The results are in from the StratFor contest last week, and I didn’t win. This was expected, and while personally disappointing, the truth is that I found the writing was it’s own reward. I realize that may sound like an the moral of an after-school special, but it’s true.
In future contests, I hope that StratFor provides additional parameters. Since the guidelines left me a lot of interpretative room, I played. There’s little doubt that I drifted from their intentions a bit. Once I started typing, I ended up meandering my own way. But it’s not bad considering that it took only a week’s worth of my spare time.
When I make observations about the present or even the fictional present, they are almost never what I want to observe.
As you will see in posts to come, geopolitics is a strange thing. Surgically removing what I want to be true and what I think is true is one of the first things that I have struggled with. While I’ve gained some valuable skills from this exploration, I still have a ways to go. It’s safe to say that I don’t want anything that actually happens.
Like almost everyone with a political orientation and a conscience, I have an ethos, inherited traditions, and a complex mental structure that I use to explain the world around me. But that structure is wrong; I seek to improve it through learning.
And since every single human has a different mental picture of the world, it would be impossible for a single human to be right – in a cosmic sense – with regard to predicting the human trajectory.
Talk about a disclaimer…
