18 Easy Ways to Destroy trust. Indeed, in dedication to lofty consummate dharma and right action of Chivalric values, gaining lan and repute, artfully by saving face for others who stumble, as must we all eventually. A far cry from, so much kinder and more noble, a far, far better thing than any of the usual pointlessly toxic bullying power plays of entrapment and humiliation. And new beginnings in autonomy, freedom and individual will to power over ones own life, become possible, practical and practicable in outreach together intentionally choosing how and why to interact and relate to one another. And no one else need approve.
             
    The probortunity of entrepreneurship for the rest of us:
            A matter of prime probortunity in invitation for collaborative brainstorming among equals in creative solution finding.

    What needs to be done: Nothing can be too preliminary. No matter how early in whatever process one thinks to begin, one may yet rightly ponder, vex and imagine precisely at all how to get to whatever that ostensible starting position in the first place. Indeed gentle reader(s), how to even get you here reading this! Let alone to respond.

    The ever daunting "kitchen table" stage or phase of entrepreneurial new venture creation, business startup all from scratch, refers to the most baffling and vastly underserved tentative and embryonic first concept inception, of aspirant visionaries actually gathering around that proverbial kitchen table. And the aphorism: “For the rest of us” has long entered into ever more common usage once popularized by the famous Microsoft advertising campaign slogan claiming to fill whatever gap and meet whatever crying need for greater user friendliness and thus wider accessibility for the masses, in marketing their various product and service innovations. Others have summarily followed suit in appropriation and reapplication of the memorable and venerable catch phrase similarly in order to advance promotional claims of  pragmatic demystification and wider access to all manner of hitherto obscure and indeed daunting utility and endeavor.

    But entrepreneurship and new venture creation (various business startup), such popular aspiration in endless possibility, of individual self determination and autonomy, nevertheless remain no less daunting and obscure for the masses. Reputable but stifling and entirely unsuitably heteronymous formal education and all manner of indeed quite rightly disreputable bogus and exploitative scam success "opportunities" alike, all notwithstanding. Alas indeed, that currently, there remain virtually no services, recruitment and support for, or even beyond mere mention and barest lip service, whatsoever literature concerning, the most tentative and embryonic first concept inception or "kitchen table" stage or phase of new venture creation (various business startup).

    Instead therefore, only imagine a metaphorical deluxe "kitchen table," an open invitation to come together online. All that, and an open ongoing online creative writing bull session to boot! Outreach in organization and implementation, inclusive to all and free of charge, right here on FoolQuest.com By subversive social engineering design, intentional community or at least initially, more modestly, intentional social circle or group formation; heeding together the call to adventure, embarkation upon the all too uncertain real life Hero's Journey, forging true friendship forging true friendship attempting anything really cool together. Indeed, all the way through management team formation, business or project planning and feasibility study, indeed if all goes well, through successive rounds of Venture Capitalization and all the way through successful organization and implementation. All so much easier said than done, our work cut out for us. 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!

    To all such lofty ambition, to reiterate, collaborative dramatic Science Fiction fiction writing and brainstorming, may provide for creative people, an excellent inspiration and management teambuilding exercise, towards business planning, in endless objectively real world possibility, for innovative new venture creation (various business startup), for old pro and newbie aspirant alike and together, indeed barest beginning and hotbed of entrepreneurship for the rest of us. Creativity can and Should be Social! 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 of course the only true and best reason why even bother, gentle reader, all that matters most in the human condition, remains not only in psychology, but Axiology: real life drama, exploration of whatever individual driving motives entirely of one's own uniquely. Indeed, personal interests and priorities interactively to navigate personal path through the present copiously dense hypertext, nonlinear thought given sprawling form. And thence into substantive discussion. And perhaps at long last, even as often frustrating, proverbially like unto herding cats(!) to any meeting of minds on common ground in common cause of true unmet friends. Gentle reader, is FoolQuest.com right for you?  Let's find out.

    What must be anticipated and expected in any particular endeavor? As feasibility study reveals, what becomes so discouraging, and indeed just perhaps even rightly so? What remains so very difficult, really and truly just too much trouble? Easier, for example, than the effort and focus of browsing and engaging with this very website, FoolQuest.com and then concerted effort of discussion amongst ourselves? Seriously? Do tell! What easier alternatives, if any? How joyless? Too difficult and too much trouble to what end? What remains important? How important? And how to gain the wherewithal? Success seldom arrives quickly or easily. And therefore, the effort had better be found gratifying in and of itself, and better still, with any at all relative ease at all of entry.

    And beware, for while any well established corporation or the like, might possess the wherewithal to survive all manner of self inflicted wounds and endure the drain and recourses to spare for getting the job done at all, any business startup or other new venture in formation will thereby likely be well nipped in the bud. And this may be one salient reason why all to often, to quote Olmstead: After all is said and done, much is said and little is done.  Even given all the virtues of preventative pessimistic caution, all purpose of evasion or withholdance will not merely reduce efficiency or injure morale, but paralyze and then dash any hopeful project that much more quickly and decisively. For no matter advance in connective communication and information technology, the challenge remains to the in depth quality of human interaction with autonomy and respect. There can be no hope of success in untrustworthy manipulative passive hostility  at whatever conceivable cross-purpose or conflict of interests. Beware indeed the irrational bullying passive hostility of devious cross-purpose and betrayal. To quote Augustine, such “Resentment is like taking poison and hoping the other person dies.” But Augustine is mistaken: The self-destructive resentment of one remains toxic for all others involved. Indeed, by contrast, even grifters outright at least might be understood in any terms of one sided rational advantage. Task interdependency refers to circumstances wherein any particular tasks must be accomplished first, and in a timely manner, in order for other tasks to even become possible in turn, and then accomplished. Indeed, efficiently in any timely manner. Therefore participants become responsible to one another. And make no mistake: In entrepreneurship for the rest of us, task interdependency and therefore, beyond mere solitary division of labor, actually working together closely, ever remain crucial. Like The Three Musketeers: “All for one, and one for all!”  Or else, all for naught.   

    The possibilities remain endless when Eudemonia accrues through genuine autonomy in meeting ones needs for the dignity of capable interaction with even adequately responsible others, and making progress every day as indeed, in the iconic parlance of Friedrich Nietzsche, power increases with resistance  overcome. Hence the crying need for capable respectful culture of helping and autonomy supportive social support for entrepreneurship, even for the rest of us neophytes and wannabes, beginning by nurturing the most vulnerable and vastly underserved tentative and embryonic first concept inception or "kitchen table" stage or phase of new venture creation (various business startup), and proceeding steadily at our own pace. And if all goes well, ever further outreach, recruitment, management team formation, all the way through to Venture Capitalization, all to climax finally in implementation and marketing to be followed in turn by whatever d nouement of exit strategy ever as applicable. A steep learning curve together. 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! 

     

    Neoliberalism

    The very language we use to describe the self-made ideal has these fault lines embedded within it: To pull yourself up by your bootstraps is to succeed by dint of your own efforts. But that s a modern corruption of the phrase s original meaning. It used to describe a quixotic attempt to achieve an impossibility, not a feat of self-reliance. You can t pull yourself up by your bootstraps, anymore than you can by your shoelaces. (Try it.) The phrase s first known usage comes from a sarcastic 1834 account of a crackpot inventor s attempt to build a perpetual motion machine.

    The Self-Made Man

    The story of America s most pliable, pernicious, irrepressible myth.
       By John Swansburg

    The mere act of writing can be solitary. And anyone, even alone, can write. But not everyone writes capably. Writing is like photography: Easy to do but difficult to do well. Writing is rewriting, patient hard work and never a waste of time. Not everyone masters the disciple of the writing craft, much less the soul of art to beckon the Muse. Not everyone succeeds in whatever objectives of writing in and of itself, let alone criteria of effective communication and persuasion, captivating an audience, let alone whatever career or other aspirations thence. No, not everyone is indeed a writer. By contrast, doing business to begin with, requires reaching accord between multiple parties. And business failure will be costly. Not everyone can capably engage in business at all, much less succeed. There is a learning curve. Therefore: Who can be an entrepreneur, indeed a serial entrepreneur? Who can create new ventures, business or other startups, all from scratch? Indeed some are advantaged with considerable financial resources and connections. Others display great talents. Some have needed both just to get off the ground! But surely not all. And yet, as the saying goes: if just anyone could, everyone would!

    In personality psychology, locus of control refers to the degree to which an individual feels a sense of agency in regard to his or her life. Someone with an internal locus of control will tend to believe that the things that happen to them are greatly influenced by their own abilities, actions, or mistakes. And Neoliberalism endorses even somewhat extreme locus of control. Blaming and disparaging the unemployed, laissez faire Social Darwinist Neoliberalism extols willful positivity and self-made individual responsibility for whatever ones own fate, without regard to external circumstances or situation. Neoliberalism so virulently opposes all public support and restriction upon employers; extolling instead the virtues of rugged Individualism to accept whatever employment and terms thereof, that the infinite wisdom of  so-called free market, even often somewhat monopolistically dishes out. Moreover, according to the fraudulent propaganda false promise of Neoliberalism, precisely such compliant slave mentality shall be nothing less than the first masterful step upon the golden path of entrepreneurship, riches and success. In truth however, a Neoliberal, unless a submissive dupe, remains vastly over privileged hypocritical textbook example, in the words of  Joseph Conrad, of: “a moralist, who, generally speaking, has no conscience except the one he is at pains to produce for the use of others.”   

    Rugged self-reliance ever remains so ardently celebrated under the callous and domineering extol of success or failure as entirely just deserts of character and determination and never merely happenstance or situation. Indeed, of happiness and  as merely individual choice. Precisely all such oppressive victim blaming propaganda often serves socially to rationalize and excuse the manner in which we typically each and all find ourselves abandoned so haplessly to ones own devices. As Edward Snowden so penetratingly observes, oppressors who restrict our options, then pretend that we consent. Only the oppressor extols of the masses never to think, doubt or complain. Alas then that support at all remains typically conditional upon participation within institutions. Support instead for sallying forth on one s own, following ones bliss, remains so often scarce. Better support could open the way for more people with much to contribute. A vastly wasted human resource! And in realistic and effective solution finding, a congenial solution must suit both the individual and circumstances or situation. Under the capability approach, any current mismatch between individual need or preference and circumstances or situation may be recognized, quite without blame.

    Alas to reiterate, that as things stand, there are virtually no services, recruitment and support for, or even beyond mere mention and barest lip service, whatsoever literature concerning, even in endless possibility, the most tentative and embryonic first concept inception or "kitchen table" stage or phase of new venture creation (various business startup). Because, even as a point of pride in escape velocity from any academic ivory tower of abstraction and glittering generality, the market only caters to the practicality of already successful entrepreneurs who therefore can pay.

    Indeed, while there exist actually burgeoning industries of training, services and vast bodies of literature within thriving and productive industries in support indeed of successfully established serial Entrepreneurs who can pay, the rest of us wana-bes, in any field novice and expert alike, remain as each and all ever abandoned so haplessly to our own devices and thereby set up for failure. A Darwinian ordeal of dubiously rugged self reliance and mythic right action in consummate dharma, as ever each and all so haplessly abandoned once again to ones own devices for anything that actually counts. And we call it: socialization, the proverbial school of hard knocks and experience. All remaining so unfortunate, because in the words of Arthur H. Vandenberg: “It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.” A matter of all that the individual may ever more capably bring to bear and contribute, but only first when better served in true autonomy supportive social support. Hence the dire need of forging collaboration community perhaps at all harkening back to the original comfortable and informal student run education of the Renaissance indeed bridging abstract and concrete, before domineering conformist co-opting and stratification at the hands of medieval authorities.
    Nevertheless, as in accordance with the Arousal Theory of Motivation, all living beings are perpetually engaged in stimulus struggle, which is the ongoing striving of all living things, to regulate, to obtain and maintain, the optimum kind and degree of stimulation and arousal from the surrounding environment. Indeed, quantitatively and qualitatively optimal investment and exchange of time and attention together that we all so crave, in synergy so crucial to authentic well being. And as propounded in the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology in concurrence with evolutionary neuroscience, hideous inbred mutation, engorged human cerebrality, ‘The Survival of the Sickest’, no human being can remain so woebegone, powerless, frustrated, unfulfilled, bored, lonely and alienated when (alas as so routinely and systematically oppressed and therefore all far too  infrequently) so pleasurably and meaningfully engaged among equals; indeed, optimally and reciprocally so ebulliently together sharing eustress and sustainable euphoria of creative tension in brainstorming towards creative solution finding forging true friendship, Eudemonia and authentic wellbeing in attempting anything really cool together.
        
    Creativity may perhaps best be understood as a heightened and more optimal process of human interaction. For yet again, as John Cleese expounds: “Creativity is not a talent: it's a way of operating.” Indeed, by very nature, creativity by far exceeds any merely solitary individual trait or characteristic. And there can be no investigation so concrete as to become penetrable without abstraction and creativity. All science begins with hypothesis, sheer conjecture, only then subject to critical preference, let alone Empirical reality testing. But more to the point, creativity, playful, pleasurably engaged and meaningful creativity as epitomized in collaborative brainstorming and solution finding, ever persists as uniquely gregarious and intelligent human motivating social and intellectual stimulus appetite indeed of hideous inbred mutation, engorged human cerebrality. All indeed as consequent in ‘The Survival of the Sickest’. But also concurrent with the the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology.
       
    Indeed for building team rapport, inspiration, and to sustain high spirits along the entrepreneurial path of disruptive innovation, what better than the pure creativity of collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming? Because, believe it or not, and as fully expounded anon in accordance with ancient wisdom of the greatest sages of old as rediscovered in bleeding edge happiness science, evolutionary neuroscience,  and the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology: No one can remain unfulfilled, bored, lonely and alienated, when so pleasurably and meaningfully engaged, optimally and reciprocally so ebulliently together in brainstorming towards creative solution finding. As focus whereof, dual endeavor as herein extolled, remaining so optimal and yet alas taboo for the masses of sorry sad sack ambivalent worker drones. Threatening and exciting, all at once!
       
    All as herein premised, even unreconciled in defiance of Existentially Absurdity, upon one flagrantly mad observation in meta-discussion (discussion about discussion). Indeed, the perfectly unreasonable and uncompromising subversively taboo mad hypothesis to test: that even so little as ongoing intentional deliberation together, Dialectic analytic yet strategic, attachment and connection forged together in the creation of meaning, might already begin filling that ever maddening abyss ever gazing   back, of boredom and loneliness. Or else, and speaking of true utter madness! Might one actually prefer to continue languishing within the mad control group of status quo? Pshaw! Never! Discourse upon the present subversive conspiratorial agenda of Eudemonia and the probortunity at hand, and upon the present modest proposal and piecemeal guerilla mad social engineering design initiative. Thus to help sustain ongoing optimal reciprocal full engagement. Any takers? Don't all crowd up at once!
     
    ““Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.” —  Henri-Louis Bergson
     
    But why all as preceding? And to what end? Answer: Because as propounded even however abstractly in the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology in concurrence with evolutionary neuroscience, no human being can remain so woebegone, powerless, frustrated, unfulfilled, bored, lonely and alienated when (alas as so routinely and systematically oppressed and therefore all far too  infrequently) so pleasurably and meaningfully engaged among equals in brainstorming towards creative solution finding forging true friendship attempting anything really cool together. For in hope and will to power, solution finding serves to address issues occurring each at any time within the world. The six steps of solution finding begin with problem definition and proceed through problem analysis, development of possible solutions, selecting any solution(s), and finally implementation and then evaluation of whatever outcomes.
     
    In such endeavor assembled together and thusly heated by the mythopoetic fire of the mind, the great boon to humanity, elevation and  salvation out from dull witted humdrum triviality. Yes, dazzling fire of the mind stolen at great cost by the benevolent trickster genius Prometheus from the petty and jealous gods keeping us all downtrodden in fated confusion and defeat. Unreconciled to the latter Existentially Absurd situation, optimally and reciprocally ensues transport so ebulliently together sharing eustress and sustainable euphoria of creative tension. And thence out from cold and grubby darkness, Eudemonia and autonomy, best in life, remaining the meaningful and wise investment of individual time and attention, non-zero-sum Transaction. For thence consistently accrues the pleasurable highest return in like kind, in quality and quantity, indeed of individual time and attention. And thus, to reiterate, capability, important close human relationship with psychological visibility, Eros which is transport in liberating union with alien difference, and particularly deep attachments of true friendship, arising, and without apology, entirely as forbidden byproduct of optimal reciprocal engagement in purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication, and never otherwise. Accept no substitutes!   
      
    The ubiquitous desperate panic stricken terror management via sycophantic socially skilled toadying skilled incompetence and pervasively toxic cutthroat anti-introspective anti-intellectual unrelenting popularity contest for facile and distant social success amidst the Sheeple, ever remains precisely antithetical and inimical to true friendship. Because friendship is genuine, substantive, intimate, and predicated upon autonomous, free, candid, unguarded and reciprocal psychological visibility. And friendship among  serious people, remains the only effective and ever subversive antidote to loneliness. All wherein ongoing purposeful and substantive communication, let alone purposeful interaction, is no prize, reward, objective or desired end result of compliance, diligent hierarchically predictive social aptitudes and cynical approval seeking popularity contest of good little girls and boys, utter tools all. Indeed, much the latter as all too often renders cagey and distant social success no less desperately lonely, miserably isolated and bored silly, than as from social exclusion and Relational Bullying. For the closed mindset of autonomy remains ever distinct and contrasted from those more enlightened expectations of heteronomy. Because substantive communication, let alone purposeful interaction, remains a barest beginning or starting point under autonomy, whence ever at all follows anything much more.
       
    Animals are to be rightly admired, because for furry and feathered social animals, attachment remains ever so simple and pure, and long term bonds so profound. Thus has it ever been! And isn't it just adorable? Only human beings, even among all other primates, have so muddled, perplexed and undermined the unreasoning animal simplicity of love itself, so convolutedly. But such is the price for human complexity and depth. And for such as we human beings, ever romanticized simple minded innocence remains so vastly overrated.
       
    And all of that remains why, as Empirically observed in scientific experiments, happy people, whom we may all do best to to emulate, to rôle model, if only we knew how, talk more seriously and thrive in autonomy, prosper and succeed. 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. Not surprisingly then, unlike those bogus gurus and posers, happy people are actually known to achieve greater success and even to make more money. And who knows? Maybe they even get laid! 
      
    And all with less small talk, ever so interminably banal, a happiness killer, so often forced and awkward, only leaving one actually the more depleted, empty and discontent; all urgent need of truly important expression still mute and frustrated. And that is why people secretly hate small talk. And rightly so! Happiness follows in the Menschlichkeit of meeting ones needs for the dignity of capable interaction with even adequately responsible others, making progress every day.
       
    Whence all as preceding, emerges the very probortunity of the human condition, the entire point of living as intelligent social animals. Indeed the crucial agenda of FoolQuest.com, objectives to be accomplished. And all because Creativity Can and Should be Social. Indeed, creativity may perhaps best be understood as a heightened and more optimal process of human interaction. Indeed, by very nature, creative inquiry and expression, so pivotal to Eudemonia as herein extolled, by far exceeds any merely solitary individual trait or characteristic. For as John Cleese expounds: Creativity is not a talent: it's a way of operating.  Indeed, creative expression remains social and intellectual stimulus appetite and arousal. Therefore creativity remains wasted and unfulfilled as any mere lonely individual character trait. And for more optimal gratification in social and intellectual stimulus struggle, creativity, beyond even at last becoming social, should actually become popular, not only valued, but charming, engaging and attractive, duly celebrated and no longer nerdy, unpopular, awkward, bullied and persecuted.

    Who then shall emerge as the star first follower or ally, the true leader by example? And thus providing social "proof," informational social influence over sequential behavior, being the cascade of one action to the next in social context, figuratively getting the proverbial ball metaphorically rolling. Yea verily, first bold recruit among collaboration cofounder candidates, and more than this: steadily forging a steering committee coalescing in deliberation upon the priorities and order of business, managing the general course of successive pending operations across the long haul of uplifting and engaging trial and error, of inspired perseverant serial failure unto eventual success.

    Who then shall be first to stand before all others, and subversively enter into the inception of ongoing and vibrant dual endeavor and deliberation, in endlesss 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?  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!  Got a better idea? Do tell!

     

     

     

     

     

     

          

     FoolQuest.com rising to the ever angst ridden
    probortunity of Existential Absurdity:

    Indeed to begin with, Why in our sick sad world, well may one insist, of all things, innovation in disruptive new venture creation (various business startup) undertaken concurrently with serious collaborative fiction writing? For what rhyme or reason? What conceivable purpose might be served by a novel innovative and subversive model for new venture creation (various business startup) (pre-)incubation and collaboration among equals, derived from drama and the hitherto largely solitary discipline of the writing craft, plus an initiative of social engineering design thinking? For as Simon Sinek contends, compelling branding that truly differentiates, begins not with what or even how, but why? Yes: From amongst all of Kipling's Six Honest Serving Men, not last or least but first and foremost: Why, oh why?

    Alas, perhaps for purpose of outreach and collaboration cofounder recruitment, endeavor at all, towards rational persuasion or even in emotional appeal, only amounts figuratively to barking up the proverbially wrong tree. For those amenable, are already persuaded, and those not, so timid and yet so adamant, never will be. For in the wry assessment of Jonathan Swift: Reasoning will never make a Man correct an ill Opinion, which by Reasoning he never acquired. Or in the biting wit of Dorothy Parker: “You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.”

    And yet, perhaps such dismissal remains at all somewhat unfair. Because, in truth, there ever remains indeed sound reason for despair. But crying out to God only remains futile. Because there can be no good answer, no justice or benevolent purpose in the inevitability of needless suffering and vicissitude, frustration so famously condemned by pioneering Existentialist Albert Camus as: The Absurd. For Existential Absurdity remains manifest, not only in the dangerously indifferent universe, not merely from ill fortune and Entropy, but perhaps worse, in human folly, confusion and cruelty. All nevertheless, again to quote Benjamin Disraeli: “Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” And Camus would agree, but perhaps for different reason. Because whereas Disraeli remains ever courageous and hopeful of happiness from positive results and success in life, Camus only motivated by mortal terror management, simply wants to get in any fun before death. For Camus, in condemnation of comforting of religious delusion, never imagined credible scientific and technological Emortalism. Nor indeed of Cryonics alas so Absurdly thwarted, not in any objectively real scientific or engineering feasibility beyond all capacity of creative solution finding, but because of needless and Absurd human incompetence and perversity quite aside from and additionally to the Existential Absurdity of objectively real mortality. Indeed, such blithely disorganized clueless hand waving within the beleaguered community and neglected field of Cryonics: rank and hapless denial, ineptitude in confronting passive-hostile obstruction, persecution, institutional non cooperation and virulent taboo in constructed social reality. Quelle Absurd!

    How then, indeed so long and howsoever as we shall live, to undertake any conceivably worthy rôle or even grand gesture in creation of meaning even unreconciled in defiance of mortal terror and Existentially Absurd futility? How best to optimize social and intellectual stimulus struggle? Which is to say: How to wrest any redeeming control of ongoing interaction and experience thereof along the way, in the proverbial journey of life? And let alone whatever figurative destination short of annihilation: results and hoped for success that can never be guaranteed. Not even by Emortality, indefinite longevity, assured survival, and all the time in the world, if only such a thing can ever at last be had. And yet, surely the ultimate probortunity!

    Who wants to live forever? What, don't we all? Self loathing mortals, too ashamed to go on living? What can there be more Existentially Absurd than that?!

    Seriously, too abstract? Except for survival itself, what can there be more important and concrete than Eudemonia?! Where is the Nietzscheian will to power? Just what is our slavishly paralytic major malfunction and defeatism, if not quite simply mortal terror in the face of the Existentially Absurd? Why else do the masses so fail to rise to responsible initiative together, specifically in order quite simply to brainstorm in Dialectical collaboration among equals towards creative solution finding, more frequently and regularly? Indeed  most heady and alas currently all too infrequent collaborative brainstorming as perhaps best facilitated via such most conducive, productive and enduring dual creative foci as herein extolled. Any questions? Any objections? Any takers? You are all invited! Dare we together take action? As observed of capable and happy people, let's talk more seriously!

    In the near future, emphatically no, not Existentially Absurd futility of Bio-Psychiatry in quest of bio-happiness, not ever more adept and precise psychopharmacology in mortally terrified and fraudulent treatment of mythically endogenous neuro-chemical imbalance, but instead something entirely different and indeed life affirming: Advanced automated Sociometry, Artificially Intelligent and sophisticated personality profiling and matching for optimal compatibility, an innovative and disruptive new social technology subversively infiltrating every walk of life and endeavor, may bring about radical improvement of interpersonal connectivity and interaction. Moreover, improved social embedment, will assure for each individual access to every human and material resource of the wider social network. Thus: In the future, everyone will be influential! Or so the theory goes. Indeed, a likely story, conjecture to persuade candidate recruits on spec and prospective investors alike, of glowing profit potential. But don't all crowd up at once!

    However, remaining in the here and now, Eudemonia, which is important meaningful close human relationship with full complicity in psychological visibility in order to penetrate psychological asymmetry, Eros which remains less of co-validation in whatever even superficial similarity, than quite the opposite, transport in liberating union with alien difference, thus forging attachments of true friendship in autonomy, arises, and without apology, entirely as forbidden byproduct of purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication and believe it or not, never otherwise. Therefore, accept no substitutes!

    After all, psychological asymmetry simply means that we are not so odd, but only strangers. And so we wallow each in our own pervasive and inexhaustible reservoirs of secret anxiety and vulnerability, never suspecting much the same of others beneath ever crumbling facade of exterior presentation.

    How Absurd then, all such ubiquitously clueless disposition to hobble and thwart most cherished value! And how Absurd all the more, so clearly the greatest good so blithely squandered! Wake up, Sheeple! Indeed, anything less than Eudemonia as above propounded, all shabby and Existentially Absurd subterfuge as so routinely foisted upon us all,We, the Sheeple, the labor pool of mindless worker drones, remains nothing more or less than a classic blithe propaganda big lie, a surreal fucking fairytale! Indeed, an insult to the intelligence, futile and Existentially Absurd. And that's not your fault! In the alternative, a better theory, indeed a far more likely story or conjecture towards better investment of time and attention: crucial peak experience of Eudemonia, bonding in a life of meaning, through engrossingly purposeful interaction together, convivially substantive communication and even playful psychological visibility, all are elicited nigh unavoidably in the course of heady collaboration among equals, brainstorming in creative solution finding. Any questions? Any objections? Any takers? You are all invited! Dare we together take action? As observed of capable and happy people, let's talk more seriously! 

    And yes, to reiterate: an imperative, a recommendation, even though in any part couched in assertion, which is to say: declarative statement, Ontological claim, salient Empirical observation. So, if all of this still doesn't seem so urgent, then perhaps it simply isn't a priority for you, gentle reader. Seriously: Have you a better option? Then take it! And honestly, how's that been working for you? And thus, no need for picayune peeves and stylistic nit pick. And so, forgive me then, for wasting your precious time and short attention. Otherwise indeed: Any questions? Any objections? Any takers? You are all invited! Dare we together take action? As observed of capable and happy people, let's talk more seriously!

    Gentle reader(s), does then the probortunity at hand appeal and indeed merit as proposed, submission and ratification to agenda for ongoing discussion, deliberation, research, evaluation and feasibility study in collaboration together? Does any moral or ethical quandary present? What other practical real life dramatic obstacles or complications? What are other competing values and serious priorities, perhaps as yet unconsidered? Indeed in all such Dialectic together, bridging abstract and concrete, steadily forging a steering committee coalescing in deliberation upon the priorities and order of business, managing the general course of successive pending operations across the long haul. Explicitly: Let's do some true adulting! 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! 
    Make no mistake indeed as regards reading comprehension herein: Too abstract?No, not at all!Because, explicitly, all sound practical consideration resorts to abstract principle of subject being, just as all sound abstract reasoning must remain ever informed by Empirical practicality actively. Indeed, precisely such is the nature of collaborative brainstorming and solution finding: That abstract thinking yields practical options, after concrete challenges are analyzed abstractly. And so, nothing as preceding remains merely abstract, but a message of vision couched in reasoned persuasion. A call to active collaboration. Sans Inductivist obfuscation, an agenda for deliberation  and planning. Any questions? Any objections? Any takers? You are all invited! Dare we together take action? 
    As observed of capable and happy people, let's talk more seriously!
       
