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    Long Trips To Nowhere: Month 5
    Long Trips To Nowhere: Month 5
    Long Trips To Nowhere: Month 5
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    Long Trips To Nowhere: Month 5

    By Allan R. Wallace

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    After four prior months of opening the mind
    It is time to switch from milk to meat
    Some of this will require extended chewing
    And some may be too tough to eat

    Long Trips To Nowhere - Month 5
    Your Daily Thought Provokers presented as:
    Quick Quotes, Deeper Thoughts, and Imperfect Poetry

    "We are all wise sages cosseted still in the fading age of bureaucracies & we are wary children of an approaching era of individual power."
    Allan R. Wallace

    My purpose for writing these thought provokers is to challenge. For instance I favour individualism, but that is not absolute. You want to survive and thrive in a world where all people matter. Think it out. Challenge me. Get involved. One day's read is a great way to start your book club meeting.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAllan R. Wallace
    Release dateJan 31, 2014
    ISBN9781311712059
    Long Trips To Nowhere: Month 5
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    Allan R. Wallace

    "If you view change as a problem rather than an opportunity you'll always be too late. Visionaries and crackpots are always too soon and pay a high price for their insight.We can accept that." ~ Allan R. Wallace

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      Long Trips To Nowhere - Allan R. Wallace

      DAY 1

      A Quick Quote:

      Perspective. As others have said, Most scoff at insights, yet may agree after thought, later to claim they had always known, finally believing they said or wrote it first. I'm like that too.

      A Deeper Thought:

      Responsibility not entitlement. That is not a philosophy, but a reality as this depression deepens. Decide for yourself, don't be dependent on leaders. Value yourself.

      Technology has at first enabled bureaucracies; treating customers and citizens alike as data to be filtered and filed. Tech

      is now enabling you to produce what others need as individuals. Autonomous nodes in a network, individuals communicating needs and building solutions, is replacing mass culture forced down your throat. Feed others what they want. Feed those who can not feed themselves. Feed the future by building something new.

      It won't be really new, just as what I've written here is a summation of what others have long taught. There is no originality, but there is room for infinite creativity. Share your bounty.

      and Some Imperfect Poetry:

      Somebody should do something,

      the public school learned decry

      Do it yourself so all prosper,

      comes the street's much wiser reply

      This book is dedicated to

      The People of Uruguay

      Of course the people of Uruguay are all individuals.

      It did not seem that way at first. At first there was infrastructure and culture. Next the various cultures started to separate. Then the people I had met became real, distinct in realization from their compatriots and counter parties.

      Now some of these people are friends. That's as it should be. While a government may through educational indoctrination define limits, real people remove those limits where they discover a disconnect with their reality. They become seduced by life.

      As unblinded opportunities are seen, a leveraging of observation naturally occurs -- except in the most dogmatic. Perhaps that is where many people I have met in this quiet, laid back country most excel. They pursue life to live, rather than submit to coerced training for life as work.

      They look at life and each other and think Maybe.

      Don't Let Maybe Die

      Always one of us is maybe

      Not yet both of us no

      If together our hearts can sigh might be

      Perhaps a soft yes can grow

      If neither of us breaths out a should be

      A shared life purpose may show

      DAY 2

      Life Purpose

      Your personal calling is not to be a doctor, lawyer, or soda jerk. What do you do that changes others? Me? I help people break down walls of ignorance

      I used to say I train visionaries. That was part of what I did, but the goal was always to help people escape other-imposed limitations they had accepted. Just one of those limitations is refusal to consider the past when predicting the future. For those with open minds, who observe and analyze for themselves, the future is no longer opaque. Those are visionaries.

      You can become one.

      You may already be one, if so teach me.

      It is in realizing our ignorance that we can come to terms with our future. Truth is subjective, subject to whim and mistake, and always just beyond our reach. But discovering our life purpose, that is a target we can hit. We may not be able to see the full pattern, but we can uncover enough to start in a proper direction, accepting adjustments as we go.

      So, how do you want to change the world?

      What medium will

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