The Musings Of An Opinionated Sod [Help Me Grow!]

I’m terrible at execution but I’ve always had a ton of complex ideas. Whenever I see mainstream “innovation” (over the last 30 years or so) I’m very confused that they dare call it that. 99% of the time it is something so obvious I envisioned it in the 80’s. Not just that but my version of things is usually better in many ways. I’m like oh? wtf? orly? I couldn’t have guessed that was all it took.

Indeed it seems that the big brands and big budget entrepreneurs just take things from the little guy, implement some half baked version of it then apply the usual mega marketing technique. However, while it all starts with one guy who has an idea, it takes a team of people to figure out the details. Then, after that, it takes big money to bring it to the most effective scale.

If we are talking about innovation however: then that first guy is to blame for all of it. In the end no one remembers who he was and he wont make any money on it either. Meanwhile we have a [pretend] culture that wants to give that guy all of the credit for his work. Nice from an idealistic perspective, and I would of course love to have some of those sacks of cash made from my ideas, but in the real world it just doesn’t work like that.

The innovation is not what makes the money, it takes all of those other people to do that. It is all nice that people want to reward the great dreamers among us but it isn’t working. We aren’t giving credit to those who invented things. We need to collectively wake up and start doing the work in stead of worshiping false gods. Like music innovation should be its own reward. For a truly creative person the ultimate reward is to see his idea happen. If you need other incentives you just aren’t all that creative.

If visionaries have a lot of free time, some food, a roof over their head and a bit of help financing materials and making prototypes. Then you will see endlessly more innovation compared to the current paradigm. A big sack of money 10 years after the deed just isn’t contributing to the process. You cant force the process either. Ideal would be a loving and caring society that takes care of everyones needs, then our dreamers can dream the big dream and present it in a comprehensible format to those who can make it happen.

The amount of workable ideas can easily exceed the number of things big business has time for. We could progress 20 years every 10 years. Production could be an ever increasing number of cycles behind on innovation. The bigger that gap is the more inspired people will be to close it.

We need to reinvent humanity both culturally and politically. The goal must be for everyone to wish everyone the best, that is the only scenario where everyone flourishes. If we continue to develop the means of doing things at the expense of others things will get progressively more terrible for everyone.

The baby boomer makes up the largest age group in the west, they are increasingly falling behind on the technological possibilities. It is what happens when you get older. They are over 60 already. They still believe in an improved thumb screw and wage slavery is still holy in their world view. We need to get away from that. We should look for ways to get work done in stead of ways to make it look as if people do useful work.

They will phase out over the next 20 years along with that idea. Over that same period machines will replace the while collar workers. At some point we wont be able to continue to convince ourselves that human labor is more valuable than the things it produces.

We will reach that historic point in a civilization where we get to chose between unconditional love and a huge war. Humanity build many civilizations, each of them reached that point then it destroyed it self. We will continue doing that until we become enlightened enough to discover that other people will do to you that what you do to others.

If you really don’t want to be loved or cared about then war it shall be. A truly gruesome war, worse than any before. I think the Chinese history remembers what it was like. They are far more reluctant to storm to the front and start slaughtering people. Europe is also bored with blowing it self up every 40 years. But is humanity altruistic enough to compensate for those beating the war drums? Lets hope we are.

I’m sure you wonder what all this has to do with keeping innovation and knowledge locked away behind patents and other pay walls. It is this: All that is required to keep a truly great idea from seeing the light of day is to keep it behind lock and key so that no one may learn it even exists.

I know I know, love sounds terrible unattractive but as technology progresses things will polarize that way. If we build for ourselves a world where every technology has to be implemented on the battle field it is probably better not to have technology. If we chose for ourselves to care only about ourselves the best thing to do is to deprive others from everything in every possible context.

If we cant exploit you, what reason do we have to keep you around? If one has no intention to do anything for others simply for the joy of helping others – why not put a big bomb on you? If you are nothing but trouble, why not? Think about this paradigm where people want humanitarian ideals only for themselves. Is that kind of people worthy of the truly powerful technology?

The state of innovation today is like when Tesla told Walter Russell to put all his discoveries in a big chest and make sure no one would find it for at least 500 years. It had nothing to do with who reaps the profits. That mindset is reserved for those victimized by endless exploitation. The only real topic on the table if you ask me.

There, now I’ve shared my mindset with you. The ins and outs of the utopia of the future. I expect to be paid in full for this priceless idea. You better not try implement my idea without me! I thought of it first, I deserve all the money for it. If we look what you are getting out of the deal I’m talking trillions of Euroes.

Or wait… maybe it shouldn’t work like that? Maybe I should settle for having you entertain the idea for 5 min at the least and billions of happy people at most? Maybe that is the most wonderful thing to have – for me?

I have enough imagination not to have to see you sit there to know what you are thinking. “What an idiot, how dare he interrupt my diet of terrorism articles with this nonsense, I have bills to pay and masters to serve.”

That is why I feel I should add a video by someone who does a wonderful job explaining things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU

And lets have an article by the CFR

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/141847/mark-blyth-and-eric-lonergan/print-less-but-transfer-more

And lets have Nick Hanauer’s TED talk

http://www.ted.com/talks/nick_hanauer_beware_fellow_plutocrats_the_pitchforks_are_coming

Lets also read “Imagine A World Without Money” – By John Steinsvold

http://www.countercurrents.org/steinsvold110708.htm

And of course “SHIP OF FOOLS” – by Ted Kaczynski

https://www.sacredfools.org/crimescene/casefiles/s2/shipoffoolsstory.htm

And finally “A million years of leisure” – by Gaby de Wilde

http://blog.go-here.nl/8583

Enjoy!

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