The Most Important Project
The Internet of Influencers, intellectuals, and floggers of all things is a crowded space. Everyone is busily looking for their thousand true fans. Regardless of what we are learning about or explaining to others, there is one thing we all have in common, we all drink from the same information trough.
We are using the Internet to research whatever we are interested in; in many cases, we subscribe to the same aggregators, email lists, YouTube channels, newsletters, etc. We probably have read the same books.
Some of us are better presenters, more exciting talent than others. Some of us are in it for the money, others for clicks, and many of us are still doing things online for its pure joy and adventure.
However, it is irksome when presenters become so full of themselves that they believe, repeatedly, that they have somehow scooped the rest of us. Most of the time, I hear people present things I have already read about or heard about from other sources. In many cases, months ago. Still, many people feel like because they are saying it, it's finally going to break. We all are biased towards our fame, whether our influence is genuinely significant or not. We are motivated to maintain our audience and grift audience share from others in the same space.
I am a follower of current events and very curious about many things. My curiosity doesn't make me unique — I'm simply that kind of person. It takes different people a certain amount of time to pay attention to a story or an event. By the time they catch up, they are often too late to call their reporting a scoop. They are simply parroting, albeit in their unique way, information that they have digested from older sources. Regurgitating info while thinking we are original is reasonably typical. I am not criticizing people for taking a stab at a subject.
We should, however, be humble and acknowledge our sources, not just the things we have recently looked at, but things that our predecessors uncovered months ago. We should admit to being influenced by trends in the culture, the zeitgeist, and even our prejudices. We are interdependently swimming in the same ocean of life. Very few of us will ever have an original idea or break a story that most people don't know about. We shouldn't get too enamored by taking credit for things.
When I find an excellent cause, I always hope the information market gets saturated with contributors who support the cause — this is how we can create universal validation and adoption of something good. It helps when the information is out there and unavoidable. I am not talking about propaganda, marketing material, or public relations. You know what I mean.
I would love it if all of my Internet Intellectuals encouraged people to support Daniel Schmachtenberger's Consilience Project. And no, I am not saying Daniel came up with this all by himself or even that the idea is his original idea. He always works with a team of amazing people and sources from everywhere any necessary support.
My father had a project like The Consilience Project back in the 1970s, "Catalyst Complex." Sometimes it takes too long for great things to take off.
In my ever so humble and unimportant opinion, The Consilience Project is the most critical initiative in the world today. I am hoping it catches on worldwide. I won't explain it here; please follow the links below and learn about it. We must learn how to make sense of our increasingly fast-paced, scientific, technological world culture and everything having to do with what it is and how it got this way. We need to make better sense of the word to make better decisions and have more and higher quality agency and sovereignty. If we don't, we will not make it much further into the future, and our quality of life will drastically diminish.
For what it's worth, Buliamti.
Jim Rutt Show
https://www.jimruttshow.com/currents-daniel-schmachtenberger/
The Consiliense Projet