    At any risk then of oversimplification: Eudemonia attained through the wonders of brainstorming together, denotes not only that somebody at least conceivably brainstormed their way into Eudemonia together, but in context, clear enough recommendation at least to consider following suit. And thus an imperative, a course of action, may be clearly expressed grammatically, not necessarily in an active verb, but instead via impersonal pseudo-passive (or: prepositional passive) observation, in a declarative statement such as typically employing any near enough synonyms of the verb: 'to be' (herein such as: 'exists,' 'remains,' 'endures,' or: 'becomes'), which is to say: a declarative statement, assertion  or Ontological claim. Therefore: ‘The passive voice is Not to be Feared!’
        
    For in the wisdom of Henri-Louis Bergson: “Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.” For anything less becomes senseless and arbitrary. Or does indeed all such glowing exposition as herein proffered, truly remain too abstract, as actually to confuse and obscure the intended imperative, urging and outreach towards action together all thereupon? For 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 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.” Therefore: Change our conversation, reset our agenda, and just maybe, change our world! Even into analytic yet strategic design thinking investigation and social engineering systematic and sustainable implementation of whatever ones own unique individual triggers for joy. And all beginning with the star first follower or ally, leading by example. 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!
     
    The rationale: The Capability Approach begins from as herein taken as general bold major premise, the principle that individual substantive freedom to lead a life one has ones own reasons to value, is both the primary end objective and the principle means towards a good life with autonomy and respect. And all depending upon accessibility of whatever needed resources, and will be attainable when human beings are free to chose in actual practice and not merely in theory, indeed really able to attain that which they have reasons to consider important to do or to be or become. For such is the will to power. And we all crave power and agency. 
    Alas, so very far from any such uplifting capability. pandemic mass alienation in our time, remains an insular and escalating vicious cycle, a perpetual crisis ever in defense against itself. In the words of 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. And this concerns you, gentle reader. So pay attention and stay sharp.
       
    Indeed more specifically, to quote from ‘Dancing at Armageddon: Survivalism and Chaos in Modern Times’ by Richard G. Mitchell Jr.: “Contemporary life encourages obscurity, makes messengers of many. Words and works pass through us, but are not marked by us. We redirect information, goods and services. We do not create them. We ladle out the textbook content, bolt on the replacement parts, assemble the units manufactured elsewhere, dispense someone else's pills, enforce rules not of our own making on peoples not of our choosing. And repeat other's words. We do not construct culture. At best we maintain it” (212)
       
    And the not so secretly prayed for collapse of technological civilization, of comfortably oppressive modern infrastructure, must herald a great leap backward. Indeed, all those doomsday preppers, artisans gone off-grid, are not merely gun nuts, but diehard nostalgic Luddites.
       
    However, no true recovery of meaning and agency shall ever be found in regressive pipedream. No, not at all. For when we envisage any Heaven on Earth, we do not picture ourselves churning butter or weaving linen in any unsanitary aftermath of global ruin without flush toilets! Not any more than field stripping semiautomatics whilst forever singing hosannas. Fuck no! Our idols of success despite and not because of all worldly direction, rugged nonconformists only tolerated after proving themselves and attaining such hard won authority, and ever so lonely at the top. Indeed such richly deserving latter-day philosopher kings and self-realized Ubermenschen to be admired but never emulated by the masses, those exalted few elite in command of their own destinies and fulfillment, remain the innovators, celebrated creators in artistic imagination or even prime movers in real world organized implementation. They who by their very existence, having paid their dues, demonstrate the very possibility, overcoming and thereby vindicating and redeeming authoritarian heteronomy. Bah, humbug!
         
    To say the least, daunting aspiration all so much easier said than done. And there's the rub! So many hit TV shows pander and mock us, serving up vicarious experience not merely of stimulation, adventure and discovery, but in some context of true friendship, profoundly close relationships or situations that so many of us are so very badly missing. Indeed, It is the simulated freedom, challenge, power and achievement in mastery and competence, together with social connection, that explains the addictiveness of multiplayer videogames for so many. And all such realization should be received as a call to action for urgent actual lifestyle changes. True life drama must either advance or falter. After all, how would our heroic avatars, our cherished and celebrated rôle models, rise to the challenge?  
       
    Indeed, just perhaps, even for the sorry likes of I and thou and thou, gentle readers, there yet might be an unprecedentedly reciprocal, autonomy supportive and more realistic true path to real salvation. A principled method together at all even even to begin any such vaunted interaction, even at entry level: The FoolQuest.com Master Plan of Do-It-Ourselves entrepreneurship for the rest of us and optimal reciprocal full engagement of collaboration among equals in creative solution finding.
    Because as Empirically observed in scientific experiments, respectful, trustworthy, capable and happy people, whom we may all do best to to emulate, to rôle model, if only we could ever fathom precisely how (And indeed there's the rub!), who are sociable, extroverted, known to reach out and thrive, Talk More Seriously, and all with so much less of all that inane, incessant, boring and superficial small talk, such a happiness killer! Indeed, happy people remain more likely to choose creative activities, seek new achievements, and thereby uplift their own thoughts and emotions, and actually known to achieve greater success and even to make more money. And all by meeting the need for capable interaction, even however ambitious, with responsible others, and not via any chimerical half-baked shared lunatic ideological membership, any more than in mediocre conformity and heteronomy.
       
    And no human being can remain woebegone, powerless, frustrated, unfulfilled, bored, lonely and alienated when, alas as so routinely oppressed  (alas as all so routinely and systematically oppressed and therefore far too  infrequently in the human condition) under liberating circumstances or situation, pleasurably and meaningfully engaged and fulfilled together among equals. Indeed, as optimally and reciprocally so ebulliently sharing eustress and sustainable euphoria of creative tension in brainstorming and solution finding. And for which the collaborative power and innovation of subversively capable and disruptive dual endeavor as herein extolled, remains precisely so ideal. For as John Cleese expounds: Creativity is not a talent: it's a way of operating.  
    Look for the Solution within the Problem! The probortunity at hand, our minor premise, and the problem to be embraced as such a golden opportunity for enhanced individual power and capability as above delineated, ensues: For the probortunity at hand arises in perpetually languishing under such rigid and oppressive heteronomy to hierarchical dominance, that most of the time, routinely and systematically undermines every arising prospect of free and equal collaboration, let alone creative solution finding together.
       
    And therefore, with few privileged, fortunate, well situated and happy exceptions, the suffering masses of humanity all present with the same cultural anthropological and evolutionary neurological human condition: Indeed, nothing less than that of ongoing and perpetual pandemic deficiency, malnourishment and withdrawal, from infrequent and meager engagement in collaboration among equals in creative solution finding.
       
    Of what moment then, well may one ask, can be such obscure malaise? - an effete whimper of real world anticlimax in Absurd anti-drama and disappointment, and not, to reiterate, any not so secretly longed for dramatically apocalyptic bang... Answer: As shall be seen, nothing trivial. Indeed, because of in the human condition, collaboration among equals in creative solution finding remaining arguably the entire emergent and deeply meaningful point of life as intelligent social animals. Indeed, nothing less than an innate intrinsic capacity and value as manifest from human consciousness giving rise to social and intellectual stimulus struggle. And prevailing frustration whereof presenting predictably with inevitable symptoms of bored and lonely alienation, unfulfilled and futile. Therefore a stifling bane so dire and so helpless, comparable only to that of ever impending mortality itself, the worm at the core of the human condition [William James], thence consequently terror management syndrome and even Deathism. Not to digress.
          
    Because in accordance with the Arousal Theory of Motivation, the term: social and intellectual stimulus struggle names herein, so long as we shall live, the ongoing perpetual and all too often Quixotic and Absurd yet nevertheless life affirming  striving of all human consciousness, to regulate, to obtain and maintain, the optimum kind and degree of social and intellectual stimulation and arousal from the enfolding social environment. Therefore, for unmet friends, the following novel Positive Psychology prescription for authentic wellbeing:  
          
    Because to reiterate, no human being can remain so debilitatingly woebegone, powerless, frustrated, unfulfilled, bored, lonely and alienated when (alas as so routinely oppressed and all far too scarcely and infrequently in the human condition) under liberating circumstances or situation, pleasurably and meaningfully engaged and fulfilled together among equals. Indeed, as optimally and reciprocally so ebulliently sharing eustress and sustainable euphoria of creative tension in brainstorming and solution finding. And for which, as shall be seen as follows, the collaborative power and innovation of subversively capable and disruptive dual endeavor as herein extolled, remains so ideal. Indeed, such lively focus for optimal reciprocal engagement in collaboration among equals in brainstorming and creative solution finding. Arguably the  most relevant, constructive and compassionate alternative terror management strategy, of course short actually of Emortalism. Again, not to digress.
        
    And all because at least pending breakthrough advances in sophisticated automation of Sociometry, the forging of attachments of true friendship in autonomy, arises, and without apology, entirely as forbidden byproduct of purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication and believe it or not, never otherwise. Accept no substitutes! And no one else need approve. After all, purposeful interaction and substantive communication are the very essence of of true interpersonal connection, in contrast with debilitatingly insubstantial and meaninglessly vapid emotional junk food and distraction so pivotal in the ceaseless manipulation of pandemic bored and lonely alienation. Anything less than purposeful interaction and substantive communication, rapidly devolves into approval seeking and interminably banal small talk, inevitably cultivating the empty malaise of sycophantic travesty and pandemic serial bullying.
      
    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. Little wonder then, how gifted students, bright, insightful and emotionally sensitive, among their own true gifted peers, mysteriously no longer require that great and good boon of heteronymous socialization, unwelcoming, mediocre, toxic and sanctioned, that emotional violence and neglect which none dare call: indoctrination, Behavioral Conditioning or most honestly: brainwash. And so, just perhaps, instead of so brutally dumbing down our best and brightest for your own good, dear! can there be no better alternative? Might it not be so much more noble, productive, happier, and in defiance of the ever pervasive and ubiquitous cult of socialization, better to do exactly the opposite throughout life, and continually immerse even the most ordinary people into such interaction as so characteristic of the gifted? Indeed, thereby cultivating, welcoming and drawing forth each ones own inner giftedness... But of course, all ever remaining so much easier said than done. And all hence The FoolQuest.com Master Plan.
       
    Because as Empirically observed in scientific experiments, respectful, trustworthy, 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!), who are sociable, extroverted, known to reach out and thrive, Talk More Seriously, and all with so much less of all that inane, incessant, boring and superficial small talk, such a happiness killer! Indeed, happy people remain more likely to choose creative activities, seek new achievements, and thereby uplift their own thoughts and emotions, and actually known to achieve greater success and even to make more money. And all by meeting the need for capable interaction with responsible others. But of course, all ever remaining so much easier said than done. And all hence The FoolQuest.com Master Plan.

     

     

     

    Probortunity at hand: A world of pervasive alienation.
     
    Alas that  all so very far, far away from any pursuit of happiness and meaning of life, for all so many, conformity upon all whatever known and howsoever reputable, well traveled and readily available, institutionalized and prepackaged conventional life and career paths, remains so disappointing, pointlessly arduous, futile and meaningless. In short: Existentially Absurd, and a sore travail! Indeed probortunity, dire problem presenting golden opportunity.
        
    And it will be perhaps thence, that there remains so vastly underserved, such a vast and popular yearning for unparalleled positive experience of any life less ordinary. For power, self determination, capability, dignity, freedom, acceptance among peers with shared core values. And therefore in the words of Arthur H. Vandenberg: It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity. Opportunity afforded one another, by honest and interested effort at collaboration among equals.
       
    In such ardent quest then for any such alternative opportunity, all entirely applicable due and realistic fair warning is extended in the above alarmingly bleak solicitation. And all as regarding the downside to all such call to adventure off from the beaten path, indeed at cost of whatever kind of individual personal effort and resource. And even all quite aside from all additional extra heartbreak from nigh inevitable and eventual betrayal, dishonest untrustworthy folly or mendacity. Beware then the 18 Easy Ways to Destroy trust. But not to digress.
        
    Perhaps what remains so glamorously elusive and yearned for, are some imagined lives of power, opportunity, challenge, ambition and creativity amid some vibrant new cabal of aspiring artists, wannabe entrepreneurs and perpetually excitable mad inventors! Because Americans after all, are each ascendant undiscovered genii, temporarily bankrupted billionaires, rightful Masters of the Universe. And we are all Americans at heart.
       
         •  The Top 10 Things People Want In Life But Can't Seem To Get - - “I can't get no...”  
        
    And so, 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 so haplessly to our own devices, setup for failure and sore travail. But now, gentle reader, at last we have found one another, and no dream must remain solitary. Therefore let every joy become shared and doubled, no burden shouldered alone, but shared and halved.

    As Edward Snowden so penetratingly observes, oppressors who restrict our options, then pretend that we consent. Indeed, to quote  Senator Elizabeth Warren: “Others have said it before me. If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu.” Why then must it continue to register as any shock to so many, the very idea that there may remain not only whatever personal human imperfection, various defects, flaws and foibles of individual personality and character, great and small, but also the most intractably severe and pervasive systemic problems and stumbling blocks out there in society at large? As if the very notion of such stock iconoclasm, where actually anything new!

    Why then must the masses,We, the Sheeple, the supposed end users of democracy in the free market of ideas, so abjectly fail to coordinate and rise to responsible initiative together, even firstly simply just to imagine better? In the words of Stanley Kubrick: However vast the darkness, we must bring our own light. Because given heteronomy remains ever dark and futile, all pretense aside, shedding no light whatsoever. In the words of Fyodor Dostoevsky: “The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.” -Or indeed, any sort of social institution at all, formal or informal, rather than the obvious unquestioned natural way of human nature and circumstances or situation.

    And when only sly and manipulative oppression keeping us all in the dark, has been the only binding shared experience at all, and then the bitter truth of it comes to light, how then shall one ever thence be set free except into crushing boredom and loneliness? Who then shall dare the escape? And what example to all others thus shall thereby be set? Indeed, in any alternative, how instead, gentle reader(s) might we rise together? Without task interdependent teamwork rediscovered and reinvented together, what solitary jailbreak can there be, from the prison of lonely isolation? As ever, we shall only find ourselves summarily abandoned so haplessly each and all to our own devices. And typically in one fashionable guise or another, to ever the same Mystical mendacity and cowardly bogus lonely tough love of the Zen. To making do and fading away alone, stiff upper lip and troubling no one else. Bah, humbug!

    And so, as my own boss, more confident in my ideas than my capability, I have fired myself for utter failure and gross incompetence in the sore travail of life! To quote Carl Gustav Jung: “Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate to others the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible . . . If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.” Indeed, in the words of Anton Chekhov: “People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.” And I am no different. Nevertheless, why should the present long winded mass of verbiage from an unemployable maladroit nebbish with a cable modem the likes of yours truly, ever be of any interest to anyone? To answer such an unkind and snobbish question to begin with (and for shame!), with another by far more salient question and cautionary: If anyone doesn't want you to talk with me, gentle reader, then what don't they want anyone the likes of me to tell anyone else indeed the likes of you? Plenty, as it turns out!  We really should compare notes. Indeed, to quote from ‘The Devil's Dictionary’ by Ambrose Bierce: “Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.”

    A trenchant parable of lonely togetherness: Imagine a seminar upon of all things, and strained metaphor just for contrivance of illustration, how to form a regulation Bedrock barefoot bowling team. The great regulation bowling team formation guru, perhaps none other than The Dude Lebowski (Lebrocksky, Lebstoneski?), regales the acolytes enthralled, with great purls of wisdom! And the attendees assembled together share all manner of sensitive personal disclosure, reciprocally sworn to silence once the seminar adjourns. Because what happens and all that is said at the regulation bowling team formation seminar, stays at the regulation bowling team formation seminar.

    And from the very dawn of time, so solemnly vow do they all. And from the regulation bowling team organizing guru, indeed no less than The Dude Lebowski, even in such preposterous cartoon preincarnation, they all learn the purportedly foolproof secrets towards each their similar objectives.

    In precisely all such enduring antediluvian ritual, thus has it ever been, thus shall it ever be!

    And nobody at all even seems to have noticed that there were exactly enough people in the room right then and there, for the formation of a regulation bowling team! Easier said than done of course, but then, what isn't? Superficially committed to such manic pep rallies encouraging one another, yet in subtext only inflicting such reciprocal contempt, what succor will ever rally and penetrate such abysmal defeat and indolent covert masochism?  Yaba-daba-don't!
    The moral of the story? First of all, most superficially, the clever maxim:

    But more profoundly, beyond any such glib infotainment sound bite clickbait, there ever remains forWe, the Sheeple, the more dire predicament of the masses: How we are each and all exhorted and tantalized: Follow your bliss! Empty blandishment and lip service, hand waving and broken promise all easier said than done, as dazed, confused and quite understandably even actually consumed with mistrust at the mercy of every random cult scam, busy work, (Anti)Social Media distraction, dissipation, and pacifying bogus support group ethos, all as even however reputable, we all then find ourselves once again summarily abandoned each and all to our own devices (In more ways than one!) and blithely setup for failure, particularly in anything individually meaningful. Nothing works! Not only the most hapless and broken, and knaves and fools especially, or even the most ordinary and average, but especially our best and brightest, so often meet only with such desperate failure and frustration. And yet, the system never fails: You fail the system! Or so it is said. Bah, humbug!

    Alas, as so many people complain, when they reach out for connection, others do not seem equally interested. Typical social life remains a lonely chore and a bore of mindless conformity and approval seeking. There remains an outcomes gap! Meaning that it makes such little difference whatever one tries to do. And yet, many even who suffer the most, continue to profess conformism, commitment to normative  challenge, and undying faith in status quo. But some are more serious than others. There are some that walk the talk, and most who don't. Some rigorous and actively systematic, and the rest only wrapped up in lip service and passive pretense. Either way, they all balk at facing the the same crushing reality. And only unflinching situation analysis as undertaken herein, might possibly reveal any proportion and necessity of going so far a field as herein proposed, presently. Or first of all, even simply discussing the matter seriously!

    TicTok, TicTok, Worse Than You Thought! As Marshall McLuhan would have it: “The medium is the message.” For characteristics of whatever medium constitute message in their own right, the implication whereof so easily overlooked, at least at first. And yet, it may often come to pass, that as in those famous words of Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr: “plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose,,, ” (the more things change, the more they remain the same...) Indeed, never forget that Facebook only began as the IT (Information Technology) for the worst venial and Narcissistic aspects of the most braindead collegiate life. A culture taking the lead from insecure conniving bullies like unto wounded and bleeding piranhas, ever ready to turn upon one another in the blink of an eye.

    Indeed, isolating and unfulfilling short attention (Anti)Social Media could never become so seductive and unwholesome, without the long preceding heteronomy to anti-intellectual anti-intraceptive susceptibility under lifelong prevailing hierarchical dominance. And therefore as shall become abundantly clear, and technology notwithstanding, they who suffer so, are not punished for their superficiality, but by their own short attention superficiality. Indeed, in such blithe incongruity: Even while like John Milton, indeed lamenting such loneliness they endure, as the first thing that God's eye nam'd not good, just indeed the very worst no good awful thing! yet so staunchly do they cleave to the toxic and toadying First Commandment of the ubiquitous cult of socialization: Being that interminably vapid small talk, empty and polite conversation drifting upon unimportant or uncontroversial matters, not even very entertaining, ever keeping it light and willfully cheerful, ever remains key to life, popularity and social success. The suffering of the multitudes is scorned and dismissed with the bullying admonition to lighten up! And those poor dolts embrace and take to heart such cruel and callous invalidation as greatest purl of wisdom. Be seeing you, Number 6. “They have joined the enemy against themselves.”

    Under so many guises of ideology, from anciently clichéd Zen Mystical tripe of sublime apathy in nonattachment, to the latest word in malignant Behavior Modification into Fascist exaltation and even the smug would-be Machiavellian but covertly Masochistic indolence of (Anti)Social Media culture, only the same oppressor of so many faces, cajoles us all never so shamefully to feel, think or complain and rock the boat. And that is why, in those most famous words of Henry David Thoreau: “The mass of men lead lives of [such] quiet desperation.” Or at the very least when griping, never actually mean any of it! So, smile when you call out the the bullies, just to show that we're all still Facebook friends! One fine day, quite effort free and without strife or good trouble, without any challenging need of character and strength or moral fiber, advanced and sophisticated Automated Sociometry will have long superseded all such rotten travesty of society and the human condition as do we all endure. But in the meantime, here and now, the true thorny path at long last, to CyberUtopian salvation, is yet to emerge from the most technologically convenient path of least social resistance. And certainly not via short attention manipulative TOTALITARIAN INTERACTIVITY. Wake up, Sheeple! Because any true key to life must pivot upon struggle and only the awakening of integrity from unique individually motivating core values:  
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
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      Then let us build it together! But what would that take? And what shall be required of participants? And why even bother?
     
    Three compelling questions of relatable drama, as in life, ever endure:

       Save us all from the banality and sore travail of conventional expectations! Who needs the grief? When all else fails, what has actually been desired all along?

     

    But why must such intensive creativity actually become so crucial? Indeed, many will regard creativity in very principle, as entirely superfluous and distracting, at best merely ornamental. Indeed, it may bear mention how sometimes espoused in remedial Behavior Modification and rehab, is the recommendation merely of consistent participation in ongoing long term projects even at all much more arbitrarily, and with precious little challenge to much creativity. Indeed somewhat philistine and cretin, yet entirely cut-and-dry and feasible though banal and boring drudgery. Such as, for example: community gardening, providing behavioral structure of regularly scheduled activity and association sustaining propinquity while also producing any ongoing interaction and sense of involvement to draw participants together. Such much. A travesty of the rôle of gardening in the ideal and intentional community of Epicurus. And yet, the somewhat uninspiring recommendation nevertheless does point halfway towards what is actually so sorely needed, in focus therein upon active ongoing cooperation.

    Too bad it's all so tedious and onerous, boring to tears, unless indeed one so adores gardening! But its easy to see why anything so readily accessible and straightforward may be deemed more simple and feasible for Sheeple such as We. Because “The devil is in the details.”

    Eudemonia, anything more ambitious and uplifting, forging true friendship attempting  anything really cool together, demands greater initiative and responsibility and therefore must require such meticulous perseverance and autonomy, polymath multipotential cross discipline. And no one foresees arête, excellence, from underachieving losers reaching out for help. They forget how our best and brightest frequently underachieve. They ignore the crying needs not only of the gifted, but of fulfillment in universal human inner giftedness in the human condition for us all.

    At least initially, rather than sweeping the world out from leftfield, any bold, liberating and empowering subversion of hierarchy, instead, 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 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. But well may one ask: Why go to such lengths? Why so rashly together embark upon such arduous and complicated real world Hero's Journey? Why pine for life less ordinary? Why not just chill and go with  flow? Why needlessly raise expectations of forging true friendship attempting  anything really cool together? Why even dignify outlandish notions with serious deliberation together?

    We are all such proverbial square pegs: The customer is always wrong! The program never fails, you fail the program. Cut the foot to fit the shoe! Bah, humbug! In truth, to quote Anthony Marra: Work isn t meaningful just because you spend your life doing it. Indeed, 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. And lately, the masses are just up and quitting! By contrast, our designated rôle models in every conventional option in life, exemplars of approval seeking sycophantic predictive social cognition under heteronomy to hierarchical dominance, the star student under formal education, ideal employee, perfect disciple or model prisoner alike, are all so consummately well adapted, ever so heteronymously characterized as they remain, beyond mere responsive obedience and passivity otherwise, not only by every obsessive-compulsive eager beaver sore travail, but boundlessly committed initiative in anticipation of their superior's desires, paying one's dues life long, excelling without complaint or resistance, never demanding attention by requesting explanation or assistance.

    And why can't we all just submissively follow their shining example and be more like them? Because, just as George Carlin implies, we all so chafe at the bit! Recalcitrant in such sore travail, obstinately uncooperative toward mind numbing routine as imposed by ever coercive and manipulative self-servingly moralizing authority, all too many typically succumb to ambivalence expressed in resentful and reluctant obedience together with covert passive hostile sabotage, instead of actually choosing between either dignified and whole hearted active compliance on the one hand, or else free and open fully effective proletariat uprising on the other hand. And such remains damaged human nature not by innate disposition, but as triggered in suffering and humiliated response to norms of sore travail, deviously guilt tripping tyranny psychologically internalized. In short: inner conflicted ambivalence and headgames of slave Moralism.

    Cynically manipulative social advice online typically ranges from the domineering to the sycophantic. But always unilateral, never touching upon any notion of cooperation. But in order to remedy loneliness, shall each of us do better to strive alone in the world at large, or to turn to one another? Do lonely people require access and inclusion up the social ladder with better socially graceful and situated peers? Or perhaps in order ever to remedy loneliness, do lonely people first require to find inclusion and access merely with one another, even actual assistance and partnership, true friendship in imperfection, even just amongst ourselves? The cult of socialization, ever striving for inclusion and access up the social ladder with popular kids who don't actually need more hangers on, remains the ardent supplication for acceptance and approval from those better advantaged. Whereas instead, so often overlooked in the mad dash for social skills and correct performance in heteronomy to hierarchically predictive social aptitudes, there remains an obvious alternative being: endeavor at inclusion and access for lonely people, simply with one another, even merely as an outreach just perhaps not only for solace and commiseration, but maybe even for highly functional cooperation in any similar common struggle.

    But as Aesop tells us: “A man is known by the company he keeps.” And even aside from malicious gossip and the social risk of ill repute by association, the actual psychological danger remains of toxic Ulterior Transactions or: headgames, and only playing upon one another's flaws, thereby exacerbating dysfunction and holding one another back, thus indeed only reflecting poorly upon one another.

    Which strategy then must best take precedence? In answer: Trustworthy capable individuals value the same in others. And likewise, callow popular kids ever committed to the social rat-race, are impressed by outwards exhibition of community and popularity. All hence, the demonstration of capable and competent cooperation, even amongst similarly downtrodden and forgotten peers, must afford a first upward step in assimilation with anyone else better off and presumably more useful. Indeed the first trustworthy step of creditable Menschlichkeit in order favorably impress and allie the responsible caution of the wealthy, powerful and influential, in order thereby to network and gain access to their resources and connections, remains the salient demonstration to candidate recruits and prospective investors alike, of capable collaboration among equals.

    Alas that lonely isolated people can only strategize in terms of lone striving. However, true probortunity remains, never merely of individual wherewithal, but of teamwork, and of how then might we more congenially, productively and effectively cooperate; friendship arising, and without apology, entirely as forbidden byproduct of optimal reciprocal engagement in substantive communication towards purposeful interaction, and nothing less. And no one else need approve! 

     
     
     
     
    Probortunity begins in bold unflinching
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    FoolQuest.com is not yet another short attention website for manipulative TOTALITARIAN INTERACTIVITY perpetually leading the casual website visitor safely about by the nose. Only whatever most remarkable self directed unique individual motivation howsoever piquing whatever lively yet comforting vested self-interest, Existential Validation or relatable concern, gravitas or whimsy, has ever delivered intelligible purpose and context for the present densely verbose hypertext asking of others what no one else asks, and offering in return, what no one else offers. As a rule, others neither so urgently solicit nor offer partnership in ambitious endeavor. At least, not seriously. And yet, such must be the inception of any true to life Hero's Journey asking what no one else does, and daring to offer in return, what no one else offers, and whereof, leave us admit, we each and all, however benumbed, secretly await the mythic call to adventure. For such is the human condition of perpetual stimulus struggle. Of course, intellectual adventure of reading and discussion, free exploration into the world of ideas, does seem perhaps the least perilous of transaction. What can it hurt? Surely there will be greater risks in life.

    Indeed, as according to Aristotle, happiness has an agenda, an agenda remaining contingent upon the exercise but also the communication of the meaningful values of imagination, free will, personal choice, independence, competence and achievement, together with connection, self awareness and conscience informed by rationality. Moreover, happiness is not merely and actively experienced, but interactive expression and response, affiliation and shared enthusiasm. And that is why even the journey of ongoing strategic discourse in earnest seeking happiness, can already be so involving and uplifting. Alas however, even so little as any substantive communication much less purposeful interaction, despite remaining as ever crucial, can never be compelled. One can but extend invitation. And FoolQuest.com remains your golden invitation, gentle reader, asking of others what no one else does, and offering in return, what no one else offers.

