Submitted by Brett Stevens on Mon, 11/05/2007 - 16:23.
This is just a reminder from the department of reality: your internet ego and your opinions don't mean a damn thing until you apply them. Our editor, Alex, and I were conversing today and he mentioned that very few people have taken advantage of the simple tasks we've set out to help make a change.
Yet they're on our forums and emailing in to us, each with his or her own suggestions about how we can improve, or they want to talk about how screwed up the world is.
Reality flash: we know. And you're doing nothing. And your opinions are not unique, nor are they important if you're not going to act on them. You might be feeling like you sound cooler than your buddies back home, or at the local practice space, but without you acting to make something change, you're just hot air.
We have since the inception of this site worked hard to find ways we can change the current situation. Why? Because we're not a commiseration group, and we're not here to whine and then do nothing. That's wholly impotent, pretentious and annoying. Most of what we do is write, but that's what our goal is: to unite others around some ideas, and to make the experience involved in understanding those ideas into a real emotion for people, a part of life. We want them to be there and see why we do what we do.
You have literally two options:
1. Contribute and work for something that might help.
2. Or, you can do something ineffective. We don't need another blog that fifty people a month visit to spread the word -- your blog is garbage. We don't need another coffeehouse superstar who reaches fifteen people a month. We don't need another person rambling on forums about how they've figured out the answer and everyone else is a shithead.
You ain't shit until you do something. Your little bullshit activities that amount to nothing are just personal pretense, you pretending to be important when you're not. You might want to come onboard our site, and read, and learn, and we have no objection to that. But when you do nothing when you know what the truth is, well, that's cowardice and laziness, and you deserve whatever fate this world throws out you.
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How about some action?
Does Corrupt carry out any action outside of the ego web?
Words are weapons.
"Do I write out of love to men?
No, I write because I want to procure for my thoughts an existence in the world; and, even if I foresaw that these thoughts would deprive you of your rest and your peace, even if I saw the bloodiest wars and the fall of many generations springing up from this seed of thought — I would nevertheless scatter it.
Do with it what you will and can, that is your affair and does not trouble me.
You will perhaps have only trouble, combat, and death from it, very few will draw joy from it.
If your weal lay at my heart, I should act as the church did in withholding the Bible from the laity, or Christian governments, which make it a sacred duty for themselves to 'protect the common people from bad books'.
But not only not for your sake, not even for truth's sake either do I speak out what I think. No —
I sing as the bird sings
That on the bough alights;
The song that from me springs
Is pay that well requites
I sing because — I am a singer. But I use you for it because I — need ears"
Tasks
Darren - Is not the spread of good ideas the most essential of tasks? Are not capable writers the fundamental tools for the proliferation of these ideas? The more people putting their minds to paper (or whatever) is obviously superior to the same few people writing about the usual subjects. Look at the conditions of our present writers and their work: Alex delivers consistent and pragmatic updates on current events and the status of society, and then develops a logical prognosis for them. Viktoria presents to us values of familial tradition, and Brett gives his own direct and harsh (which, evidently, often makes the truth even more visible) analyses on similar subjects, et cetera. Therefore, is it not clear that the more original opinions (and their respective suitability to certain subjects) found on this site the better? The old and tried adage "two heads are better than one" is apparent in this scenario.
I would most certainly appreciate more writers with proficiency, in addition to the obvious abilities of those already here, as the task of spreading our ideals, and the competence of making them readily understood, is the most important.
Didn't see this story until
Didn't see this story until I saw the recent comments -
I agree with the aims of this website. However, the whole guilt manipulation of people who don't participate in the way you want them to is just silly and counterproductive.
You don't need more writers and designers - a couple of prolific writers can provide all the content you need. A good political organization (which is what Corrupt is, ultimately) has a division of labor. Where is that here? Many of us want a place suited to our abilities, but instead we get insulted because we don't fit into the paradigm that is laid out for us by those who declare us posers/bullshiters/etc.
I have suggestions, but it appears they aren't very welcome by the tone of the article, so I'm leaving it at that.
Stop the drama
1) If you've ever run an organization and lots of people have signed up for projects, and then it turns out 99% can barely wipe their own ass, you'd be pretty irritated as well. We don't impose guilt on people but we mock pretense. If you're not one of the posers, don't feel guilty. Playing Jesus isn't popular here because we only care about what's effective.
2) Wrong, we DO need more writers and designers; believe it or not but it requires a lot of effort and time to publish new (quality) content each week when you're only a few writers - and don't get me started on the designs..
We need all help we can get; anyone saying otherwise clearly hasn't understood our goal.
3) We haven't ignored any of your past suggestions. If they're creative and productive, write in or please be quiet.
Our plan
Changing a society isn't done over a night. If that was the case, we'd never see any stability in any kind of society.
We aim for a long-term reform, as outlined in our plan. It's up to you if you are willing to help us or just want to pose.
But, except writing, what do
But, except writing, what do _you_ do, exactly?