Reply #25: Creating something beautiful. [View All]

Enabling people to live, not just to survive, but to live. There are thousands of people out there, maybe more, with crazy, urgent ideas and minds full of fire. If we can start listening to each other, maybe we'll figure out something new. Even if we don't, at least we'll be heard, which is an improvement in itself. If there is a Great Work, it's not going to be to create one thing, but to enable a million different things to exist, a million different ways for people to live.

This isn't something I'd normally say, or write anywhere where people could read it. But this is an Underground. In an Underground, it's okay to talk about subversive ideas. And what could possibly be more subversive than kindness? No illegal plot, thrown stone, or Molotov cocktail could ever be as rebellious, as drastically against the cold machine-like power structure, as the completely opposite nature of the beating human heart. If writing this means that some strangers are going to laugh at me, then strangers are going to laugh at me. But I'd rather be laughed at than never disturb the sound of silence.

Of course nothing will be changed easily. But I think there are enough people to make it possible. People with ideas who would be ecstatic to find out that someone wanted to listen to them. People who have been chewed up and spit out by a dysfunctional society and would love to join a group that promised a better way of living. People who are so-called success stories in the business world but still aren't happy because it's a cold and empty game to play. People who are still young and don't want to be pushed into this rat race. There are countless people out there who would like nothing better than to be told, "You're right. You're right to hate the way things are, and we agree with you, and we want to help you fight it and replace it with something better."