Alacrity & Dispatch

Our potential is limitless.

Every human has within them forces we’ve hardly begun to uncover, all surrounding, at our core, our ability and our very drive to create. We create the world around us, shaping it with our ideas and our actions and our perceptions and our connections.

The potential for an explosion of creation is all around us.

The internet contains within it the collection of human knowledge. Are you digging into it, past the amusing or cynical or shallow bits, past the disgusting and disheartening and cruel bits, into the wonders of human thought? People are creating—on their computers and in the world—and our ability to share, modify, and enhance has never been greater.

It is no longer necessary to trust the words of local experts in any field. Consult them, then take what they give you and dig in. Find out what’s really going on, who really said what, how it really works. Discover an easier, cheaper, healthier, smarter way to live your own life, and then turn your finding skills loose to help those around you. Even better, help those nowhere near you! Fund a project in Kenya. Share gardening tips with China. Spread the word of injustice in Syria. Open the eyes of your next door neighbor.

Keep finding and sharing and implementing and creating and inspiring. Now is the time for the collective knowledge of the world to be put to the test.

The answers to the world’s problems are going to be solved by creaters with internet connections. 

And every one of us is a creator with hidden potential.

aperfectillusion:

Step 1: Go someplace public with your laptop.

Step 2: Click HERE

Step 3: Press f11

Step 4: Start typing frantically.

Step 5: Make sure other people see your screen.

Step 6: ???????

Step 7: Profit

blua:

We were discussing homosexuality because of an allusion to it in the book we were reading, and several boys made comments such as, “That’s disgusting.” We got into the debate and eventually a boy admitted that he was terrified/disgusted when he was once sharing a taxi and the other male passenger made a pass at him.

The lightbulb went off. “Oh,” I said. “I get it. See, you are afraid, because for the first time in your life you have found yourself a victim of unwanted sexual advances by someone who has the physical ability to use force against you.” The boy nodded and shuddered visibly.

“But,” I continued. “As a woman, you learn to live with that from the time you are fourteen, and it never stops. We live with that fear every day of our lives. Every man walking through the parking garage the same time you are is either just a harmless stranger or a potential rapist. Every time.”

The girls in the room nodded, agreeing. The boys seemed genuinely shocked. 

“So think about that the next time you hit on a girl. Maybe, like you in the taxi, she doesn’t actually want you to.”Because this needs to be said until it never has to be said again.

thelittlekneesofbees:

To the first man, who I met by the Eiffel Tower my second week in Paris, when I didn’t know better.  Who took me out four times, who waved little red flags that I tried to ignore.  Like asking me outright if I was a virgin on the first date, like calling me five different pet names when I’d asked him not to throughout the second, like saying he’d heard that feminists were not real women during the third, like disappearing for a week and a half after the fourth.  Who, as it turns out, was not the bullet, but the careening fourteen-wheeler that I narrowly managed to dodge.  Who admitted that he hit the young woman that his mother was trying to force him to marry.  Who didn’t want to marry her because he believes in romantic love.  Who doesn’t see the contradiction in those two sentences.

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