Are You Going to Watch the Clown Show? Or Would You Rather Get Busy Building Something Better?
I confess: I watched a few minutes of the presidential debate. No, not CNN’s “debate”, but the one that included RFK Jr.
But very quickly, I had to stop. I’ve got a lot going on in my life, and a very long “to-do” list, and I just couldn’t justify spending time on this. Also, it was painful. You know what I mean.
For many years, I’ve been talking about how pointless presidential elections are, what a waste of our precious energy and time. And for all of those years, people have been asking me the same question: “Well what should we do instead? What can we do???”
I’ve given a lot of thought to this question, and I’ve come up with what I think are some pretty good answers. But these answers require action. So, two years ago, I started a membership group for those of us who are ready to put our good ideas into action.
Briefly: “Building Parallel Solutions” is a paid membership group that hosts regular calls in which we connect with each other, talk about our projects, and give and get advice, information, and contacts, that might be helpful in our various ventures. We also have regular calls with “guest experts” who are out there creating parallel solutions in an imperfect world.
I’m opening up membership to the group this coming week, July 1 - 7. I’ll be posting more about it during the week. If you’re interested, please feel free to email me, or to post questions in the comments!
UPDATE: The link to join is live now.
Bretigne: I would like to share with you my comment on Chris Martensen's website, where he said he thought the world was divided into two types: The Creators and The Destroyers (his article is behind a paywall so I can't share it unfortunately).
Chris: You remarked there are two types of people: Destroyers and Creators. I understand the dramatic impact of demarcating these two groups, but I believe most people belong in a large middle category. Probably less than 5% of people are true creators, and even fewer are destroyers. Most people are followers or sideliners – meaning those who sit passively on the sidelines watching the drama play out between the active players. The followers are those who slavishly follow the destroyers, in true Nuremberg style, if supporting them, or in knee-jerk reflexive opposition. If you follow a creator, you must be a creator, because creators don’t welcome to their group non-contributors or those who are either black-pilled or destroyers at heart. Nor do sideliners last long in resistance movements fueled by passion. There is another category, too, I believe, consisting of the lost souls. This group is people who are so overwhelmed by the data that they have basically checked out of the process of even trying to make sense of the confusion. They aren’t like the followers, watching the drama unfold, rooting for their side. They simply choose to look away, being too overwhelmed to countenance the phantasmagoria of information blowing into their brains. They can’t “handle the truth”.