    Indeed, in the biting whit of Dorothy Parker: “You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.” In such frequent demonstration of quantity over quality, online discussion predominantly remains ever repetitive and redundant, meager signal ever drowning out amid the din and clamor of all that empty noise. FoolQuest.com, instead undertaking various neglected discourse, anything less effete and dissipated, thereby ever blunders upon no end of fresh new taboo for the squeamish so studiously to ignore. Nevertheless, in order to advocate for change, in order to demonstrate the urgency, it remains necessary to expose the normalization of deviance and the worst of all that has become so routine.

    Again 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 by design discovered to scientific investigation, qualitatively domineering and oppressive, systematically crushing of human spirit. Because from very premise, Cultural Anthropology studies human relationships consistent with rôles of relative social standing, degrees of kinship and rank, all predicated upon competencies and aptitudes of hierarchically predictive social cognition by which to anticipate 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 and prediction of future behavior and in order to know what one is expected to do and how to behave. After all, from prehistory and up to the present day, every hierarchical structure has evolved from that of the clan or extended family. And there's the rub!

    Gentle reader, only look around you: Society is not your friend. Society is the enemy. Society is the oppressor. Society is not nurturing. Society remains user hostile. Catch-22, a classic double bind, a no-win setup for failure and suffering, one way or the other: damned if you do, damned if you don't! We are all slowly bored to death, unseen and and interminably lonely. Alas, the prospects instead for better fulfillment remain dismal for designated worker drones slaving under the perpetual grinding sore travail of heteronomy to behavioral conditioning, all cogs in the machine, formal education and typical corporate culture of employment, fostering admiration, but never emulation, of those lionized men and women of destiny rising only actually despite the system, overcoming adversity, and then effectively quarantined and lonely at the top. And for wretches such as we, there must be no ready escape at all from the only dull and sorry game in town! For such remains the banal rank hypocrisy of glowing lip service to independence while fostering helplessness and dependency of 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?

    Thus, from top to bottom, indeed at every strata and walk of life, again 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. Alas, in Existentially Absurd social reality, there remains such dystressing user hostile outcomes gap, wherein instrumentality equals zero, meaning, even causally and deterministically, no relationship between performance and outcome, no real hope, no results no matter what one does, other than mounting frustration and defeat. So much then, it might seem, for individual real world freedom and capability. In every walk of life, in every sphere of endeavor, personal or professional, society is no conduit to success, but a filter of the incompetent and noncompliant alike and without distinction, a crushing and threatening obstacle course to be overcome, an unremitting chore and a bore, setup for failure; thus to self-esteem, a proverbial death by a thousand cuts. And any claims to the contrary, are just part of the racket. Indeed, from any end user standpoint, the existing system has remained broken from time immemorial. Alas the masses abide in false hope from blinding propaganda myth. And what a racket! A racket, no matter how reputable, can be any dishonest scheme or ongoing transaction, all not as it contrives to present itself and as is tacitly accepted or endured by the majority of those involved, but in actuality, indeed, a myth, scam or fraud of heteronomy, a deceptive domineering practice of coercion and manipulation conducted for whatever benefit of a few cronies at the expense of the many.

     

     
    We are all exhorted and tantalized: “Follow your bliss!” Empty blandishment and broken promise easier said than done, as we are all then summarily abandoned each and all to our own devices, so bereft of respectful autonomy supportive social support and thereby capability, thus setup for failure. And so, whilst pragmatically making do and fitting in, we each and all meanwhile secretly await the call to some yearned for true to life Hero's Journey. For such remains the human condition of perpetual stimulus struggle against lonely boredom, secretly and shamefully miserable and unhappy, even amid affluence and secure civil society. And lone individual emulation of whatever success rôle model as per the formulae of various success gurus, so often meets with inertia and frustration in isolation, because human interaction fails to progress, change or improve. Because tautologically, there can be no self-help, no solitary rugged self-reliant unilateral self-made bootstrap "well-formed plan," for interaction among more than one individual. As the saying goes: It takes two to tango. But one alone, wanders ever searching like Diogenes, a sore travail.
     
    Alas that so many nevertheless balk, remaining so clueless and bereft of any proverbial grain of salt, too desperate to let go of various fraudulent false hopes and propaganda so foisted upon us all. For such are the dynamics of conditionality, meaning conditional love, buttressed by systematic indoctrination, brainwash, denial and crimestop. Nevertheless, what to do, if all such dynamics remain anything more prevalent than merely some strange malignancy of whatever marginal bizarre cults? What if cults only reflect anything howsoever actually somewhat common, normalization of deviance ever prevalent? Where then does that leave any of us?

    In the much beloved fairytale parable and metaphor authored by Hans Christian Anderson, ‘The Emperor's New Suit,’ the titular Emperor desired only to be ever fashionable and well dressed. Then one day he came under the sway of his new tailors, actually swindlers who persuaded the Emperor to don new vestments of an amazing gossamer light new fabric, visible only to the worthy, so that the unworthy, thereby exposed, ferreted out and failing the test, may be well banished, once and for all.

    But in actuality, the  Emperor only stood stark naked, just daring anyone to remark! As ever, many so lowly and loyal among Sheeple, ever most faithful and exploited among the masses, surely believed without hesitation, simpletons, useful innocents ever embracing flagrant delusion wholeheartedly. Although, in truth, various sly cynical privileged courtiers and hypocritical cronies, ever motivated in well considered vested interest, with comfort and survival at stake for the families they support and protect, as ever remaining circumspect, proverbially pivoting into whatever figurative direction the allegorical wind metaphorically blows, adult and responsible, so vigorously went along with the gag and staunchly conformed.

    Under such an oppressively corrupt reward and punishment system, a mad world of blind folly and cynical mendacity, inevitably any honest person, by disposition stripped of all such protective armor of distasteful denial, shall only then find themselves metaphorically naked and exposed before the Existentially Absurd, all alone and railing against the inequity and therefore excluded, indeed forever banished. Because truth to power in subversion of hierarchy, threatens status quo.

    To quote Nazi Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels: ‘Propaganda becomes ineffective, the moment we become aware of it.’ To whit: what if in all too many ways, the general and indistinct common wisdom of mainstream social reality and order, with only a modicum of perspective in autonomy, stands so shockingly denuded, in effect, as after all, merely yet another weird cult granfalloon membership and practice? - Indeed the pervasive and reputable short attention memplex sometimes designated as: the cult of socialization... 

    For while empathy is by nature ever receptive, by contrast that great and good boon from our ever gracious betters, socialization, that which none dare call: indoctrination, Behavioral Conditioning, indoctrination or brainwash, remains ever dull and unreceptive, rejecting, dishonest, manipulative and coercive. After all, propaganda can be unintentional. Not all propaganda is deliberate influence. Indeed, unthinking tradition and propaganda are everywhere. For the Behavioral Conditioned organization of methods to persuade people to think and behave in a certain way, have themselves long become entirely spontaneous and endemic to social order. And indeed, such is complacent heteronomy, oppression propagating among the oppressed. Shall anyone thus growing ever more desperately entrenched in heteronomy, ever finally arrive at Positive Disintegration?

    Alas that under heteronomy, there may ever arise indeed significant danger motivating interminable caginess: Before daring even to begin any interaction, always heed the cautionary lesson of the ever more exhausting callow (anti)social media mass distraction and the empty illusion of social life: Will, not only as in (anti)social media participation, but in the social rat-race most generally, extra effort and involvement actually derive extra value and purpose, or only become ever more squandered? That is the question!
      
    In the latter calculation, then there will be no reason for concern. Safest always just to walk away, even to refuse the quest and leave the Hero's Journey stillborn. Nothing ventured, nothing lost. In that case, then grumbling can only arise from doubt and remorse, so frequently triggered, manipulated and exploited. Remorse, ever so dramatic, as ever accrues from disappointment, beaten defeat and failure to rise to occasion as life passes by. Nothing ventured, therefore nothing gained but enduring regret. Everything turns upon evaluation of probortunity in transaction, all turning upon the importance of vastly neglected intrinsic human appetites of social and intellectual stimulus struggle.

    Existentially Absurd: Popular or unpopular alike, we all remain so ill equipped, each and all abandoned to our own devices, setup for failure, futility, user hostile outcomes gap, sore travail, pandemic boredom and loneliness. The only winning move is not to play! But for so many of us, it's the only game in town! And precisely hence such urgent need of implementation towards any new and better alternatives. But with creativity and innovation, looms danger and uncertainty. Hence prevailing resistance. Indeed, even successful innovation, so hard won, readily transitions into new orthodoxy resistant to further change. Because popularity and unpopularity alike, are only different situations of individual isolation and oppression, the isolation and even sheer abuse of unpopularity and social exclusion being more overt, and the exploitation of popularity within the social rat-race being by far the more devious. And such is the status quo of pandemic serial bullying, escape wherefrom propelling the true to life Hero's Journey.

     
    In the words of Neil Gabler:  “American society is a society in which individuals have learned to prize social skills that permit them, like actors, to assume whatever role the occasion demands and to "perform" their lives rather than just live them.” And forced cheerful willful positivity and interminably vapid small talk notwithstanding, a morbidly serious matter. Nothing could ever be less playful. Competent or incompetent, whether in true hardnosed practicality or in sheer aimless and empty actingout of mimesis, many all the same remain no less consumed with the burning question of how to perform as expected and to fit in: How best to placate The Great Faceless They, thereby to obtain the key to life.
      
    For such remains the heteronymous slave mentality of Homo Domesticus, the domesticated human being. And so,We, the Sheeple, ever desperate and terrified of loneliness and exclusion, remain ever vested in endless sacrifice of authenticity upon that Moloch alter of social acceptance. For anything less remains the height of blasphemy! Or so one might expect. And yet all rebuke herein must come as no surprise, nothing new, all such clich d iconoclasm having so long dissipated all shock value and element of surprise. That is, until the point will be driven home, to reiterate,, Eros which is transport in liberating union with alien difference, that relationship and particularly friendship, arise, and without apology, entirely as forbidden byproduct of full engagement in purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication, and never otherwise.  And no one else need approve! The only thing to sacrifice, shall be sacrifice itself.

     

     

     

     

    The real world Hero's Journey, for the rest of us...

     

    An outcry rings forth in the wilderness, for an unloved quest. Who is the target audience? The target audience remains unknown. Does anybody even care? Such is the tribulation of the prophet lost and unheeded. The Hero's Journey, in order to begin, must break the isolation of solitary quest by forging profound alliance against adversity and devious cross-purpose, instead with trustworthy objectives in common. So too, for the solitary aspirant in any endeavor. Indeed, like unto the mythic Hero's Journey, real collaboration among equals, creative solution finding to whatever purpose or intention, can only begin with some or other fateful meeting or recruitment, and all hinging upon overcoming taboo, illusion and dishonesty, into new and greater self-understanding of who one needs to be and to do together.

    But stirring myth notwithstanding, does realism quite simply demand surrender and making do? Is even sheer stimulus struggle doomed only to lonely boredom? Barring the most unrealistic rugged self sufficiency, for social beings as are we all, options ever remain limited in isolation, abandoned as we find ourselves, each and all to ones own devices. And that is why, in order ever to succeed, individuals must seek one another out, others each different and one brings to whatever quest, and band together. For in the words of Henry Ford: Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. But devious cross-purpose, accrues only such abject failure. Better far, open honest disagreement. For so goes the proverb: The devil is in the details. And the learning curve remains steep. But only therein will be found salvation from ever more frenetic emptiness and Existentially Absurd sore travail in the Brave New World of ever escalating soft-core zombie apocalypse that is (anti)social media culture and the empty illusion of social life.     

    Gentle reader(s), will you heed the call? Am I then your unmet friend? Let's work the probortunity together: The same ever applicable fundamentals of due diligence, feasibility study, project planning, outreach, recruitment, organization and implementation, all obtain. As does the power of narrative, because planning remains another mode of storytelling, crafting futuring scenario learning and teaching the tale of intention unfolding.  

    Ambivalence guaranteed: Desperately seeking collaboration cofounder candidates for difficult, protracted, immersively laborious and necessarily innovative risk-tolerant undertaking. Gruelingly extensive deliberation and research throughout (pre-)incubation. On spec, no wages upfront, bitter despair in unknown daunting obstacles at every turn, progress therefore doubtful, fame and fortune in case of success, doing well by doing good, all in quest of fulfillment together along the way.

    New venture creation (various business startup) for the rest of us: What does it really take, forging true friendship attempting anything really cool together? Beyond fiction merely howsoever as diverting stimulus or even as historically as protopsychology, drama, hailed by Socrates as most philosophical among the arts, provides deep exploration of dharma, character motivation, human frailty and growth even into right action, learning from mistakes. Hence the proposal, Creativity can and Should be Social, as conceived, consisting of entrepreneurship for the rest of us, disruptively innovative new venture creation (various business startup), on the one hand, unprecedented interstitial concurrent synergy with, on the other hand, unprecedented serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming. Business or project planning after all, is but another mode of narrative, another kind of storytelling, a method beyond mere plausibility as in fiction, of realistic feasibility study towards implementation. Thus, as do we all, aspiring writers and wanna-be entrepreneurs alike, can relate to the archetypical hero, however vaguely dissatisfied, who at first refuses the call to adventure and peril. Because change is frightening and difficult. And probortunity is often complicated. But If You Desire Anything You've Never Had, Try Something You've Never Done.

      

    Even heeding the call, like unto the mythic protagonist, aspiring writers and wanna-be entrepreneurs alike, inevitably confront setbacks, challenges and temptations, doubts and even feelings of resentment in perception or nagging suspicion of having been drawn in and duped into onerous commitments, all merely even in undertaking preparation and initiation. After all, only bad decisions make good stories. Indeed, everything so dramatic for fiction, entails suffering in reality.

    The protagonist called to adventure upon the path of the Hero's Journey, is often someone different from and misunderstood by their peers. Of course, that might also describe a knave, a fool or a crank! Cranks are falsely distinguished and characterized by bad ideas. However, often knaves and false prophets can have extremely good ideas, but they ruin them! And they betray those to whom to turn for help. And so, beware malignant headgames and devious cross-purpose! But then again, wisdom and good intention frequently go unrecognized. Such dystressing uncertain dilemma and ambiguity of unknown trustworthuness, brings dramatic tension and suspense to the Hero's Journey in reality no less than in fiction.  
     
    As Carl Gustav Jung wrote: “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” Indeed, because the Hero s Journey inevitably undertakes such profound transformation of consciousness, the Hero s Journey remains also largely internal. The common story arc of the Hero's Journey, follows a protagonist, motivated to ever mounting ambivalence, in leading a stable and even comfortable yet stiflingly unfulfilling life, and then even unexpectedly embarking upon a journey, literal or figurative, full of peril, numerous challenges, lessons, growth, character development, transformation and even atonement (as ever applicable to genuine pathos), dramatic obstacle, plot complication and adventure of one kind or another.
     
    Because even amid ordinary status quo, much like real people, relatable characters begin gaining limited awareness of unfamiliar probortunity. Thus awareness of need for change ever increases. Hence fear and resistance to change to be overcome before committing to change and crossing the threshold into adventure and experimentation with new situations in preparing for major change, even seemingly life and death, indeed  ordeal with the Dark Night of the Soul and acceptance of consequences of new change and rededication. Final attempts at denial ensue in order to resist. At last, denial fails, and Positive Disintegration ensues, opening the way new mastery, capable  power and autonomy.
     
    Fears may be entirely quite rational and evidenced however, and trust must be earned. Indeed, the most discouraging malicious gossip need not persuade, but only engender hesitation. As must we all, the hero finally confronts their inner demons and whatever has been sabotaging life, forever holding them back. By finding allies and getting help, the protagonist becomes able to cross the threshold into danger and adventure, draw up plans and undertake feasibility study, work out hard decisions, face trial and tribulation, and even defeat enemies, struggle and overcome.
     
    The Hero's Journey thus culminates in one great conclusive challenge, the dramatic climax, of an experience leaving the protagonist forever changed, even as normal life returns and resumes. And d nouement of normalcy regained, so badly missed, may be welcomed. Or else, the protagonist forever changed, will no longer be satisfied. And so instead, trauma comes to light, and an extended d nouement of anguish and healing ensues, dubbed by Maureen Murdock as: The Heroine's Journey, the reconciliation of "masculine" toughness with "feminine" vulnerability.
     
    And exactly this universal mythic story structure of the Hero's Journey, is indeed reflected in the call to collaboration among equals, in endless possibility, the vision and even in the reality of innovative new venture creation (various business startup), disruptive entrepreneurship for the rest of us, and even in the yearning of art for its own joy in unprecedented ongoing serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming. All so appealing to power and "masculine" toughness so crucial to autonomy and capability, yet trust so threatening to human vulnerability, indeed "feminine" tenderness ever crucial to attachment, bonding and teambuilding.
     
    Again, the rubric: 'probortunity,' is coined by way of portmanteau from the two words: 'problem' and 'opportunity,' in optimistic denotation of how problems might be embraced as opportunity for innovative solution finding, planning, feasibility study and implementation. Indeed, entrepreneurship addresses probortunity on two fronts: Externally relevant entrepreneurship must strive to discover and to meet some or other market gap, whatever underserved needs of any target consumers, our fellow human beings. Unless it's all just another grift and a sham! Because the true to life Hero's Journey remains ever fraught with deceit, detour and dead ends. For Entrepreneurship also endeavors to satisfy frustrated yearnings and authentic personal integrity in life, of aspiring entrepreneurs themselves. Much as writing motivated by frustrated self-expression, must therefore also seek to relate to any receptive audience. Unless it's all some sham of banal hack, sycophantic empty manipulation and pandering propaganda.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Realistic professionalism: The  FoolQuest.com work ethic in action
    FoolQuest.com extends your invitation, gentle reader, to collaboration among equals in an unprecedentedly innovative interstitial dynamic synergy concurrently between serious collaborative fiction writing on the one hand, and business or project planning in new venture creation (various business startup), entrepreneurship for the rest of us, on the other hand; filling the gap of poorly understood and vastly underserved needs of entrepreneurship made more accessible for the rest of us; all as beginning in the utterly neglected very earliest path of concerted effort over time, discussion, research and networking even from the most vastly underserved embryonic inception or: "kitchen table" phase or stage of new venture creation (various business startup), into planning, research, due diligence, feasibility study and organization, problem-centered rather than ego-centered, with the productive ambition of even world changing new venture creation (various business startup) and expansion all from scratch, undertaking beyond the resource or wherewithal of any one lone individual; all hence actually seeking out and bringing together aspiring entrepreneurs and activists for brainstorming new ideas and following up in every due diligence developing all manner of promising notions and endless possibility into realization, from comprehensive feasibility study and (pre-) incubation of embryonic first concepts, through research, comprehensive feasibility study, business planning and qualified Management Team recruitment, all the way to Capitalization, implementation and expansion.  Then followed by whatever denouement of exit strategy ever as applicable. A steep learning curve together. 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! For the possibilities remain endless.
     
    Obviously, funding must remain ever crucial in new venture creation (various business startup). And we have entered a revolutionary new age of ever more accessible new vehicles of investment and Capitalization, ever more commonly accessible, indeed: for the rest of us. But popular participation amid unprecedented liberation from traditional privileged exclusivity, has eroded away all concomitant protective filters of, to put it vulgar and colloquially: shit from Shinola! And therefore prospecting for Capitalization may often remain somewhat premature, for wont of necessary preceding preparation and due diligence, support thereof all ever remaining as exclusive as ever, so vastly and dauntingly underserved for the likes of us clueless hoi polloi, and mysterious or worse: often halfcocked and half-baked pipedream, incompetent or even actually dishonest folly and knavery. So goes the proverb: The devil is in the details. Sun Tzu said that every battle is won or lost before it is ever fought. First indeed must be shared whatever vivid fantasy of compelling frustrated yearning, but fit groundwork must then ensue. It remains foolhardy to just wing it. As per summary aggregation of the notoriously alliterative multiple p's:  Properly Purposeful Pre-Planning and Prior Preparation Prevents Preemptive Production of Painfully Piss Poor Performance.
     
     Neither high pressure facile flimflam of hurried hustle and deceptive manipulation, nor passive hostile stalling and foot-dragging proverbially pulling out the figurative rug metaphorically out from under, but responsibly proceeding in true collaboration among equals steadily at our own pace in small reversible steps, business or project planning together, creative solution finding, and capable management team formation, business or project planning together, a steep learning curve creative solution finding, and capable management team formation. Gentle reader, can you be trustworthy and responsible? And will anybody else reciprocate? Am I your unmet friend?
    The FoolQuest.com vision of entrepreneurship for the rest of us, capable interaction with even adequately responsible others, remains entirely different from anything less. It is therefore respectfully submitted herein, that the true key remains in the actual process, the human interaction, of business or project planning together, creative solution finding, and management team formation, in true collaboration among equals steadily at our own pace, beyond mere lip service. And that the indispensable and effective starting point remains to be found in initiation and quality of open and responsible sustained discourse and deliberation in critical thinking, outreach and research. And in specific new and unprecedented innovation as to be fully expounded anon, in the concurrent interstitial dynamic synergy to be cultivated between unprecidented serious collaborative fiction writing and new venture creation (various business startup) for the rest of us. Because Creativity can and Should be Social, beginning with the celebrated star first follower who shall be the true leader and influencer, showing others how to participate and relate, blazing the trail of welcome! No, I might not have what you want.  But dare we seek for it together? For any lonesome frustrated desire tells a story, needs a plan, and calls out for allies.
     
    Setup for failure:
    "Follow your bliss!" rings hollow that shopworn platitude whereby we are each and all extolled, then each and all, so ill equipped, summarily abandoned entirely to ones own devices, set up for inertia, failure and disappointment. commitment falls short, even in lunatic faith that, alas, does not actually move mountains, in commitment even such as never wanes, yet fails to carry the freight, manipulatively 'Bright Sided' as we have been, by inseasant exhortation to willful positivity and rabid GREENLANTERNism!
        
    For urging and enthusiasm of hope that springs eternal and endures, is not a strategy. All that cheering and encouragement at the starting line, quickly fades away into into the distance. No one cares. Because all Pollyanna willfully optimistic blandishment and facile lip service notwithstanding, in ugly truth of banal hypocrisy, individual fulfillment remains at best a distant societal priority, if not actually undermined as a subversive dire threat to status quo. And therefore, rudderless and setup for failure without relevant social support, direction or resources, far from any idealism of subversive and committedly "unreasonable" disruptive civic heroism, many so discouraged then hesitate, become lost and despair, finally to conform and make do or just fall by the wayside.
     
    But what is to be done? Well, it's complicated. I have no ready and trite simple answer to complex problems. And 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? And so, in the face of entrenched pervasive institutional indifference, how can anyone fare any better?
     
    The masses have tolerated much, only given bygone prosperity. But boom is long gone to bust. And nowadays in the United States, even baring any misfortune of protracted unemployment, the dilemma remains between entry directly into the workforce, and thence failure and poverty, in doing without higher education, on the one hand, and crushing lifelong compounding debt from the burgeoning expense of higher education, even if career pursuit all goes according to plan without a hitch. One way or another, many end up going into business for themselves, less by preference, then when all else has failed. And whatever pragmatic compromise turns out no less difficult, than whatever lofty aspirations therefore sacrificed.

    We are all such proverbial square pegs: The customer is always wrong! The program never fails, you fail the program. 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.” By contrast, our designated rôle models in every conventional option in life, the star student under formal education, ideal employee , perfect disciple or model prisoner alike, are all so consummately well adapted, ever so heteronymously characterized as they remain, beyond mere responsive obedience and passivity otherwise, not only by every obsessive-compulsive eager beaver sore travail, but boundlessly committed initiative in anticipation of their superior's desires, "paying one's dues" life long, excelling without complaint or resistance, never seeking attention by requesting explanation or assistance.

    And why can't we all follow their example and be more like them? Because, just as Carlin implies, we all so chafe at the bit! Recalcitrant in such sore travail, obstinately uncooperative toward mind numbing routine as imposed by ever coercive and manipulative self-servingly moralizing authority, all too many typically succumb to ambivalence expressed in resentful and reluctant obedience together with covert passive hostile sabotage, instead of actually choosing between either dignified and whole hearted compliant individual cooperation on the one hand, or else free and open fully effective proletariat uprising on the other hand. And such remains damaged human nature not by innate disposition, but as triggered in suffering and humiliated response to norms of sore travail, deviously guilt tripping tyranny psychologically internalized, in short, of slave morality.

    And yet, exactly such adaptation on the part of the aforementioned rôle model, of broken in and enthusiastic approval seeking, will still be so blithely held up as exemplary in order to vindicate systemic failure and disappointment in most every walk of life. And under extrinsic punishment and reward systems by hierarchical design, indeed such provides the benchmark by which for better or worse, most of us will come short and fall by the wayside, make do, for each to learn their place. And hence the burning motivation, the poignant yearning and sheer redeeming Existential disgust, of "unreasonable people," instead to find one another in order committedly together to strive and change and forge anew the world, better to their liking.

     
    Not fitting in remains an often debilitating sore travail. But leave us face it: the compromises in fitting are typically even more deranged, impotent, pointlessly laborious, soul destroying, senseless, Existentially Absurd, and over all, egodystonic and shockingly irrelevant to all core values. Alas that capable interaction with even adequately responsible others, is not simply given, and cannot be won by jumping through any hoops set before us. Fortunate are the few truly ever exposed thereto and included therein. But for most of us, capable interaction with even adequately responsible others, remains elusive. And anything less than capable interaction with even adequately responsible others, amounts to an isolation from power, bored, anxious, helpless, oppressed and alone, a frustrating sore travail. Outreach remains random and daunting at best. But what individual recourse can be available?
     
    And so, as my own boss, more confident in my ideas than my capability, I have fired myself for utter failure and gross incompetence in the sore travail of life! Tautologically, there can be no self-help, no solitary rugged self-reliant unilateral self-made bootstrap "well-formed plan," for interaction among more than one individual. And no secret magic of fineness, either. Because power remains a function of capable relationship on ones own terms. Am I then your unmet friend? 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...
     

    Dialectic and the open society:

    The indefatigable enemies of the open society, imbeciles, tyrants and scoundrels, adamantly insist, in trenchant denial simply ignoring all sound reasoning supported by Empirical evidence entirely to the contrary, that cooperation is impossible save by fairly complete agreement and compliance. And thus, under the worldview of heteronomy, collaboration among equals remains entirely inconceivable! But responsible people who disagree, even howsoever vociferously, actually do cooperate effectively and productively only all of the time!

    In the words of John Storrs Hall: Ideas should compete, bodies should cooperate.  Scientist in perpetual disagreement on one point or another, challenge one another to discover Empirical truth by experiment and Scientific Method, and those ever more scarce functional policy makers in good faith, are actually ever known to reach reasonable compromise. And all entirely without consensus. Whereas with no place for dissent, consensus groups remain merely do nothing pep rallies. That is, unless they are scams, in which case whatever the scam's ulterior agenda may indeed be accomplished, whatever good that comes of it. Indeed, wars have been lost by clueless military hierarchies lacking due protocol for the airing of dissent among junior officers, dismissively silenced when they foresaw disaster.

    In our deliberations together, let us all then strive for full engagement with neither distance nor acrimony: For should anyone ever openly disagree, then so much the better, affording as disagreement does, every opportunity for Dialectical controversy, the welcomed free exchange of criticism. And criticism is not only productive, but inherently friendly. Indeed, as a matter of Empirical observation, people who disagree are still seen to cooperate all the time, and more meaningfully, freely and authentically in autonomy, than those who together merely submit to uniform heteronomy. Or if anything herein remains unclear, then, gentle reader, please do not be alarmed: Those who only dummy up paralyticly whenever they don't understand are just helpless and insufferably neurotic and frustrating to deal with. Those who will never delve into anything not yet understood, will never surpass all that they already understand as well familiar. For such as they, indeed there will be no new thing under the sun! For such is an arrested intellectual development. We only learn from mistakes, our own or those of others. Mistakes should not be punished. Some procedure of discourse is necessary for bringing comprehension out from incomprehension. Please: Speak up whenever anything remains unclear! And in return, I can be counted upon to do likewise for others. Let us always diligently engage in Miscommunication Competent Dialectical 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. After all, writing is rewriting and never a waste of time. And this obtains no less for collaboration than for solitary composition, and no less for  business or project planning towards new venture creation (various business startup), no less than for fiction writing, all central and crucial to the present proposal.

