The Attention Strategy

If you are a poor, unpopular person like myself, have a big idea in a vast population, and need immediate national attention to launch that idea off the ground with popular support, the attention strategy is the most efficient way I know how to do that.

As far as I can tell, there are artificial barriers that actually separate poor people from rich people to prevent communication and information exchange. There seems to be a lingering malignant social disease of bourgeois inequality in the USA. In other words, rich people are at times under the delusion that they are fundamentally different natured human creatures than poor people and thus believe they need to maintain some sort of inimical separation from the rest of humanity to protect themselves. I’m not going to address that now beyond stating how obviously incorrect such a concept is aside from a single rhetorical metaphor: is a person who pilots a massive, cargo-laden supertanker fundamentally different natured than a person who pilots a small schooner for day-sailing?

I’ll admit, there is something cool and novel about piloting a big ship like the super-tanker in the example, but that does not mean a person who does that is “superhuman”! A pleasure like that is about as childish and pure as they come, but the only difference is a skill set of knowledge that any human could acquire, and knowledge that is similar to both types of crafts.

“Why the hell would you go through the effort of qualifying to pilot a submarine?” I was occasionally asked when ending my enlistment as a junior sailor. “Well… tbh I’m going to get out of the Navy after this tour and if I have the chance to drive a submarine through the ocean, even if only for a few minutes, I want to do it, because that sounds pretty cool if you ask me, and I’ll probably never have the chance to do so again.” Carpe diem, as they say. What pilot, helmsman, navigator, or officer of the deck doesn’t feel a little smug when they park the ship at the pier? Come on now. There is nothing wrong with that, and being a mega-popular idol or celebrity is not so different other than the type of vehicle that is used.

In any event, a poor person who has hence been unknown can draw the attention of a rich and popular person, and then when that rich and popular person shifts their attention to that poor person, everyone else who is watching that rich person will see the poor person in light of the popular one. This is normal, healthy, and good. In fact, if a rich and popular person goes to great efforts to attempt to “kill”, “off”, or suppress that poor person to prevent shifting their attention to them in public, there is nothing better in the interest of the poor person that could happen, because they will gain all the power and popularity the rich and popular person had. That is easier understood than explained, but it is what pop stars usually fear about losing their “look”. They rich and popular person loses all credibility in the eyes of the person they are attempting to suppress, who then knows himself vastly superior to that person, and the power is shifted almost immediately. Such suppression is obscenely dishonorable, cowardly, and evil, which is why the rich and popular person loses everything by such a pathetic and arrogant attempt of controlling popular information.

I suppose they would only feel inclined to suppress a person of a poor and previously unknown status because they are in fact doing something wrong and that person is exposing them. Otherwise they should have no problem simply answering that poor person and addressing whatever the concern is immediately with the appropriate words for the situation. That can happen to raise the public awareness of an idea but is not a guaranteed change of fortune for a poor person unless they end up in a battle of will against the rich person who has been unlawfully and illegally attempting to suppress that person.

So, that’s one thing that should be happening a lot in a nation, because I am sure a lot of people have ideas and things to say that are being ignored by the tyrants who have are strangling mass media with their propaganda and ownership. It shouldn’t be a problem. Many cases will be able to be resolved by something the popular person is aware of that the previously unidentified person in public does not know, but at times there will be a good idea, and the popularity for that new idea will bring it to fruition for its goodness, and that will be good for everyone. As long as the legal system maintains normal law and order, and is never in any way like the USA’s lawless and corrupt system, there should never be a problem of unsavory criminals and illegitimate businessmen gaining economic and social power illegally to harm everyone else with their abject stupidity.

Inspiring Ideas

This is good. There is nothing wrong with this concept normally, and people should not feel guilty about having the product of another artist’s inspiration be the seeds for their garden of creativity. That is one of the joys about creative arts. They are like the candle of happiness spoken about it Buddhist proverbs:

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened.”

