Motivation!

[dank.frank]

This is something I read recently that kind of really hit home. It is a quote from the book, the Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand:

"Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burned at the stake he had taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived of, and he lifted darkness off the earth. Through out the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. The great creators, the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors, stood alone against the men of their time. Every new thought was opposed. Every new invention was denounced. But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered, and they paid - but they won."

Remember...we are the innovators...we are the front line...it is up to us. Our vision is un-borrowed...it belongs to no one else. It is solely ours. We must stand against the men of our time...be willing to stand up and push forward against all odds. Not because this is what is expected by us of others, but only because this is who we are, and to live a life indifferent, would be the same as shoveling dirt on your own grave. There is nothing to be accomplished, where no goal has been set. And no goal can be set, if the mind has not made it the central focus of reality. You must live...work, eat, breathe...sleep if you must...but don't lose sight of that goal. Let nothing stand in your way. Achieve what is yours, by right; by the very creation of it as a thought in your own mind, it is rightfully yours and belongs to no one else. In such a concept, it demands that you, with the power of yourself, are the one who must nurture and embrace thoughts, that they do become a livable reality...

Anyway...some passing thoughts...


dank.Frank

 

[SuperSizeMe]

Good stuff, DF

Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.

~Benjamin Disraeli~

 

[arcticsun]

One of the strange behavioral quirks of the humans is that we never change until necessity demands it.

 

[dank.frank]

"America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to "the common good," but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance -- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way."

"Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men’s protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values. Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it. Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. Watch for the day when it bounces, marked: "Account Overdrawn.""

"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted and you create a nation of law-breakers."

-excerpts from Atlas Shrugged (also read recently...changed my entire world view, honestly)


Some heavy, deep reading. It all sounds soooo familiar, no? And to think, these are the words expressed nearly 60 years ago in a fiction novel. If she only knew how accurate her (Ayn Rand) words have become...


dank.Frank

 

[ibjamming]

Look where it's gotten us...morally bankrupt for the most part.

Most of us get up, go to some job, come home, watch shit on TV, fuck, go to sleep, wash rinse repeat...no time for high ideals and changing the world.

We're just another bug spreading our seed heading for overpopulation. We think we're cleaver, but chemicals rule us just like all the other bugs. I bet THEY think they're the special ones too.

A nice dream though...

dank frank,

Don't ever forget it is fiction...the truth is even worse! Greed baby...it built everything and it will someday tear it down.

 

[dank.frank]

One of the strange behavioral quirks of the humans is that we never change until necessity demands it.

The funny thing, is that necessity is also a matter of perception. What one man deems as necessary, another may simple view as pointless. Change happens when people find the courage and value in their own person...change happens out of the necessity of the individual, not as a result of the surrounding world. We are always given a choice...to live or to perish...this is always our ultimate reality; To do what one must to ensure survival or to lay down in the ditch and die. It is because we chose to live that any change or adaptation is ever necessary.

However, I have met the type of people, who some how manage to never change, however, they manipulate and contort those around them into positions of despair and anguish, so their trite pompous unearned and undeserved existences may continue unfettered by the world around them. Those that fall victim to such people (destroyers as Rand called them in Atlas Shrugged)...however, deserve to be consumed and by their own inability to stand up and demand that virtue be greater than vice, that life should only belong to one who is willing to live it, should by all rights be devoured. It is their weakness that creates food for these wolves in society. It is their own lack of purpose and their own folly that positioned them as a prey.

Have we, in this world, allowed ourselves to fall or become prey to a great destroyer of all that is? Have we lost our purpose? Have we forgotten our goals? Have we begun to drift aimlessly on the accomplishments of others, forgetting that we ourselves have an agenda to strive for? Have we begun to perpetuate life without ever really progressing in it?...

More thoughts...


dank.Frank

 

[ibjamming]

The funny thing, is that necessity is also a matter of perception. What one man deems as necessary, another may simple view as pointless. Change happens when people find the courage and value in their own person...change happens out of the necessity of the individual, not as a result of the surrounding world. We are always given a choice...to live or to perish...this is always our ultimate reality; To do what one must to ensure survival or to lay down in the ditch and die. It is because we chose to live that any change or adaptation is ever necessary.

However, I have met the type of people, who some how manage to never change, however, they manipulate and contort those around them into positions of despair and anguish, so their trite pompous unearned and undeserved existences may continue unfettered by the world around them. Those that fall victim to such people (destroyers as Rand called them in Atlas Shrugged)...however, deserve to be consumed and by their own inability to stand up and demand that virtue be greater than vice, that life should only belong to one who is willing to live it, should by all rights be devoured. It is their weakness that creates food for these wolves in society. It is their own lack of purpose and their own folly that positioned them as a prey.

Have we, in this world, allowed ourselves to fall or become prey to a great destroyer of all that is? Have we lost our purpose? Have we forgotten our goals? Have we begun to drift aimlessly on the accomplishments of others, forgetting that we ourselves have an agenda to strive for? Have we begun to perpetuate life without ever really progressing in it?...

More thoughts...


dank.Frank

That's what I see minorities as in the western countries...the destroyers. Always complaining, always needing more and more, demanding it. Giving back nothing. Changing what worked into what didn't. Shaming us with our success.

I see "us" sitting on our hands, not doing what SHOULD be done, too afraid to do anything because we've been conditioned that we're the bad people. I hate what I see. The failing of motivation. We all just sit and wait for someone else to take care of everything.

 

[ixnay007]

"Two novels can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other involves orcs."

 

[dank.frank]

Don't listen to someone else...read it for yourself and decide. Sheeple...geez.

I think for the weak minded, most of Rands writing will come off as too much or will miss its mark..but for those that spend life since having conscience thought, thinking much the same way, it is very enlightening and are FANTASTIC reads...all though it is fiction. Just stretches the mind a bit...put me outside the box so to speak...


dank.Frank