How to Change the World

Your life is great right? So why complain? We have it good here and I’m being nothing but pessimistic right? Your life may be great and you might have everything you’ve ever desired, but how about everyone else around you? Do they not matter? Are their dreams and goals pointless too? And it might be that they don’t give a crap about you, why should they? You’ve never helped them out in anything. They don’t even know you. And you probably feel the same way.

I don’t blame you though.

That’s what you were taught: To care about yourself, friends, and family, but no one else. Maybe if we started to care more, then things would really change. If we started to be faithful to our visions, goals, and dreams, rather than cheat on them with the whore down the street whose name is apathy, things would start to look brighter. Maybe … just maybe …

So how do we do it?

If you want to change the world
Start with the person in the mirror.
Analyze the world’s problems.
Do you contribute to them?
If so, then be part of the solution
Not the problem.

I bet you were expecting something deeply philosophical to follow all the mumble-jumble that this manifesto contains. But sometimes solutions are just that simple. You need to scale down the problems, then scale down the solutions, and then work your way up. Don’t identify with the larger whole, be your individualistic self in a bland society. Work as much as you can, join the revolutions that have started to create a better world. Be the difference, in a world that so desperately seeks it.

You might not be satisfied with my solution. If not, then it’s ok. It means your thinking for yourself for once. I don’t expect you all to agree with me, and I’m fine with that. In fact, I support you in your quest for change, and anything you say, I will listen. We all have different ideas and opinions, maybe if we stopped the mindless chatter, and actually listened for once then something beautiful could occur. A speculation of course …

Caged Birds

Identification

With the larger whole. We are supposed to identify with the larger community. Yet it only works when the community is serving you as well. We are taught to identify with a larger whole which is not us. (we lost a lot of refineries in Katrina .. how much longer do you thing we are going to be in Iraq .. OUR troops) we are taught to identify with the system. We’re taught that “we” are doing this. Yet I’m not doing anything, I actually oppose the organizations that are doing IT. Our lives depend on the system that is expoiting them. The system is abusing and destroying us, yet from early on we are taught to identify with it, instead of identifying it.

Toxic Mimics

If you want to change the world.
Start with the man in the mirror.
Look at all of the problems in the world
Do you contribute to them?
Start to be part of the solution, not the problem.

Its not to say that not performing certain acts will change the world. You know that bad things are going on, maybe the mass production of products, with unsafe working conditions, for little pay. Do you promote this? Or do you act as a counter culture. Do you not buy from them in order to contribute to the solution? You are part of the solution, if you so choose to be. Look for what you want to eat, and alternate ways of living life. You will see that getting to your solution is easier because you already know how to solve the problem, so you can help other people help you to solve the problem. Live your life in accordance to your views; be faithful. We need to scale down the problems, and scale down the solutions, and then work your way up.