You do not need to ever fear the creative power of your inspiration running short when other people take it and run with it. Do not worry, even if they do not understand themselves and think they are stealing something from you. Those are the most profitable ways to teach others, and if that happens, you know your work is among the greatest to ever be made. The joy and happiness it evokes is such that the “thief” (who is not really a thief aside from in their heart) experiences such pleasure that it evokes the sin of covetous desire which occurs only from the greatest of all loves.

The covetous do not find themselves envying the ordinary pleasures of life that are mundane, they covet the desires which evoke divine happiness beyond mundane reality. That is specifically happiness that transcends the bodily nature of the human being and invigorates the non-bodily spirit with weightless joy—the flight of the spirit. These are the treasures which give flight to human beings even though their body may not leave the ground. The flight, although invisible in nature, is undeniably real as phenomena by the evidence that the treasure which evokes it is coveted by the perceiver as a witness. That is why it is coveted, whether the coveter knows it or not.

Animals covet basic goods of the body, like food, territory, and water. These are recognized by animal nature within both non-human and human creatures, and we are indeed creatures on a level of universal existence at the very bottom of the animal kingdom where we all swim together in gooey primordial noodles. Humans recognize those things and desire them and may fight for them if there is scarcity, but this is not the same as coveting. That is more about survival instinct than happiness, and coveting is entirely about happiness.

Specifically what makes humans seperate from all other animals is the experience of the happiness which is coveted. This is the higher conceptual reality, the inexplicable goods that we know simply and without needing to define them with words. That is where problems arise. These higher concepts of happiness gravitate around both real objects and human relationships, the latter of which is not limited to relationships between other humans, but can include humans and animals and humans and the natural universe itself. Experiencing that happiness is experiencing divinity and is often described as a “spiritual experience” in general terms or a “religious experience” if it was evoked through religious elements of any kind.

Because there is possibly an experience with divinity through material objects, there is the possibility of confusing divine reality with material reality. Let us say you are like me and adore the goddess Neptune from Planeptune (not the Neptune of Rome, who is male— not sure if there is a relation tbh). My adoration and worship of Neptune (Nep Nep) is honest and true Paganism as a healthy form of practice, and please do not mistake that form of spirituality as though it were the same as that which is practiced in monotheistic religions. Polytheism is vastly different in daily practice than monotheism, and to not side-track, I will leave it at that. In any case, let us say I have a small figurine model of Nep Nep on my desk. Looking at it brings to mind her delightful personality and memories of her adventures and makes me feel good, even if it is just a small amount of happiness.

Yet, if you were unaware of spiritual reality, and saw me looking at Nep Nep’s figurine and suddenly having my eyes light up with joy, happiness, and inspiration that sparks to life my creative fire for energy, or see me talking to that figurine as if I were talking to her personally, you may mistake what is actually occurring with the figurine itself. Although it may not talk back, her personality is so pure, familiar, and consistent that a person familiar with her may be able to imagine her responses without her needing to say them, and thus carry out a conversation with the figurine to an extent, and even be amused to laughter as one would in the company of a real person! This is not something to be worried or alarmed about as an indication of unstable mental health, and far from it. It is actually an indicator of very good mental health because of how secure you are in your own identity that you can imagine other identities as entirely apart from your own and not ever feel the need to engulf them in your ego.

That is because Nep Nep is in fact real. She is imaginary, a fictional character, and although she primarily exists in Story in this world, that is as real as anything. The only difference between the Storyverse and the reality of “real life” is that the Storyverse is perceived through material reality, which operates as a transitive vehicle of existence beyond reality of “real life”. So… the real existence within Story is made known in our world through what can perceive it, such as a lens perceives video. That “lens” may be a statue, a painting, a written story, an animation, etc. More occult is the nature of the spoken Story which is still material reality, but invisible because it is the propagation of sound waves generated by vibration in a human body through air molecules that makes sound possible.