    In those wise words of Henri-Louis Bergson: “Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.” Alas that in such reciprocal contempt, thinking and doing remain all too often segregated in our institutional mentality. The result is a great deal of thought gone to no practical avail, and a great deal of ill considered action so blithely undertaken. To quote Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower: “Plans are nothing, planning is everything.” And let no one imagine that planning, action or happiness are ever improved by pressure to choose between conformity or social isolation. In the words of Benjamin Disraeli: Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. It remains, however, that self-help/improvement and social skills remediation are all nothing but delusion and denial of Existential Absurdity. You are not in control of your life, any more than I am in control of mine. We all find ourselves completely at the whim of uncooperative others in every facet of our lives. And everyone within reach to seek help from, is simply too insecure even to fight for their very lives, much less to stand up for one another. Put more simply then, and in complete good faith, powerlessness, the impotent helplessness of the human condition is terminally demeaning. And even beyond direct action, our influence upon others may often be even the more misguided and deluded. Gentle reader, unmet friend: Where is there to be found, any beginning of collaboration among equals? Thinking in terms of action, in order to act more thoughtfully, there remains only one precious beginning, immediately, over which we, I and thou, may indeed together take responsibility and share any control at all: And that is interaction between ourselves, specifically just discussion at all to begin with, and setting an agenda thereto. Because. in the words of Janine Garner: “Failing to engage is engaging with failure.” And indeed, all heteronomy is but craven and futile pseudo-engagement.

    Sharing ideas, never completely scripted or controlled, sanguine to the risk of disagreement, substantive conversation deals in concepts, themes and problems in whatever discipline employing higher order thinking, making distinctions, applying ideas, forming generalization, and raising questions. And not just the reporting of experiences, information, definitions, or procedures, even collaboration among equals in brainstorming and creative solution finding. Participants respond directly to one another, by explaining themselves or asking questions in order to clarify one another s statements. Such dialogue builds upon participants statements thereby promoting coherent shared understanding of concepts, themes or problems.

    Indeed actually as so well epitomized in unprecedented serious collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming, but by no means limited thereto, sustained substantive conversations integrates the contributions of all participants sharing coherent understanding. complex and coherent clarifications, explanations and arguments beyond mere concise statement. Substantive conversation exceeds lecture and short-answer formats for transition of information. Full engagement in substantive conversation, involves people more profoundly with one another. Whereas, and all in such trepidation to avoid disagreement at all cost, conventionally expected vapid small talk, deliberately insubstantial and distant conversation and pervading anti-intellectualism, the conviction that disagreement is tantamount to strife, thwarts attachment, bonding and relationship, particularly friendship, thereby starving social and intellectual stimulus appetites, thereby inflicting protracted loneliness and boredom. For such is the human condition.

    Individual power in practice and not just in theory, requires the discovery of actionable practical options in the pursuit of happiness, meaning towards whatever one wishes to do, to accomplish, or to become. Alas, in Existentially Absurd social reality, there remain such dystressing user hostile outcomes gap, meaning inherent contradiction and setup for failure with no results no matter what one does. Indeed, in the world as it is, the will to power is all too often frustrated by even actually hostile and arbitrary intractable social challenges, even regardless of whatever solitary individual ability and worthiness. Whereas people disposed to the characteristic motivation of responsibility, thereby obtain a capacity to interact by appeals to responsibility, to sound reasoning and autonomy. But only in dealing with others at all compatibly likewise so disposed. Hence, it may even be broadly asserted that the will to power is fulfilled via genuine autonomy  meeting ones needs for capable interaction with even adequately responsible others, influencing one another, and in a manner even salutary and validating. But all alone ever deeper out in the wilderness, can there be found any clear path to that great good?

    The difficulty remains quite simply that to establish a life of capable interaction with even adequately responsible others, yet remains ever elusive for so many of us. Certainly for yours truly! As beloved standup comedian Rodney Dangerfield used so hilariously to complain: “I don't get no respect, no respect at all!” But then, who does? Capable interaction with even adequately responsible others, is by no means average or the norm, but clearly exceptional, even for that matter, among the most exalted leadership, let alone amid the hapless hoi polloi. Indeed, capable interaction with even adequately responsible others is even celebrated as greatness, yet all but discouraged in widest practice. For the worker drones under heteronomy to behavioral conditioning, all cogs in the machine, formal education and typical corporate culture of employment, foster admiration, but never emulation, of those lionized men and women of destiny rising only actually despite the system, overcoming adversity, effectively quarantined and lonely at the top. But for wretches such as we, there must be no ready escape at all from the only wretched game in town! For such remains the banal rank hypocrisy of glowing lip service to independence while fostering helplessness and dependency.
    Alas, to reiterate, that more sophisticated automated Sociometry, anticipated as the next revolution in social technology, yet remains in its infancy. Since time immemorial, and not withstanding the rise of modern democracy and communications, the tools of social technology, even well intentioned let alone not so much, remain methods of coercion, intimidation, deception and manipulation, whereby to make tools of us all. Hence the inspiration for "unreasonable" frustrated yearning committedly to strive together and change our world better to our liking, likewise continuing from antiquity. We band of buggered! Alas, as  for all such commendable glittering generality, to quote Frederick Law Olmsted: After all is said and done, much is said and little is done. Though so much is done to us all. And as Edward Snowden observes, oppressors who restrict our options, then pretend that we consent.
     
     

    Intentional Community

    As Epicurus most anciently observed, human beings are by and large so frequently inept at achieving happiness. We often tend to find ourselves figuratively barking up the metaphorically wrong proverbial tree. However actually motivated psychologically, such prevailing misguided and even irrational inoperant behavior does seemingly correspond with all manner of false premise as to the means and causes of happiness. One way or another, a common theme remains the diversionary allure of extrinsic motivation away from true fulfillment of relevant intrinsic motivation. Therefore, if we are truly free and in control of own individual faculties at all, then let us first reflect each upon our scarce and prized moments of happiness.

    Consider, gentle reader, the simple and elegant social engineering initiative of Epicurus who declared: Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance. Epicurus espoused Eudemonia to be found in freedom, friendship and thought, recommending never to eat alone. Epicurus and his followers set up a sort of anti-materialist slacker farm commune simply in order to be able to eat well while living modestly within their means and by a fairly light workload, thereby to to fend off the dystress of burdensome social and financial obligation, all in order to support and sustain an ongoing convivial philosophical dinner conversation. Indeed, for Epicurus, the garden serves as a symbol for his ideal of ataraxia (ἀταραξία), of tranquil pleasure. All thus could they live lives of relative ease, day to day, in freedom, friendship and thought: Freedom is defined in negative terms, as freedom from the rat race, friendship around the dinner table still leaving open every question as to the nature of friendship, and intelligent discussion as intellectual stimulation, food also for thought and reflection, leaving open any question as to how and why communication ever triggers deeper cognition, and further questions as to the nature of and reasons for whatever corresponding satisfaction. All interesting questions. In any case, such was the simple and elegant strategy of Epicurus in stimulus struggle which is the continual striving to regulate, to obtain and maintain, the optimum kind and degree of stimulation, including gastronomical, social and intellectual stimulation, from the environment, for staving off boredom and loneliness. A travesty of the rôle of gardening in the ideal and intentional community of Epicurus, rears its ugly head in modern recommendations of community gardening providing behavioral structure of regularly scheduled activity and association sustaining propinquity while also producing any interaction and sense of involvement to draw participants together. Not to digress.

    Indeed, Online, in the virtual world, the real world logistical problems and material necessities confronted by Epicurus, all fall away! All that remains, is to define, initiate and sustain the desired conversation. And nothing turns out to be more difficult! Largely because discourse and planning bridging between the philosophical and the pragmatic or practical, the strategic and the tactical, the abstract and the concrete, remains so heteronymously taboo. Among the burning issues to discuss, are various lifestyle considerations and yearned for freedoms, wherein one might find the slacker frugality of Epicurus both disagreeably austere and over simplistic, if actually not somewhat dull. Indeed, not everyone so appreciates farming or gardening, or going off the grid. There also remains every question of what one might seek from human interaction, relationship and attachment, from friendship, and in human endeavor. That is where the analysis of the range of social stimulus appetites enters, and of the kinds of corresponding discrete events. And inevitably must arise the social engineering challenge of harmonizing often conflicting priorities, by creative solution finding.

    The various designed and chosen lifestyles of what are called: intentional communities, are typically such as are supported by brick and mortar infrastructure even far beyond the modest and simple dormitory, dining hall and gardens of Epicurus and his followers, indeed even on the scale of an actual entire town, with residence therein and management and operation thereof, all according to whatever ideology. For example, communes of every stripe and scale, indeed, realistically, at least initially, any smaller intentional social circle or group. Indeed community may simply comprise any number of individuals linked by any manner of common policy, endeavor or enterprise, one way or another, either by happenstance haphazardly, or indeed, intentionally. Most ambitious of all, the United States of America were founded upon a constitution, an intentional social contract superseding  previous social contract arising over time and into which we are all simply born, entirely unconcluded. Any new venture creation (various business startup), inception proceeding in accordance with a rigorous business plan, might therefore be regarded as an intentional community of some kind. Ideo, for example: The culture of design thinking, which is itself the carefully crafted product of design thinking. A large corporation is typically comprised of many employees all supported by highly capable organization and impressive physical infrastructure. But any organized human interaction on any scale, might benefit from any better planning from inception onward, no less that by inevitable evolution by trial and error thereafter. So a garage startup or a virtual company online, although entirely without any such complex resources as Ideo or any other major corporation or similar institution, might still be undertaken as intentional community subject to some or other manner of design thinking. Moreover, if community is indeed no more than aggregate relationship, then in that context, why does no one consider the application of whatever appropriate design thinking, in the better framing of purposeful relationship intentionally? This very question persists from antiquity, no less relevant today and into the indefinite future. This proposal is a call to action beginning with feasibility study of any prospect of more optimally arousing and gratifying our underserved social stimulus needs via even immediate scale intentional community. -Something so crucially important, typically left to chance or to whatever powers that be, setting agendas of their own and sealing our fates. 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 of the wherewithal, the channels and the means.

    Every inane cult like bogus success scam proffers glowing claims of efficacy and results, only given inductee perseverance and sacrifice. But life, so the saying goes, is also the journey and not just the destination or objective no matter how noble and appealing. Therefore even though, of course, planning and execution ever remain an exercise in deferred gratification, in the interim the ongoing arousal and gratification process of more optimal stimulus struggle free from threat, remains no less key to authentic wellbeing or: Eudemonia. -Stimulus struggle being the perpetual striving to regulate, to obtain and maintain, the optimum kind and degree of stimulation, including social stimulation, from the environment, for maintaining optimum degree and kind of arousal, thus staving off both boredom and loneliness...

    And all of this will be especially important in order to sustain any long and arduous struggle in subversive and disruptively innovative close collaboration, inventing, developing and constructing any new beginnings together, when nothing less will do because turn-key readily available conventional options are all so oppressive. Hence, in order to forestall otherwise inevitable attrition, let us confront the challenge to functional relationship and therefore to effective social engineering and planning even on a fairly immediate scale, of intentional intrinsically fulfilling exchange of social stimuli from interaction in close collaboration. The present text is a proposal to the agenda to seriously consider precisely an entirely feasible immediate scale social engineering of intentional community, and then an outreach for interested founding participants. Such are the frontiers of autonomy.
     
     
    Intentional group formation
     
    Intentional community must begin somewhere on any smaller scale of intentional social circle or group.  At least initially, rather than sweeping the world out from leftfield, any bold, liberating and empowering subversion of hierarchy, instead, not unlike forbidden love, necessarily nurtures in microcosm. Indeed even somewhat covertly and conspiratorially, when any two or more interacting and taking initiative, at long last must innovate: to begin significantly 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. 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!
        
    In any intentional group or social circle 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. What then is revealed as the actual nature of true success? What is the will to power? Can we be winners? What does it mean to be a winner, larger than life? What else but the attainment and sharing of trustworthy, capable and respectful autonomy support? What but the Menschlichkeit of meeting ones needs by capable interaction with even adequately responsible others? What but the participatory realization of innovation and creativity individually and interpersonally? And what better epitome all thereof, save for unprecidented serious collaborative fiction writing and the subversive disruptively innovation of new venture creation (various business startup) under entrepreneurship for the rest of us? Or if anything else instead, then by what better sustainable means or vehicle thereto, profit, non profit or Social Entrepreneurship? What better path of arête? For arête remains the quest for the right way of living ones best, called: virtue, courage (as in: moral fortitude), and outstanding excellence with no pretense of fitting in. In any frustrated desire, there always remains a story that might as well be sweepingly dramatic and intriguingly speculative, and that needs a solid plan, a business or project plan calling out for allies together forging a management team and via the cultivation of strategic partnerships. What better and more relevant agenda? Is none of the aforesaid indeed so unworthy of fully engaged serious and in depth conversation, bridging from general principle into feasibility study of explicit and specific action  agenda? Or at the moment are we all even thinking about anything truly more interesting and important?
     
    To quote Charles B Forbes: “Large-scale success today is spelled -Teamwork.” Indeed, in the words of Henry Ford: “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” For in the celebrated poetry of John Donne: “No man an island.” And there can be no  however stalwart and inventive, no adaptive self-help/improvement, no self-made bootstrap unilateral solution at all, to shortcomings and  deficiencies of social interaction, cooperation and access all thereto. Any frustrated desire tells a story for all that will hear it, needs a plan in the world, and calls out for allies. Effective and capable collaboration partners of integrity, must remain responsive and responsible to one another. In the endeavor at hand, eventually each participant must stand ready to lead in whatever their capacity or expertise, while at the same rime remaining subordinate in likewise reciprocally abetting one another, ever mindful of task interdependency, giving and getting needed cooperation and assistance in a friendly, competent and timely manner. Does any of this appeal, gentle reader? For such remains the objective of the present outreach. Although, to start with, prospective collaboration partners need only begin by each holding up our end of ongoing conversation towards every due diligence. So share your own ideas. As a handy starting point, find here on FoolQuest.com, a selection of unfinished stories to prompt collaborative fiction writing, as well as a range of subversive and disruptively innovative proposals for business planning and feasibility study towards new venture creation (various business startup). Collaborative fiction writing as conceived, is intended serve as an ongoing bonding and teambuilding exercise for collaborative solution finding, business planning, management team formation and subversive and disruptively innovative new venture creation (various business startup) that may include not only for profit enterprise, but activism and Social Entrepreneurship. For the possibilities remain endless!
     
    The subversive struggle of organizing for change all so much easier said than done: Many people imagine leading happier and more meaningful lives. Many therefore strive to improve themselves and struggle to purge and cast off an unwanted self. But in such flagrant aberration from every timid norm, others more bold yearn instead to change their situation, the very lives that they lead, and even improve the world  in which we find ourselves. Any frustrated desire tells a story, needs a plan, and calls out for allies. 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 as Hans Selye put it: “Realistic people who pursue practical aims are rarely as realistic or practical, in the long run of life, as the dreamers who pursue their dreams.” FoolQuest.com attempts outreach toward the formation of just such a core group of unreasonable people applying ourselves even to the most daunting problems besetting us. Indeed, 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. All that will be required for the endeavor at hand, would be the recruitment of even just a small group or social circle fully engaged in ongoing Dialectical endeavor and eustress and sustainable euphoria of creative solution finding, indeed such as entailed in collaborative fiction writing together with subversive and disruptively innovate new venture creation (various business startup).
     
    An outreach herein is further proposed, called: Creativity can be Popular, under the premise that if participation in an intentional creative group or social circle as herein proposed, Creativity can and Should be Social, indeed comes to be perceived by any wider public to produce more gratifying social interaction, then others will be attracted to join in and participate. The question of Creativity can be Popular then will be: how best to leverage Creativity can and Should be Social not only for recruitment, but more importantly in order to improve for participants, individual interpersonal networking and new relationships.
       
    Liberation under a new paradigm:
     
    We all struggle for personal power, so often in vein. So what is the secret? The open secret remains only in how we have all been overwhelmingly coerced, blithely manipulated, endlessly propagandized, shamelessly lied to, and how, as shall be expounded in full, the simple truth, plain and profane, remains exactly opposite to all that we have always been told. To begin with, genuine success in life will be a product of teamwork with no hurried flimflam and high pressure hustle, and no treachery of interminable procrastination and broken promise, either. To reiterate, the will to power is fulfilled in genuine autonomy meeting ones needs for capable interaction with even adequately responsible others. Because any ongoing outreach for cofounder candidates into collaboration among equals in a working group, any unapologetically genuine teamwork with no exploitative ulterior deception or manipulation, no unquestioned myths and ideology, no far fetched pipedream, no puerile headgames of toadying social skill and skilled incompetence, begins philosophically, Dialectically, into the valuable and lucid moral dimensions of friendship and Eudemonia called: Menschlichkeit.
      
    How so? By honest and skeptical sweet reason, good will and habits of clear thinking, all quite socially awkward, utterly taboo and reviled under heteronomy! By fearlessly open and fruitful investigation and deliberation together, unfolding in at all responsible due diligence, welcome and invited exchange of criticism, and thereby ongoing error detection and course correction, advancing into the implementation of any serious credible plans of action, even however wildly ambitious, watertight yet flexible under ever changing conditions, in steady small reversible steps steadily at our own pace. For as Aesop teaches us, slow and steady wins the race! 
      
    And such, in antithesis to every conventional path of heteronomy, remains the Dialectic of arête and values of autonomy. And not merely in even howsoever extrinsic deferred gratification in hopes for eventual success, but as a vital human interaction in and of itself immediately intrinsic to secure and authentic wellbeing under true abiding respect. Indeed, hence might accrue most optimally fulfilling ongoing Dialectical investment of attention for return in like kind: substantive communication toward purposeful interaction. And woe betide us all should anyone imagine the Dialectic as an objective. It's not. For thought worthy dialogue remains no objective or end result, but the barest indispensable beginning.
         
    Because bonding and attachments of true friendship with psychological visibility, arises not by any rat race of extrinsic societal reward and punishment in the course of inane small talk, uncritical willful positivity, superficial harmony, fearfully conflict avoidant and debilitating headgames of social skill and sycophantic toadying skilled incompetence, but ever, and without apology, only for serious people as forbidden byproduct of full engagement in purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication and never otherwise. Accept no substitutes! And no one else need approve! Because, if indeed interminable emotionally and intellectually distant, unwelcoming and disingenuous small talk ever keeping it light, remains key to popularity and social success, then such do-nothing busywork dronelike Orwellian anti-intellectual path of popularity and social success, remains antithetical to true friendship, because it remains in the very taboo nature of friendship, that friendship must be open, genuine and fully engaged. Indeed, that's 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.

    The  FoolQuest.com subversive proposal submitted to the agenda: Creativity can and Should be Social together with the concomitant outreach concept as proposed dubbed: Creativity can and Should be Popular, is to strive in the social engineering and design of a better way of life, more optimal social and intellectual stimulus struggle, via intentional community of friendship and wellbeing, wherein the individual may remain more genuine and at ease. Indeed, creativity is found most productively to flourish by continual alternation flowing between creativity in lone contemplative solitude and vibrant expressive creative interaction together.

    On the one hand, group dynamics often remain unimaginatively hidebound to prior socialization, however toxic and dysfunctional, or else to the other extreme, abandoning all propriety, group dynamics often co-validate and normalize any conceivable deviance no matter how senseless and destructive. Alas, both extremes remain depressingly common. Indeed, elements of both may often coexist and manifest in the group dynamics of the self same social circle. For there may often be found no more staunch conservatives and conformists than the most flagrant deviants, and no deeper deviance and conviction than such blithely Absurd hypocrisy in desperate mimesis of all that one can never truly be. Indeed, such remains true to life Comedy of Manners. But for those most fortunate few, there can also be at all more functional and congenial social circles characterized, perhaps some day soon, also for any of the rest of us, even intentionally and by design, guided by whatever more congenial, productive and laudable values in action, networking for one another first and foremost for each our own best interests and delight, but never for anything more devious, manipulative, ulterior, strange, dangerous and exploitative.

    At least initially, rather than sweeping the world out from leftfield, any bold, liberating and empowering subversion of hierarchy, instead, not unlike forbidden love, necessarily nurtures in microcosm. Indeed even somewhat covertly and conspiratorially, when any two or more interacting and taking initiative, at long last must innovate: to begin significantly 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. Indeed, in more functional alternative to conventional Absurd alienation and futility of bankrupt social expectations, an intentional social circle or group, remains free to experiment in deliberate paradigm shift, such flagrant subversion of hierarchy, turning accustomed priorities on their head. Obviously, if only any two or more individuals can imagine different, then relationship ensues, a new more proximate experimental superseding closer social reality, taking precedence. Indeed, smaller social circles or relationships of two or more individuals, are well known to forge their own unique social contracts and expectations amongst themselves. By social engineering design of intentional community online, Creativity can and Should be Social.

    We are all seeking not only pleasure but meaning and fulfillment, perpetually engaged as are we all, in social and intellectual stimulus struggle against boredom and loneliness. For  as in accordance with the Arousal Theory of Motivation, stimulus struggle 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. For such remains the endless struggle with loneliness and boredom. Everything that we do is in order to modify subjective experience thereby altering consciousness. For in accordance with evolutionary neuroscience and the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology, such remains the human condition. All hence, as to be expounded in full, the social engineering of social and intellectual stimulus struggle would contrive the deliberate introduction of specific social stimuli and social interaction, into an intentional social environment, in order better to optimize social and intellectual stimulus struggle.

    And so, gentle readers, are you with me? And lo, the star first follower shall become the true leader and influencer, showing others how participate and to relate, blazing the trail! But how might social engineering as proposed, of more optimal social and intellectual stimulus struggle via purposeful interaction and substantive communication of disruptively innovative new venture creation (various business startup) interstitial concurrent synergy with collaborative fiction writing, possibly ever be rendered feasible? Is it even truly desirable?

    Be a mensch! In the words of Benjamin Disraeli: “Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” And yet, thoughtless action will be reckless. Therefore to quote Henri-Louis Bergson: “Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.” And in the words of  C. S. Lewis: “Two heads are better than one, not because either is infallible, but because they are unlikely to go wrong in the same direction.” For any lonesome frustrated desire tells a story, needs a plan, and calls out for allies. Indeed therein, by the Dialectical crafting of narrative imagination, by planning and outreach, obtains the method in the madness, if only...  For as John Cleese expounds: “Creativity is not a talent: it's a way of operating.” And so, gentle readers, are you with me? And lo, the star first follower shall become the true leader and influencer, showing others how to participate and to relate, blazing the trail! 

    In accordance with the happiness formula of Positive Psychology, Eudemonia and authentic wellbeing remain attainable via pleasurable engagement in meaningful collaboration among equals. And such accrues from eustress and sustainable euphoria of creative tension in solution finding together, of substantive communication into purposeful interaction and thereby friendship in authentic wellbeing, achievable by social engineering design of intentional community online. All following in in accordance with evolutionary neuroscience and the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology. Because pleasurable and meaningful optimal reciprocal engagement remains key to better optimized ongoing social and intellectual stimulus struggle against ever looming  boredom and loneliness. For such is the human condition.

    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.

    And, bridging the general and abstract theoretical at last into the concrete, practical and specific, Eudemonia in more optimal social and intellectual stimulus struggle, remains best to be attained upon the subversive path of disruptively innovative new venture creation (various business startup) interstitial concurrent synergy with collaborative fiction writing. -all as herein expounded. For disruptively innovative new venture creation (various business startup) interstitial concurrent synergy with collaborative fiction writing, remains the most readily empowering creative outlet enfolding purposeful interaction and substantive communication indispensable to human connection and crucial to fulfillment and authentic wellbeing. For the possibilities remain endless! 

    A call to action: Gentle reader,you are all invited  to join in and together attempt emulation neither of the facile and conniving popular kids nor of those phony success gurus, but rather the fulfillment in welcome pleasurable engagement in meaningful serious conversation and creative interaction as Empirically and repeatably observable of happy people who talk more seriously and with less small talk, fully involved together in creative endeavor. Because  Creativity must be acknowledged as a phenomena exceeding mere lone individual character and disposition, as John Cleese expounds: not a talent: it's a way of operating. indeed, wherein creativity is found most productively to flourish by continual alternation flowing between creativity in lone contemplative solitude and vibrant expressive creative interaction together. For to quote Michel Eyquem De Montaigne: There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

    Philosophers, writers, artists, even scientists, not only need encouragement and an audience, they need constant stimulation from other people. It is almost impossible to think without talking. If Defoe had really lived on a desert island, he could not have written Robinson Crusoe, nor would he have wanted to. Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.

      ‘Conversation with a Pacifist’ by George Orwell

    Indeed, Creativity can and Should be Social. 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. 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.  Therefore  let us each bring our own considered ideas to share, explore, criticize and modify together. Because, all in accordance with evolutionary neuroscience and the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology, such is Eudemonia.

    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.

    Because, as it turns out, work or play, exactly that creative process together, is what truly makes people happy. Therefore let us proactively plan an ongoing intentional and purposeful exercise of precisely such human interaction, instead of only waiting, so helplessly, for such lamentably infrequent occasion of human thriving in creative solution finding at long last again to arise at the whim of whatever powers that be.

    And the crucial first step towards close collaboration among equals and thereby Eudemonia as herein advanced, before undertaking anything more, will be simply to initiate and to sustain pertinent ongoing discussion, analytic yet strategic, in subversive deliberation online upon the agenda at hand. To reiterate: It will be predicted and recommended herein that fulfillment, authentic wellbeing and human flourishing in collaboration among equals remains most optimally achievable via dual application of the dynamic power of narrative: Specifically, in serious collaborative fiction writing in audaciously unprecedented dynamitic interstitial synergy concurrently with disruptively innovative new venture creation (various business startup), entrepreneurship for the rest of us. For the possibilities remain endless!

    Paradoxical as that may seem, even as an entirely practical matter, there can be no escaping philosophy. For in the words of Aristotle: All things in life are philosophical. Because philosophical examination is the application of reason in setting consistent principles and values to guide decisions in life. And that is why, as Socrates so famously declares: An unexamined life is not worth the living for a human being. Because every solution, bridging abstract principle into concrete application, even as to the very meaning of life, first requires cogent problem statement indeed even as herein, of the human condition itself:  For even the celebrated constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, can proffer no guarantees of success in any such striving. Alas, mere mortal pursuit of happiness frequent only reaps Ecclesiastical vanity and futility. Indeed, as Epicurus most anciently observes, nebbish human beings are by and large so frequently inept at achieving happiness or for that matter, even acting in ones own self interests and survival, let alone towards any altruistic greater values. We often tend to find ourselves figuratively barking up that proverbially wrong metaphorical tree. Self destruction ambivalence and headgames however actually motivated psychologically and emotionally, every toxic flavor of prevailing misguided and even irrational inoperant behavior does seemingly correspond also cognitively with all manner of notable false premise and expectations as to the means and causes of happiness. To wit: 

    Indeed, one way or another, a common theme of Existential Absurdity, remains the constant diversionary allure of extrinsic reward and punishment, and thereby away from true fulfillment of relevant intrinsic motivation. Therefore, unless the Enlightenment age of sweet reason was all naught more than a poignantly wishful fever dream, indeed if we truly remain free agents at all, at all in command of own individual faculties, indeed autonomously as in accord with Positive Disintegration, actuated by profoundly individual values all of our own, then before ever just taking the bait even one more time, let us first reflect each upon our own scarce, unique and prized moments of joy. And then, let us reason together. And woe betide us all should anyone imagine the Dialectic as an objective. It's not. For thought worthy dialogue remains no objective or end result, but the barest beginning and indispensable.

    In fear and loathing, in ever mounting anxiety and depression, in the most toxic of extrinsic motivation and coercion, punishment and reward, social life often depressingly resembles formal education. Toxic lessons are propagated and enacted in every theater of life. Social success, much like good grades, remains predicated upon remaining silent and conditioning to behaving as expected. Critical thinking, challenge and thereby growth, must be assiduously avoided.

