Empower Thyself Manifesto

Empowerment is the power to do what you want to do.

Empowering yourself is choosing control over your own life instead of apathy.

Empower Thyself is a community that helps you to start finding ideas you believe in, skills to do something about it, tools to use, people to work with, and missions to get things done.

"A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct."

—Frank Herbert, Dune

The future is a shadow cast by what you stand for today.

What Empowerment Means To Humanity

To be empowered is to see the world for the winnable game it is and ourselves for who we are: the world’s true superpower. We live today in a man-made world shaped by people motivated by ideas and what has been made of the world can be remade or unmade by anyone willing to be empowered. There is nothing final about civilization as we know it that guarantees it will continue on its present course.

Without empowered people motivated by sound ideas, the world is like a rudderless ship adrift at sea. Empowerment is throwing off chains that no longer exist, working up confidence to take the steering wheel, and setting a course for a better world; Activism is finding out the ship is captained by pirates, not worrying about walking the plank, and leading a mutiny.

THE EMPOWERMENT PRINCIPLE

People think and act in proportion to what they believe is within their power. An empowered person learns and does more than the apathetic person believes possible. Anyone who desires empowerment can obtain the tools to attain it.

Education Demands Action

Education without doing something to act on it is frustrating. It makes you aware of problems you feel unable to do anything about. Some people even say it would be better not to know about the outside world. Ignorance, to this way of thinking, is bliss. If they can’t change it, they don’t want to hear about it. Can you really blame them?

People Don’t Do Things Because They’re Discouraged

People mostly want a better world, It is not as if we’re purely selfish and self-involved. We have a deep disempowerment that saps our will to change. Our attitudes would change if we put power back into our hands and minds and voices. This is the recipe to awaken the the most cynical and jaded. Put hope and action together again. Keep hope alive and people will have the courage to change things.

Make Doing Easy And People Will Take Action

Empowerment is about connecting seperated ideas and actions into a coherent opportunity for everyone, not just the most dedicated. Acting on an idea in a productive way can addict a person to the drug of influencing the world. All it takes to create more empowered individuals is to give them a taste of the real power that lays dormant inside each and every individual on the planet. Once people are given an inch they tend to take a mile!

The Institution of Empowerment

Empowerment is our institutional answer to corrupt governments, manipulative media and criminal corporations. It is a movement of people who embrace their own power and responsibility to make the world a better place. It is an organization dedicated to serving people with empowering technology to enable people to transcend outdated limits and unnecessary evils.

The Empowerment is a peoples’ institution which exists solely to serve in a way government, media and corporations do not. The Empowerment is dedicated to serving people regardless of politics, beliefs or economics. Its mission is to provide innovative services for the benefit of all people. Anyone can use the Empowerment for personal development, organizing communities and changing the world. The empowerment is a public institution open to anyone’s participation designed to bring people together in free association instead of subjugating anyone to a hierarchy under elite control.

The Empowerment: Corruption’s Institutional Opposite

Instutions Are Pillars Of Society

An institution is a lasting system of great necessity that underpins our civilization. Institutions have staying power because we need their services to make society work. While the leading forces that fulfill institutional roles may come and go with each passing year or election, the institution endures as long as it is needed.

Our Instutions Are Failing Us

Government, media and corporations are the institutions which dominate our political, social and economic lives. Today these institutions are surrounded by controversy and criticism from all sides. Critics point to deeply systemic corruption that goes to the core of how our society works.

Even people enjoying historic prosperity feel that the problems we face are symptomatic of a growing sickness. There are many competing diagnoses of what is wrong and prescriptions for what to do about it, but most everyone agrees that something must be done. The question is, whose responsibility is it? Who can we blame for not dealing with this?

It’s Our Fault: We’re Failing Ourselves By Not Participating

All institutions are at risk of corruption when the citizenry, audience and customers they exist to serve abdicate responsibility to the managerial experts holding the reigns of institutional power. Without the people’s vigilance to keep them honest, institutions become ends onto themselves unable to resist the temptation to abuse their power and influence. Apathy reigns amongst the public, and few see themselves as playing any part in changing anything important.

Why Me?

“Once upon a time Little Red Hen asked the other animals to help bake a cake. They were too lazy to raise a finger. Hen did all the work herself. Then Little Red Hen pulled the sweet-smelling pie out of the oven. Everyone who refused to help make it volunteered to help eat it, but she no longer needed their help to eat her delicious pie all by herself.”

Many people feel like changing the world is for other people. Why should they worry themselves over things that don’t seem relavent to their daily life?

The moral of the story is that life is sweeter for activists who take action than for the apathetic who stand aside waiting to see what happens.

New Institutions

Never destroy the pillars of belief and society: Replace them. Think like an engineer who supports a structure with crumbling foundations: build a stronger framework that takes over the load while the obsolete parts dissolve of their own accord.

Doing Nothing Is Something. Why Not Do Something Good?

Apathy is a self-contradictory because passivity is itself an action. Ask any caffeined and sugared child to sit still for long and the effort required to do nothing becomes apparent.

Your Empowerment

YOU DECIDE YOUR AGENDA

Your Empowerment is what you choose to do with your life. What will you do with all that power? Anything you choose. Empower yourself to lead your own movements because nobody can tell you what to believe, but everyone can use help and help each other achieve all goals.

Use Your Power For Good As You See Fit

No matter what your ideas and interests are, the Empowerment is just a vehicle to propel you forward in the directions you choose. Skills, resources and technology do not lean politically except to the resourceful.

Empowerment Doesn’t Tell You What To Do

There is no central ideology of Empowerment save the principle of empowerment itself, which is based on self-empowerment rather than obeying some central authority.

You choose your agenda. Empowerment just helps.

When people are weak and abdicate responsibility, our institutions run amok: our families disintegrate, governments rule us, corporations own us, media deceives us and schools indoctrinate us.