I’m frustrating the dog. She wants to go for a walk. I want to take a few moments before the day blasts out of the cannon to write. If I wait around for her to get old enough to sit quietly and not bother me, I will also be older, and maybe not as bothersome.
Hmmm.
Compromise. I’ll give out the identity of the Question I caught (as no one has guessed), and then take that walk.
“What does a future look like for a community of people who mostly don’t make anything with their hands or minds that adds to the common good?”
This Question troubles me. Agitates me to feel uncomfortable since I, like so many others I know and admire, are engaged to some degree in the growing culture of the Personality-As-Product, or as I am coining this idea right now, PAP. PAP Culture; the PAP Generation, PAPWorld, whatever.
What will a world where hundreds of thousands of people make their living by being gurus, consultants, coaches, change agents and tranformation operatives feel like, offer us–how will it sustain and nurture us? Is this a glorious turn of events that will catalyze our global society into a peaceful and compassionate place where we delight in helping others achieve the same things we want for ourselves?
Is this the next step in the rotting out of the core of an effete society of self-indulgent cynics who use Abundance, Bliss, Peace and Generosity as the mule team that pulls the stones of the pyramids being built to hold the PAP’s stuff long after he/she dies–a bid for immortality that grinds to dust the bones out of thosands of others attracted to the glitter of PAP?
Real Power is recognizing when it’s time to stop writing and go walk the dog.
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