    Life is senseless suffering. But must we suffer so? And why, oh why, Dear Lord? Answer: Actually not by any caprice of divine wrath and judgment, but  from Frankensteins of our own making, institutions entirely of human creation. Because conventional paths in life for meeting social expectation, sore travail so rightly and roundly condemned and rejected here on FoolQuest.com, offer no escape from an Existentially Absurd social reality of dystressing user hostile outcomes gap, meaning such vastly inherent contradiction and setup for failure with no results no matter what one does.

    And everything that we've been told to the contrary, remains nothing more than yet another appalling big lie. Social failure and isolation may come as no surprise, in consideration of our most blatantly damaged specimens of humanity, most plainly awkward and even actually deficient in personal hygiene, let alone subtleties of social skill, all thereby so woefully inadequate to heteronymous expectations of conformity. But abject social failure and isolation is also the wretched fate, not only all too often also of the most harmlessly innocuous and ordinary of people, and all to frequently, even of our best and brightest, sensitive and well spoken. The Elephant in the Room, the taboo begged question, yet remains: Why must it require such nigh dharmic consummate social skill, simply in order to function even adequately and get along in society? As it turns out, according to  journalist and science correspondent Shankar Vedantam, interviewed on on NPR, population studies have revealed that that social skills make practically no difference for adults when it comes to social connections. Indeed, lonely people actually exhibit superior social Intelligence and acuity.

    So why not, as only behooves flourishing democracy, any kind of system more direct and transparent? Some therefore even dare suggest that beyond whatever individual deficiency or maladaptation, there exist even the most dire systemic problems and dysfunction. That society itself, in aggregate, might be said to display and may even be said to suffer from any manner of actually entrenched pervasive developmental disorders. And the only winning move is not to play. But is there any alternative to what seems the only game in town? Answer: Yes, but only if we get serious together, in order to stop playing such toxic headgames. And never just by metaphorically going with the allegorical flow, indeed  ever figuratively circling that proverbial drain. Because failing to plan is planning to fail. Because when the going gets tough, nerds, gifted peers, work the problem. To wit:

    Life is suffering. And all thatWe, the Sheeple, have so flagrantly bought into and desperately sold out for, is an irredeemable stifling toxic big lie! The truth is that both popularity, social success, on the one hand, and failure, social isolation in rejection by society on the other hand, only make most everyone lonely and miserable but only in slightly different ways. One cannot serve two masters, love, signifying intrinsic value, and mammon denoting any kind of  extrinsic reward and thereby false or dubious object of reverence and devotion. Balance is chimera, will o' the wisp. Either love or mammon must assert guiding priority over the other. And again, both out comes make most everyone miserable. Either mammon, the all consuming, grinding and oppressive social rat race for popularity and social success endures, in poignant and secret hope that love sacrificed will somehow materialize from the either, despite every true to life dramatic obstacle thereby set in its path, or love defiant, as manifest in the quest for relationship and endeavor informed by intrinsic value and autonomy, persists towards ever more difficult practical fruition.

    Alas there as yet exists no clear, ready and transparent social support system for individual endeavor and outreach. And because popularity and social success ever remain antithetical to true friendship. Because friendship is genuine, substantive and intimate, being predicated upon unguarded and reciprocal psychological visibility, while popularity and social success depend upon purpose defeatingly facile superficiality ever keeping distance, keeping conversation light and innocuous, endlessly perpetuating pretence of fake fun. Such is the enactment of prevailing mythology enshrined in regressive social expectation and world view. But by exploding all such destructive myths of fraudulent social reality, even just between ourselves, and then by collaborative brainstorming and solution finding, of small scale social engineering design, might together set agenda in planning and then doing anything better, for implementation deliberately and intentionally, of purposeful interaction and substantive communication. And such remains the objective of Creativity can and Should be Social.

    Because there can be no objectives of unilateral "well-formed plan" except for solitary endeavor within the meager constraints of lone individual recourse. Indeed, all unilateral social skills advice for the individual is tautologically inoperant, simply because free social interaction requires more than one consenting participant. Indeed, as it turns out, not everyone has been copied on exactly the same benighted social contract. And whatever might be deemed implicit to one, may be dismissed as blatantly obtuse by another. There is no real consensus, only such blithely concealment of controversy by sly oppressive means of intimidation and suppression of dissidence. In truth, one size fits all unilateral social skills advice online for the individual, indeed similar myth much as typically arising in casual conversation anyhow, tends implicitly toward frustratingly over simplistic and even attachment disordered mindblind dehumanizing unreliable prediction regarding the interaction and responses of others, very different people, indeed even complete strangers under very different situations. Such is socialization, behavioral conditioning that none dare call indoctrination or: brainwash. Such are the most dangerous myths of fraudulent social reality, so urgently in need of exploding. Follow your bliss! remains the shopworn motto whereby we are each and all extolled, before being summarily abandoned each and all to our own devices.

    Change our conversation, reset the agenda, and change the world!
    And lo, the star first follower shall become the true leader and influencer, showing others how to participate and to relate, blazing the trail of welcome!
    For any lonesome frustrated desire tells a story, needs a plan, and calls out for allies
     
    Surely, candid and open yet realistic serious conversation, hopefully upon such an important, interesting and uplifting topic, and barring unmanageable trepidation of decidophobia, remains the very minimum initial and tentative commitment to any purpose. It might even be fun! Of course, there can be no guarantees. But if even that little will be just too much bother, just too much to ask, nerdy, unpopular, socially awkward, taboo and timidly dismissed out of hand, then pray do tell: Precisely what permitted measures are there so much more easy and effective, and to what end? And so, gentle reader, which among opposing inclinations do you intend to feed?
     
    Let us then together test the very hypothesis, that even full engagement in analytic yet strategic conversation as proposed, will reveal true hope and already lift spirits, entirely free from any of the usual self manipulative motivational chicanery of bogus willful positivity, dangerous and destructive myth so interminably foisted and inflicted upon the unwitting hapless masses.

    Question: Does philosophy any longer strive for arête, or merely investigate in the abstract? Answer: Towards Eudemonia, practical philosophical investigation must bridge abstract and concrete, sharing and cultivating habits of clear thinking and expression crucial to effective action in welcome of collaboration among equals in creative solution finding as in, as proposed, the sustained exercise of the pure creativity in collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming, in liberating interstitial synergy concurrently with subversive and disruptively innovative entrepreneurial new venture creation (various business startup), purposeful interaction all requiring substantive communication and psychological visibility,.

    Gentle reader, do you long for an unconventional life? Then where to begin? And what is of essence? Stimulus struggle, what every living thing is doing all of the time, remains no more or less than the perpetual striving to regulate, to obtain and maintain, the optimum kind and degree of stimulation and arousal from the surrounding environment. And in accordance with evolutionary neuroscience, for human consciousness, stimulus struggle uniquely demands the gratification of crucial social and intellectual stimulus needs and appetites, to which, in accordance with the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology, the unique and fully engaged Dialectic ebullience of collaboration among equals in creative solution finding and brainstorming remains key, and for which as proposed, Creativity can and Should be Social, the dual and synergistic and dynamic applications of the power of narrative, collaborative fiction writing and Entrepreneurial disruptively innovative new venture creation (various business startup), remain so ideal. Indeed, trustworthy, capable and respectful happy people talk more seriously and thrive in autonomy, prosper and succeed, together engaging in creative endeavor. And all with less small talk. There will be far more important and interesting agenda at hand: Indeed, such happiness embodies the very antithesis of all ever toxic and sanctioned expectations enacted in antisocial and distant insubstantive superficial) to which so many have become accustomed and socialized into.

    For even such prospect merely of Dialectic engagement, even most anciently demonstrates promise of escape from the Existentially Absurd perpetual bait-and-switch dilemma between blatant lonely isolation and unhappiness inflicted from not fitting in, or else more devious lonely isolation, indeed the painfully lonely boredom of inauthentic conditionality of fitting in, often such an all consuming full time occupation. Heteronomy, conformism and the endless dance of popularity frequently become Orwellian, all consuming, draining and tremendously costly, undermining not only autonomy, independent thinking and ambition, but even the human capacity to genuinely relate to one another, to form relationship and friendship. Indeed, that's 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. But in fundamental paradigm shift, can creativity conceivably become actually go viral and popular? After all, creativity is found most productively to flourish by continual alternation flowing between creativity in lone contemplative solitude and vibrant expressive creative interaction together.

    Yes: Creativity can and Should be Popular!

    FoolQuest.com advances the unique analytically strategic and subversive agenda of Creativity can and Should be Social, a specific and relevant purposeful human interaction of  pure creativity in collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming, in liberating interstitial synergy concurrently with subversive and disruptively innovative entrepreneurial new venture creation (various business startup), purposeful interaction all requiring substantive communication and psychological visibility, and all via specific intentional formation of a more welcoming and open minded yet skeptical immediate social circle or group. Clubs that meet regularly, are known thereby to provide for propinquity. Although, with a little outgoing initiative and persistence, and given the opportunity, so can the telephone, if only the other party is receptive. It's nice to be needed! Not to digress. In particular, cooperation on group projects, even somewhat arbitrarily, has been observed to bring people together and promote friendship, But any sense of arbitrary meaningless and pointlessness thereby remaining Existentially Absurd, may instead backfire, aimlessly risking needless peril of bored and lonely dystress of ever increasing alienation and futility, far from friendship and attachment.
    Be all that as it may, one possible and applicable strategic explanation of the greater efficacy in social outreach of groups working together in social situations, over the lone efforts of any single individual, might be found, at least in any part, in the phenomena of informational social influence or: social "proof" wherein individuals are informed and then imitate the behavior of others around them. After all, that fabled star first follower or ally, transforms a lone nut into a leader. And: "When in Rome, do as the Romans do." But as to any deliberate strategy in purposeful application of informational social influence or: social "proof," indeed such as striving to appear popular by being seen in public together with others, all of this presents a catch-22, a double bind, unless one is already blessed with the requisite social support, networking connections and resources.
     
    Because secure and effective social embedment is also important to wellbeing. Does then social success remain elusive without social success already? An outreach herein is further proposed, called: Creativity can and Should be Popular, under the premise that if participation in an intentional creative group or social circle as herein proposed, Creativity can and Should be Social might naturally come to exert informational social influence or: social "proof." when desirable experience and/or salutary results for participants in  Creativity can and Should be Social readily becomes Empirically observable to others and then word spreads. The outreach probortunity then of Creativity can and Should be Popular will be not only how best to leverage Creativity can and Should be Social not only for ongoing recruitment, but as actually the greater priority, in order to facilitate and improve for participants, individual interpersonal networking and forging and improving relationships. Creativity can and Should be Popular: a concept of making you the PR priority!

    Indeed, if only any two or more individuals can imagine different, then relationship ensues, a new more proximate experimental superseding closer social reality. Smaller social circles or relationships of two or more individuals, are well known to forge their own unique social contracts and expectations amongst themselves. On the one hand, group dynamics may remain unimaginatively bound to prior socialization, or else on the other hand abandoning all propriety, they may co validate and normalize any conceivable deviance no matter how senseless and destructive. Both extremes remain depressingly common. Indeed, elements of both may often coexist and manifest in the group dynamics of the self same social circle. For there may often be found no more staunch conformists than the most flagrant deviants, and no deeper deviance and conviction than such blithely Absurd hypocrisy in desperate mimesis of all that one can never truly be. Indeed, such is true to life Comedy of Manners.

    But for those most fortunate among us, there can also be at all more functional and congenial social circles characterized, perhaps even intentionally and by design, guided by whatever more congenial, productive and laudable values in action, networking for one another first and foremost for each our own best interests and delight, but never for anything more devious, manipulative, ulterior, strange, dangerous and exploitative.

    After all, whereas immutable physical reality neither seeks nor requires approval or consent, social reality, sore travail even as all to often no less Absurd, remains a direct product of human acquiescence and participation, even as all to often, quite dysfunctional. For such is the dynamic power of narrative and the stories we buy into or not. And hence the ambition of Transactional Analysis, instead to live out happier stories, via Antithesis, a cunning repertoire of stock radically honest curve ball responses, in order to derail toxic Ulterior Transactions or: headgames. And thus intentionally enacting better narratives of our own invention, and even by researching, investigating and rôle modeling from more trustworthy happier people, rather than blindly following the most toxic of prevailing norms, insipid myths and misguided social expectations. Indeed, even by the social engineering design of more optimally fulfilling social and intellectual stimulus struggle.

    Creativity can and Should be Social is a proposed ongoing endeavor of pure creativity in collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming, in liberating interstitial synergy concurrently with subversive and disruptively innovative entrepreneurial new venture creation (various business startup). Because collaboration in storytelling and business or project planning remain similar and related applications in the dynamic power of narrative and therein of creative solution finding. A business or project plan is a kind of story, an even dramatic futuring scenario rigorously detailing a projected path to success. But whereas, at least barring the outright surreal, any good story or ripping yarn only needs to seem plausible, a viable plan must be rendered rigorously feasible. And yet both remain excellent means to pleasurable and meaningful optimal reciprocal engagement, most important among intrinsic social and intellectual human stimulus appetites, congenial and indeed fully engaged path to social support, mastery and success. For any lonesome frustrated desire tells a story, needs a plan, and calls out for allies. Gentle reader, I do not have what you want, but dare we seek for it together? We might succeed dare we try! 
    But what if generally cares neither for storytelling nor business? Or for that matter, what if one simply mistrusts philosophy, after all a discipline of such long and widespread ill repute? Of course, everyone is different. But no good sense making comes from simply ignoring philosophy in grappling with any plainly philosophical questions. Indeed, to quote Aristotle, and indeed as Axiological dimensions of the very probortunity at hand must well attest: All things in life are philosophical. Because philosophical examination is the application of reason in setting consistent principles and values to guide decisions in life. Hence as Socrates so famously declares: An unexamined life is not worth the living for a human being. And no human skill is automatic or self evident, much less the digestion and evaluation of ideas, philosophy and habits of clear thinking.

    Alas many condemn philosophy as completely abstract and thereby entirely impractical. Because philosophy indeed deals in the most broadly applicable abstraction. And all too true, abstract principle not informed by objective reality and practically, remains no less deranged than supposedly practical consideration devoid of thoughtful guiding abstract principle. Therefore philosophy indeed becomes effete except by bridging the gap and maintaining the connection between generality of abstraction on the one hand, and Empirical practicality on the other hand. Said compartmentalization between the abstract and the concrete, remains a prevalent and highly effective memeplex, undermining both Empirical science and transfer from scientific discovery to practical strategy. Again to quote Ernest Hemingway: Never confuse movement with action.  Indeed, as Thomas Carlyle put it: Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

    There also remains the lamentable common misconception that disagreement equals strife. Therefore many condemn philosophy as judgmental and miserable. Nevertheless  the disputants in Plato's Dialogues do seem to be enjoying themselves. And so should we all. Anti-intellectualism condemn philosophy as agitation, whereas people should remain blithely content, endure and conform, just by second nature. Indeed, those who won't just take a hint, may even find themselves certified as blithely intensive, behaviorally inoperant, psychiatrically disturbed, generally loony and obdurate. But in truth, philosophy merely helps to articulate and perhaps even ever howsoever to combat, all manner of objectively real existing causes and matters of morally sincere and perfectly honest, legitimate and entirely reactive discontent.

    To wit: If and when we come together, shall indeed we be richer for it? What is most crucial to that fabled opposite of loneliness and boredom, that most favorable social situation of authentic individual wellbeing? To begin with, there will be more myths to be exploded: Firstly, successful social cohesion can be no value in and of itself, because even social cohesion alone can actually be so tremendously unhappy, profoundly dysfunctional and outright malignant. Therefore oppressively arbitrary social cohesion is to be avoided like the very plague that it has always been. As George Orwell so clearly understood, the alienation of individuals from one another, remains too high a cost for the typical brutality of heteronymous social cohesion. Empirically, even such factors as typical granfalloon membership in group identity and even interests in common, remain empty and unfulfilling distraction at best, and actually remain quite ineffective in bringing about interpersonal bonding and attachment. Indeed, like group identity or membership, shared interests in common are perhaps among the least predicators of interpersonal compatibility.

    Alas to make matters worse, that entrepreneurs, not unlike like writers, are often characterized as solitary self reliant loners, with such difficulty just getting out of their own way, even notoriously incapable of delegating. The struggle for individual freedom and capable power as expressed in the the ambition of Entrepreneurship and disruptively innovative new venture creation (various business startup), so often remains solitary in no small part because the wannabe Entrepreneur much like the aspiring writer, sallies forth alone without the corporate resources of employment. Anyone aspiring and yearning to experience creative fulfillment in Entrepreneurial success, in new venture creation (various business startup), has surely become well cognizant of the most embryonic first-concept inception or: "kitchen table" stage or phase of new venture creation (various business startup), following from the metaphor of aspiring cofounders gathered round the proverbial kitchen table, out from endless possibility, concretizing their vision. And those will be so fondly remembered as the happiest days of friendship. Creativity can and Should be Social, beyond mere individual character and disposition. Indeed, creativity is found most productively to flourish by continual alternation flowing between creativity in lone contemplative solitude and vibrant expressive creative interaction together and endless possibility.

     
    And yet, all fond enthusiasm notwithstanding, as yet there remains virtually no readily accessible community, support for, or even literature, regarding the most embryonic first-concept "kitchen table" stage or phase of new venture creation (various business startup), let alone outreach and recruitment thereto. Perhaps this is because the learning curve, the challenge, let alone the magnitude of solution finding, in endless possibility only boggles the mind, and the sheer volume of labor rightly anticipated will be so daunting. Or because the lone aspirant with no comrades in life struggle, or at any rate, no one trustworthy, will be summarily dismissed, deemed such lost and lonely souls, unpopular beyond any bother of salvation. Or perhaps the probortunity arises merely in response to the penchant of dronelike formal education to so slavishly admire, but never actually to teach and emulate, the lofty greatness of leadership on the part of exceptional men and women of destiny, so lonely at the top. Or perhaps, actually, this is all simply because there is just no money to be made in catering to the actual capability needs of those who are not as yet actually already showing any profit as serial Entrepreneurs, not withstanding the importance of serial failure until at last reaching first success, leveraging the learning curve towards first overcoming all manner of inertia. As Edward Snowden observes, oppressors who restrict our options, then pretend that we consent. Because for wretches such as we, there must be no ready escape at all from the only wretched game in town! For such remains the banal rank hypocrisy of glowing lip service to independence while fostering helplessness and dependency.
     
    But true capability accrues in the accessibility of whatever needed resources as individually perceived, attainable in freedom to chose in actual practice and not merely in theory. Alas,  to reiterate, the market only caters to successful serial Entrepreneurs already making money in business, who can and will pay. And meanwhile, desperate wannabes are ever scammed with no end of dazzling but dubious offers and so-called opportunities. In better alternative, social support is so often deemed the single greatest predicator of success. Alas then, that not everyone is ever availed of likeminded social support, even to  muddle haphazardly in efforts at new venture creation (various business startup) and entrepreneurship for the rest of us. Creativity can and Should be Social is conceived to at all fill that gap with a more welcoming new kind of community.

    However, as Alistair Miller contends, common Psychological models such as embraced even by Positive Psychology, might be criticized philosophically, as often remaining premised upon a number of highly questionable assertions: First, that life can be conceived in terms of the setting and achieving of objectives, whatever motivating lofty goals ever set forth, second, that whichever traits, dispositions, emotions, feelings, desires, beliefs and values that together comprise a person s attitudes, indeed ones very personality, and which psychodynamic psychology embraces in causal explanation of human behavior, can be consciously managed or even controlled; third, that people can broadly be categorized as pessimistic or optimistic with the ability to persevere, achieve their objectives, whatever motivating lofty goals ever set forth, and thereby attain happiness; and finally, that playing to one s signature strengths or positive traits and virtues in absorbing activities remains key and welcoming to authentic wellbeing

    Moreover: Obsessive goal orientation is often discovered as dysfunctional, misguided, irrelevant and unhappy, vastly underserved new values emerging as personal sacrifice and neglect increasingly takes its toll. Indeed, precisely such truism readily finds expression in time honored dramatic trope of character development and growth, of whatever false goals increasingly exposed in the course of plot events, by the gradual emergence of any deeper and truer motivation. Because conscious management of profound emotion only constitutes futile denial all bottled up, lying to oneself. -or one way or another undergoing such forms of for all intents and purposes: Behavior Modification in society as socialization, behavioral conditioning that none dare call: Indoctrination or: brainwash, questioned and overcome in Positive Disintegration..

    Lastly, optimism remains Existentially Absurd in the face of pessimistic realism, the tendency of pessimists to predict more accurately than optimists. Pessimistic realism is only rational skepticism and systematic doubt, after all. Nevertheless, to be realistic, playing to one s signature strengths or positive traits and virtues in absorbing activities, remains observably and consistently gratifying. It doesn't get old. As Alistair Miller further expounds:

    There is of course nothing new in the idea that one of the keys to a fulfilling life is to find absorbing interests, passions, callings and commitments indeed, it would be hard to define fulfilling in any meaningful sense except in these terms. The special insight of positive psychology is that it is the engagement and expression of a person's' signature strengths [as perhaps however questionably differentiated and catalogued by Seligman] that specifically produces the authentic positive emotion

    As Edward Snowden observes, oppressors of every stripe, who restrict our options, then pretend that we consent. Indeed, this is by design, alienation baked in. For even most anciently in the curriculum of Plato's Academy, boredom was deliberately inflicted upon students as a conservative measure to test for heteronomy and conformity and against Indeed, this is by design, alienation baked in. Indeed, even most anciently in the curriculum of Plato's Academy, boredom was deliberately inflicted upon students as a conservative measure to test and filter for heteronomy and conformity and against autonomy, by weeding out boredom prone original thinkers and innovators, purveyors of dangerous novelty, from rising to influential positions in society, by weeding out boredom prone original thinkers and innovators, purveyors of dangerous novelty, from rising to influential positions in society.

    Quoth the Bard: Whereof what's past is prologue; what to come, in yours and my discharge. We all remain well aware of how entire populations so terrified of truth, have been so eagerly duped, one way or another, throughout history. And what if anything like that is still happening even now? Rest assured that this is so. For in the words of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.   Indeed, to quote Mark Twain, Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).  Indeed, much ever so flagrant taboo in outlandish assertion herein, if true, makes propaganda lies and myth of blithely unquestioned consensus, one way or another. What then must be done?

    FoolQuest.com all therefore flouts fashionable expectation of dreary convenience and narcotizing fluff. Au contraire, FoolQuest.com remains serious content for serious people. And there will be a lot to unpack throughout navigation into the present vast, detailed and densely written hypertext, no short attention casual read. . If necessary, first get an overview and then break it down. And jotting down notes along the way, may even help spark and organize posting in response, effort most welcome and invited. And for anyone making such effort for me, then in return I will spare no effort for you, unmet friend, in diligent crafting of salient response. Because intelligence and sensitivity, even serious disposition in rejection of triviality, are not a social disease. Do not conform to anti-intellectualism! And such is my own subversive Message in a Bottle, the  FoolQuest.com opportunity for optimal reciprocal engagement and fulfillment in substantive communication towards purposeful interaction, the only effective path to capable relationship and especially friendship, all so essential to hoped for success. Mark my words: All else remains fraud and futility.

    Long has the vast majority labored subordinate to make the fortunes and prestige of others. Therefore, even just in the moment, let us together reclaim the will to power. Get out what you put in. Pay attention to detail. Expand our horizons. Reach out! Take a break from braindead small talk, fake fun and recreation, so-called, that shabbily travesty of playful honest hedonism. Just forget antisocial and stimulus impoverished  (anti)social media and the empty illusion of social life. Put down that idiotic smart phone. And bending your whole mind to the task, even just for the moment, use a real desktop computer with a wide screen and sprawling keyboard. Don't you deserve that little? Rise up, sheeple! Browsing with a cell phone, is wearisome and stupefying like surfing the Net through a periscope and navigating with a pair of tweezers! And rest assured, this is not a bug but a feature, and all by Dystopian design.

    We exist in a monological world, teeming with glorified pack mammals, bleating sheeple, some quite famous, who only talk and never listen, not even to their own thoughts, much less to one another, to anyone else. Indeed, like unto some absentee God, or Castro to the Cubans, no matter how irate, nevertheless all speaking in the familiar all about "Fidel" as if they ever hung out and chatted with the tyrant personally, the celebrity cult pundits cultivate parasocial one sided false sense of relationship amongst the gullible from whom they shield themselves and ignore. And also such is the enigma of membership in collective identity no less than as with ever sycophantic cult of personality. Munchausen by proxy the likes of Rush Limbaugh may even sink so low as to pander for sympathy amongst the faithful for his adorable poor ailing pet pooch, but there will be no access to be found for any response, no matter how urgent, helpful or sympathetic. -And all for the sake of that poor suffering creature! No mass market charlatan no matter how drunk on the adulation of lost souls, actually ever desires to hear from the hoi polloi. Alas then the disillusion from individually taking such mass distracting scoundrels at their word. 

    Worse, reaching out to one another instead, has become that much less convenient after Google eliminated forum search, making it that much more difficult simply to filter for anything actually calling for any kind of answer or response. Google even purchased and then eventually shut down DejaNews, the renowned USENET newsgroup archive, for many a last bastion of at all intelligent conversation, in order to stop spammers from harvesting email addresses. Talk about figuratively throwing out that proverbial baby with any metaphorical bath water!

    And so, instead of reliably connecting strangers, an internet search will still at least lead the user to information. Or else to highly page ranked though largely uninformative content, even however impressive seeming, nevertheless somewhat simplistic, yet another pandering sales pitch to desperation, again with no interest in actually hearing from anyone, or much real help.

    But no, it's not all just because of ever expanding vectors forSPAMper se. Not withstanding any alluring futuring scenario of vision of automated Sociometry, in the here and now the Internet, the great revolution in electronic communication, ever gravitates back to the worst and most prolific of traditional one way advertising, until everything just tastes of SPAM. So fear not and rest assured: 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!

    As my father liked to say, the world is divided into the knowers and the seekers, those united behind uniform and monolithic doctrine and  know-it-all perceived monopoly upon manifest truth, and the varied and essentially disparate seekers of truth and one another, with no such pretence and engineering no such consensus. Because, true tolerance is never contingent upon agreeable silence and compliance. Persuasion, like individual opinion to begin with, remains indispensable and nothing to be ashamed of. But its a two way street. And persuasive rhetoric must enfold logos (logic /sound reasoning) along with pathos (emotional appeal), kairos (timing or occasion) and the insight into the human condition that is drama and the discipline of the writing craft. But fair play, unrestrained conjecture, the speculative element, and even but also the practice of controversy which is the invited and valued fee exchange of criticism, all remain crucial in both modes or applications of narrative, creative fiction writing and business or project planning alike. Not adamant conviction however secured or inspired, but open-minded skepticism remains crucial. Sometimes, there can be no more gullible mark than the confidence trickster. And that may seem only fair. But norms of reciprocal manipulation are only a vicious cycle of unmitigated folly and mendacity. Whereas by contrast, in seeking to change minds, honest rational people should no less receptive and no more so, as they would wish others to be when reaching out to them. Because criticism remains nothing to fear, nothing threatening or hostile. There can be no  verified or justified firm foundation. Genuine criticism remains inherently friendly, an expression of esteem. And we are all fallible. Indeed, to quote Dwight David 'Ike' Eisenhower: Plans are nothing, planning is everything. And in the famous words of Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, disciple of Carl von Clausewitz: “No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy.” -nor, evidently, whatever other sort of antagonist, true to life dramatic obstacle or complication. All progress then remains a function of ongoing error detection and course correction. Who in their right mind would ever want to read the work of fiction writers who shun critique, much less invest in a business startup from a management team that resents and ignores all criticism of their business plans?

