General Thoughts and Ideas

Progressive (posted 11/14/2007)

I suppose sometimes one must lose themselves in order to find themselves. Sometimes being striped of what is around you hurts. But that striping of security could be what sets you free from yourself.

We cannot grow if we are stagnant and comfortable. And mostly when we are stagnant we are not happy. At least I'm not mostly.

Progressive. It's not a theory or a political stance. People many times confuse that. Progressive is a state of mind. It's the choice to become open to alternative situations and methods but in order to find truth, rather than to simply proclaim being alternative.

That is the goal of being alternative is it not? To find truth.

Progressive is also a verb relating to the relevance of movement. Making progress. Progressing forward. This requires growth and energy.

One cannot be progressive standing in place.

So how does one exactly move? You reach out BEYOND yourself. You research rather than merely read what is fed to you. You realize that the world created around you via the media and culture is very much like the Matrix sometimes in that it is man created and many times false.

Truth lies in many dimensions. The world, the universe, it all is way larger than we imagine as we go about our daily lives like little ants on a hill. All the worlds a stage and we are merely the players.

Yet as players don't we have a right to choose our moves and our lines?

People talk about the evolution of man and of Darwinism. What of the evolution of humanity?

We study history and we study science and we study many things in this universe. Why? Because we want to get better. And yet we live in this society that wants to flee to security and hide in stagnation. Protect your own they say without realizing that stagnation really does not exist.

Stagnation of humanity is apathy which equals death. Death to reason, death to progress, death to human rights, death to environmental protection, death to any hope at curbing the evils of man kind.

So what do you do? Do you strap on your 9? Do you strap on your dreadlocks and burn books? No. You dig and you find truth. You do not allow yourself to be turned by any certain side of the argument, conservative, liberal, or whatever the case may be, you find your OWN answers. THAT IS PROGRESSIVE.

Truth is not found in the egotistical realms of party lines believing they are God's gift to man and the heroes of America. Truth is found in man kind ITSELF.

So put down your rifles and put down your 5 foot bongs.

True Revolution is much larger. True Revolution starts with the Revolution of yourself and the Evolution of humanity moving forward. Progressive.