WHAT YOU WANT
SEPTEMBER 20, 2011. What you want is an adventure, the far dimensions of which only you know—and you also know that by the time you approach them they’ll no longer be dimensions or boundaries, but instead only more raw fuel for the fire.
Pedestrian goals are merely the ticking of the clock, a way to pass hours until the real action begins.
When you find a few others who want to go on your ride, don’t compromise by stepping it down.
What you really want requires you to produce energy. And when you do, you discover there is no limit on how much you can create. This is a revelation.
One of the biggest sticking points is: how many people will be able to understand what you’re doing, what you’re inventing, what you’re pursuing?
Often, this is the locus around which people stall. They decide to dilute their goal so that it’s accessible to more people.
I understand the reasons for doing that, but take a look at people who have engaged in this watering-down process over a long period of time, and you’ll find they tend to look exhausted. They’re always putting brakes on themselves. They’re plundering their own treasure for the sake of others. They’re intentionally limiting their own energy output.
If you imagine many, many, many people doing this, you pretty much have the definition of society. Of course, the problems of society aren’t traced to this limitation-exercise; all sorts of other stories are cooked up to explain why societies run into trouble. But they’re pieces of bad fiction.
In the latter stages of a civilization, the majority of effort/resource is focused on “helping those who can’t help themselves.” In other words, the civilization is way past grappling with the question of the individual pursuing his greatest adventure. That prospect has long been forgotten. The individual creation and production of energy has long been forgotten.
So the task falls to the individual himself. Where it always was.
The rabid collectivist revolutionaries of the early 20th century have spawned smarter descendants who have kinder, gentler strategies. The drip method. Gradually reduce everyone to victim status. Mythologize that covert op as spiritual beneficence of the highest order. Anoint those leaders who pave the way as saints and prophets.
It works, but it doesn’t touch what the individual really wants.
Jon Rappoport