Why Wait?

I'm starting to see business not as competition but as the expression of mutual desires.

Sounds like new age hooey but it's actually true.

A sale isn't where confrontation or competition occurs, but where mutual desire can be established beyond the shadow of a doubt.

Everyone is on the same side--we all have things we have and things we want.

When two people communicate and establish a mutual desire--and establish enough trust to complete an exchange--a sale happens.

As Puritans, we've repressed our desires so that we believe business unholy--because, like a kiss, it leads to the expression of greater desires unless leashed and bound.

But the overwhelmingly loving and feeling-rich universe will not be thwarted. And putting a lid on our sexuality, creativity, finances--or anything else just makes them that much more valuable. And thus that much more likely to occur.

Like the Catholic church. Squash sex in your priests and you ensure that you will be dealing primarily with sex for years and years to come. Unhappily, of course, but that's all part of the process.

If we won't give ourselves what we want then we must atone for our belief that the universe is a repressed, unfriendly, dry and cold place. Because it's not and as long as we believe that we'll continue to make choices that don't bring us what we want.

And there's nothing else to learn but what we want. We can learn that by always getting it or by never getting it--it doesn't matter to the universe. But as soon as we start to sell out we start to ensure that we'll have a price to pay to buy back in.

Ain't nobody our mommy or daddy--not even our mommy or daddy once we're grown. We want to be autonomous and free and powerful. And many jobs, bosses, clients, mates, and kids (not to mention our real mommies and daddies) might not take that lying down.

So at some point we'll have to contradict them in deed, word or belief.

Both comfort and strife build the same thing--belief. If you can't feel it happy and comfey (goo goo ga ga), then you'll learn to feel it depressed and hurting. And then, like Adam and Eve, maybe you can realize what you had in the first place. And learn to take it and motherfucking bounce it before any painful clarification is necessary.

The universe is overwhelmingly energetically rich, plentiful, and loving. In terms of feelings especially. And if we don't feel that then we must ask ourselves what we have done our of lack of faith that has caused us to veer from the true path?

It's no coincidence that economic growth, personal freedom, human rights and sexual expression all follow the same general growth rate historically.

And that the most sexually frustrated countries are also among the most economically frustrated. Frustration is frustration.

(It also gives a fantastic glimpse of how much growth potential still remains for those of us in the "developed" West--cause ain't none of us getting actually fucked like we want. We just got the actual tvs, computer and porn--the simulations of fucking--we want.)

What we learn through every transaction--economic, emotional, sexual, friendly and energetic--is how to grow. What we want, that others want the same thing--and where we share values and where our tactics diverge.

And through every repression--well, repression doesn't actually exist, just like production doens't really exist. It's just another form of enjoyment, like production is another form of consumption.

That's why white people so kinky, yo.

They love repression. They get off on it.

They enjoy and relish it.

And god bless them, it's what they've given their lives to explore.

And it's a very, very valuable enjoyment.

Perhaps one of the most. It has allowed them--us--to eat like kings, drive cars, heat our homes and enjoy the cleanest water and some of the best health care in history.

It's not all there is--not in it's current form anyway--but it is very valuable. From a spiritual perspective as well.

What repression is fundamentally is keeping one's energy to one's self. The same thing monks and yogis do.

And this allows one to be of great service to one's self and others.

But one doesn't have to be chaste to keep one's energy to one's self. Not at all.

In fact, we can't go much further even trying. I'm not sure the Taoists knew this, but they sure developed the practice of cultivating intimacy while keeping to one's self. (Interesting that keeping to one's self sounds like a problem in the blown-wad West.)

The universe is an endlessly energetic place. This is a scientific fact. A constantly expanding place that is entirely made of energy.

(Energy itself doesn't seem to grow, but dark energy, which is more fundamental and likely makes up regular energy, does appear to--it remains constantly dispersed while the universe grows--thus it not only grows but it's growth is accelerating.)

The long and the short of this scientific fact is that eventually we'll have all the time, energy, stuff and resources we want.

And all the love, sex, feelings, focus, intellect, etc.

And--and this is a big and--this time may have already come!

That is, we may already have everything we need. Just like the new agers insist. (Even though they never really believe it. When pressed even many of the smartest among them will say that not everyone can do what they like every day and get paid for it. Fuck, some of them even think that new age preaching is more important and valuable than the art they crave. This, of course, is because content prices are fixed--so our economy can't support art at the level that accounting, lawyering and all the other stuff we're tired of is supported. Real estate prices grow at lawyer rates and all of a sudden half the art is angry and the other half is tired. The remaining, third half is hurried. The other forty seven halfs never even get executed. Because those who would execute them don't believe they could afford dental care or their kids on an artist's salary. And they're exactly right. Ain't none of us stupid--we all do the fucking math--and we all do it correctly. So we all know that in our current economy you cannot do what you want and succeed financially. Because literally desire does not pay.)

Anyway--this time may be past. And if it's not past, it's rapidly passing.

Just like technology--an expanding universe means that there's more to grow.

If it's 1000 whatevers today and growing at 1% per day, then tomorrow it's 1010 and growing at 1.1%!

And just like compound interest, this is going to bring us all very, very enjoyable retirements.

More so if we know this and invest energetically in what we believe in--that is our desires (also known as following your bliss)--but eventually universally, as a birthright.

The question to us all is do we want it now or do we want to wait?