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Issue One                                                  May 2021

Manifesto of a Granular Ideologue

by tfurrows

Passing Thoughts of an Impractical Idealist

Our ancestors stood on the banks of the Euphrates and cast their ideas into the inexhaustible current. First they cast in words, ephemeral. Then they learned permanence; epochs brought clay tablets and papyrus, script and type, bits and clouds.

Permanence dammed the river, a logjam of ideas tossed in as if each was a consummate standard. Life-giving waters slowed, intelligence waned, the elastic mind seized and crumbled. The word manifesto dates to the fourteenth century, but the notion dates to our earliest written conclusions.

This is not the manifesto to end all manifestos. It is a message in a bottle that few will find. It is a loose model for dealing with the mountainous dam of manifestos that stop the flow of creativity, passion, and progress. At the risk of making the problem worse, I proffer:

From a Message in a Bottle, Sitting Atop the Dam of Manifestos

Let your mind move freely, become a seeker
Accept that knowledge is scattered broadly
Find kernels of truth and germinate thoughts

Take something from every ideology, fear nothing
Subscribe to that which you find value in
Mistrust labels, they carry unimaginable baggage

Acknowledge all that came before, but accept the utility of your journey
Never believe that you have the best vision for the world
Don't try to fashion the world to your ideals; your ideals are cursory

Be a maximal minimalist, distill purity from immensity
Find, purify, share, repeat
To conclude means to cease to grow

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