    Verificationism/Justificationism is the heteronymous demand, if not for unattainable certainty, then for prior justification, verification or firm foundation before moving forward: Many remain convinced that nothing should ever be subject to serious deliberation until the practicality thereof is well established. And that rules out feasibility study, especially of such wild ambitions as, just for perhaps the most extreme example even conceivable, retrograde time travel. And how outlandish, how foolish! Therefore, never mind any of my own social, emotional and intellectual preference! Really, just who do I think that I am! To quote Aldous Huxley in 'Brave New World:' ...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. So why not just give in to pressure and bullying? Just be what they expect. Give the people what thy want! -That very worst grot bottom of insufferable toxic and futile dilettantery and pipedreaming, the craven antirational exaltation of the mediocre sometimes referred to as the cult of the amateur in rejection of all experts and expertise: All without effort, fiction writing sans critique, business planning without rigorous criticism and due diligence of feasibility study, and meaning in life without struggle, difficulty, integrity, complexity, Philosophy or abstraction, and above all: full time enthusiastic participation in the most interminably vapid, boring and empty small talk, soul crushing loneliness even amid the crowds. Precisely such stinking thinking is what comes of  Verificationism/Justificationism and the irrational terror of uncertainty. In the alternative, Faliblism/ Non-Justification, in the spirit of autonomy, contends rather that we remain ever fallible, that there is no verification, justification or firm foundation from which to proceed, and that in vibrant freethinking without fidelity or commitment, all hypotheses begin as unjustified conjecture, sheer speculation, only afterwards subject to critical preference and reality testing, and never filtered in advance. All of which should raise no alarm nor cause suffering of trepidation.

    Alas, with the ever pervasive rise of the willfully positive bogus support group ethos, has come in deplorable like kind, the phony writers group, similarly offering only encouragement and actually forbidding all substance. Such is the fantasy of writing, the ever pipedreaming wish without the will. Nevertheless, it may bear mention at this juncture that as things stand, nevertheless there have long endured many high quality serious writers groups in pursuit of arête, of excellence in the discipline of the writing craft via the exchange of critique, nevertheless otherwise embracing as inevitable matter of course, the solitude of writing. And alas that thinking makes it so. Indeed, for whatever reason, typical writers groups generally do not practice ongoing collaborative fiction writing. Among serious writers, collaboration in fiction writing is the rare exception. But creativity and innovation are best served in an ongoing alternation between time for private thought and conduct of open free exchange together with others.

    Worse,  in contrast to traditional serious writer's groups, the many perfectly awful collaborative fiction writing projects and communities that do exist online, in mindless anal retentive conformity to mediocrity, for the most  part typically hold forth that because there is no disputing tastes as the saying goes, therefore there can be no criteria or technique for quality writing, no point in making the effort, no aspiration to excellence because otherwise no deficiency either. Therefore, as might be expected, the output remains systematically execrable. And again, only imagine any similar attitude when it comes to drafting business plans! To reiterate, who would want want to read a story by writers who spurn critique, much less invest in a business startup from a management team who resent and ignores all criticism? In either mode or application of narrative, storytelling or business / project planning, writing is rewriting, hard work and never a waste of time. Indeed, as Paul Val ry contends, a work of art is never finished, only abandoned. The passage of time affords the writer the opportunity, ever to return to ones text with "fresh eyes." But ongoing feedback in collaboration, affords the "fresh eyes" and minds of others, without delay, speeding the progress of writing and therefore of planning.

    Writing is rewriting
    ,
    helpful INVOLVEMENT, ongoing rounds of editing and revision of prose, one's own or for anyone else,
     

    “Less is more: Leave out the bits that people just skip ahead.”  — Elmore Leonard

     

    Come late and leave early. Edit!  In the immortal words of Alfred Hitchcock:  Drama is life with the dull parts cut out. Therefore an efficient scene should be entered as late in the action as possible, and then transition to the next scene just as soon as everything crucial is revealed or has transpired. Otherwise, there had better be any purpose either in building up before hand or lingering on afterward. Whatever motivation establishing conflict on every level with pathos in fight scenes needs must come before hand and even such crucial exposition and background information as the terrain is best established immediately before a chase sequence, usually lacking dialogue unless it's short and clipped.

    I'm sorry. If I d more time, I would have written a shorter letter. — “Marcus T. Cicero”

     

    But what applies to writing specifically, applies no less to life learning most generally. And more people might at long last begin learning from their mistakes in ongoing revision their own opinions, were only they not so preoccupied in such frantic denial. Or better still, to  learn from the prior mistakes of others. Therefore, avoid old mistakes, and welcome new ones. As most everyone alive today well knows and understands, we only learn from mistakes, from true to life drama of bad decisions that make for good stories. Such remains the positive power of negative thinking! And yet alas that incorrect responses are still penalized from early on in the antiquated sore travail of formal education, the entrenched bastion and fifth column of oppressive heteronomy to conformity even within global democracy. The resultant prevailing flagrantly anti-intellectual Anti-Critical Bias, the anxious, fragile and thin-skinned perception of criticism as hostile and hurtful, remains an unaffordable liability, especially in any serious endeavor, whatever might be at stake. The repudiation of Anti-Critical Bias, thereby upholding the precious freedom and value of criticism, of error detection and course correction, the practice of controversy and of open dissent, remains of crucial relevance to happiness, safety and capability. Likewise all striving to take things in whatever spirit as intended and affording the benefit of the doubt:

    Imbeciles, tyrants and scoundrels, adamantly insist, simply ignoring all sound reasoning supported by Empirical evidence entirely to the contrary, that cooperation is impossible save by fairly complete consensus and agreeable compliance. And thus, under the worldview of heteronomy, collaboration among equals remains entirely inconceivable! But responsible people who disagree actually do cooperate productively only all the time! In the words of John Storrs Hall: Ideas should compete, bodies should cooperate. Scientist in perpetual disagreement on one point or another, challenge one another to discover Empirical truth by experiment and Scientific Method, and those ever more scarce functional policy makers in good faith, are actually ever known to reach reasonable compromise. And all entirely without consensus or silence. Whereas with no place for dissent, consensus groups remain merely do nothing pep rallies. That is, unless they are scams, in which case whatever the scam's ulterior agenda may indeed be accomplished, whatever good that comes of it. Indeed, wars have been lost by clueless military hierarchies lacking due protocol for the airing of dissent among junior officers, dismissively silenced when they foresaw disaster.

    Whereas,  in both word and deed, abusive bullies intentupon undermining the precious dignity of others, forever actout with such brazen impunity, by contrast even the most harsh of genuine criticism remains inherently friendly, an expression of esteem. For: “Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.” - Proverbs 27:17 (KJV)  And there can be no solutions first without explicit and ever improving problem statements. After all, an opponent in debate is no more the enemy than a competitor in sports or other competitive play. Fair play unites us not despite but because of discord itself, in Axiological Dialectic upon the many and varied very questions of all what matters most, how so and why, enlightenment by refutation in the Socratic crucible of truth, of not only crucial abstract analysis and meaning in the deepest sense, and beyond mere aspiration, arête in real practicality and capable effective interaction together. Even sheer incomprehension is a beginning and no dire impasse. There is no cause for alarm. The readiness to speak up, question, point out and discuss  communication errors and failures, remains crucial to communication at all, and sometimes even a matter of life and death. Mistakes are the Essence towards Intersubjectivity via fully engaged Dialectical conversational adequacy in collaborative miscommunication repair.

    In the words of Albert Einstein: It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. After all, the endurance of boredom is a hallmark of compliant conformity and heteronomy. Hence, even most anciently in the curriculum of Plato's Academy, boredom was deliberately inflicted upon students as a conservative measure to test for heteronomy and conformity by weeding out boredom prone original thinkers and innovators, purveyors of dangerous novelty, from rising to influential positions in society. In the mindset of such heteronomy, only individuals of destiny so ruggedly successful in overcoming such daunting barriers and stumbling blocks and rising to leadership, philosopher kings so lonely at the top, strong yet broken and dedicated to the state, will be deemed worthy to institute change by decree, their painful isolation and sacrifice sparing the rest of us contented drones any such terrifying responsibility and the risk of humiliating error. Hence, to this day, typically, in heteronymous formal education, students are encouraged to admire such individuals of destiny, but never equipped in any way to strive at emulation. Anything but! Cheering us all on at the starting line and then immediately and forever vanishing, "Follow your bliss!" is the shopworn motto whereby we are each and all extolled before being summarily abandoned, each and all to our own devices. How then might the barriers be lowered to initiative and disruptive innovation, actually to foster and socially support brilliant original thinking and action for the rest of us?

    Clearly, distant, thin skinned, ever terrified, paranoid and disingenuous willful positivity, patiently keeping everything light and innocuous, all simply in order to escape notice "hiding ones light under a bushed" and thereby fitting in, can be excruciatingly bored and lonely, painful and harmful, for sensitive, intelligent creative people. Indeed, to reiterate, the deliberate infliction of boredom is often an intentional test for conformity in conservative society, in order to weed out innovators and preserve social stability in the status quo. Indeed, thus was it so in Plato's Academy, the ancient prototype for enduring, toxic and sanctioned prevailing norms of formal education for the training of compliant drones, and the very antithesis of any optimal situations of authentic wellbeing and human flourishing, thinking capability and even leadership. Because in accordance with the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology, added dimensions of social and intellectual stimulus struggle, intrinsic social and intellectual needs and appetites so unique to humanity, remain rooted in the inbred hideous mutation and massively engorged evolutionary neuroscience of human consciousness. As Socrates so famously declares: "An unexamined life is not worth the living for a human being." Rather than sallying forth out into the world, struggling to finesse others at random and sucking up for approval, would it not make better sense to simply compare notes candidly here and now?
     
    Why then such prevailing anxiety of uncertainty in our culture? Perhaps because in our world and in our time, we remain ever in crisis. Life is suffering. Life has always been Absurdly threatening, complex, tragic and demeaning. What can be done? Figuratively, many seemingly do not even seek proverbially to sell their metaphorical souls, but might be said eagerly to pay ever more dearly, just to be well rid thereof! Many seek to quell their own suffering from within, even by turning to ever more fantastical mysticism and magical religion or ever more brutal Behavior Modification. Many thereby strive to recover certainty of lost innocence, even at whatever cost and falsehood of lying to oneself. But certainty remains impossible, and innocence is vastly overrated, no Biblical pleasant garden of delight, but only a clammy darkness at last illuminated in Positive Disintegration and the Promethean transgression of dawning autonomy.

    The desperate struggle for lost innocence amounts to nothing more than the futility of deep denial and terror management, enduring wellspring of lunatic ideology and tyranny. And yet, all is not lost. But what hope and at what cost in time and effort? Nothing can be gained in the mounting dystress of unremitting cognitive dissonance from the abandon of reason and integrity, never truly without qualm. In the alternative, let us undertake both soul searching and reality testing, in feasibility study, together. Life, as it is said, remains the journey, the ongoing experience, and not whatever hoped for destination or results in deferred gratification. So, how far are we each willing go? How actually capable might we become? Gentle reader, have you the wherewithal? What will it actually take to get what you want? What are any of us willing to do, or unwilling? And does the threshold of feasibility at all, let alone whatever threshold of willing action, meet with desired interim experience ("the journey" of life) let alone projected thresholds of whatever desired outcomes ("the destination") in achievement or payoff of deferred gratification? What will be the required human and material resource Capitalization, and how if at all might they be acquired? Let us strive to remain honest with one another and with ourselves, in due diligence and feasibility study of business or project planning. Motivational self manipulation remains bogus and futile. 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 callow motivational grifter here to psyche you up and then leave you in the lurch! Because we all know how that feels, and I don't like it! We are all still sheeple, glorified pack mammals, yearning to breath free. And society is the enemy.

    We are all such proverbial square pegs: The customer is always wrong! The program never fails, you fail the program. In  the immortal words of George Carlin: "Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit. By contrast, our designated rôle models in every conventional option in life, the star student, ideal employee, perfect disciple or model prisoner alike, are all characterized, beyond mere responsive obedience and passivity otherwise, not only by every obsessive-compulsive eager beaver sore travail, but boundlessly committed initiative in anticipation of their superior's desires, "paying one's dues" life long, excelling without complaint or resistance, never seeking attention by requesting explanation or assistance. Exactly such adaptation of enthusiastic approval seeking, still held up as exemplary in order to vindicate systemic failure and disappointment in most every walk of life, remains, punishment and reward systems by hierarchical design, indeed the benchmark that for better or worse, most of us will come short and fall by the wayside, make do, for each to learn their place.
     
    But why be so "professional," so dedicated ever following up in such responsible diligence towards every hated sore travail of formal education and employment and in career development generally, yet so helpless and lost in perpetual surrender to random propinquity, so haphazard and cavalier in such poignantly yeaned for personal life? Is this truly freedom? Do such priorities truly reflect our highest values and best interests? Or is this all just some kind of a racket? A racket, no matter how reputable, can be any dishonest scheme or ongoing transaction, all not as it contrives to present itself and as is tacitly accepted or endured by the majority of those involved, but in actuality a myth, scam or fraud, a deceptive domineering practice of coercion and manipulation conducted for whatever benefit of a few cronies at the expense of the many. As Edward Snowden observes, oppressors who restrict our options, then pretend that we consent. And the inculcation of social skills and skilled incompetence, remains an important aspect of just such ubiquitous fraud.
     
    Again, all unilateral social skills advice for the individual is by definition inoperant, simply because free social interaction requires more than one consenting participant. One size fits all unilateral social skills advice online for the individual, indeed much as typically arising in casual conversation anyhow, tends implicitly toward frustratingly simplistic and even attachment disordered mindblind dehumanizing unreliable prediction regarding the interaction and responses of others, even complete strangers under very different situations. Such is "socialization," behavioral conditioning that none dare call indoctrination or: brainwash.

    For 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 in ‘Conversation with a Pacifist’, even at all thinking clearly, becomes increasingly difficult in bored and lonely isolation without expression.  

    Alas, tautologically, there can be no unilateral solitary lonely DIY self-help or self-improvement of relationship, of human interaction by definition involving more than one person. And ordinary conformity so often remains such a monumental waste of time. Heteronymous conventional distant, Existentially Absurd and oppressively empty superficial social life and short attention all remain, as with rare exception, no less desperately alienated than typical situation of formal education and employment whereby sensibility even off the clock, is most prevalently and markedly informed. And all becoming similarly another chore and a bore, just crushingly dull. And all of that so completely fails the masses of humanity because quite simply, and yet again to reiterate, capability, important close human relationship with psychological visibility, Eros which is transport in liberating union with alien difference, and particularly friendship, arise, and without apology, entirely as forbidden byproduct of optimal reciprocal engagement in purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication, and never otherwise. Accept no substitutes! And no one else need approve!
     
    Therefore FoolQuest.com deigns not to proffer, hype or press the typical and ubiquitous unilateral and often somewhat authoritarian, rigidly conditional, toxic, oppressive and blithely antidemocratic social skills "advice," myth and smug guidance in "realistically" (submissively and manipulatively) coping with oppression for any vastly outnumbered lone individual as are each and us all, abandoned to ones own devices in everything truly important, and all too often thereby vulnerable to bullying and exploitation.
     
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      Sorry, the modus vivendi that you ordered,
      is currently out of stock, everywhere.
      What to do?!

       

      Modus vivendi exceeds mere superficial individual material and financial lifestyle. Modus vivendi brings individual principle into action, because Modus vivendi denotes method or manner of living that reflects individual values and according to personal talents. And modus vivendi is attained in creative solution finding by any feasible interim working arrangement or practical compromise bypassing whatever difficulties, inclusively allowing different people, individually and collectively, even who disagree, freely to abide and interact productively. Is the modus vivendi you ordered, currently out of stock, try as you may, searching high and low, but all to no avail? Perhaps your desired modus vivendi simply does not come off the rack, like, oh I don't know, some pretensions brand name of ridiculous high end underpants for muscle men. Yes, if you are reading this, it may be that the modus vivendi you seek must be such as that of an individual life tailor made. Am I feeling your pain yet? Modus vivendi is social and situational. Thus, tautologically, there can be no solitary lonely DIY self-help or self-improvement with any power of implementation to bring individually tolerable modus vivendi into effect, fostering deep, meaningful engagement. No matter how collectively unhappy, the social environment continues to imposes it's own order, forever frustrating to any desire for life on one's own terms. For such is prevailing heteronomy that inspires such inarticulate and therefore unaccountable contempt and derision for new ideas and truth to power .

      "General intelligence, the ability to think and reason, endowed our ancestors with advantages in solving evolutionarily novel problems for which they did not have innate solutions," says Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics and Political Science. "As a result, more intelligent people are more likely to recognize and understand such novel entities and situations than less intelligent people, and some of these entities and situations are preferences, values, and lifestyles."

       

      The grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology and the great clue to Eudemonia via social creativity:
    One way or another, not only as merely constant with  freakish and massively inbred hideous mutation, evolutionary neurology and engorged human cerebrality,comes an  occurrence however infrequently though nevertheless in accordance with repeated Empirical observation informing the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology. To wit: how members in whatever sort of tribe, community or any manner of social institution, may however infrequently find themselves called upon by whatever powers that be, to participate and together experience some glimmer of joy in the process of creative solution finding together. This may occur, for examples, when whatever employers  perceive the need of creative solutions to new problems as ever arising. Or the opportunity mat arise in some context of formal education. For whatever the preciously scarce and fondly remembered special occasion of collaboration in creative solution finding typically offers one fleeting bright spot of happiness and near equality amid forever grinding and typically authoritarian oppressive sore travail. Hence Creativity can and Should be Social is the subversive concept instead, of just the opposite, a fine example to emulate, a new movement in flagrant reversal of all authoritarian norms and priorities of heteronomy, all for the sake of authentic wellbeing. Creativity can and Should be Social is the social engineering proposal that whatever appeal to authority ought to remain in reserve, arising only as and when actually ever needed, so that in paradigm shift on such flagrant subversion of hierarchy as collaboration among equals in creative solution finding, should prevail as a new norm, even obsoletizing the entire depressing social rat race, at least within a fortunate intentional social circle or test group.
     
    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.

    Conventionally and heteronymously, in every walk of life, authority routinely and continually and systematically stifles not only autonomy in general, but most particularly, creative solution finding. That is, except when and as deemed needful or advantageous by whatever powers that be, especially in light of any whatever unusual special circumstances or situation. Only thus ever arises for even the rank and file, such scarce and fondly remembered experience of creative collaboration under relaxation of hierarchical dominance, called: low hierarchical distance, meaning: near equality. And subversively proposed herein, shall be indeed to completely reverse traditional paradigm of heteronomy to authoritarianism, by instead resetting collaboration among equals in creative solution finding as the new norm and default human condition, then appealing to even ad hoc authority, only occasionally as need actually arising.  And the strategy, mechanics and proposed plan of action in implementation thereof, is dubbed: Creativity can and Should be Social.

    Cultural Anthropology studies social cognition by which to predict the responses of others, entirely on the basis of hierarchical position and distance. Such is the entrenched conviction of heteronomy that the collective can never be wrong and that cooperation is impossible among equals, impossible without obedience to leadership without which we will all be quite helpless. Only in seeming afterthought, does Cultural Anthropology also observe and recognize an exception to that dreary paradigm: Indeed cooperation among equals, cooperation in creative problem-solving (better still, solution finding) , a mentality that is entirely different, offering escape from all of that dull primate politics, because cooperation in creative problem-solving, or better still: solution finding, is passionately problem-driven rather than status-driven, challenging the entirely different aptitudes of autonomy, of trustworthy and respectful democratic values in action, as amongst gifted peers and dissidents, with optimal reciprocal engagement in happily serious conversation producing intrinsic gratification from intentionally substantive communication, intentionally purposeful interaction, unguarded and reciprocal psychological visibility, disclosure, joy in work and in play alike.

      But the fundamental social competencies as perceived by Cultural Anthropology also include, even indeed seemingly as something of a grand afterthought, such executive function as cooperation in creative solution finding, even at its most happily serious, evoking as does play, not merely private and individual but sociable and shared emotional transport of playfulness universal to all mammals. And similarly, cooperation in creative problem-solving (or better still, solution finding), as a priority of its own, being problem-driven rather than ego-driven, may even level the playing field to such conditions of near equality called: low power-distance communication style, and pleasurably engage autonomy, creativity, Positive Disintegration and growth, challenging the entirely different aptitudes of democratic values in action, as amongst gifted peers, dissident in significant and unprecedented paradigm shift in modus vivendi.

      It has long been observed how gifted students amongst their own true gifted peers, suddenly and mysteriously no longer require the great and good boon of socialization! -toxic and sanctioned, that violence and neglect which none dare call: indoctrination, behavioral conditioning or brainwash... Wouldn't it make more sense to socialize and lift everyone to engage with and relate to one another more in accord with whatever observable gifted paradigm, than instead to dumb down our best and brightest just to norm them into fitting in, even however ill-fitting, awkwardly and reluctantly? In the alternative, just the opposite, everyone, it said, has gifted potential to be tapped. But how? - beyond the usual mealy-mouthed lip service... Indeed, if gifted is as gifted does, the how might anyone who wants to, most readily go about it amongst themselves?

      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. Everything that we do is in order to modify subjective experience thereby altering consciousness. All hence, as shall be seen, the social engineering of social stimulus struggle would contrive the deliberate introduction of specific social stimuli and social interaction, into the social environment, in order better to optimize social stimulus struggle. meeting even the unique intellectual social stimulus appetites of the  massively engorged human brain and neocortex all as rooted in evolutionary neuroscience.

    Cultural Anthropology defines itself by focus upon, leave us face it: the predominating human mentality as of the pack mammals 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. Under heteronomy, Sheeple generally learn to become so so cynical, insecure, inhibited, waryand cagey, most strongly motivated by life long behavioral conditioning to peer pressure and the many ongoing punishment and rewards and social cognition of perceived vested interests in the advancement and preservation of social position and standing. That is why kinship and rank are viewed as so central to the human condition in society, by Cultural Anthropology, with the fully engaged egalitarian low hierarchical distance of collaborative solution finding relegated almost to mere afterthought as an exception, a special case. Individuals may find themselves less often actually valued intrinsically for ability and the content of character and potential as prospective friends and partners or allies in life, assets in rational self-interest or simply joy to be with, than instead extrinsically valued for popularity, standing and influence ever exploited in perpetual struggle jockeying for approval and dominance. Hence the recommendation to lie and pretend to have friends until one actually has any. The unpopular are shunned. It's all a matter of such suffocating priorities: social cognition makes sycophants of us all!

    I might not have what you want, but dare we seek for it together? When all else has failed, what has actually been desired all along? 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 of the wherewithal, the channels and the means. Gentle reader, am I then your unmet friend? What opportunity in making my acquaintance? Networking, what is my value proposition? And how important can you be to me in return? And what difference does any of that make? Of course no one should expect universal love or approval or even need it. That's not the point. No matter who might ever come to enjoy my company or even recognize and perhaps even admire my best qualities, all too many nevertheless will continue to keep their distance, unlikely to include me or befriend me. It seems that I just don't fit in. 

    Amid the masses, there remain two kinds of people: Those who are unhappy because they just don't fit in, and those who are unhappy because of the empty lives that they must so arduously lead simply in order to fit in. Damned if you do and damned if you don't The only wining move is not to play. The readily available avenues of social life are often more of a frustration and an obstacle course than a conduit, another joyless, senseless and alienating chore, conditional and endless and Sisyphusian. Taught to wear masks before even finding our own faces, so many of us are steadily prevailed upon increasingly to sacrifice all authenticity and, in essence, to pretend to be someone else, someone at all more acceptable to others. Otherwise, cast aside in life, one must pay the consequences. There is user hostile outcomes gap, with no results whatever one does. Conventional options in life are all so oppressive and unhappy.The soul crushing emotionally void and tedious anti-intellectual rat race of social success is typically the most aimless and demeaning drudgery and disappointment, serving as the filter of mediocrity so dystressfully testing individual conformity and tolerance for lonely boredom bereft of unguarded and reciprocal psychological visibility, leaving only futility in the user hostile outcomes gap.

    In the words of Barbara Sher: Isolation is the true dream killer, not your attitude. Alas, how we often disappoint one another and ourselves by expecting too little. The paranoid herd mentality is of watching one another to keep everyone in line. The blithe unquestioning cocksure intimidation of putting one another each in our place, demands so much less of the individual, than psychological visibility and the empathic Emotional Intelligence of Actively Listening to one another to learn where the other stands. Relationship, Eros which is transport in liberating union with alien difference, especially friendship, arises only as a side effect of purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication, and never otherwise. Accept no substitutes! And no one else need approve! Indeed, in the words of Simone Weil: Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. After all, curiosity is the agent of compassion. But in a milieu of suspicion and reciprocal indifference, social support will be hard won by fitting in at whatever cost of toxic and sanctioned socialization, ever ganging up on one another and finally joining the enemy, the oppressors, against ourselves. Mediocrity becomes the greatest prize. One way or another, most people are just overwhelmed, too busy with all that will be expected of us, or else failing in life, no matter putting on a brave face, haunted, lonely, demoralized and bizarre, a living warning to all others. Broken before The Great Faceless They, the castoffs of society are everywhere for each and all to chillingly understand: but for the grace of Leviathan, go I!

      In the alterative, the present proposal all hinges upon the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology, the repeatable Empirical observation of how uniform submission and sycophantic heteronomy to socially cognition of hierarchical dominance is virtually suspended during the all too scarce and fleeting transitory egalitarian low hierarchical distance characteristic of creative problem solving. or better still: solution finding, happy, pleasurable, meaningful and fully engaged. But then its over and sorely missed, freedom once again quashed by oppressive mediocrity.

      Notwithstanding those malignant norms of heteronomy as observed and studied by Cultural Anthropology, and quite to the contrary in accord rather with that grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology and the truthful ramifications thereof: relationship and especially bonding and attachments of true friendship with psychological visibility, arising, and without apoplogy, ever only as forbidden byproduct of immersive full engagement in  purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication and never otherwise. Accept no substitutes! And no one else need approve! Typical and ubiquitous anti-intellectual social taboo notwithstanding. nothing else works. And in the words of Barbara Sher: Isolation is the true dream killer, not your attitude. We've all been had! Conventional options in life are all so oppressive and unhappy. There is a user hostile outcomes gap, no results no matter what one does. Even if somehow attainable, social success indeed from indeed as socially expected, always keeping things light and cheerful, only comes at the cost of emotional distance, only another mode of isolation, bored and lonely. Dysfunctional heteronymous social skills of calculating, manipulative and distant social success or popularity on the one hand, and healthy genuine close friendship on the other hand, therefore remain antithetical. Again: trustworthy respectful happy people talk more seriously with less small talk. Whereof we might all do better together to emulate, to rôle model, But how? And there's the rub!
       
      Answer: What if it became possible, via the the social engineering of social stimulus struggle, together to grow more human and enhance authentic wellbeing, by turning said priorities upon their head, setting the specific underserved stimulus appetite and correlating life satisfaction of uplifting creativity and solution finding as the default, and in more democratric sensibility, with authority called upon and resorted to only as need ever actually arising? Such Eudemonia indeed seems well feasible, although likely requiring some or other intentional community, culture, group or social circle, of ongoing creative interaction, subversive and disruptively innovative solution finding and collaboration among equals, perhaps even such as herein proposed: Creativity can and Should be Social, all quite feasible, readily doable by cofoundes in collaboration, persistent and serious people together purposely forming at least at first even a small intentional community, a closely working group or social circle, perhaps indeed as envisaged, via a continual Dialectic of synergistic innovation by collaboration in fiction writing and in Entrepreneurial new venture creation (variuos business startup).
      Truth in advertising?The business plan is often cited as the single most important document produced in the course of new venture creation (various business startup). But another crucial narrative is that of Public Relations and Marketing. What then do advertisements actually advertise? And what does the appeal of modern advertising reveal? Know your porn, fabricated temptation ever shaping and tantalizing constructed desires. Perhaps the old standby of ever such ardent invocation to the consumer luxury of modern convenience has lost it's elegance and enchantment, becoming somewhat jaded and pass , therefore deemed unaffordable for a perceived diminished value. In short, much advertising becomes flagrantly irrelevant. This may be why, in the alternative, obviously and quite simply, some advertisements actually do extol whatever salient and even tangible practical advantages of whichever product or service. And therein, there may even be found any modicum of truth in advertising. On the other hand, much advertisement openly resorts to entertainment, even to the most over the top comedy, in exchange for the viewers' attention, instead of simply annoying us. As the saying goes, sex sells. Indeed, sex often distracts the consumer, even to the point of entirely forgetting whatever is being advertised in the first place. Or else shame and disgust are effective in selling hygiene products. But as is well known, the most canny and manipulatively exploitative advertisement has always plumbed all meaningful depth of frustrated and underserved motivating human need and psychology, but again, without actual relevance or end user results. Instead, so much of advertising only so flagrantly foists upon the consumer ever the same colossally mendacious and Absurd Existentially bait-and-switch, pandering to elicit wishful magical thinking fantasy, in order rto override better judgment. This is accomplished by promoting an aura of mystique for whatever product or service. This in turn is accomplished by whatever propaganda subtext or narrative theme, repetitively conditioning in the minds of whatever susceptible target audience, an association of whatever product or service with whatever tantalizing yearnings, beauty, temptation and expectation of happiness or bliss such as in portrayal of conviviality, friendship, good times, popularity, pleasure, success and acclaim
      Notwithstanding all diversionary tactics and Existential bait-and-switch of such even transparently manipulative and stridently irrelevant marketing mystique, what then remains as the true secret of genuine and effective pursuit of happiness? In answer, an abundance of psychological research concludes that people are happier who respond to experience marketing, and spend their money on howsoever uplifting experiences, ever so transient, than those who simply acquire even the most lasting and practical useful things, let alone buying into whatever mystique. Even the anticipation of a positive experience, is fuller and more joyful that the anticipation of acquisition of even perfectly useful and desirable products. But true pursuit of happiness beyond shelling out for just whatever fleeting poignant taste, may depend upon repeatability and continuous self sustainability of peak experience, fulfillment and progress. Experience marketing may offer the most wonderful brainstorming classes, all manner of fiction writers' boot camps, or even internships at whatever kind of individual dream job. But then it's over. And there will likely be no clear and ready path forward, as with instead any ongoing interaction or endeavor.
       
