Funding My Existence

What a load of narcisscistic, privileged claptrap. Seriously? Seriously? Someone over the age of 12 actually believes this? So let me get this straight: there are people who are soooooo speshul and creatif and necessary to the very world's existence, that the world should exist to feed, cloth, and clean up after them and (AND!) pay for every speshul creatif idea that pours out of their mouth? Sorry, kids, but the sun does not rise and set with any one person or group of person's speshul visionary ideas.

 This makes it extremely hard to avoid unemployment, let alone to feed and shelter oneself. But admit that you feel this way, and you're instantly labeled lazy, arrogant, elitist, etc.

No Kidding!  Really!  I really hate to break it to you, but believeing something to be true about yourself doesn't make it so.  But believing that the world should cater to your specialness does make you lazy, arrogant, and elitist, not to mention childish and revoltingly narcisscistic.

 We are either all god's special children or none of us are.   How about trying the grown-up answer instead.

Somehow we go from our kindergarden {pre-school} teachers and parents "glorifying" our every initial attempt at crayon scribbling and paper cutting, to dog-eat dog competition in a very unbalanced marketplace.  

Like all of the Occupy college students realizing how little value is placed on their learned skills outside of a few corporate scraps thrown for submissive doodling. 

Our whole educational system seems geared to take that "special" creative feeling we each have in relation to our own unique value and mold such towards objective complicity in a very narrow band of "taught" choices.

Peer pressure often takes over after such initial conditioning to where we jeer and jive at each others uniqueness as if "pack consciousness" rules .. as if the lowest common denominator mentality being the most efficient way to keep the inherent creative genius of each and every in line. 

In the much older Vedic system of education in pre-hindhu India, students were only encouraged to study those subjects which matched their inherent nature{dharma} with the guidance from "expert" brahmanas {teachers} who indiviually and collectively would take great care, if not for any reason other than efficiency itself, to make sure energy was only put towards any students natural propensities toward any given subject matter.  

No one would be forced to pursue any subject matter that didn't click after some initial exposure, and if there was some unique propensity for exceleration, there was extra tutoring ontowards apprenticeship {a lost art form} so that the inhernt nature of each student was individuaally catored to.   

Everywhere in our modern Westernized society are the remnants of the reductionist and mechanistic approach to efficientcy focusing on quantitative production rather qualitative progression ... maintaining the norm, as opposed to advancing the culture .. the infamous staus quo ... forever self-determined and self-perpetruated. 

After the industrial revolution the "factory" approach to every thing took over .. as if the very passion for "capitol gain" took over the very love of creativity itself.

In simpler cultures all young girls learned to weave their own clothers, create their own fashion, rather than endlessly, mindlessly pursuing the fantasies of other designers.

Every village had people of expertise at all levels because the inherent qualitative skills of each of them were catored to from early on .. as opposed to this over-centralized "class distinction" between commodities and consumers .. a much more integrative culture for sure.

Some of the upcoming trends of "online education" or schooless learning, where the parents help guide their children towards the subject matter most appropriate, more free from the lowest common denominator standardization {mind numbing} of the present system.

All of us having to now {since the bureaucratic institutions are failing us} take more responsibility via conscious participation in our own creative progressions, to where our occupations match our very nature of creative intrigue, affording everyone a chance to acheive a little genius. 

Like the "micro-lending" trends of the last five years or so, where small entrepenuers would lend small amounts of start up capitol to small village "geniuses" {at least a little genius, as all creativity is "genuine"} to fund their ventures, maybe in the new propossed gift economy we can all start funding each others actual value somehow or other gradually finding ways of bypassing the obsolete select lending institutions, which are all "quantitatively" based, henced minimizing the creative varigatedness of an expresssive culture. 

The more dumber we are made the more great someone with a little creative intelligence appears to be. Most of us realize now that many so-called creative leaders in government, finance, science and entertainment are not that exceptional in their end results all said and done.

In a system that perpetuates mediocrity {status quo} at every chance ... where any new idea has to go through so many political loops only to be turned down by those covering their asses at the top ... well just what does the future hold for us 

As well you should be angry. Supporting someone in sitting around playing video games and having "visionary ideas" is the very definition of abject co-dependence. And then devaluing yourself by saying the spiritual bypassing phrase "I'm unconscious" when you have every right to be consciously annoyed by an adult who acts like a child.

Ask youself: would he do the same for you, make the same time and sacrifice the same for your creativity? Or are you supposed to subsist off his "visionary" ideas? Ah yes, this is how breatharianism comes about. "Honey, if you were spiritual enough like me, you wouldn't need to eat/breathe/sleep/participate like an adult in the world we live in". Like hell, I say. It's actually quite patronizing to hold someone to a low standard because you don't believe they can do any better. Again, the very definition of co-dependence.  "He needs me to take care of him, he's just not capable".  There are plenty of truly great visionary thinkers that have children, take jobs, and act like grown-ups in ways that aren't selling out.

Ah, But then there are these Speshiul Ones, these folks who seem to think being a "speishul creatif visionary" means pouting that someone needs to pay you for your specialness, childishly refusing to care for one's self or others, and valuing one's own speshiul creatifness above all else. Selfish, narcicisstic, arrogant, and childish all in one supremely tidy package! Voila! Awesome!

Every one is dealt a shitty hand of cards to play in this life. Doesn't mean you can't have to play those cards well. Billions of abjectly poor people all over the world don't get the advantages that have been handed out to those of you in the US. I don't hear a suffering visionary here, I hear a whiny privileged guy asking to be paid well for putting two synapses together, and some wife gratefully supporting his incredible selfishness.  Gross!

I laughed out loud at your comment. Partly because of how presumptuous and rude it is, and partly because it's probably true. I was a professional musician for over a decade and surrounded myself with artists and counter-cultural types for even longer, and back in those days I could have easily identified with this author's perspective (or at least, what you've made it out to be). But in the mean time I've come to suspect that a sense of entitlement seems to go hand in hand with many artistic personalities these days; I know of many creatives who expect to be patronized by the state (in Europe), institutes, relatives or friends (I was one of them), and of several "spiritual" types who can't understand why their attempts to manifest wealth out of thin air keep failing. People who simply STFU and get to work are usually the ones who make it, and often they are the ones with a true gift. In my experience they are usually very humble people.

"Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration"-Edison

I'm developing a platform for just that:  pangaia.sourceforge.net.

Unfortunately, the non-profit (sfcomplex.org) that I was with to build it has gotten displaced because of issues regarding property.

It will also help in curbing the financial barrier to educational and moore informational than everything post in

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