Don’t follow the crowd
The only way to achieve something genuine is to not follow the crowd and come up with something creatively original. With that dramatically simple statement, I begin this article. The greatest dreamers who finally got “somewhere”, started out apparently crazy, “crazy” or worse and ended up being prophets of reality who won everything, even the invention and patent of the electric light bulb, the car, the telephone. cellular wireless and forever. beyond creativity, simple or complex.
So we all love to win, even the best and worst of us. However, who genuinely loves to pay all the creative costs for what they earn? That is why the very concept of cheating exists as a reality in most people’s minds. “Follow the crowd, steal what you can and get it ‘all’ fast and easy without the job” is the subliminal reality presented to all of us in society.
However, the genuine underlying reality still remains there. To win, you must ultimately go through the creator’s entire journey regardless of temporary disappointments to truly get the true objective. All deception leads to false leaks and disappointments that are permanent in that sense anyway. In that sense, I can honestly and objectively say that only the weakest people are true cheaters and the strongest people create value from scratch, regardless of what others, including cheaters, may do. Violent defeat always comes down to a shot or the first violently raised fist. Genuine triumph always comes down to creativity and rational self-defense from scratch in a genuinely functional way that creates and conserves rather than destroys and steals. In fact, initiating violence and destruction for profit is the ultimate form of deception and if we are destructive in that way, destruction will ultimately and genuinely end us.
No one is a winner if they cheat with the destructive essence of cheating and their full understanding. The real achievement is essentially being realistically creative, not trying to escape responsibility by stealing or cheating. So at the end of this article I quote one of my favorite Dan Penn / Wallace songs Daniel Pennington and Lincoln Wayne “Chips” Moman, “The Dark End Of The Street” with a comprehensive context that sets reality there for all to see. clearly as a wonderfully honest metaphor:
At the dark end of the street
That is where we always meet.
Hiding in the shadows where we don’t belong
Living in the dark to hide our evil.
You and me, at the dark end of the street
You and I.
I know that time is going to take its toll
We have to pay for the love that we stole
It’s a sin and we know it’s wrong
Oh but our love is still strong
Escape, to the dark end of the street
They will find us
They will find us
They’ll find us, oh someday
You and me, at the dark end of the street
You and I.
And when the time of day comes
And by chance we are both in the center
If we meet, just walk
Oh baby please don’t cry
Tonight we will meet
At the dark end of the street.