      There can be no guarantee of success, but there can often be guarantee of futility in the production and consumption of mendacious irresponsible guarantees. We are all fallible. No, we can't all just pretend and fake it till you make it. Not even with all the merch! Because marketing or branding of celebrity rôle models' mystique remains nothing more than mass market pipedream of cargo-cult mimesis, never actually bringing the consumer any closer to becoming any part of leading whatever kind of life desired, much less ever actually achieving notable success. Scam financial opportunities will only part suckers from their cash. .

      As my father was wont to observe, the world is divided into the knowers and the seekers, the know-it-alls and the skeptics. The knowers, all manner of know-it-all  gurus, their acolytes and social cognition, are everywhere. But to quote from the Tao Teh Ching by Lau Tzu: Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know. And indeed, some are more serious and reserved than others in their desperate undertaking of conformity, keeping their own counsel of whatever secrets they think that they have, and others more simplistic and delusional or cult like and hence more eager, mendacious and compulsively proselytizing. It's okay to want to attract attention persuasively. Only strive to be as rational, honest and open minded as you would have others be towards you. In fair play, the truth will out.

       

      “All the lonely people, where do they all belong?”  — John from Liverpool

      The colossally Absurd Existential bait-and-switch sometimes referred to as: TOTALITARIAN INTERACTIVITY consists of any manipulative situation of irrelevance obfuscated under an illusion of choice, in a reality of control and constraint, for an audience sucked in and lead about by the nose! For quintessential example par exultance, isolating and deceptive webforms, short and simple or long and complicated, are all too often designed to elicit any hope that any detail of free association permitted and invited via individual response, thereby by implication expresses any promise of flexibility in tailored response and thereby actually makes any difference. But in truth, the bureaucratic or automated response scarcely varies and after all the wined up, one size fits all. In essence, the mark has been conned into pouring their heart out to a bot!

      Gentle reader, can you relate? Do you weary of forever striving and waiting as the grueling frustration, agitation, insecurity and dystress only mounts inside? Of continually reaching out to unresponsive and noncommittal others? Of yet again finding yourself the only one that even much gives a damn? Not only the most flagrantly messed up, but just the most ordinary people and even our best and brightest easily find ourselves disaffected with society, marginalized and friendless. People do so love to rebel against any norm, at least superficially. For no one is alone in being lonely, invalidated and misunderstood. Legions of the unloved and forgotten, ever strive to meet the ever more daunting challenges of social life in order at long last to break isolation and find one anther.

      According to ‛Social Failures and Social Solutions: Evidence from OkCupid’ “Social failures involve social interactions, such as affect, social support and advice giving; [...] Social failures are social interactions that do not occur, but would make two or more people better off if they did. [...] Social failures capture the difference between interactions that do happen and those that should happen.”  Information access and management is also a crucial factor, because inaccessibility of information is also a kind of social failure. Some instances of social failure are more important than others, depending upon what might be at stake in making connections and forging relationships. And there remain many possible causes and factors in social failure, even short of pandemic serial bullying outright, including all manner of obstacles and social restrictions on interaction and relationship.

      In particular, going out alone entails a great deal of awkward killing time, only magnifying the futility of that which called: recreation, meaning recovery on one's own time and expense, in every sore travail of  employment, formal education, family life and every other dysfunctional ordeal. Major obstacles and stumbling block needing to be addressed by whatever means, include prudery, sexism, and prevailing intimidation and resultant inhibition and reticence to break the ice and make first contact, especially on the part of women towards men. All in all, social life seems less of a conduit than a filter to be navigated or or barrier to be overcome in order to avoid being winnowed out, excluded and rejected. One might simply wish for anything more engaging between strangers, to make outreach to one another more fun instead of such a discouraging ordeal of distance, inhibition and suspicion. 

      What is loneliness? Why can the wrong people leave one feeling only even all the more lonely than solitude, even amid the bustling crowds? (Remember those?) Indeed, to quote Gian Vincenzo Gravina: "A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company." Gentle reader, outpourings of angst and sympathy online notwithstanding, do these questions truly interest and concern anyone? On an online forum for lonely people, with no trace of irony I discovered a blithe consensus upon two salient points: 1) Loneliness is the most awful no good bad thing! 2) In order to fit in, ya gotta keep it light! Such is anti-intellectualism. And thus do people keep secret their inner selves, starving for authentic psychological visibility. Can pandemic loneliness then ever accrue as any great surprise? People often put in such tremendous time, effort and concentration into such sore travail as formal education, employment and career building, yet remaining so cavalier and haphazard about finding any joy in personal social life in which, truth to tell, most of us have only been set up for failure. No wonder lonely misery has always been so devastatingly pandemic! This subversive and disruptively innovative website, FoolQuest.com, represents the sum of my own research and imagination as to we might together interact  in order to become better fulfilled and no longer so miserable and lonely, by subversively partaking in the shared creativity of collaborative solution finding. For such, as shall be seen, is the true key to life. And what is there more important?

      “Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”   — Coco Chanel
         
      “If I continually get a door wrong, is it my fault? No. In fact, if you continually get it wrong or if other people continually get it wrong, it s a good sign that it s a really bad door.”

        — Don Norman as cited in: ‘Frustration is a design opportunity’

       

      And yet, optimism ever rises anew, even in the face of mockery and derision at large, for all of the same folly. But futility of unflaggingly misguided optimism figuratively barking up that proverbial wrong metaphorical tree, may even be deemed malignant, in all manner of bad relationships not only with other individuals, but also that enigma of collective membership which is the relationship of the individual to society. Many therefore despair, retreat and embrace Nihilism. For as in the famous words of Henry David Thoreau: Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. But when the going gets tough, nerds analyze the problem! When conventional wisdom fails, It may come time to metaphorically color outside the proverbial lines, in condemnation even of the most well meaning of prevailing inoperant snake-oil and the entire panic stricken and irrelevant cult of socialization.

      Popularity or social success on the one hand, and friendship on the other, remain ever starkly antithetical. This is because friendship is genuine, substantive and intimate, while popularity or social success depend upon facile superficiality and keeping distance. Therefore the inherent contradiction remains insurmountable, irresolvable in very principle, and nothing but a setup for frustration, failure and craven exhortation to lowered expectations and making do. Social success and social frustration only isolate the individual in different ways. This may be why finding connection can be such an uncertain rat race, unreliable and requires such open ended investment of time, effort, amoral unprotesting perceptive subtlety and dedication, with iron will, persistence and discipline all glossed over in prevailing simplistic discourse and blithe optimism. Endurance of precisely such monotony and dystress serves to weed out boredom prone unconventional creative thinkers in order to preserve status quo. Hence the need of fundamentally subversive innovation in the reinvention of social life, a subversive fresh perspective entirely redefining the problem of socialization towards more subversive and disruptively innovative solution finding. A bold social engineering design challenge will then inform a subversive and disruptively innovative design exercise open to all. And I look forward to new solutions from interested site visitors. Creative people need a "tribe," because people and society perversely tend to discourage creativity, fostering heteronomy to conformism and undermining autonomy at every turn. And groups for particular creative fields, might not suffice, because optimum creativity, networking and social support are all interdisciplinary. Already, one possible solution meeting the parameters of said design exercise, is a proposal named: Creativity Should be Social then presented together with explanation of precisely how said proposal meets with the requirements of the aforementioned social engineering design exercise, all towards novel subversive and disruptively innovative modus vivendi and more congenial individual situation than we have known.

      We are all such proverbial square pegs: The customer is always wrong! The program never fails, you fail the program. In  the immortal words of George Carlin: Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit. Carlin thus describes a condition of mass oppression and pandemic listless passive hostility, by no means limited to employment and formal education. Little wonder then that the unfulfilled typically find such little heart to apply themselves in unflagging dedication and diligence, no matter extrinsic rewards. Can there be any better way?

      What demarcates opportunity from wishful thinking? Indeed, is this very text just another scam? Well may we ask: Am I being taken in yet again? Dare I ever trust? -you may well wonder and dread... Betrayal is toxic and devastating. We may all become naturally wary and suspicious, and alas with good reason. But there is still truth to be had in the greatest mendacity: The study of marketing scams and con artistry reveals human nature and yearnings. The experience of being taken in by any scam elicits anger and shame. But that's another con all in its own right. Let's never be ashamed of ordinary human needs or appetites for joy. But let's also be honest with ourselves: Marketing scams often begin by selling whatever feeling or mystique. That is the  hook or grabber of their story. And only then, riding upon that desire, elation and wishful thinking, comes whatever promise or guarantee of whatever tangible results and success. Often such mendacity, fraud and manipulation may be characterized by hand waving and pipedreaming. In the alternative, trustworthy and respectful happy people talk more seriously and with lees small talk, realistically and in detail, even when no less ambitiously. Moreover, in order effectively to compete with every ubiquitous sweet lie of heteronomy, and honestly assuage Existential despair in the Absurdity of the human condition, any serious undertaking that even might conceivably succeed, must in the interim sustain ongoing interaction promoting some or other yearned for emotional response and attachments.

      To wit: Ongoing pleasure + engagement + meaning = ever self renewing  fulfillment. And all of this must be accomplished without utterly compromising objectivity, thereby going beyond mere glittering generalities, and thus just perhaps in any viable strategy for success and desired results. And such is the strategic agenda of FoolQuest.com, remaining ever hard nosed and skeptical even amid the most vigorous evaluation, feasibility study and strategy in pursuit of the most utterly fantastical ambitions. Hence, what manner of empowering close social interaction or relationship involves investment of tangible reciprocal support in high activity such as pleasurably engages novel excitement, meaningfully? For such remains an agenda question and theme of deliberation for conversation even at all in and of itself uplifting and engaging, and even just perhaps ultimately fulfilling and productive, all about the experience of healthy relationships that thrive in autonomy, succeed and prosper. Trustworthy and respectful happy people talk more seriously.

      You re frustrated because you keep waiting for the blooming of flowers of which you have yet to sow the seeds.   ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

       

      Executive summary

      The FoolQuest.com  agenda towards beneficial modus vivendi of lifestyle entrepreneurship:

      Creativity Should be Social and Creativity can be Popular

       
      How to start a movement:

      And lo, the star first follower or ally shall become the true leader

      among cofounders teaching by example, showing others how to follow, demonstrating how to participate and  relate

      Does your ambition and creativity ever make you lonely? Does oppressively banal small talk often exasperate and bore you? Instead, do  you enjoy brainstorming creative writing, drama and Science Fiction? Do you dream of brainstorming subversive and disruptively innovative new venture creation (various business startup)? Trustworthy and respectful happy people talk more seriously: Are you serious and persistent about feasibility study and solution finding? Can you be a trustworthy collaboration partner? Then you are needed here! -Beginning with your feedback.

       Do you ever find yourself frustrated, stymied, blocked, in a rut?  FoolQuest.comm  just might have your answer!

      Trustworthy and respectful happy people talk more seriously together freely, and with less small talk, deliberating Dialectically, active in creativity, strategically in feasibility study, intentionally, purposefully and substantively, in controversy which is the exchange of welcome criticism, with civility as autonomous equals in optimal reciprocal engagement. Happiness comes in the Menschlichkeit of unguarded and reciprocal psychological visibility and genuine autonomy in meeting ones needs for capable interaction and agenda setting with even adequately responsible others, in true spirit of friendship and honesty, making progress every day as a real mensch. The class of people who find it the easiest to make friends and forge new connections, overlaps greatly with the class of people who live better rounded and richer lives. Happy people thrive in autonomy and are more productive, likely to choose creative activities and cooperation, deriving fulfillment in meaningful and pleasurable engagement. Indeed, even making more money. But correlation need not imply causation, therefore the question yet remains: Which is cause and which is effect? Does serious conversation result in happiness, or is serious conversation the result of happiness, merely among the resultant symptoms of happiness? Does richer and fuller life facilitate social success, or does social success effectively enrich fuller lives? In either case, if just perhaps the process is reciprocal, functioning in either direction, then a virtuous cycle is indicated, perpetually improving only once implemented, entailing no more that whatever even tacit ratification amongst those who interact, even entirely without the approval or even the knowledge of the Great Faceless They. And that is why relationship and especially friendship arise, and without apology, only as forbidden byproduct of purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication, intentionally. And so, we have our work cut out for us, but nothing so onerous. For as John Cleese expounds: Creativity is not a talent: it's a way of operating. And the TRUE MEANING of LIFE remains that HAPPINESS is subjective wellbeing, an INDIVIDUALLY REACTIVE STATE VARIABLE to howsoever favorable circumstances, objectively. Happiness comes in Eudemonia, in the Menschlichkeit of meeting ones needs by capable interaction with even adequately responsible others.

      Popularity and social success ever remain antithetical to true friendship. This is because friendship is genuine, substantive and intimate, being predicated upon unguarded and reciprocal psychological visibility, while popularity and social success depend upon purpose defeatingly facile superficiality and ever keeping distance while keeping up pretence. Therefore the inherent contradiction remains irresolvable in very principle, and nothing but a setup for frustration, failure and craven exhortation to lowered expectations and making do.  Social success and social frustration a failure only isolate the individual in different ways. This may be why finding connection is so uncertain, unreliable and requires such open ended investment of time, patient effort and dedication, with iron will, persistence and discipline all glossed over in prevailing simplistic discourse and blithe optimism. Endurance of precisely such monotony and dystress serves to weed out boredom prone unconventional creative thinkers in order to preserve status quo. Hence the need of fundamentally subversive innovation in the reinvention of social life. Because happy people talk more seriously with less small talk, and we might all do well to follow their example.

      By very premise, Cultural Anthropology studies human relationships consistent with rôles of relative social standing, degrees of kinship and rank. all predicated upon competencies and aptitudes of hierarchically predictive social cognition by which to anticipate 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 and prediction of future behavior and in order to know what one is expected to do and how to behave. By default, social order tends toward hierarchy which to be Existentially honest, consistently engenders heteronomy, the very opposite of autonomy, friendship, freedom and capability so crucial to authentic wellbeing. The emotional distance and objectification situationally inherent in compulsive heteronomy to hierarchy are antithetical to any sympathetic glimpse into one another's inner life that is called: psychological visibility. Therefore dystressful Existentially Absurd alienation, futility and lonely boredom consistently ensue. But a promising remedy may be suggested in pondering the grand afterthought of Cultural Anthropology, even notwithstanding the paradigmatic study of heteronomy to hierarchical kinship and rank so fundamental to Cultural Anthropology, in consistent Empirical observation and grand afterthought that there are also those rare, exceptional and special moments of collaboration in creative solution finding which is characteristically egalitarian in nature as well as uplifting in freedom, progress and elation.

      Ongoing pleasure + engagement + meaning = ever self renewing  fulfillment. In those most famous words of Friedrich Nietzsche: What is happiness? The feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome. Consider then how much happier we all could be if only rather than living under the monotony and oppression of hierarchical dominance, with only such very occasional and even once in a lifetime respite, instead creative solution finding in collaboration among equals became the default experience, and in more democratic values and sensibilities, with recourse to authority of whatever kind remaining strictly as a contingency in recourse only when actually ever needed for whatever reason! Alas, radical transformation of society at large remains impractical in any short term or medium range of time and besides, impossible for any lone individual. That leaves the possibility of smaller group formation as an at all viable strategy towards implementation od any intentional social  environment better conducive to the pursuit of happiness and success. And for optimal reciprocal engagement in collaboration among equals, in collaborative solution finding together, the following regimen is proposed: An interstitial concurrent synergy of two different powerful applications of narrative, 1) on the one hand, pure creativity for its own joy, in the form of collaboration in creative fiction writing and brainstorming of interesting and original high quality drama and Science Fiction speculation, 2) and on the other hand, of applied creativity, of subversive and disruptively in endless possibility of  innovative entrepreneurial new venture creation (various business startup), from management team formation, business planning, feasibility study, all the way through to Capitalization and implementation, all as proposed herein as the strategic agenda of FoolQuest.com, implementation whereof being the first challenge to collaborative solution finding. Creative and informative resources, tools and guides on FoolQuest.com therefore include a selection of unfinished stories to modify, improve and complete together and subversive and disruptively innovative proposal for collaboration in endless possibility of new venture creation (various business startup).

      It has been opined that so called online community as of message posting boards, is no community, but more analogous to strangers in a bar. In the past,  un groups have achieved noted value is sharing information and consultation, within those bounds. One way or another, online communication even on UseNet has even at its most substantive, lacked depth and scope no less than casual communication and interaction IRL. But (anti)social media by design has eviscerated communication and interaction, while opening the floodgates upon an annoying deluge of endless empty gossip. Gleaning desired information is frustrating. A coherent discussion thread is impossible! Even establishing contact is challenging. (Anti)social media participation is pointless, silly, arduous and self-contained. How is any of this so seductive and addictive? It's repugnant! Every time I land on Facebook, I throw up my hands in consternation! As Sam Vaknim points out, (anti)social media is typically configured to be competitive and zero sum, an endless jockeying of short attention span distracted, shifted and wrested away from all others But it's still not the technology. Gentle reader, we are all routinely called upon to to sacrifice authenticity simply in order to fit it in. For such is conditionality replete with the omnipresent threat of shaming and rejection, nothing new, toxicity long predating the advent of (anti)social media. After all, what was the great innovation of Facebook but the IT for the most empty loutish anti-intellectual reaction pandering indoctrination, spectacle and gratuitously narcissistic desperately fixated veniality of one dimensionally vapid collegiate life? At the risk of anthropomorphism, not just (anti)social media, but social reality at large to begin with, tends to be so obtuse, paranoid, cagy, reluctant to communicate or interact, unfriendly, often hostile and dangerous, in aggregation, naturally, of all the disoriented, suffering and desperately terrified facile individuals adapted to such a toxic social environment. Devious and debilitating  Behavior Modification, brainwash, coercion and manipulative invalidation is everywhere and nothing new. Thus has it ever been. Indeed, historically things where much worse, and in the most backwards regions even today, yet remain so.

      For such is the debilitating and blithely fraudulent promise of heteronomy, futile and Existentially Absurd bait-and-switch, a pervasive racket of rejection masquerading as warm acceptance. There is much lip service nowadays to authenticity, egosyntonic individual conduct in harmony with personal values and preferred self-image.  Everybody needs acceptance for who they truly are, both from themselves and from others. Indeed, those of us ever intrigued by novel ideas and substantive disclosure may therefore contend with mounting exasperation when confronted by all of the shallow pretense of banal small talk. To quote Carl Gustav Jung: “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”  In the words of  Jos de San Martin: “”You will be what you must be, or else you will be nothing.” Individuals may find themselves less often actually valued intrinsically for ability and the content of character and potential as prospective friends and partners or allies in life, assets in rational self-interest or simply joy to be with, than instead extrinsically valued for popularity, standing and influence ever exploited in perpetual struggle jockeying for approval and dominance. Hence the recommendation to lie and pretend to have friends until one actually has any. In the words of Adlai Ewing Stevenson: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. But with all that remains at stake fitting in, who can ever remain truly safe and secure, much less free and open? Social cognition makes hapless toadies of us all!

      In the bright future of advanced automated Sociometry, everyone will be influential. But in the meantime, in the here and now, individual will to power demands ongoing struggle, beginning with the quest for Eudemonia and optimally positive influence upon one another. Alas, under heteronomy, people generally learn to become so cynical, insecure, inhibited, wary and cagey, most strongly motivated by life long behavioral conditioning to peer pressure and the many ongoing punishment and rewards and social cognition of perceived vested interests, relentless struggle ever jockeying in in the advancement and preservation of social position, esteem and standing. That is why kinship and rank are viewed as so central to the human condition in society, under the generally authoritarian perspective of Cultural Anthropology, with the fully engaged open and uplifting egalitarian low hierarchical distance of collaborative solution finding relegated almost to mere democratic grand afterthought. An exception, a weird and wonderful special case, by whatever unusual need or rare circumstances as decided by whatever great and good powers that be. An however infrequent and all to scarce transient positive experience then leaving such a dull and aching void in unrelentingly bored and lonely life the rest of the time. Hence 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 to duplicate such desirable conditions or situations regularly or systematically and at will.

      But what then if instead, priorities could be turned upon their head? What if the open and productive, non-zero-sum fully engaged uplifting and egalitarian low hierarchical distance of collaborative creative solution finding were somehow to instituted as the ongoing default, and whatever kind of responsible authority the special case, reserved for and resorted to only as and when the need whereof ever actually arising? And no longer merely, as all too often, any transitory event of , collaboration among equals in vreative solution finding, such as any one time assigned task afterwards abandoned, or any sort of short term scheduled workshop, contest or seminar, typically concluding and vanishing entirety without any trace, with no debrief or follow up at all. In the words of Sir Isaac Newton: You have to make the rules, not follow them. Where and when, how and by what design would follow whatever intentional implementation of any such a brave new social contract, even just for a small working group, let alone transforming the world? The helplessness of individual frustration and failure is everywhere. Might such helpless pandemic individual frustration and failure, not merely of the clearly and obviously broken and disadvantaged nor even also of the most ordinary and average, but especially of our best and brightest, their possibilities squandered, actually be in any part due to whatever conceivable larger systemic defect in society, of entrenched mediocrity and worse? And what is to be done?

      Creative people may often feel the need of any "tribe" of our own because people and society at large so perversely tend to discourage creativity and subversion, fostering heteronomy to conformism and undermining autonomy at every turn. And to make matters worse,  conventional groups for whatever common interests including particular creative fields, do not suffice, because heights of discovery and creativity, not to mention networking and social support, are often one way or another actually interdisciplinary and not segregated by specialty. Indeed, a notable key observation of TRIZ, the much renowned Russian theory of invention, is how aside from entirely new scientific discoveries, the rarest most important and powerful innovations arise in the transfer and multipotential reapplication of knowledge and methods across disciplines.

      Worse, as a rule, rational individuals of honor ought simply to apprise one another where they stand and just talk over whatever their problems and prioritize obvious shared concerns. Alas, such seems so seldom the case. It may be generally accepted that common interests and passions remain a key factor in building relationships. But in actuality, interests in common may turn out to be the least predicator in interpersonal compatibility. Indeed, interests in common need not correlate with shared core values or character, by far more profound. Moreover, it may be generally accepted that people make friends as a result of chance propinquity by spending casual time with one another. But as shall be seen, this too simply is not true. In truth, given limited options, people have often come to accept the need to cultivate and acquiesce to tolerable relationships with whomever most continually proximate. Hence a necessity of lowered expectations and fearful timidity. A sore travail.

       
      The very premise and agenda of FooolQuest.com  is utterly unique, subversive and taboo, though it should be blatantly obvious.
      The customer is always wrong! The program never fails, you fail the program! Bah, humbug!
      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.
      Ever so blithely to list unrealistic expectations among the causes of loneliness, is not unlike declaring, similarly, that unrealistic expectations lead to malnutrition, as if such were merely subjective and therefore entirely arbitrary! While of course practical needs remain ever crucial to physical survival at all, intrinsic needs and values are the very reason to go on living in the first place, and no mere arbitrary chimera or nuance of individual whimsy. Indeed,  in the biting prose of Kathleen Norris: "When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?" And exactly such foul rhetoric of sly invalidation, is merely another convolution of blaming the end users, each and all of us summarily abandoned to our own devices, indeed for the promulgation of unrealistic expectation in society, to the effect that the means at the disposal of the individual in society can possibly ever deliver as promised or hoped for, and actually ever meet individual needs and heart felt desires at all adequately. Such blind faith despite all manifest evidence to the contrary!  In truth, the proverbial elephant in the room, there remains such a user hostile outcomes gap, meaning: no results no matter one one does. It's a real shit show, and the only game in town! Conventional options in life are all so oppressive and unhappy. But how to stop playing into that racket? How indeed ever to find, nay to create, the very wherewithal and thrive?
       
      To reiterate, creative people may feel the need of a "tribe" of our own because people and society at large so perversely tend to discourage subversion and creativity, fostering heteronomy to conformism and undermining autonomy at every turn. And to make matters worse,  conventional groups for whatever common interests including particular creative fields, do not suffice, because heights of discovery and creativity, not to mention networking and social support, are often one way or another actually interdisciplinary and not segregated by specialty. Indeed, a notable key observation of TRIZ, the much renowned Russian theory of invention, is how aside from entirely new scientific discoveries, the rarest most important and powerful innovations arise in the transfer and multipotential reapplication of knowledge and methods across disciplines.

    The TRUE MEANING of LIFE is that HAPPINESS is subjective wellbeing, an INDIVIDUALLY REACTIVE STATE VARIABLE to howsoever favorable circumstances or situation, objectively. Happiness comes in Eudemonia, genuine autonomy in meeting ones needs by the Menschlichkeit of capable interaction with even adequately responsible others. So, can these aforesaid criteria possibly ever be satisfied via intentional activity and interaction? And precisely how?

     

    A better way?

    Solution finding must begin in responsible needs assessment in comparison with results from situation analysis. And the results are grim: As shall be seen, in every walk of life, conventional society and expected life paths are often extremely counterproductive and actually harmful. Therefore, the path to happiness, the remedy to sore travail of loneliness, boredom and desperate frustration, may consist of exercising reason and then nothing less then as much as possible reducing dependence upon whatever routine inoperant, ineffective or quite simply unfulfilling conventional modes of social life, and finding or creating anything far happier together. Creative solution finding, as shall be seen, an uplifting social interaction of thriving and authentic wellbeing, transcending the inefficiency and frustration of rejecting and domineering destructiveness of conventional social life and hierarchy as defined by Cultural Anthropology. Specifically, the case shall be presented that the key to happiness and escape from the unhappiness of more routine social expectation, with all of its senseless stumbling blocks, pointless conditionality, heartless rejection and stifling emotional distance, may be found in the inherent egalitarianism of creative solution finding and the empowering synergy concurrently between two different ongoing modes of intentional activity and interaction, of creative collaboration among equals and free exchange, specifically the pure creativity of collaborative fiction writing and brainstorming, and in the subversive disruptively innovative applied creativity in endless possibility of of entrepreneurial new venture creation (various business startup) from first concept through to business planning, feasity study, management team formation, Capitalization and implementation.

    Anyone aspiring and yearning to experience creative fulfillment in entrepreneurial success, in endless possibility of new venture creation (various business startup), has surely become well cognizant of the most embryonic first-concept "kitchen table" stage or phase of new venture creation (various business startup), but there is virtually no community, support for or even literature about it. This may be because there is just no money to be made in catering to the actual needs of those who are not making any money yet, indeed if ever. Instead, the market caters to successful entrepreneurs who can pay. Meanwhile, desperate wannabes are scammed with no end of dazzling but dubious offers and opportunities. Not everyone even has the support of the likeminded, even to muddle haphazardly in efforts at new venture creation (various business startup). Any conceivable better intentional situation must proceed from some more patient longer vision than unscrupulous marketing manipulation for quickly parting suckers from their limited cash. In a nutshell, the vision of Eudemonia presented here on FoolQuest.com  is of a sort of deluxe "kitchen table" as it were, open to all free of charge, facilitating "lifestyle entrepreneurship" of subversive value in fulfilling interaction even as to nurture newly dawning friendship and to inspire participant persistence, an ongoing collaborative fiction writing as a bonding and management teambuilding exercise, towards collaborative solution finding in business planning and feasibility study towards subversive and disruptively innovative new venture creation (various business startup) from first-concept all the way through to Capitalization and implementation. That is the agenda of FoolQuest.com, an outreach, with no pressure or promises, to initiate even the most preliminary discussion with anyone at all interested.

