Tid Bit #2 - Week of April 21, 2008.

Well here I am -- still tending to this site as best I'm able.  If I remember correctly, I have yet to define "transportation" or "media" in the People's Proclamation of Independence.  These concepts encompass much, and to be honest, I was hoping for some help from others.

Just now even though I've had many ideas regarding starting up a new business, I seem to be in a bit of a limbo.  Unfortunately this means I'm making no money.  Luckily, I did save when I was previously in business for myself and these savings coupled with my wife's earnings have enabled us to continue paying the bills.  In a way, I'm glad to have "dropped out" because now I'm more aware of how many things we have that we simply don't need.  I want less, but I know I can't remain in limbo.  Its just, there are many forms of employment that I can't consider anymore.  I don't want money that feels "tainted".  I don't care for "business as usual" -  I want something better, but the "system" is so entrenched that "fair opportunity" is not easily created or found.  God, I hope I'm not acting too much like a Don Quixote.  I'm not a naive purist (at least I don't think I am), but at the same time, I can't be part of the "free market globalization materialistic corporate plundering machine".  I can't do it.  I refuse.  But this machine is huge.  Monstrously so.  Anyhow, I had my time there, I learned, I made decent funds, I met many fine folks, but to me it seems to be a complete dead end.  I don't want to be part of it anymore.  I want to be part of changes for the better, but this is a path less traveled particularly because we are talking paradigm shift-type change on so many levels. 

Not to be melodramatic, but humanity is at the brink like never before.  It is hard to know what to do.  I feel like a hiker half-way down the trail, but not sure where to go.  I'm tired of dead ends, and I'm tired of just going along with the system's flow.  Something is amiss and I feel like I'm gazing at the cliff.  I sense it and it is just ahead.  The herd needs to turn. 

I wonder about my children and I wonder whether they will have children.  I know there has been so much suffering by so many and there still is, but I don't think it always has to be this way.  I'm tired of those who have much material wealth yet so little empathy for others.  I'm very tired of them and I want them to go away.  I want to cut them out of the picture.  I hope others feel likewise because together we can do it.  I'm tired of those who think they know all there is to know - what makes them think so?  Who gave them the "truth"?  Where did it come from? - I doubt they even know.  Often these same folks have lost their senses and are not learning anymore.  Even so, they go on the offensive in a righteous way trying to force their ideas and take away the choice of others (whether they realize it or not).  They need to look in the mirror.  They need some humility (desperately).  They need to regain their humanity because everybody has a time and a place and this makes all the difference when it comes to "truth".  All we are gonna get from the "material hoarders" and the "righteous forcers", is never-ending strife and conflict.  It is time for a better day.  Its time for a left-handed blow to the face.  Swift and serious.

I still have some ideas for business.  I'd like to partner with some local farmers and perhaps use some of the their refuse as a raw material for biofuel.  This would convert a waste into a useful material and would not take away the food from anyone's plate.  I could do this.  I'm a chemical engineer and I've been to many a manufacturing plant.  I know what it takes to get equipment operating and to keep it going.  I know the challenges and I'm up for it.  But, I also know that I can't do this by my lonesome.  I need some Mutual Aid.  I'm offering my services - are there any kind takers out there??????

I suppose there might come a time, when I can't rely on my savings anymore.  If that time comes, I'll do what I have to.  It could just be so much better if done together, but there is much to overcome.  Cooperation is what we need because time is moving on and the cliff is just ahead.  I sense it, and even if nobody wants to hear, I'm going to talk about it.  The herd needs to turn.

Ken