Vast Reality

I’ve just (in the past week) finished completing at least 2 laps of every course in the game of Forza Motorsport 2.  What this means is that my recorded total “Hot Lap” time is accurate.  If you do not race a particular track, the quickest time recorded for that track is equal to the maximum time for any single lap (somewhere around 2h0m:00sec).  

My total time places me in 5,128th place of 2,096,564 players (as of today).  Bragging rights?  Eh, maybe not so much.  The reason I wanted to post this has more to do with the vehicle I used to record most of the quickest lap times.  The Ferrari F50GT.  This sexy car is already unbelievable in its “stock” form.  My slightly modded and painted version is below.  Have a look and tell me what you think.

Politics. 

The word itself sends chills down my spine.  Why is this?  Our current presidential election, for example, has brought about more seperation of the people of this country than I have ever seen.  I’ve heard countless arguments of the Democratic side and countless arguments of the Republican side, only to come back to the same conclusion each and every time.  No one is 100% correct.  No political official is operating strictly on solid religious beliefs.  Everyone hates the president that won and everyone loves him.  It’s absolutely incredible the way people dedicate so much time and energy into their associated elections, then simply fade into the background when it comes time to actually fulfill the duties they vowed to fulfill.  I’ve asked this question before: “What if the presidential candidates devoted as much time, money, and energy to the office they were elected to that they spent trying to get there?”  Can you imagine what kind of Commander in Chief we would have then? 

The division of our people is what scares me.  I see people get extremely angry, cursing and pointing fingers at the opposing body, stating, “I’m right, you’re wrong” and the like.  We’ll make excuses until our faces turn blue about how the other person is a scandal, a draft-dodger, a terrorist, and every other colorful adjective we can muster.  When and where do we draw the line and realize that WE are responsible?  When you vote, you are voting for a representative, not a face, not a Saint, not a priest, not an advertiser, not an idol, and certainly not a savior.  This country is in dire need of help, not outside help through loans, etcetera, but help from within.  We will come through our problems if and only if we produce the solidarity needed to accurately identify and attack our problems - seek and destroy, literally. 

I am not a politician and I do not know the appropriately specific strategies to eliminate our economic downturns and our corruption in governmental bodies.  What I am is an American citizen.  I do know what I need and what my friends and family need.  We need hope, but so much more, we need results.  We need change, but we don’t need drastic reformation.  We need a flame, but we don’t need a blaze.  We need action, but we don’t need hysteria.  We need a strong military, but we don’t need to bully.  What we need is a President.  We don’t need a hero.  The hero, we will soon come to painfully realize, is within.

An original design in Forza Motorsport 2 by HunterofVeritas.

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“For every thousand hacking away at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.” - Henry David Thoreau

Faults can always be found, yet never accurately placed on another.  Every attempt to accuse, to incriminate, and to blame is a solidification of the fact that the accusative party is in some partial or even whole fashion responsible and that their sole purpose in action is to thwart what is already concrete.  We must take responsibility for our own actions.  This is a precious behavioral value readily passed down from generation to generation, yet the current status of many prestigious adults resembles that of a child, unknowingly representing the mind that has not yet cultivated the idea of paying for one’s mistakes in order to learn.  True responsibility in humans will breed a healthy, personally and professionally successful, and truely happy society - one that thrives on its own inner strength and solidarity.  When one examines the opposite, the crumbling, unstable, jealous, unhappy, bitter society, one finds a world of hatred and distrust.  Paying millions of dollars in “bonuses” to top executives months before going bankrupt is a perfect example.  This is a business practice as crooked as a lightning bolt.  It shows that if someone cannot accept the fact that they have failed (especially in a catastrophic manner), then the power they once held was a facade and it wasn’t real enough to survive the mistakes that are inevitable in everyone’s life.  Continuing this example, the empire these weak people build around themselves is just as lacking in mortar between the bricks that enables the empire to thrive as they are lacking that mortar within themselves.  I honestly believe that there are many important things that enable people and the businesses and groups they represent to be invaluable contributors to the greater good; however the most important is a sense of wholehearted responsibility.  It is time to quit pissing away our God-given time quarrelling over petty things and attack that which matters most - securing our future through elimination of that which plagues us.