So here I continue my weblog soliloquy. Hmmm...
To touch base with what I was writing about earlier, soon after I wrote that piece about excellence not being appreciated in the usa... I realized that problem is within the context of a larger problem - one where mediocrity is not given a place where it can do good and benefit the world. It seems that novices and beginners in all endeavors in the usa get very little appreciation and help from others. They get no guidance. I have really been interested in Canada recently. And one thing that I see up there which I really admire, is that there are constructs in place to help people who are mediocre at music, at writing, at film, or at other kinds of things. The parameters that novices are given to work within allows their work to go on to really have a good effect on society.
On another topic, I was at a formal party tonight and it was an interesting opportunity to muse about how I and all my peers who are entering middle age are doing in our lives. How are we influencing the world? What pathway are we on?
I have a suggestion for my peers and for everybody really... It's very important as one goes through life, to have mused deeply enough about how the world works to understand the value in ideas, and to understand how trends are set, and how they spin into motion. Too many people, as Henry David Thoreau said "...live lives of quiet desperation." Interestingly enough in this hyper modern era, it's just as true as it was in his era of the 1850s. And the problem seems to be that people don't take the time to muse deeply enough. They don't reach out and suck the marrow out of life, in this way. People try desperately to get ahead by conforming to one social form or another. Stop, people. Sit down and think for awhile. If a person has a broad enough perspective on things, she or he will make every action something that is calculated to better the lot of the people around her. That person will laugh with joy when there is something in the humour which represents a good trend which will lead people to see the world more clearly, and be able to live more deftly.