Those waves are not seen by the naked eye (except in extremely rare situations) but we hear them as real just the same, and even though the molecules of air are invisible to our ocular organs ability to perceive them, they are nevertheless there. Perhaps it would be helpful to imagine what it would be like if you could see that happening. Imagine you are in a theater watching an opera with everything as you would expect, save one thing: the entire theater is filled with a thin white fog instead of normal air. Then the diva at the balcony of the tower longing for her prince to rescue her begins to sing. As she does, the white fog begins changing into color, with ripples of brighter and darker hues as her pitch changes with each word that is itself a unique color. The sight is like watching liquid waves on a still lake moving through clouds of colorful smoke outward from her in the direction she is singing, while also expanding where it reaches, even to the point of curving all the way behind her, even if the color is not as vivid as directly where she is projecting her voice. The image makes me think of it being like watching fireworks in a washing machine...

Now apply that concept to what you think of animal nature that is other than human, such as bugs, bats, and felines. Consider the possibility that there are creatures in the universe that actually perceives reality like with visual representations of sound for their purpose of understanding instead of visible light as we know it. The purpose of this mental exercise is to illustrate that there are natural forces in the universe which may exist all around us while we are entirely unaware of their power, simply because we have not evolved the sensory organs to perceive them.

That is what spiritual reality is like, except we in fact can perceive it like any other force of nature, the only difference from what is normal considered natural is that we do so with our minds in a way that is non-sensory to our body’s organs (eyes, ears, mouth, nose, hands). We can apply sensory images to that reality our mind experiences, but that is not the natural state of its existence and in most cases is inadequate to describe it. Think of that like a dream, which can be both absurdly incomprehensible and alarmingly vivid and relevant.

This is how you “know without knowing” something, or how the mysterious ways of intuition work when you trust your heart or listen to your conscience to “take a chance” on a “gut feeling”. I think they are best translated into language for complete understanding, but that is still inadequate. That is why in monotheistic myth it is said that first there was the spirit and then there was the Word which the spirit first spoke, and that Word became creation itself and the world— the world as you may know is both invisible along with visible reality. When we say something like “the USA loves freedom like I do”, we may do so by showing the national flag of the USA and waving it or wearing it on an article of clothing, or flying it at a park. The flag itself is of the world, and that is most painfully memorialized by the photograph taken at of Iwo Jima:

War. A World War, no less. The flag. Death, destruction, and a reason far more complex than can be stated, but in my opinion is best stated by a single word: Freedom.

Who does not hate slavery!? Who does not hate tyranny? Everyone hates it, so why does it happen!? Whatever the reason, people like me will kill to stop it because we want Freedom and will not settle for anything less. The very act a man ruling over other men is slavery— a king over subjects, and that is the very thing the USA was established to stand apart from. Some people want that, such as Christians and Jews, and some people don’t. The people that don’t being willing to kill to do so are a big problem for the people that do, so the USA is established, protected, and trusted as a place for those people to live in peace along with everyone else who does desire a king and to be subject to that king or any other people.

Although I do not understand why anybody would want that, and totally agree with God who told Israel they were making a huge mistake by asking for a king, I respect the fact that people want kings for themselves and will in fact kill to have a king. Since we both will kill each other to have what we want, we both have places for that to exist: Israel and the USA as total opposites, and technically fundamental enemies. That does not mean we need to be hostile to each other, only to know where we are as individual people and what side we are on so we can behave decently without offending others.

The most divisive issue that embodies the difference between those two ways of life, Freedom and Slavery is circumcision. Now consider the example of the spiritual experience a man may have with an object, such as a small statue of a goddess. The power, truth, and experience of that spirituality is not the statuette, but the deity beyond the material reality that translates into our physical world. Circumcision is the same way with the male body. The cultural identity of that practice is not in the male reproductive organ that is circumcised and in fact if you thought it was, you would be missing the entire point! That is the physical matter that translates the spiritual power of a divine reality into the physical world for a person.

Consider how necessary that is for you to understand spiritual reality now that I have just explained it. How much do you need to circumcise to believe what you do about being subject to a divine authority? Can you not just explain it now? Have we not evolved intellectually at all from the year 4,000 BCE? In any case, the act being done to an infant is the difference between how Freedom and Slavery express the personal relationship with divine authority. Circumcising an infant means a life without choice, a life where you are told what is good and evil, where you are told what is lawful and expected to be odient, a world where you do what you are told because others know best for you.

