I begin many blogs. Far too many. I feel inspired to do so and I begin with frequent posts for a couple, maybe three days. Often they are filled with links and text, hyperlinked pictures and embedded videos.
But then I lose interest. Simple as that.
I hope to reverse that trend here, and I am setting sail on this virtual journey alone in the dark of the night. My goal is to enter into the world that Winston Churchill knew, loved, and at times suffered. But through it all Winston Churchill was nothing, if not a leader of men.
He was what we all wish we could be.
I have a collect of his speeches and letters (Never Give In) that chronicle his entire public life. Through his very opinions, arguments, and pleas I intend to better understand the world that he saw, feared, and understood.
You see, his was a time of great advancement, very much like ours. The industrial revolution had altered the world in a way few had imagine possible, months of travel became weeks, which became days, which would soon become hours. Communication (and its technology-internet, cell phones, etc) still had not become convenient, and is the only great difference between his world and ours. That, and for the vast majority of his life he lived without the "comfort" of mutually assured destruction.
We see the world in a way mankind has never imagined, and it is changing the way we as nations will evolve. Our world is advancing technologically at a rate that would have seemed as untouchable as god to Winston's age. Communication, especially that of research and data can now be shared, compared, tested, retested, and put through the general scientific theory in real time. Collaboration and debate is as easy as opening a laptop. No bit of knowledge is out of our reach.
And that is why we are preparing for a world where nuclear holocaust is of no concern. The age old tool of justice and power was war, and it was inefficient and bloody. Ohh the power of the mind, how powerfully destructive when truly put to use. A near century ago Britain was forced into conflict in a war that no one was prepared for. Never had the mass slaughter of humanity been so streamlined and put to use. Winston knew it was coming, and tried to warn the world though.
But no one listened, and in the end it was Winston who knew how the Allies would win the war. The americans.
He recognized he was living during a turning point in mankind's existence, and knew that the tides of might were shifting in our favor and would soon shift the balance of power heavily into American hands.
I hope his words will clue me in to what he saw in those decades before the great wars that inspired his utmost conviction. I believe that we too are living in turbulent times, where change will come much more quickly than expected and the result will be some chaos and potential violence, as people around the world cope with the reality a truly open society implies. It is possible to be given too much freedom, too quickly. We have no idea what to expect.
I understand very many people see things another way. They see individuals being weakened and the government taking over, but these are just the final grasps of powerful governments and interest groups. They realize the power that the individual is holding and know it is only a matter of time before all politics become so local that an apartment in DC wont protect you from misled constituents. Truth and knowledge are about to become the worlds economy.
I know I'm fairly vague right now, but hey, its pretty late.
I'll cover everything I seemed to leave unproven during a coming post. I can't wait to see where Winston Visions would have led the world today.
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