[vapourmile]

Yeah, Paul McKenna, he's good. He really is trying to do the best he can for people. He says himself "I'm not trying to claim to have all the answers, or even some of the answers for everybody, I'm just trying to share all of the answers I know of that are most likely to work".

As for the service ethic. It's not my idea. I picked it up from Hindu, and it made a lot of things make sense. I'm not even really trying to say I subscribe to it I just think if you have any kind of ambition, unless you indent to live under that proverbial bell jar forever, service has to be included in it. I mean, unless you're going to sit in a soft-cell and paint the walls, common sense tells you it has to be inclusive. Which is covered mostly these days by the tasks of either getting people what they want, carrying what people want, knowing how to direct people to what they want, or setting up the mechanisms which achieve any of the above.

I also use the service ethic (in other contexts that are more suitable then this one) to defend the rich who are too often regarded as immoral by the poor. Sure there have been stories of people making it rich by robbing trains, but the truth is that most rich people get rich by serving the interests of the population. Meaning that "entrepreneur" is basically the French word for somebody who organises the creation and supply of services. Sure, they do it at a price but people are willing to pay gratitude, it's the foundation of civilisation itself, I see little wrong with that. What I'm saying is, it's an outright fallacy to believe the possession of riches make you a bad person. I'm rich, I should know. Quite often it takes a hell of good person to get the work done that earns it. So less cussing the rich, because it isn't any more sign of character flaw than poverty is, or mediocrity or destitution for that matter. Do I sound English enough yet?

Oops... mass tangent there... and I'm not even saying there's anything wrong with your palpably clichéd ideas of your ultimate moral purposes. I'm saying, don't make is a big deal. We ALL feel that way. Your talking about it like your uncovering something hidden or new or personal or super-special. To want to do something of great worth is common. The hell hole I want to protect you from, is the one dug for the people who think their secret or spoken ambitions make them different and special, the ones who think they're unlike the one who brings the milk in the morning or sits on the front stoop with a beer and a light. Or unlike the one who made a lot of money, or the one waged war on the East. As Shakespeare said "There is nothing more ordinary than the desire to do extraordinary things". We are all alike in this way.

So next time you see someone shouting in the street, or fighting, or making a mess, don't get to thinking he hasn't already done five hundred times more to save the world than you have.

Wanting to do good things is just great, but you're going to have to get hellishly busy because the people trying to do the same are counted in their hundreds of thousands, millions, and maybe even billions.

What I'm saying is, it's all very woolly and weepy and nice to say "I just want to love and save and protect everyone", but more or less every other adult does too. I'm English, I'm going to stay straight faced until I see the figures. What is actually in progress here other than garden variety idealism?

I want to be God. I want to be super God plus with bells and a cherry on. Is this a big deal? No. It doesn't even ring as something new does it? I'm just like everybody else. But if you're going to idealise, why stop there, why not think even bigger? I'm going to make the whole planet heaven again. You can't even imagine the ecstasy you're all going to feel when I'm finished.

Am I really God though? Well that's a matter of opinion. :P