         We Can be Heroes: Trustworthy and respectful collaboration among equals

    Telling stories and working out plans
    Both subversive endeavors open for anyone to join in, are related application of different powerful modes of narrative speculation. Collaboration in fiction writing will be wonderful for ever crucial teambuilding of management teams in entrepreneurial new venture creation (various business startup) which begins in the crafting of sound business plans that tell their story, our story together. The difference is that while fiction writing seeks only for merest plausibility in the elicitation of the willing suspension of disbelief, business planning of new venture creation (various business startup), strives to discover feasibility to the satisfaction of incredulous skepticism. Towards these criteria among others, the practice of controversy, being the invited and valued exchange of criticism, is crucial to both endeavors. Polished quality writing with engaging freshness and originality, is brightened and sharpened by the process of ongoing critique, and solid credible business plans are detailed scenarios subject to rigorous feasibility study consisting of relentless faultfinding, correction and risk management. Due diligence remains ever crucial. Pipedreaming is always a roadblock to success

    Disagreement is good

    According to the mindset which is heteronomy, disagreement only engenders strife, and therefore all dissidence is something to be overcome, a threat to self esteem that be summarily quashed by any means necessary. But the truth is that people of good will who disagree cooperate productively all the time. Indeed, for prime example, if disagreement where actually so paralytic, science would never advance. In the words of Barbara Sher: Isolation is the true dream killer, not your attitude. So speak your mind, be argumentative! Let's pick apart anything remaining unclear. Enjoy it, fully engage.-As heady as love bombing, but without the cognitive dissonance hangover! Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. - Proverbs 27:17 (KJV) Even though intellectuality and criticality can be so nerdy, unpopular, socially awkward, taboo and unpopular  Plainly, this proposal will not be suitable for anyone lacking the fundamental autonomy in order to question and criticize, to welcome like in kind in return. No flaming! Ideas can be utterly and candidly rejected with no iota of personal rejection, criticism and fully engaged controversy, that out to give no offense because any serious response demonstrates genuine respect. Intellectual criticality and autonomy are free for the having for anyone willing to invest the attention. For in the words of Simone Weil: Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. Let us begin then, with the generosity to ourselves, of Dialectic focus upon what is important. For in the words of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. Nothing can be more truly exclusive than self selection. And that, however paradoxically, is how to become more individual by joining a group: 

    Ongoing Pleasure + engagement + meaning = ever self renewing  fulfillment. That may explain the Empirical observation that Happy people talk more seriously together, freely, and with less small talk, deliberating Dialectically, bridging the abstract to the practical and concrete, strategically, intentionally, purposefully and substantively, in feasibility study and controversy which is the welcome and valued exchange of criticism, with civility as autonomous equals in optimal reciprocal engagement. People pleasers are useless and slowly debilitating. criticism is inherently friendly, an expression of esteem, and that is how it should be perceived experienced among people who care enough to pay attention. Indeed, as the saying goes, no question is too stupid to ask, and no answer too wise to be given. Happy people thrive in autonomy, succeed and prosper.  and are more productive, likely to choose creative activities together. Gentle reader, do we want the same things? And is all of this truly on the level?

          • The Top 10 Things People Want In Life But Can't Seem To Get - - “I can't get no... ”

    Is there more to life than all of the freedom, productivity, power, fun and vitality of fully engaged and boundless creativity ever fueled by cheerfully vociferous and spirited debate? Yes, certainly. But the case shall be presented as to how, for fundamental socio-psychological reasons, even though so taboo and socially awkward, precisely such optimally reciprocally engaged receptivity towards free thought and expression remain ever crucial to all other value, both in principle and in practice, and in deliberate alternative to more conventional, toxic and repressively heteronymous thinking in regards to social life. People join in all manner of activity, all in order to experience new encounters, forge new interpersonal attachments and build new relationship, frequently only meeting with frustration, because aside perhaps for sheer persistence and propinquity, the true requirements for any situation nurturing of ready and enduring connection is desperately lacking. Under heteronomy to anti-intellectualism and taboo, every experience of full intellectual or emotional fulfillment or gratification or other intimacy in the truest sense, becomes a dire threat, endangering popularity and secure social standing. Only exceptionally functional smaller social circles can operate differently in order to afford any shelter from  an oppressively timid and suspicious milieu wherein any such outreach or interaction affording any glimpse into one another's inner life that is called: psychological visibility, is rendered socially awkward if not actually taboo and even regarded as a threat. As shall be further expounded, relationship and especially friendship so key to wider networking and access to vital connections a resources towards all other needs, arise, and without apology, only as forbidden byproduct of purposeful interaction and/or substantive communication, as cultivated in creative solution finding, indeed as optimized in the present proposal of synergistic endeavor, but as shall be seen, systematically thwarted in the approval seeking heteronomy, distance and alienation inherent to the cult of socialization in perpetuation of the endless struggle and Absurd futility of toxic and sanctioned sycophantic social skills or toadying hierarchically predictive social aptitudes. For whom then do we bereave ourselves of good? Such a chore and a bore of lonely sore travail endured only for the advantage of privileged cronies. What a racket! Brothers and sisters, set that burden down! 

    Find cogently detailed strategy herein provided, bridging from the abstract to the concrete, practically and even gainfully addressing nothing less than Eudemonia, the most important fundamental intrinsic human needs according to the cutting edge of science in concurrence with ancient wisdom of the sages of antiquity rediscovered. After all, why would any of that interest anyone for whom in order to sustain short attention, the very meaning of life and fulfillment must ever be reduced to something catchy and glib? Isn't there anything more?

    Many people fall by the wayside in life because they lack the well organized unflagging self-discipline in formal education, accreditation, employment and career development. Causes hay often include the wont of social support and genius that does not suffer the skilled incompetence of fools gladly, simply in order to fit in. But many of the most successful are actually only keeping so busy merely in order to stave off such profound unhappiness. This may be because so many that are so impressively dutiful and mature in deferred gratification and heteronomy to scholastic advancement and job promotion, nevertheless remain so cavalier and haphazard about all that really matter in personal life and autonomy. Don't make plans to connect to others, but just wait and let it happen! -Or so we are told. While others do indeed work very hard, perpetually jockeying for facile popularity and social success at the sacrifice of all genuine friendship and psychological visibility. Can there be any better options?

    True individuals, proverbial square pegs, defy metaphorical pigeonholing and neat identification as any readily locatable traditional target market or audience. It seems that the the very ideas of FoolQuest.com are still too new and abstract, and therefore there are no keywords by which to search the Web. And thus only the same helpless options of Absurd futility remain. But first of all, just perhaps in autonomy unanswerable to heteronomy, simply for I and thou merely between ourselves, anything cogent remains at all possible. Because nothing indispensably genuine comes as any end result or objective of fitting in, nor as any prized reward of senseless sore travail that is the rat race. Quite simply, relevance is not an outcome. Rather, engaged substantive conversation, so key to meaningful relationship, remains the only actually viable starting point for any true new beginnings and escape from stultifying superficiality. Again Trustworthy and respectful happy people talk more seriously and with lees small talk, realistically and in detail, even however ambitiously.
     
     
     

    FoolQuest.com the inception of an open online pre-incubator for anyone interested to join in:

     

    Extensive collaborative creativity tools for boundless innovation

    Comprehensive fiction writing resources and unfinished stories for an ongoing online writers' bull session, from every first flash of novel inspiration into the full flower of creativity together, rigorous writing discipline and quality polished output.

    A pre-incubation listing of subversive and disruptively innovative proposals for collaboration in new venture creation (various business startup), the most embryonic first concept intended for rigorous feasibility study and business planning, management team formation, development and Capitalization, all the way through to full implementation.

    Because Creativity Should be Social and Creativity can be Popular  

     

     
     
     
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    Change the conversation, reset the agenda, and just maybe, change the world!         
    Three essential conundrums of drama remain ever salient in real life:  
    When all else fails, what has actually been desired all along?
     
    People interact, engage one another, bond, become emotionally attached to one another, even entering into and forging communities, all in order to feel safe and validated. Alas that so many often tend to evaluate safety and validation superficially, erroneously and even destructively, without talking it over and thinking things through, and therefore then often so blithely falling prey to heteronomy, codependency and exploitation. Beware then the chimera of membership and granfaloon! No wonder such dangerous, irrelevant, foolish and malignantly bullying cults and cliques abound, while genuine abiding respect and autonomy support remain exceptional. And there's the rub, the overarching problem in modus vivendi, the meaning of life and experience of fulfillment. And 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 of the wherewithal, the channels and the means. 
     
    Unmet friend: Why are you even reading this page? Does it interest you? Might the proposed interactions ever even hope to afford you any joy? Might the proposed interactions even actually promote growth and advancement of any of your own skill sets? Might the proposed interactions ever be a fun way to connect and even bond with others? Might the proposed interaction help advance your own objectives and personal success? Then either we have found one another and I am about to hear from you, or else for some reason, gentle reader, you hesitate even to read, explore and talk it over. Alas all such trepidation and hesitation, gentle, because whatever your misgivings surely must be important enough to discuss in any depth, indeed especially even the most tentative and preliminary feasibility study. Uncertainty should never taboo any subject of conversation. The mere conduct of Dialectic is always feasible! And because without compelling relevant intrinsic motivation, everything is just a chore and a bore! Therefore, if you've got a better offer, then take it.
     

     

     

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    The correct indefinite pronoun denoting the definite article of 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...?

     

                                        

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    When all else has failed, what has actually been desired all along?

    The very notion of collaboration among equals

    I might not have what you want, but dare we seek for it together?

    True elite character or quality ensues never from any whatever notion or practice of exclusivity, but quite the opposite, instead from self selection indeed as fundamental to collaboration among equals. Alas then how collaboration among equals remains literally inconceivable under the mindset of heteronomy to authoritarianism, because uniformity of consensus is so blithely and unquestioningly accepted as indispensable for cooperation at all. And such consensus of course, as the indispensable benefit of submission to undisputed leadership.

    Indeed, 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. For in the words of Friedrich Nietzsche: Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome. Besides, exactly what are the alternatives? There has always been the extol of unearned trust and powerless surrender as the way to happiness, the choice only between acceptance and despair, merely flavors of the same intimidation. “I can't get no... ”

    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 presents an outreach toward the formation of just such a core group of unreasonable people applying ourselves even to the most daunting problems besetting us. 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 of the wherewithal, the channels and the means. 

    Power, for good or evil, constructively or destructively, begins from the process of influence upon one another that actually reshapes the surrounding social environment, even changing the world. Alas, dronelike compliant social participation seldom actually solicits or grants input or influence into collective decision making, no matter what sort of group or activity one joins into. And this renders the exercise meaningless. Unilateral action is largely powerless, drastically limited in scope and impact upon individual life much less society at large. And slavish submission to alienating social institutions tends to be senseless, debilitating and Absurd in every way. Transactional Analysis begins to recognize that only improvement in the manner in which anyone relates to one another has any bearing. FoolQuest.com explores broader agenda for collaboration among equals in autonomy, deemed inconceivable under prevailing heteronomy that so dreads only chaos and discord, save by even slavish acquiescence to firm guidance and confident leadership in order to prevent error and assure success.

    Of course there can be no guarantee of success, but there can often be guarantee of futility in the production and consumption of mendacious irresponsible guarantees. Heteronomy in society frequently presses the individual to choose between compliance in order to fit in, or the pursuit of rugged Individualism in order to get by, going it alone, unless they are not merely howsoever gifted, but specifically and considerably talented. Because only above average accomplishment commands any better terms. And beyond merely whatever above average accomplishment, for the consummately well qualified person of destiny who's extreme success earns them recognition and authority conferring the power of decision making, thence must accrue the loneliness of command.

    But in the alternative, entirely another paradigm is that of collaboration among equals. Autonomy and collaboration among equals will tend to make higher demands upon and responsibility than does heteronomy, but in return may offer any true acceptance without oppressive conditionality, escaping thereby both the debilitating idiocy of fitting in and the daunting limitations of rugged isolation. But this too, all the more, will be easier said than done. 

    In those words of Henri-Louis Bergson: Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. Alas that in such reciprocal contempt, thinking and doing remain all too often segregated in our institutional mentality. The result is a great deal of thought gone to no practical avail, and a great deal of ill considered action so blithely undertaken. To quote Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower: Plans are nothing, planning is everything. And let no one imagine that planning, action or happiness are ever improved by preasure to choose between conformity or social isolation. In the words of Benjamin Disraeli: Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. It remains, however, that self-help/improvement and social skills remediation are all nothing but delusion and denial of Existential Absurdity. You are not in control of your life, any more than I am in control of mine. We all find ourselves completely at the whim of uncooperative others in every facet of our lives. And everyone within reach to seek help from, is simply too insecure even to fight for their very lives, much less to stand up for one another. Put more simply then, and in complete good faith, powerlessness, the impotent helplessness of the human condition is terminally demeaning. And even beyond direct action, our influence upon others may often be even the more misguided and deluded. Gentle reader, unmet friend: Where is there to be found, any beginning of collaboration among equals? Thinking in terms of action, in order to act more thoughtfully, there remains only one precious beginning, immediately, over which we, I and thou, may indeed together take responsibility and share any control at all: And that is interaction between ourselves, specifically just discussion at all to begin with, and setting an agenda thereto. Because. in the words of Janine Garner, Failing to engage Is engaging with failure. And indeed, all heteronomy is but craven and futile pseudo-engagement.

    Speaking of heteronymous pseudo-engagement, what has even been called: TOTALITARIAN INTERACTIVITY, notwithstanding whatever illusion of choice, metaphorically leads the site visitor about by the proverbial nose, channeling attention step by step, into whatever the target audience is intended to consider most important. And unless there seems to be any reason for suspicion or ambivalence, simply knowing what to do relieves dystress. But FoolQuest.com garners attention so rarely if at all, only in so far as content is seen, saliently and evocatively, to address whatever particular interests and concerns of the individual site visitor motivated in whatever their own personal dystress and thereby guided to chart their own course through these hypertexts, autonomously and independently. And so, whatever good accrues, as yet little collaboration actually results or endures. Such indeed is the ineffectual anarchy as per all dire predictions from heteronomy, all for wont of uncritical unity under leadership authority. Can we do better?

    It may be despite rare favorable response to content, to the discovery of information deemed useful or the ebullience of sentiments shared, all plans of action proposed here on FoolQuest.com may nevertheless often still meet with rejection out of hand as taboo. After all, drawing attention by open criticism of status quo, let alone actually fighting back against abuse, is always risky and intimidating. But then, generally speaking, most of what is seldom or never tried and remains obscure no matter how actually quite promising and effective, only remains so neglected because of taboo, one way or another. For taboo raises conditioned dystress. And taboo need not be all that dramatic, nameless pathos calling attention to itself. Taboo is an expression of ambivalence. Small wonder then, ambivalence regarding taboo, and taboo upon ambivalence. Taboo can be a knee-jerk or a blind spot of crimestop FNORD . And if difficult personal objectives are not to be achieved only by long and arduous and onerous conformity, compliance and self-sacrifice, then any path to success can only be ferreted out by creativity, the eustress and sustainable euphoria of curiosity, investigation, feasibility study and risk assessment, along any path less taken, into those very realms of taboo thought, in quest of that proverbial better mousetrap.

    Helpful to one another with all whereof oneself struggles even without answers, expertise or authority, autonomy and collaboration among equals fosters relationship and not objectification so characteristic of heteronomy to hierarchical dominance. And where does any of that begin, if not between any two or more individuals?  As shall be demonstrated, sustained engagement in the present strategic Dialectic and feasibility study, can be key to the first glimmer of happiness. If you've got a better offer, then take it.   Here we are, I and thou. Why hesitate: Let's talk it over. This is important. I look forward to hearing from you.

     
     
    Abandoned each and all to our own devices
    Why must it all be so difficult? Herein are submitted some very adult radically obvious suggestions, that seem better at all accepted in professional life than in personal life, in the alternatives to social skills, collective membership most broadly, and aimless over reliance upon propinquity: First of all, let's all work to regain that lost and atrophied executive function: Let's all become at all better organized at making contacts, following up intentionally, purposefully and systematically, and convivially maintaining interaction. But then what? Without the all-consuming social rat race, what shall we do with ourselves together? What will keep us occupied just long enough simply for metaphorically breaking the proverbial ice? To answer a question with another question: What is important to you? What makes life worth living? In short, whither arête?
     
    People online, so desperate for any illusion of certainty in such an uncertain world, are so often gathered in such nigh religious fervor of eager cult-like internalization and pep rally co-validation of prevalently unquestioned assumptions, earnest preparation and mighty struggle towards social success, as though they were all cramming for an exam. Knee-jerk conformists are often indeed exactly so callow and emotionally retarded. Truly, they are all very much alone even together, and figuratively barking up the proverbial wrong tree! For such indeed is heteronomy to the cult of socialization. Prevailing wisdom ever extols the crucial importance of making friends, networking and establishing for oneself a social circle. But loneliness and despair often motivate entry into bad relationships and worse social circles. Social reality, however consequential, remains consensus chimera, while individual people are real. Building any sort of more functional and congenial social circle, might best begin not with any grand social vision, but first with discourse upon any notion of a more functional protocol, interpersonally, better fitting than will be found available off-the-rack, so to speak. One that nurtures autonomy and authenticity instead of cultivating heteronomy and dependency. In theory, we each and all benefit from the purest freedom of association. But in practical implementation, one may often find oneself at the mercy of others, all one's efforts neither appreciated or reciprocated. There is no effective script to follow, no secret of wisdom to share. What then can one do? Can anyone ever sidestep the Great Faceless They, and simply reach out to one another in order to stop playing anyone else's game? Here we are, I and thou.
     
    We must all expect to confront interpersonal or relationship challenges, but not until first overcoming whatever barriers to entry, social hurdles and stumbling blocks in one's path, of making connections to begin with which often first entails integration and embedment into society, very much easier said than done, prevailing opacity demanding all manner of convoluted special aptitudes, full time. Clearly, there are many people, one way or another, who fail in society or anything else because of their own shortcomings and personal difficulties of one kind or another. But that doesn't explain everything, because the most ordinary people and indeed highly capable and personable individuals, our best and brightest, frequently also fail in society and in life. Is then any deficiency in society conceivable, in social opportunities and demands placed upon individuals? We all know that society frequently fails to meet our various different individual needs. Why then do even the most ruthless and Machiavellian nevertheless often seem to assume that social integration is somehow foolproof? Frequently, it simply is not. Indeed, failure is inbuilt and pervasive, perhaps because, purposefully, social life is less of a conduit than a filter. Security takes precedence over accessibility, and frequently, neither accrue. And it remains hardly unusual to find oneself setup for failure. It is not even clear that any service to the end user is even a priority in society at large. 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 of the wherewithal, the channels and the means. Perhaps society is not user friendly but actually user hostile even by design and Absurd. Indeed, the very concept of socialization both suggests and then obfuscates that very conclusion, cynicism which comes as no shock to anyone with any modicum of street-smarts. Conventional options in life are all so oppressive and unhappy. It's a jungle out there! Nothing works. Far from serving the individual, the function of society is simply to push us each out of the way. Take the hint or become bullied outright. Indeed life in society, often being so cutthroat competitive, may often take on such paranoid subtext, like unto recognizance under enemy surveillance! No wonder anyone feels insecure. Obviously it is necessary for the individual to adapt to any society. And so, guidance to that end becomes crucial. But with social adaptation and guidance thereto, as with anything else, if of necessity some is good, it hardly follows that more is better, or that its all the same anyhow.
     
    And truth to tell, many folks are downright unfriendly, distant and even hostile, indeed, one way or another, crazy jealous, exploitative, conspiratorial, and willfully obstructive between others. And often this is cultural. But even putting aside real palpable ill will and bullying outright, there remains, as shall be seen, all manner of frustrating inefficiency in making connections and cementing attachment, interpersonally. And we may often look to peer groups to smooth the way, even simply to sustain propinquity long enough, even however awkwardly and artificially of the most dharmic social skill. And there's the rub! Because, if it's hard enough to find even just one friend, how then will be any easier to identify, locate and befriend whatever sort of suitable social collective entity? According to legend, Diogenes struggled to find even one lone and singular honest soul, let alone an honest crowd. Hence, joining groups or entering social circles in order to meet new people, only devolves one difficulty into an even more daunting challenge. Indeed, it may often be recommended, just the opposite, to assemble social groups from proximate and extended existing connections. So, which comes first? How many are lucky enough to have true friends networking for them? More often, the group has its own covert agenda and the individual, exploited, one way or another, must simply make do. Society then offers no conduit or primrose path, but inflicts a social minefield full of needless and insane stumbling blocks and barriers to entry, all leading to traps of collective exploitation as the only refuge. Any better is fortunate, highly functional and exceptional. Society cannot love you. Society is not be your friend. Society is the baleful oppressor ever watching everything that one does. And accordingly, those who may see fit to come forward volunteering to correct anyone who opens their eyes, would never dare so to overstep all bounds by such flagrant presumption of their own superiority and anyone else subordination, except by so blithely believing themselves somehow to be channeling something so vastly great and good, transcendent beyond themselves. For such is the pervasive delusion of all heteronomy, that frighted false fire with no genuine warmth.
     
    Quoth the Bard: All the word's a stage! And to quote Neil Gabler:  American society is a society in which individuals have learned to prize social skills that permit them, like actors, to assume whatever role the occasion demands and to "perform" their lives rather than just live them. Competent or incompetent, whether in true hardnosed practicality or in sheer aimless and empty actingout of mimesis, many all the same remain no less consumed with the burning question of how to perform as expected and to fit in: How best to placate The Great Faceless They, thereby to obtain the key to life. For such remains the slave mentality of Homo Domesticus, the domesticated human. And much as they may deny it even to themselves, they are fully buying in, figuratively gulping down the proverbial Kool-Aid! And even bringing into question such secret deep-seated dedication may be as alarming to them as revelation that there is no Santa Claus and no fellowship with God!
     
    Social support is deemed among the key determinants of success. To have social support denotes that one is cared for, has assistance available from other people, and that one is part of a supportive social network. Indeed, while ones fewer closer friends may be valued as more important emotionally, broader acquaintance and connections are key to all manner of assistance, resource and opportunity. What won't people do for such a prize? And what will people sink to without it?  But what does the ever burning question of how to fit in socially, even actually mean in the first place? After all, clearly working out the right question must precede finding any accurate or useful answer, and therefore problem statement remains ever crucial to solution finding.
     
    Indeed, some might better rephrase the question at hand, even as most anciently, towards the striving for correctly skilled conduct within dharma: How to transcend all anxiety and learn such peerless and consummate skill to then initiate more capable and operant interaction with one another? But capable and operant in what way or sense, and all to what end or purpose? Well, obviously, towards performance as expected in order to fit in, thereby to placate The Great Faceless They from whom all good things flow, thereby at long last to obtain the key to life! For such is slave mentality, toadying social cognition and sycophancy by which to predict the responses of others, prediction of future behavior entirely on the basis, not of care or empathy and Emotional Intelligence, but of rôles of relative social standing, degrees of kinship and rank, and in recognition of third-party social relationships, all distinctly and uncomfortably non-egalitarian. It is after all, a truism and hard to deny, that of course compromise is necessary for getting along in society. Not merely compromise, but toadying sycophantic open ended and unrequited dedication life long, is the traditional expectation. Dharma is a bitch!
     
    Heteronomy, conformism and the endless dance of popularity frequently become Orwellian, all consuming, draining and tremendously costly, undermining not only autonomy, independent thinking and ambition, but even the human capacity to genuinely relate to one another, to form relationship and friendship. Indeed, that's Why Nerds Are Unpopular: Because nerds so often have authentically meaningful time consuming genuine  interests and values of their own to share, with neither the time nor passion for the endlessly complicated dance of being "cool". Whereas, by interaction and accommodation only with one another as equals or near equals, individuals are even known even quite deliberately to afford one another whatever respite from onerous expectations of always "being on" and demands of society at large. With good friends one can be genuine and at ease and forge alliance in abiding trust. Indeed,. precisely such egalitarianism of collaboration among equals is characteristic of cooperation in creative solution finding, problem-driven rather than status-driven, and thus the great exception to toadying social cognition, as recognized even in seeming afterthought by Social Anthropology. And more on this presently. 
     
    After all, which comes first? Is all human interaction subordinate within the framework of society and its intractable norms, or rather, is the very fabric of society woven from relationship between individuals into an extended network? Obviously, that is only a matter pf perspective: Both assertions are always true. But which perspective will be more fruitful in discovering any true key to life at all? It may bear mention that the very term: 'Individualism,' was only coined as a pejorative in disparagement towards a perceived trend of retreat from civic-virtue, favoring instead whatever responsibility merely to each ones own more proximate relationship networks. But what reason for such a trend? Perhaps what is more capable and operant, less superficial and more mature and genuinely happy, is actually to be found in Emotional Intelligence, the vulnerable empathy of  to one another first, I and thou, one to one, before even worrying about finer points and challenges of group dynamics, let alone whatever social Intelligence and social skills or aptitudes in such desperate and toadying sycophantic quest of broader approval and social integration with every coveted reward of status, power and better more preferential access to vital resources in society.
     
    Therefore, not to put the proverbial cart before the horse: As it turns out, autonomy in strong and compatible relationships may be revealed as the true bedrock strengthening position of social embedment most proximately, only then in turn networking outward for inclusion and accommodation within society at large affording access not only to vital connections and resources, but best opportunity altruistically as well. Otherwise getting along in society may easily degenerate into an unpleasant and arbitrarily heteronymous pipedream and snake oil. It's all a matter of give and take, of reciprocity and welcome: Why would anyone want to put in so much more effort so unappreciated, than they tend to perceive as ever expended in return? The ever platitudinous social success gurus urge us to step out from our comfort zones. Bah, humbug!
     
    Rather, does not the entire focus of exactly such risk taking and challenge, the very exploration towards understand, mapping and carving out some comfortable niche at all? After all, who do you prefer to meet? An aspiring pillar of the community, staunch toady to social expectation: an utter tool, or a good friend to humanity, a real mensch? And to what do you yourself aspire? The desperation for approval, or the will to power? Yet the outdated cult of socialization, manipulative behavioral conditioning in one rancid guise or variation or another, prevails. The powerlessness of the individual without influence in society, is simply accepted and taken for granted, then played upon so manipulatively. But the malignant racket of all such often senseless imperative of interminable submissive finesse, can offer no trustworthy solution. This is because all of that festering impotent vexation and mediocrity is at the root of bored and lonely suffering and frustration in the first place. This is true even when most successful on its own misguided cretin terms exactly as advertised. Though as a setup for failure, compromise and lowered expectations, the let down is that much less subtle.
     
    Indeed, what if community is considered as no more than the aggregate of constituent relationships? What if indeed, seeming social aptitude and circumstance, are one way or another conditional upon and subordinate to relationships? What if getting along in society is not actually the key to life? What if rather, the recognized bedrock of functional individual friendship, remains the true foundation of any extended social circle? What if its not the junction of Individuals, somehow to reach out into society, but of relationships to network? What if all things being relative to frame of reference, the social world really does revolve around you? We have clearly seen that happiness depends upon how we engage and relate to one another, each of us, I and thou, gentle reader, just for starters. Needlessly opaque and convoluted heteronymous snake oil of social skills brainwash and granfalloon membership pipedreams have got the cart before the horse! 
     
    After all, ostracism, exclusion and social isolation operate not by some abstract divorce of the target Individuals from society as an entity, but by whatever practical means off relational bullying, veritable social network terrorism by whatever means of sabotage and skullduggery undermining connectivity between Individuals. Under heteronomy and the veneration of authority, society has always remained  suspicious, hostile, threatening, in short: the enemy, and whatever social skills, aptitudes or cognition however rationalized or romanticized, can be like handling venomous snakes, full time: Better together with trusted friends than all alone with shifty cronies. Whereas the benefits and protections afforded the individual in society, all flower under democracy, autonomy and skeptical suspicion towards authority, especially that of society in the abstract. 

     

     
            
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

     
                                   

     

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