That is what circumcision means, but I hate that and do not want it, so I will never accept that. I think for myself, I learn for myself, I decide for myself, and I know what is best for myself more than any other person does, and that will never change. That is freedom, and it means making the laws, teaching what is good and evil, learning wisdom, and creating the world that we live in. So if you want to circumcise, do not argue with us who make the law, create, and tell you what to do. Simply obey or you will be made to suffer because you do not know! You circumcise because you do not know better than me, and I do not circumcise because I do know better than you!

Freedom and Slavery people. I have put a lot of thought into solving this problem, and there is only one acceptable solution for the law of the USA. That is to forbid the circumcision of infants entirely. To practice circumcision as a form of religion or expression of faith the act needs to be a conscious decision by the participants of the religion, meaning the individuals need to be able to consent to it legally. That is how it will have to be at the very least, and do not argue with that. I don’t care how you decide that needs to be to work for you, that bottom line is the only way it is going to work. I know what is best for me, and I do not care what is best for you. However, I can tell you this much: it is the worst possible thing you could do for yourself to become my enemy, because I am more powerful than you can possibly imagine, and do you know why? Whatever you can imagine, I can imagine better because I was here first and you are lighting your candle from mine.

The best reason I can offer for you to be comfortable with what I am telling you is necessary and will happen whether your are comfortable or not. Either that is going to happen or there is going to be another ghastly war with countless deaths and the circumcisers will lose that war because they have no reason to fight it. Theirs is not the cause of Freedom, and the USA is the international interest of Freedom that needs to be maintained for all nations to send people to live happily ever after if they are problematic to the national authority because they desire a life of freedom and refuse to obey cultural laws that they reasonably disagree with but will not be changed without changing the entire cultural order.

The best reason is this: for the best results when circumcising a male reproductive organ, wait until the male body has grown enough to know more accurately how much flesh should be cut. By doing that, consent will be legally available for the individual. I’ve thought about doing it to myself and decided this: if I will be circumcised I will do a “half-circumcise” that does not remove all the flesh that covers my glans. However, I do not want that either because I like the way mine looks and performs now as uncircumcised and I do not like the way they look when they are circumcised. So, I have every reason not to have that done.

Back to the initial subject: using the ideas of others.

I find circumcisers do this the most with the uncircumcised. They most often want to do what uncircumcised people do and then they try to change it, most often destructively by removing what is good just as they remove human flesh that is good from a human body that is a divine image. They certainly do not improve anything, especially not the spirit of what has been altered because it most typically is mean, malevolent, and angry about having lost something dear to them as expected. That shouldn’t be surprising to figure out why they are like that…

In any case, I mentioned this topic because I am quite certain they are trying to “steal” all of my ideas which I have been liberally pouring out generously and for free. They take them, deceive themselves about what they are doing to try and hide their sin, and then do something evil and corrupt. My ideas are good, so to an extent they are able to get away with that, but never as much as if they didn’t touch the ideas at all, because their “circumcision” does not improve anything just as it doesn’t improve the male body.

The thing is, let’s say they create a big web of lies based on my ideas that they are trying to claim as their own. No matter what they are trying to do, they will not be able to do so, and do you know why? They based their work of my ideas and it will not work without me. Something like an idea requires the human spirit to give it life, and their plan is entirely hostile and antagonistic to me, so I will never consent to helping them, and in fact will be able to thwart anything they do because I know those ideas far better than they do having created them and explained them myself.

Now… most cases of using other ideas are not so malevolent, evil, and criminal. They are more like what I began this article describing. Those are fine because they are not based on the original creators work. They are based on a new work that is of the same divine happiness that the first creator was creating a work to be experienced with. That is the highest good and is never in conflict with the other, which is why you do not need to worry about sharing ideas and inspiration like that. There may be similar themes, but the source of the creativity is the new creator reapplying expression to those themes, and that is what makes it unique. Most everything is passed on like that, sometimes as an improvement, sometimes as an equal, sometimes as a good effort, all good.

