As someone who has his heads in the clouds a little too much, I happen to imagine quite often a future of amazing possibilities powered by the technology that allows this little blog of mine to exist. To me, the idea that we can one day skip the banks all together, achieve financial freedom, help charities (with accountability & transparency mind you), and exit the ugly rat race, keeps me engaged, enthused to participate in the sometimes conflictive trenches of ideological discourse.

I've come to grips with the fact that we can't effectively eliminate conflicts. Not from this platform and not from society as a whole. It seems to be innate to our very nature. However, I wonder if we can at least come together enough to identify the bigger enemies that are impeding our economic revolution and build from those commonalities first.

In other words, as participants of the new paradigm we could attempt to put traditional monolithic identifiers aside, while we build the foundations of true freedom.

One would think that a reasonable statement like this could resonate with everyone, but that seems to not be the case, as we can't really agree on the very definition of freedom sometimes. The truth is that the concept is subject of much debate, it's strapped with associations that seem to be carved out of religious texts, making the discussions as conflictive as debating religion and faith.

Even the Dictionary Fails us at times

And I'm comfortable admitting that. Languages are not static and concepts evolve with the use, misuse and abandonment of words. It takes but a minute to read some shakespearean English to understand what I mean.



However....

Does this mean that we should not try? Does this mean that the search for commonalities is a futile one? I happen to think that this is not the case. It simply can't be how we as a society choose to play the cards we have been dealt. And the main reason why I think we can overcome this challenge, has a lot to do with the abundance and speed of available information.

The very fact that I have the ability to sit down on a computer from the comfort of a home, and type this very blog entry proves without an inch of doubt, that the shift has already occurred. Information is available for those who seek, and as much as censorship tries to stay in the game, more and more it seems to fail on its regressive mission.

I'm not naive to say that tribalism won't make an appearance and do its number. The point I'm trying to make is that even standing from that perspective, coming from that angle, there is a bigger tribe that we might be failing to recognize. The human tribe that decided to tell the powers to be , "We are done playing the stupid game, we are taking back our freedom".

Maybe if we stand in that recognition, in that commonality, we don't have to move into the default action of "othering" our fellow humans, or worse dehumanizing cultures and ideologies that are different from our own.