Scenario planning

 I ran across the idea of scenario planning in my forties.  It blew me away.

The idea of scenario planning is to extrapolate the future based on current conditions and influences and adjusting them for a beneficial result.  I had been doing the same all of my life in a rather disorganized manner.

I guess having a name and description for what I was doing encouraged me.

Of course, what I was attempting was far more complicated than that.  I still had no confidence that what I was doing would lead anywhere but it was nice to have some confirmation and guidance on the general concept of comprehension and extrapolation.

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I was also just remembering a book I began to write in my thirties.  It was after my first divorce, while I was completely on my own and looking for some direction.  As I think back on it, it begins to stagger me.  It is so predictive as to stagger my mind.  I just don't know how much I want to get into it.

It was scifi based which is no big surprise.  The first book I ever read was Inside The Atom by Isaac Asimov.  I read it in 2nd grade.  It's not actually scifi but it opened the doors to scifi for me.

The book that I wrote (never published), which I'm sure none of the text remains (sadly for me), was, not surprisingly, about bad guys and, much like The Immortal One (never published but some of the strains remain on my computers), is about a good guy that had been around a very, very long time though his "host" changes, so to speak, when they die.  That one really staggers me because it ties in so well with reincarnation.  What if there is some remnant retained every time we reincarnate?  That is the only way I can explain this life.  The views I had as a kid were rather remarkable.  Unexplainable to me in any other way.

The premise in the lost book that just blew me away, because it follows a train of thought that I like a lot, is that this 'good guy' gained some powers and he was only able to do so because he was a good guy.  That is, essentially, the state the I am trying for humanity to attain.  Every man is a good guy because he is not torn apart from the time he reaches puberty.

Of course, now that I can look back on it in comparison to reality, it is not that accurate.  It is more accurate to say that everyone is able to become a good guy and, when he does, (I believe) humanity is going to gain some incredible powers, so to speak.  I'm sure the race that finally attains its humanity and sanity will consider those 'powers' no big deal.  

Keep in mind, it is never about the individual.  It is about the race of humanity.  That may break your heart.  At this point in time, it is healing mine.

Leadership

     I was just realizing another very distinctive point about what I am attempting to affect.

    This 'movement', if you wish to call it that, has no followers, just leaders.  More so, the only one anyone is leading is themselves.  I hope what I have written is accepted as stone cold acceptance of the facts of a sentient existence.  I ran across someone that mentioned that they didn't agree with everything I've said.  That's okay.  I'm not sure I agree with everything I've said.  Just the premise.  It will take awhile before we thrash through all of the complicated details that were caused by the inertia of remaining an animal for three millennia after we were not.

    As I wrote very early on, this is a groundswell movement.  The ones, of course, that have to get off their asses and do something is men.  Once it begins, once men finally begin to realize that they can love a woman, it won't stop until all men that are interested in women as lovers become such.  No man will have any desire to avoid learning how to love a woman once it becomes obvious that any man can do so.  

    So, the real fact is that men will lead themselves into their sentient state and, thereby, transform the human race into its sentient state.

    I've been hanging around too long already waiting to see it begin.