Project Personal Freedom Mission Statement
"The problem is choice" - Neo.
We all have the choice to be free. Pure freedom means zero security and vise versa. I have had security my entire life, and now I'm going to push the limits of my freedom and security. I choose to be free.
Freedom will not be an easy journey. Freedom is not a destination because you are inherently free by default. You choose to be secure by alleviating yourself of the burden freedom brings.
I will find my own freedom, my personal limits, and describe them as well as I can for you. Once I have adequately described the limitations of human freedom and survival, I will help you to find your own path there.
Freedom is not having to rely on anyone else for your survival. I want to teach everyone to be free and I want to build the infrastructure for doing so.
On my journey I will meet everyone I need to meet to accomplish my goal of freeing the world from slavery.
In a lot of ways, I think the Matrix is really about society instead of the literal interpretation of the movie. Those in power are pulling the wool over our eyes with the myth of a perfect world and using us for energy while they do it. They will and do say and do anything to keep you jumping through their hoops and not your own. If they had the technological resources, I am almost certain they would implement something like the Matrix to keep us in control.
You see, science fiction movies have never been warning us about technology destroying us. Quite the opposite. It's all about the ways we will destroy ourselves if we are not careful. The Matrix and Skynet aren't artificial intelligences that decided to kill humans one day. Instead they were are result of the current societal machine that was allowed to become too advanced. If allowed to go unchecked, our current machinery will drive us straight off a cliff and only the ones that learn to fly on the way down will survive.
Between now and the end of the road society is on, I am learning to fly.
I don't honestly believe society will fall from a cliff though. I'm certainly not the only one that recognizes we can't continue on like this. Humankind is procrastinator and I feel like we will pull through by the seat of our pants. However, pulling through by the seat our pants won't cut it in the long run. So instead, I'm going to figure out how to do things the right way from the ground up.
It is my ultimate goal to open an institution of enlightenment so to speak. By that name, I mean a facility where students can learn to be free.
I won't go into too much detail, but essentially I want to experiment with systems to allow peaceful anarchism. I know the biggest fear of anarchy is that someone will run amuck with no one to stop them. To prevent this, you will need some type of system that is not under the control of any one group of people. Using the scientific method, I intend on figuring out such a system.
Why?
Glad you asked. Individuals can only achieve anywhere near their full potential if they are truly free to do whatever they want, to learn the world in their own way. I don't want to just solve our economic and political problems. I want to go beyond. Only once we have resolved these inner-tensions can we begin to live life to its fullest.
Here we are, it's the year 2011 and people are pretty much pissed that we don't have anti-gravity cars and teleporters yet. What people don't realize is how much technological magic comes before we even make these gadgets. Imagine a world where a magic wand could spew fire and cast spells. A place where you can download your food or the newest car. A place where you can transform a sofa into a dog at the push of a button, assuming you'd want to do something like that. This is a world where possibilities are only limited by our imaginations.
Not only can we get there, we are destined to. Well, at least some species from this planet is destined to. If we don't get our act together, it won't be us. The fastest we can get there is for everyone to be free. The people that rule the world aren't using their power to its potential so I'm kind of sad about that and it needs to change.
So. Step 1: personal freedom. Step 2: teach everyone else personal freedom. Step 3: ??? Step 4: magical powers. Sounds like win to me.
05.17.2011. 02:10
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