I know that feeling @five34a4b !
Over the years I was always an evergreen optimist, always looking to the highest ideals and accepting nothing less. Realism to me was always limitation, like a prison cage built around a wild panthur.
Then I came along the work of a very humble yet wise english poet named Richard Rudd who wrote a book called The Gene Keys, an inspired interpretation of the ancient chinese i Ching one could maybe call it.
One of the chapters speaks to Realism, and that its shadow state really is Limitation, but its natural gift state is more akin to the trellis/framework of a good vine yard... without solid practical frameworks to help guide the early growth of the grape vines, they will grow outward and waste all the energy.
Where as with solid frameworks based on realism and pragmatism, we can create solid frameworks that will stand the tests of time and in turn allow the seed of idealism to flourish and thrive in the long run, knowing it is being planted in solid and safe ground.
This has been a huge theme for me the last week, so couldnt help but share my ramblings on it after appreciating your comment in regards to the music industry. :c)
Ps. As much as I can completely appreciate your perspective on this, I personally do feel that the decentralisation experience is going to take over government itself, and at that point it will become the core program of our societies and less of a choice. (I am a volunteer for a team called Flux that are working on this very solution and we almost won a seat in the last state election here in Western Australia! www.voteflux.org if you wanna know more about it. )
Thanks again for your writings! Enjoying the community here. :)
I know that feeling @five34a4b !
Over the years I was always an evergreen optimist, always looking to the highest ideals and accepting nothing less. Realism to me was always limitation, like a prison cage built around a wild panthur.
Then I came along the work of a very humble yet wise english poet named Richard Rudd who wrote a book called The Gene Keys, an inspired interpretation of the ancient chinese i Ching one could maybe call it.
One of the chapters speaks to Realism, and that its shadow state really is Limitation, but its natural gift state is more akin to the trellis/framework of a good vine yard... without solid practical frameworks to help guide the early growth of the grape vines, they will grow outward and waste all the energy.
Where as with solid frameworks based on realism and pragmatism, we can create solid frameworks that will stand the tests of time and in turn allow the seed of idealism to flourish and thrive in the long run, knowing it is being planted in solid and safe ground.
This has been a huge theme for me the last week, so couldnt help but share my ramblings on it after appreciating your comment in regards to the music industry. :c)
Ps. As much as I can completely appreciate your perspective on this, I personally do feel that the decentralisation experience is going to take over government itself, and at that point it will become the core program of our societies and less of a choice. (I am a volunteer for a team called Flux that are working on this very solution and we almost won a seat in the last state election here in Western Australia! www.voteflux.org if you wanna know more about it. )
Thanks again for your writings! Enjoying the community here. :)