Motivation

Why would one, in whatever spare time can be forged, choose to be a dissident? It's easy enough to become comfortably wealthy and to have job and wife and kids and car, to spend one's time conveniently distracted with pleasures between bouts of -- and let's be honest -- work that's not all that difficult and comes with frequent pauses, waiting for others?

The answer takes us to the duality, and singularity, of love and hate.

To love someone or something is to hate anything that would take it away; if you love your wife, you hate her death. If you love your land, you loathe its pollution. If you love your country, you detest its destruction. And if you love it all -- you love nature, you love your friends and family, you love your country -- what more is there to hate than a bad design which will lead it to degradation and ruin?

Dissident thinkers act like a child at play: when something strikes us as a good idea, we toy with it until we can see its effects. We avoid the things that hurt us or cause an end to the playtime. Our goal is to enhance our joy in life through the design of life, and we know that we cannot do this by having the most toys, an island unto ourselves. Dissidents act for the world because they enjoy it and want play to be as fruitful as possible.

This is the motivation for dissident thinkers, as opposed to the garden-variety "activist" who needs something to discuss at weekly bridge games or bars. Your average "activist" acts selfishly; they need an identity, a justification for their lives of incomplete success, or a reason to believe they have a soul. Your honest dissident thinker acts from love of existence itself, and hate of all that threatens it with destruction or lowered degrees of beauty.

When those of us who act for the CORRUPT organization undertake any task, whether as simple as posting a notice to forty message boards or as complex as a trash pickup, we act out of this dual love for life and hatred for its destruction. We are not doing this for ourselves or to make ourselves feel nifty, and for that reason we choose to be anonymous. We are concerned, intelligent people who succeed in this world but can see where its path leads, and we want to avert that disaster.

Many of you are unsure of whether or not to act, but this uncertainty takes several forms:

(a) Underconfidence - "I'm not sure I know how to do this or can do it."
(b) Individualism - "I'm not sure this will get me anything."
(c) Misdirection - "I'm not sure I understand, agree or am motivated."

All of these, when you boil them down with the sharp eye of philosophy, distill to underconfidence: people are measuring the "activist" task in terms of themselves, and therefore do not understand why to do it. You can overcome underconfidence by realizing you have or can build the skills you need, and that if you undertake these tasks not for yourself but for the world, or even more for the Idea of a better world, you will not have any such doubts.

When we encounter people who want to "be part of" CORRUPT organization often the first thing we notice is their fear of getting involved. Some are afraid, many are lazy, still others offer critique or excuses -- but all of these come down to their underconfidence because they have not recognized the principle of working for an Idea and not themselves.

Most people exist in this state of underconfidence, some because they are insane or deficient, but most through the passivity encouraged by individualistic materialist societies. If they overcome this, they will strengthen their bonds to the world despite fear of death and underconfidence, and will resurrect in themselves the clear-sight of childhood playtime by fixing their motivation.