Will you invest in what does not exist?

 by  Shaun Lawton 

   Will you invest in the future?  Ask yourself this question, over and over, every day while you go to work, while you punch the clock, while you offer up 36% of your waking life to the company you work for, while multi-billion dollar corporations are already locked in to the emergent and slowly burgeoning AI/Robotics industry, shaping and paving the way forward to a new global economy set for the 21st century.  Remember:  the future will always remain at least one day out of reach, when you look at it from a certain limited perspective. 

    So start looking at it from another perspective, start thinking outside the box of time, and realize you are here now, because you've always been here now, and may easily remain here tomorrow, despite this framework which states there's no such thing as the future.  Perhaps the future isn't the only thing that there's no such thing as.  Perhaps there's no such thing as everything we once believed in. 

    Welcome to the center of this far beyond hurricane force condition known as reality.  A reality we have all been born into, and awaken by degrees from within the supernal eye of this storm of circumstance.  We all share this one irrefutable condition, which remains being alive at the mercy of powerful cosmic elements we can only begin speculating about, yet have no real authentic proof exist, per se. I'm referring to the immense black hole theorized to be at the center of our galaxy, but which we could just as easily already be trapped within the rim of, fated to live out the totality of our natural lifespans supported by a process we would deem monstrous should we ever be granted the privilege of glimpsing even a fraction of it's scale.  What keeps us alive in this world besides the air we breathe, the oxygen we ventilate into our lungs and process into our bloodstream to be carried to our tissues and extremities, eliminating the Carbon dioxide and granting us the autonomy to move about within the life-giving atmosphere of our planet, to commit our daily activities?  

   Many have come to enshrine their answer to this question with "God," and all manner of religious iconographies and explanations, but one thing remains certain in our swiftly evolving world of intermixed dogma and poetry.  And that remains the fact that no explanation is necessary, so long as we embrace the great mystery of our existence with something that can only be described as being at least parallel, if not perfectly analogous to having faith the total equilibrium of our cosmos balances out for each one of us lucky enough to have been born into this staggering and chaotically ordered world. 

   Will you invest in what does not seem to exist?  This has been a private service announcement intended to stimulate thought within your own consciousness. Take from it what you will.  For you have already been invested in the greater scheme of things, whether you're aware of it or not.  Perhaps it's time to shift our gears of thinking outside the box, and into the fast lane of the rapidly evolving technological singularity we wake up to every day and take for granted.  As the divide between the super wealthy and the forsaken and impoverished yawns open and apart like a great, corroded smile with missing and rotted teeth, think hard about what opportunities might be offered in the complicated game of making money in this world.

The one thing which remains clear to me at this time is that our options for making a living have only increased, leaving the potential of 9 to 5s a mere nostalgic selection on this wide open menu perpetually being offered to us every day. Meanwhile, the Sun continues to rise and greet our smiling faces.  Best of luck to us all. We've all been thrown off a cliff since the day we were born. So let's keep on building our wings on the way down.  Some day we'll each catch an updraft, and soar.