What do you want?
Because dreams are essential to create a life. Think about it. Meditate upon it.
Where are you getting your vision of what philosophers have commonly called, “the good life”?
We all receive a vision of what we want our life to be from somewhere. We are passed down a vision from our parents or a story we read when we were younger. We find teachers along the way who endow us with their wisdom for the journey. We hear about injustice and create counter-narratives to strive towards.
Throughout the lives of many who are privileged enough, we ask this question and we choose. We choose to pursue the vision we have crafted with everything in us. Or we choose to ignore the relentless pull of our dreams in favor of mediocrity or complacency. Right now, you’re choosing. Choosing to fight for what you believe or lie down in the face of resistance.
Many of us wake up one day and find a false vision painted for us by technology. We see our decisions and habits have formed us in a direction we do not want to go. Our life is not in line with the hope we once had. Our day is filled with reductive or downright harmful nonsense. The lull of technological innovation trends humanity toward comfort and inaction. We stall out as our machines throttle on.
In the midst of this realization, responses vary. Many allow resistance to continue to wash over them and dictate their choices. They see it continue to run their lives fully unaffected by the novel truth they once knew. Resistance becomes the song they sing with the constant refrains we all know too well (I won’t remind you).
The incredibly lucky among us, though, find people. They discover that to their left and their right are others who, in spite of resistance pounding on their door, wake up everyday for something. Whether it be a vision, a dependent, an injustice, or a wonder, they fight to bring their visions to life and bring others along for the ride.
If you find yourself as one of those who lucked out, who was truly blessed enough to have someone nearby clinging on for both of your dear lives, fight. Fight resistance because the dream is worth it.
Technology is resistance, people are dreams.
