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avad ([personal profile] avad) wrote2005-01-18 01:27 pm
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I want to cry.
I knew it was coming. *sigh*
Dreamt this so many years ago...and the feeling of urgency...the questions/challenges...HOW do we use these evolving technologies and the surges of attention/energy for the GOOD of humanity, not just corporate greed?? The same technology has the power to totally change our economic system to symbiotically support areas of great need...developing countries...areas of suffering...The dream indicated that it would have to be emergent WITH the technology...the infrastructure would have to be PREDESIGNED to benefit the charitable organizations...and the launching of it would be immense, collaborative, exciting, heralding a new world possibility...of cooperation. Everyone wanting to be a part of it and to watch it grow.

And now almost 6 years later I've really done nothing (I didn't know HOW- it felt so beyond me!!) and I watch as it all happens...but with the bent we were hoping somehow to avert. the memes propogating here are 'go spend and support our corporate greed' instead of all the beautiful memes that could be reaching the masses.
"There has to be a vision...so compelling...that it thwarts the natural tendency to selfishness...rewiring the pleasure-centers of the brain to connect to benevolent action strongly...a new vision of the self...as part of a benevolent organism...."
And I made artwork with the visions. And I read. And I was inspired..linking, making common interest friends...but...
I never MOVED any of these ideas formally!. And they were shown to me as store and webportal, not painting and dinner chat.The 10% club remains a semisecret vow I've taken personally...instead of a MOVEMENT throught the business sector as it is 'supposed' to be...with cooperating businesses and a web portal to charities. Pier 10 would be a conglomerate of these businesses...in 3d immersive virtual worlds (gaming).
ugh. I feel sick. I don't know how to explain the haunting and heavy feeling of responsibility I feel for something that yes seems totally beyond me. I just want to cry. I don't know how to do this!!!!!!
I don't think I've been able to truly convey to even one person the Magnitude of what I feel relating to this...and I feel horrible and guilty and I dont' want to hear that I shouldn't I want someone to understand that there's something SO important that needs to be DONE!!!!!!!!It feels so late now. Impossible to catch up to the speed of things happening....I just don't know!

fcking sobbing crying my eyes out
sick of not being able to express
sick of myself and my avoidance and my laziness
years years years have gone by
I was made aware of our chance....and did nothing
because it seemed 'too hard, too complicated' to do
and much Much too social, collaborative.
Noooo...darlene wants to be alone and have her peace and quiet...
while everything poises on the shiftpoint
and people around the world suffer
and she's shown a diagram of how to help
a little piece of the puzzle
but it feels to difficult to express
and doesn't make lightning when she tries
so she lets it slide
deprioritized
Deprioritized?
how dare i
*screamsob*

[identity profile] avad.livejournal.com 2005-01-19 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
those words of ghandi's have been some of the strongest I've held onto. That's why I undertook the 10% vow myself instead of trying to go business to business. I figured I had to explore it and everything it meant in myself...and I would be part of a ripple...
But another thing I'd like to embody myself that i'm having more trouble with is the ability to work HARD and consistently for a cause I believe in. No one can say what's hard enough. I just know I'm capable of more...
I know balance...I'm not really the type to lose myself completely in a 'mission' and let everything else fall away unimportant...I believe we have to LIVE life and be awake to all the beauty in it...and breathe and love and enjoy.
But I actually think I give myself A bit too much escape though. I still lack a bit of self-discipline that is..well, necessary. THis is not a term paper. This is not a show deadline.
But it is even more important. And if I don't tell myself to get down to work and do it...no one else ever will. Do you know what I mean?

[identity profile] vaneramos.livejournal.com 2005-01-19 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
I think so. I can relate to your anger, because that's what spurred me to change the way I've approached my LJ since September, bringing unprecedented consistency to my daily writing.

I don't know balance very well, and sometimes I give myself far too much escape. I burned out of working hard a few years ago, not just career-wise -- in many aspects of being. Now I scramble hard for balance and the basic motivation to live my life. The answer must be something simpler than our society normally gives us. Perhaps we have so much greed because we all expect too much out of life. We need lessons in how to let go. I have had some and am happier for them.

On the other hand, you often cause me to wonder whether I am too cynical. I wish I had more energy, concentration and commitment. I admire your work, not the least reason being that you are willing to question and challenge yourself.