Capturing an audience
I've had a weekend away from the computer (for the most part at least). I've decided that this is important for my well-being. I still thoroughly enjoy my work developing software, but it's easy to spend way too much time staring at the computer screen. I got some domestic jobs out of the way on Saturday and competed in a cycling event yesterday. It was good to be able to clear a bit of space in my head.
One of the biggest problems with this book of mine is how to capture people's interest in the first place. It tackles the big questions of life but it doesn't really provide any simple answers. A description of what Earthdream is about is likely to deter most people from reading it. We tend to stick to the familiar. And I have to admit that I'm really no different. I gravitate towards familiar authors and subjects, picking books to read which align with my philosophy of life. With Earthdream providing a critique of our predominant religious, scientific and economic mythologies, I'm at risk of alienating just about everybody with this book! But that's not really true, especially in respect to science and religion, where I think I actually do a pretty good job of revealing the wonder in both, when stripped of their ideological trappings.
The strange thing is that I think most of us are aware, at some level, of the absurdity of our current situation. The metaphysical map we are offered by our culture does not provide for any kind of helpful pointer which says, "You are here". It's such a fundamental problem that we simply refuse to let it enter our conscious awareness. There is a kind of tacit agreement not to question it at all. This is what I seek to challenge, the complacency as much as anything else. It seems to me like it's quite a big deal this. Why is it that nobody seems to care very much? I do feel like I'm a lone voice in a very large and noisy crowd right now! It's not surprising perhaps that I've sat on my ideas for the last 20 years.
One of the biggest problems with this book of mine is how to capture people's interest in the first place. It tackles the big questions of life but it doesn't really provide any simple answers. A description of what Earthdream is about is likely to deter most people from reading it. We tend to stick to the familiar. And I have to admit that I'm really no different. I gravitate towards familiar authors and subjects, picking books to read which align with my philosophy of life. With Earthdream providing a critique of our predominant religious, scientific and economic mythologies, I'm at risk of alienating just about everybody with this book! But that's not really true, especially in respect to science and religion, where I think I actually do a pretty good job of revealing the wonder in both, when stripped of their ideological trappings.
The strange thing is that I think most of us are aware, at some level, of the absurdity of our current situation. The metaphysical map we are offered by our culture does not provide for any kind of helpful pointer which says, "You are here". It's such a fundamental problem that we simply refuse to let it enter our conscious awareness. There is a kind of tacit agreement not to question it at all. This is what I seek to challenge, the complacency as much as anything else. It seems to me like it's quite a big deal this. Why is it that nobody seems to care very much? I do feel like I'm a lone voice in a very large and noisy crowd right now! It's not surprising perhaps that I've sat on my ideas for the last 20 years.
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To know that I'm not alone is just what I need to hear right now. Thank you for that. I do have to learn how to use my voice, and I guess the most wonderful thing about the internet is that it gives a platform for even the quietest of voices to be heard. If the message is in resonance with its time, then I do believe it will build in volume to be potentially heard above all that general commotion. That must be the hope.
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To have no dream is to have no vision. And to have no vision is to have no future.
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I think the saying "Rome wasn't built in a day" fits your situation. Remember, sometimes it takes a lifetime to do an important job.
Don't dismiss the strength in your own voice among the crowd, draw from the intensity that resonates within you and make your voice resounding. You are not alone.