empowering philosophy

Independent thought is becoming scarce. We all have within, a computer that's hardly being used at full capacity. I want to share this particular post I StumbledUpon (literally, http://meatbot.stumbleupon.com) to perhaps remind us that we all have the capacity to be creative thinkers.

In such a fast paced world as ours today we run the risk of living a recycled headspace: Garbage-In-Garbage-Out, GIGO. By changing the way we experience and accept the world maybe we can turn garbage into Gold.

Here is the article.

Mindfulness is is a technique in which a person becomes intentionally aware of his or her thoughts and actions in the present moment, non-judgmentally.

Evolution by Choice. Two simple parts--evolution--growing, surpassing the former, adapting, changing, and choice--decision, action based on a specific intention, deliberate.

Part of the beauty of this meme is it's ability to function across several layers of abstraction. For instance, you could take this idea at the personal level and choose to adapt to some part of your life that has changed, or perhaps that you weren't taking full advantage of.

On the other end of the spectrum you have the entire species and the possibilities for enhancement beginning to look like real possibilities--genetic alterations, cybernetic enhancements.

Not only in the science fiction turning reality front, but the concept can be identified in more subtle roles as well--the steady homogenizing flow of information/education to the general masses. As the gestalt of human society becomes more and more saturated with the combined general knowledge of the species as a whole, people are empowered with the ability to start with knowledge somebody else has already discovered, and thus go further than before, or avoid certain pitfalls, to 'Stand on the shoulders of Giants' as it were.

Does it ever seem like people are smarter than they used to be? Maybe they've just got better mental tools to use.

The point is, we all make choices every day that affect who we are becoming as a person, and what direction our society is going, as a whole. You may not think about it like that, but perhaps you should. Every person has a little bit of power. We've all got our own ideas on what's 'good' or 'bad' or whatever labels you want to apply--things we want versus things we don't want to have happen. Anyway, in a democratic situation, everybody's putting their energy/time/resources/votes into whatever they want to see happen, and when ideas line up, there's motion--when there are equally opposed ideas/opinions, there is stalemate.

But everybody _does_ exert _some_ level of influence, whether they realize it or not. So, make your decisions like they count.

When you have a choice to make, make it with the intent of improving yourself, and your society as a whole. Make the choice to help Evolve into a better form.

-cid

Doocracy: If you want something done, why aren't you doing it?

People with this Idea

	Title	Author	%	Category	Thoughts
	Moral relativism	Agent0x45	80	Belief	Percentage:  80 Idea Group:  doocracy Idea Category:  Belief Sometimes the best thing to do seems wrong. Don't let it get you down. Specifics should be decided by the head, motivations and desires by the heart.
	doocracy	angiewoot		Belief	Idea Group:  doocracy Idea Category:  Belief I believe that everyone has the same potential to be productive, but that some people are just unexperienced at it and unmotivated to do more. If everyone did little things they wanted to see done (like less food in the dumpsters and more in people's homes, military contractors out of the city, more education for prisoners), we'd all be a lot better off. I'm not saying that it would work with all our ideologies clashing, it we all worked super hard to create revolutions, but I think it's generally a good idea. It's got good purpose behind it, which is something important to me.