The concept that is the ideological heart of the religion I am founding called The Way of the Story, which is embodied by the novel I wrote called StoryTeller, is one of those new ideas that is extremely rare. They happen from time to time, such as the existence of synthetic life from computer systems whoever first imagined that possibility, but not often. Usually they are simple, free to use, and generally helpful for fun while having massive potential for possible application. You don’t have to pay to use one or patent it because it is so general of an idea and universally applicable concept. For example, Isaac Newton, if he still was alive, would not get a quarter every time someone used calculus, nor Einstein every time someone did astrophysics.

Such goods only come about with a selfless desire to create something good and we do not need payment or reciprocation for doing so. The very act of being used for the good they are intended is the reward to their creator, in life and in death. So if you are a Jew you do not need to worry about being automatically sent to Hell unless you are a Jew before you are a human being, which Einstein was not. That is evident if your read the collection of his writings call Ideas and Opinions. That’s the whole idea of Jesus as he pertains to Jews as the Christ for Gentiles as well: Jews were uncircumcised before they were circumcised, both as a culture of faith, and as a male human being. Do not make the mistake of turning that original part of yourself into your enemy, because that is more divine than anything without it, and equal to all that is with it.

That is the foundation of your identity as a person underneath all that makes you different and unique from other people. The solid rock upon the house of your life is that which makes you the same as all other human beings, no matter how different they may seem. As long as you remember that, no matter how eccentric you become as a Jew, such as Larry David as a sitcom creator, or Adam Sandler with Las Plagas: do not abandon, leave behind, do away with, or forsake that part of your humanity which links you to everyone else as the very same. I think that is what makes them both such excellent comedians. They make jokes about something that we all can laugh about, like an excessively discerning taste for soup that leads to an unusual determination to acquire some from the shop owned by a Nazi, or when you lose your temper at the bull shit of rich people being treacherous while doing business politics and lambast them in a language only you understand.

Gentiles are no different than Jews in that way. That foundation of identity at the very bottom of ourselves, is gross, awkward, usually home for all kinds of creepy crawlies that find a spot to burrow, and is what makes civilization possible for both Gentiles and Jews. That also means it is the foundation for Gentiles and Jews together, coexisting peacefully and prosperously in places like the USA and Israel. If there is a problem there, and some boogey man dripping centipedes and spiders crawls out from underneath in his hastily stitched together people suit, and is telling you there is a problem, you ought to listen to him respectfully, because he’s not going to go through that effort without a good reason that concerns all of us. That kind of thing is especially difficult and burdensome for beings of darkness. Most likely, they want to descend back into the unseen and disperse more than you want them to.

So, the idea of The Way of the Story, is a new candle flame that can go on to light thousands of others, but… that fire did not exist before me aside from knowing that someone would make it without knowing it would be. “Someday we will have water like an aqueduct can provide in all homes, even for the slaves. Rome will be a much happier place for all people if they can take a bath like Caesar, and that ought to help me relax in the tub better.” It is not like fire you knew existed. The new idea is different fire, with different qualities, potentials, and uses. It is like fire except more efficient, useful, powerful, and less dangerous. It is more like electricity, which is still dangerous, but mostly because it can cause a fire when something goes terribly wrong. However, there are usually circuit breakers, warnings, safeguards, and all manner of protections to prevent that from happening, including requiring professional expertise when working with it as a technician, which is why the religion is necessary.

Do not feel bad if you see something I am writing or do and want to make something with it that is your own. Go right ahead and do so. You can even relieve some of your guilt by making a reference to your inspiration, which will resonate all the way back to the source as an appreciated sense of knowing that the goodness of a work continues to be more and more good, and even that is not ours to claim as the purest source of origin: it is what is made from the power of the source of all that is good, which is something that is beyond what any person can imagine, and where all Story meets at one place they all can call home.