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10.09.2004
Sunday, October 10, 2004
Saw "I Love Huckabees" today. It's really absurd and a lot of laughs. It has me thinking that I shall become an existential detective. It's good to laugh, yes? There is far too little of it in my life. It is not an age for laughter. Has it ever been? I don't know if there has ever been an age for laughter, but there have been ages that have been better for it than this. How can we laugh with all the suffering and madness taking place in our world - and at a time when we are so capable of ending suffering and stopping madness? At least in the 15th century they didn't have a clue how. I don't know, but I know that we must. If all is seriousness and heaviness we will be of little use to anyone. Laughter restores us. Gives us the stamina for greater seriousness. So, in a starnge way, laughter may be one of the things that helps us end the suffering and the madness. If one cannot laugh, one can hardly develop the capacity to cry. You can't shut down one end of the emotional scale without shutting down the whole damned thing. And if we cannot cry, then all hope is lost. Tears are the most powerful motivator we have. So if lughter - and the tears of laughter - bring us the capacity for more tears of sorrow, then I am all for it.
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10.08.2004
Saturday, October 9, 2004
In the end, the truth always comes out. If some injustice is being done to you, have faith. The truth will out in the end. As sure as a river flows to the ocean the truth comes to the surface. You will be vindicated. It may not even be in this lifetime, but it will happen. Then again, it very well may be in this lifetime.
Whether it is or not, you have something that liars and frauds and make believe people will never know - the wisdom that comes from integrity, the peace that comes from being authentic to yourself, and the strength that comes from knowing. You can live without the approval of others. You can live with yourself even if you are the only one who knows. You may be frustrated at times, but you will never be like they - "gameshow hosts," as Sting would say - completely unable to live with yourself - and so therefore forced to construct an illusion of yourself that you can bear to look at in the morning, never ever knowing who you really truly are.
You have faced the good and the ugly in yourself. For this, you will be rewarded. In the end, the truth always comes out.
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Friday, October 8, 2004
The United States needs a new political party - not further left or further right - but above it all. We need a party of imagination. Who would you rather vote for - the Republican Party candidate, the Democratic Party candidate, or the Imagination Party candidate?
We need to develop a platform that expands everyone's most fantastic hopes and dreams - that speaks of and goes after broad possibilities across every field of endeavor - significant and exciting change in all the rusted branches of our government. New goals for the rapid cure of diseases. New goals to get the most exciting hydrogen, solar and electric cars out in the market in the next five years. The abolition of the IRS and a fairer, less wasteful tax code. The total re-invention of the public education system - one that helps to nurture people and identify their talents, instead of getting them to act the same as everyone else and regurgitate the same useless information. A complete government switch-over to Macs! The development, within the next five years, of a super-sonic aircraft that all the public can fly at commercially low rates that gets us from L.A. to Boston in an hour. An American commitment to the end of world hunger and the gloabl AIDS epidemic by the time the new supersonic aircraft is ready to make its next flight, so that no human being is denied the fruits of the new American imagination.
These are the things we need to be doing. We need not little tweaks to this boring governance. We need a revolution of imagination, hard work, spirit, fun, excitement, compassion, and energy. We need to come alive again.
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10.07.2004
Thursday, October 7, 2004
Saw "The Motorcycle Diaries" tonight. What a beautiful movie. Left me wondering whether it is noble or co-dependent to be a revolutionary, or whether it is both. Ultimately decided that it is both.
And what is it to have privilege and see the suffering of others and choose to do nothing about it? Is it denial or self-absorption or both? Both too, I think.
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Wednesday, October 6, 2004
Vice President Cheney was "not aware" of the high rate of mortality from AIDS among African-American women. He should have been. If the person who holds the second highest office in the land isn't aware of it, who the hell is supposed to be?
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10.05.2004
Tuesday, October 5, 2004
If I were elecetd President, I would make Burt Rutan the head of NASA, Steve Jobs the Secretary of Education, Deepak Chopra the Secretary of Health & Human Services, and Torie Osborn (Executive Director of the Liberty Hill Foundation) Secretary of Housing & Urban Development. I would make the wife of a disabled veteran the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Nelson Mandela for Secretary of State. Robert Kennedy Jr. for Secretary of the Interior. I would change the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of Peace, and ask Jimmy Carter to run it. Howard Schultz, the head of Starbucks, for Secretary of Commerce. Dean Kamen, inventor of the two-wheeled Segway for Secretary of Transportation. I would make a Native American head of the Department of Justice, because only one who has endured that much injustice can truly understand the meaning of its opposite. Bill Clinton for Secretary of Labor. The guy knows how to create jobs. Ben and Jerry for Secretary of Agriculture. The imagination of a President should show in the imagination they put into their team.
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10.03.2004
Monday, October 4, 2004
Last Wednesday I had the privilege of hosting the stage program for the first successful launch of Spaceship One in pursuit of the $10 million X PRIZE. That program is available for viewing on the X PRIZE website at www.XPRIZE.org - click on "Live Webcast." This morning at about 9:45 a.m. est Spaceship One will make its second attempt at the Prize. If it reaches an altitude of 62 miles - the beginning of space - where one can see the curvature of the earth, the blackness of space, and float in weightlessness, it will win the Prize. The Science Channle and CNN will cover the launch live.
The X Prize was founded by an amazing man named Peter Diamandis who has, for eight years, believed in and refused to give up on his dream of transforming the future of space travel. What is unique about Spaceship One is that it is privately built - no government funding whatsoever. The total cost of building the vehicle is estimated at around $25 million - a fraction of what it would have cost Boeing or NASA to build it. It's really the people's spaceship.
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Sunday, October 3, 2004
Go to www.xprize.org and click on "Live Webcast."
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Saturday, October 2,2004
Check out www.xprize.org and click on "Live Webcast."
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Friday, October 1, 2004
Check out www.xprize.org and click on "Live Webcast"
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