Are you drifted? Heading and bearing checks place!
99% of people come to America for its material wealth, and in the process get consumed by choosing to be a consumer. The media markets America as the place with the King Midas's Golden Touch. The effects of increased wealth are decreased health. Such Immigrants' merely come here to be a cog in the gear of the corporate machinery and thus enslave voluntarily, indeed. The "land of opportunity" is for those who are makers and shakers. For those who are creators. For those who are progenitors, and at the frontiers of the new: inventions, discoveries, explorations, adventures, (idea).
America Is Indeed An Exotic Idea spotlights the true bearings of what it means to be an American!
Some are born with the idea, some inherit it, some acquire it, some claim it, everyone wishes it, and it is latent in just a few! If you are in America, it is a misnomer and a superficial claim. If America is in you, you are the one. As America is virtually synonymous with the land as the continent. But, America is about an exotic idea, and just this land happens to be blessed, that citizenry across comes here to partake; but, it is not about the geography, it is about the enduring, free, enterprising, focused, human spirit. A decade plus score years ago I aptly read in a pharmaceutical ad half way across the globe that showed a valiant lion just sitting there posing for a photographer (for the wary mind this was before the digital age), rather intently, "What sets us apart from the other forms of life? Creativity!" It proclaimed.
America is not about some United States, but it is about a state of the mind that is at once about the adventure, about the enterprise, about the imagination, about the originality, about the understanding of the human spirit.
I can't. I don't. I won't. If you're a Seeker of the wisdom, the truth, the knowledge beyond the imposed consumerism on you (as you must be a "user" part of the revenue web here in the most capacity), then you're just one of the few people with America in you. If you're a Follower of the world, the things, the knuckles (as you cannot be a chooser by being a giver, a maker, a part of the revenue web here in the most capacity), you're just one of the many people in America.
Do not be a preposterous, presumptuous people by being merely in America. This leads to complacency and instead of discovering and inventing ourselves, we keep stumbling upon others discoveries and inventions and lose ourselves. Or we lose America in us by merely being in America. The consumerism force is very powerful that diminishes and extincts an inherent appetite for creativity and originality. Read it this way, if you get a ready made meal, when will you learn to cook? To "cook" one must eliminate recipe cooking as that is following.
Figure it out. Be a problem solver. If we do not accept what is given to us and chose to be a giver, a maker, we then have a nice problem at hand and in the head to solve. Limited intake certainly for the creative people outgives, outtakes, in the lots.
Entrepreneurship is America. Working for ourself, creating a market value for ourself, selling our ideas, our actions, our take of and on the things from the yesteryears by giving to the world our own brand as in making from nothing, or rebrand as in remaking from something.
Dream to be independent. Find our mettle, our mirth, our worth; interact with nature. Define who we are. Start by designating the radius of our reach and expand the sphere of our significance. And infinite our influence.
Approach. Brief. Collect. Deliver. Expect fun going hitherto impeccably.
More soon.
Makarand Bidwai