Preliminaries & Introductions

[NOTE: These posts are an ongoing presentation, meant to be read beginning with the earliest and ending with the most recent. If not read in that order, there is a potential loss for the reader in an overall understanding of what is being presented. You have been warned.]

First, and foremost, we need to be real clear that I do NOT want to be President of the United States. I may be 63, but I’m not senile yet. There was a time in my life, when I was a lot younger and more naïve, that I thought about being President. Thank God many of us grow out of such foolishly extravagant thoughts.

Since I don’t want to be President, I therefore do NOT want you to vote for me. I’m certain that many of you are relieved to know that. If we already have a relationship, you do not have to feel the need to hide from me the fact that you are not going to vote for me. I sincerely do not want you to waste your vote. I do have some very specific feelings about whom I would recommend voting for on November 4, but I will save sharing that until a later day. After all, we have plenty of time before “pulling” the lever, “punching” the chad, “touching” the screen, or “writing” a checkmark or a name.

If I don’t want to be elected and I don’t want anyone to vote for me, then why am I running for President, one might ask. Fair question. I’m running, because if I did want the position and I was hoping that people would vote for me, I’d want to do it with integrity. By that, I mean that I would want to run upon the ideas and principles that I feel are fair and just for this country, and its relationship with the rest of the world. Since I have no desire to be elected, there is no reason for any lobbyists or other vested interests to try to persuade me to alter my views with promises of gifts and influence. I am beholden to no one but myself.

What that means is that I am not a Democrat, I am not a Republican, I am not a Communist, I am not a Socialist, I am not a Libertarian, I am not a Fascist, I am not a Green, although my blog background may be green. I am not even an American, at least not in the sense that many today have distorted that term. I was born as a United States citizen in Oklahoma. I have had an American flag flying at my house ever since that fateful day in 2001 when fear took over running this country. I fly the flag not because I’m “USA, USA, USA” given to emotional outbursts of feigned patriotism, but because I do believe in the country that flag represents, however great its faults, and particularly those faults of the most recent past. It is my intention here to put forth some ideas that can lead to new perspectives that might result in new solutions to many of our problems in the world today.

If you feel that you must put a label upon me, the one that I am most comfortable with is that I am a Synergeticist (pronounced sin-er-geta-cist). That is a term I coined back in the 1970’s that I have felt best describes who I am and what it is in my nature to do. The word comes from the root word “synergy,” which essentially means that the “whole is greater than the sum of its parts,” and the word “Synergetics,” which is the title of a book by R. Buckminster Fuller. The subtitle of that book is “Explorations In The Geometry Of Thinking.” With all that in mind, I have defined a Synergeticist as someone who is interested in anything and everything and who endeavors to figure out how it all fits together. You might wish to pause here and ponder the ramifications of what that means.

In the course of my life I have done a lot of observing, a lot of listening, a lot of thinking, a lot of arguing, a lot of wondering, and a lot of question asking. As a result, I have an extremely wide range of interests. And remember, part of my goal is to figure out how all of those varied interests fit together. During the next 7 weeks it is my desire to share with you, through this blog, my thoughts on such topics as the economy and economics, capitalism, religion, government, energy sources, healthcare, world relationships, history, our relationship to the universe, politics, the American dream, universal principles that could help us to more successfully survive and thrive on this planet, various sexual matters, and other current world realities. I may also delve into UFOs and some conspiracy theories, and other anomalies in our world of experience that too often get a short shrift and a bum’s rush. Hell, I may get wild and even talk about the political race that’s currently taking place in this country. But hear this. Between now and election day, I guarantee to expose this blog’s readers to new ideas that they have never considered before.

Now, just so we have this clear from the git-go. I’m doing this because I care, about the world, about my country, about my fellow citizens and about the other inhabitants of this extraordinary planet. I’m also doing it for money. Before you get all haughty and say, “see, I told you so,” be realistic and admit that most people are so damn penny-pinching and lazy that the thought of asking them to donate money to someone who is running for President, but doesn’t want to get elected, is really rather comical. Nevertheless, in days to come, I will post a link to Paypal just the same and periodically I will post a commercial blurb here soliciting financial support for underwriting my blogging endeavors. You get paid for what you do. One of the things that I do is to share ideas through writing and I have just as much right to get paid for what I do. In this electronic world, I can either place a specific charge upon what I am offering (God, that’s so antiquated), thereby severely limiting those who will be exposed to my expoundings, or I can post it for free and rely upon the good graces of my readers to rise up in spite of themselves and to the support of the universe to fill the coffers. So there. Only fair. Now, what’s next?