6/28/09

A Flash of The Future (2 of 2)

Let me explain you with a story:

A man was found sitting in the middle of the desert in a contraption made of rocks, bits of lumber, and old, blown tires, which he was busily “steering” as if it were actually a vehicle in motion, a real car.
When asked what he was doing, the man said,
“Driving home.”
“You’re never going to get there in this,” he was told.
He said, “If not in this, then in what?” 

We’re like this man, busily trying to steer into the future in an assembled trash called 'programs'. Even after we’ve acknowledged that programs don’t work and never have worked, however, it still somehow seems natural to ask, “If not programs, then what?”
The answer would be simple. It's ridiculously simple, you may laugh at it: vision.
When things work, the forces that make them work are invisible. The universe at large is a notorious example of this. We tend only to see the result of something, not the process before it, nor the vision before the process. Newton’s genius was precisely the genius of seeing that which is so evident as to be unseeable. Every advance in science makes manifest a working that is cloaked by its very success. Before Newton, people didn’t wonder why unsupported objects are compelled to fall to the ground. They just figured, what else could they do? They have to fall to the ground, and that’s that.
Vision, imagination and curiousity are scarce in our world, the ability and will to look beyond what's been programmed is even more rare. To questioned everything and not just taking it for granted. People are amazed by the success of Neil Armstrong's landing on the moon, yet when being asked why did it succeed, the most possible answer we could hear is, 'it's simply succeed.' We never investigate, we never--ever--investigate and be curious.
What is it the cause of global warming? The best possible answer I've ever heard was simply because our earth was too old, and human lifestyle made the condition even worse.

Now, back to the saving the world thingy, the question I asked earlier was: who will save the world? And I said, it's not us--not the old minds with new programs, but instead, new minds with no programs at all that'll save this world. Why not new minds with new programs? Because where you find people working on programs, you don’t find new minds, you find old ones. Programs and old minds go together like bread and jam. We don't need programs, we need vision. This is of course a difficult concept to be swallowed, it required you to flip your whole worldview, you need to be brainwashed to understand it fully. And don't ever perceived it in old minds way, don't ever asked, 'how do we solve these problems', but instead, asked 'how do we make happen what we want to happen?'. Work on the solution, don't dwell in the problems. And by 'solution' I don't mean the opposite of problems. Poverty would still exists and are never going to be fixed with 'richness', they are of course the opposite, but that doesn't mean it can be an effective solution. If we ever treat the homeless, the hungry with more money, more food and more shelter that means we’re going to be doing this way forever. Fixing them forever. Because our minds can never think the other way, we're so bounded, caged and fenced on thinking always about 'stopping the negative'.

And now it's time for me to end this writing. What? Ending? There's no ending in this writing! why? Because it's all--one hundred percent--a beginning. The end is unwritten here, it's for us all to make one. Beyond these words, beyond my writings, the ending is out there in the real world. The ending is for you all to write.

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