I won’t go into any CV about who I am. These posts are purely to take advantage of the unlimited parkland of modern communication – the internet. The final frontier of human consciousness.
Even though I arrive relatively late to this very established phenomenon, it is an overdue commitment to myself to convey my thoughts openly.
Having qualified in two seemingly incongruous areas – science and pr – to my uncalculated surprise, it was the latter that impressed more noticeably upon my perception of life.
Although when working within the public relations industry I was at odds with the negative manipulation that frequently arises from advertising and marketing, there remains and essential core to the sector that I cannot help but admire.
It relates to the basic need that each one of us requires as human beings – awareness.
We not only seek this awareness within ourselves but in others too. This fundamentally illustrates the human ‘condition’.
From years of performing on stage I came to realise one elementary truth about people – we all feel the same.
This truth however gets tossed about, struggling to survive in an ocean of conflicting opinions and ideals. Our experiences are all so personal and different that every individual perspective on a situation, even if experienced by many at a given moment, will be determined uniquely by that individual.
And so, it is for this reason that I inherently value the emergence of these subjective ‘forums’ of information.
This final frontier, which becomes increasingly jeopardised by control systems, is truly and explicitly – freedom of speech.
Another thing I find astounding is the speed at which we can now openly or anonymously communicate. It is almost inconceivable to grasp the ability to reach any place on this planet with ones awareness in an instant.
Strangers who may never actually meet in the physical realm are aware of each other to a tremendously intimate level by voicing unchecked thoughts, desires and opinions.
I will digress to a well known philosophy – if a branch breaks in the forest and no-one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
My unfailing response to this statement is and has always been:
If there are indeed 6.8 billion people inhabiting this planet, just because you haven’t met every one of them, does not mean they do not exist.
The internet is the forest where the breaking is the voice of the human branch.
There may be no-one who acknowledges my posts, but they will prevail regardless. From pen to paper, hand to keyboard, the words themselves have created their own awareness – a computational entity celebrating the freedom to offer a new perspective.
I will never ask you to agree or disagree, just to read and consider.
That is the key to our universal education: You, the jury, will decide – individually.