Business

I've thought recently how badly I want to start a business, but oddly enough I haven't got a clue as to what I want to do, or what this business would entail. Here recently though, after much thought, I believe I've come to understand why I even really want this. 

You see, a small business is a place that responds instantly to any action we take. A place where we can practice implementing ideas in a way that changes lives. A place where we can begin to test all assumptions we have about ourselves. It is place where the world is reduced to a manageable size. Small enough to be responsive, big enough to test everything we have. A small business, both your's and my small business, is a true practice hall. 

A practice hall or any institution of influence, is something that we should utilize as a people. I find that in todays's society, people along with myself, are watching the world and our lives dwindle down to frequent breathtaking tragedies. This is followed by detestable practices and perceptions, and mixed with a glut of irrelevant addictions and desires. This cycle continues to repeat, and everything good and beautiful and innocent eventually just starts to slip away. We've witnessed death and hatred and violence in almost every domain possible. Today, you can get shot anywhere from a movie theatre to a kindergarden class, have a bomb go off at your place of work on monday or the marathon your going to run on saturday. We have exemplified hatred and discrimination towards everything from love life, to body type, skin color, financial status, and religion. I could go on, but you see the details of why we discriminate and hate each other is just as meaningless as nature from which that hatred comes from.

  We sit here, with the idea that most of us are good people, and all we need to do is work on the bad. If we simply just implement gun laws, increase security, stop any type of progressive change, and hinder equality to anyone different than the accepted, then we have essentially fixed everything. At that point all we have to do is pat ourselves on the back, and continue to do what we've done. It is now, that we have apparently fixed the problem. We tell ourselves and our government and our children that we have done everything we can, but the problem is that we have actually done nothing. We have simply raised the restrictions on the people that are "not us". We have done nothing to attempt to fix or remedy the nature of who we are as a species.  

Our feeble attempts to fix the world have not solved the overall circumstances in which we find ourselves. These attempts have been unsuccessful, because they have been directed to the wrong places. We are constantly believing that we have found the source of the chaos, but we actually haven't at all. The chaos isn't "out there" in everyone else. It's not "out there" in the world. The chaos is "in here" in you and me. The world's inner chaos is a reflection of our own turmoil. If the world is violent and greedy and heatless and inhumane and often just plain stupid, it is because you and I are that way. So, the reality is, that if the world is going to be changed, we must change more than the lives of those we don't approve of. We must make changes to the nature of who we are as humans. 

We are an "out there" society, accustomed to thinking in terms of them against us. We want to fix the world so that we can remain the same. And for an "out there" society, coming "inside" and making changes or improvements is a problem. We don't wish to change ourselves, or even attempt to look inside and understand who we are. We just want to fix and expel those that are different. We want to point out the specific ones who seem to be causing the problems. All we need is a re-do. A complete altercation of who we are and what we stand for.

We must start attempting to make the right changes. Without these changes the chaos will increase and tragedy and sadness will become a source of complacency. School shootings will be normal, discrimination will be tolerated to whomever we choose, love and altruism will be a thing of the past, and we will simply be a species cycling through it all. We have got to make these changes within ourselves. The time has clearly passed us. It was a few months ago when those innocent children were shot in their kindergarden classroom. It was last year when people were killed watching the premiere of a Batman movie. It was years ago when Jaycee Dugard was found after being kidnapped and raped for 18 years. It was in 2001 when another country showed its deep and dark hatred for us. Or back in the times of Jim Crow when we showed that same hatred for one another. Regardless of what the time was, we can no longer afford this much chaos. We are in dire need, and we are simply running out of time.  

Citing The E-myth revisited