Well, technically only one introduction - me introducing myself to any and all who wish to ever read anything I write. (Although, you can also feel free to introduce yourself in the comments.) I did a short post yesterday, but I really didn't give much background on myself or where I'm at in my life.
I've lived in Kansas my entire life. I've always been mature for my age. In college, I started to really think outside the box. I'm currently single and still living with parents, but will be moving out in the next few months at best.
I've started on a new track with diet/lifestyle - I'm currently vegan, but the ultimate goal is a Whole Foods Plant Based diet (really a lifestyle choice). I'd like to adopt the healthy habits within the realms of food and exercise and share them with the world. In addition, I hope that people can understand the ethical, and environmental reasons behind any diet that eliminates animals products.
I've also begun exploring the economical and political reasons why the world seems to be rapidly changing from where we once were. The race to the bottom, to make the cheapest products - which the industrial age has pushed to it's limits - has created a situation where machines are the cheapest factory workers, and are replacing these and other jobs, faster than jobs are being created.
Within this economical change, I see that we as a society, as a world, may need to shift our entire ideology. Seth Godin believes it is the end of the industrial age and the beginning of the connection age. Machines cannot replace our human need to connect, to empathize, to find joy in another's company. To go further, we may need to even do away with our monetary system altogether. If you are familiar with the Zeitgeist Movement, this may seem conspiracy like to you. I side with The Venus Project on this this, though. Jacque Fresco makes a much more realistic case for how our future world can be built.
I can't help but be drawn in by all these notions. The idea of saving an animal from suffering, rather than ending up on my plate. The idea (from Godin) of working from a place of connection and art rather than following directions that have been laid out and doing so repetitively. Even, as Fresco thinks, that if we do away with the monetary system and build a Resource Based Economy, that no one will really have a job. Our system will be built on volunteers for those things we still need humans for (by all indications, it doesn't seem as though there will be much machines can't do). Our system will be built on everyone contributing and working together to build the things we need.
If this sounds like communism to you, or some other political system we as Americans seem to detest, I implore you to look into it further. However, beware that this world is changing, and if we can't keep up, we will fall behind. Keep an open mind. I've been exploring all these ideas for years, and they have just now began to all connect in some way, like puzzle pieces. I'm sure I'm still missing some, but I've got enough of the puzzle to think I'm starting to see the big picture.
If you find any of this intriguing and think you may want to read more, I'll be here, hopefully every morning - unless I move this blog that is - writing about these ideas as they come to mind. Again, this for right now is just like a live public journal to me. If I can stick to writing every morning for a week or so, I will see about setting up a blog on a web hosting site.
~Broaden Your Horizons!~
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