But you can hate me for what I didn't do....

That sounds a likely adage, one that is more fun to say than to imagine its practical enforcement; Luckily I don't think it exists..

I was under the expectation that I would blog this last month, but it was very busy and unusual, and intercontinental; and there was new things, new ceremonial robes, new ways of wrapping up old things. Witnessing. And now I'm doing my very best to regain focus in the Virgin momentum.

If anyone wants to know it, all which I find to have intrinsic and imperative value, both in the world and in relation to myself and my pursuits, is seldom understood or mutually idealized by the people around me. But as I've mentioned for long now, I do see some of these things are "all that remains" within the changing times, and as the old ways disappear, I notice more people have no choice but to strike accordance on what we used to ignore. I partake in the new logic which I now have the ability to call as such; at other points in time I felt an urgency to reframe these purposes into the common logic. Now with external approval, I know it's not necessary, and I feel I can continue. 

What does that mean?

It will take another 5 years to become clear at all. But What we can say from way back here is, I have been subjected to a lot of arguing and friction as a result of confounding realities between myself and others. This I have always been deeply curious about; those questions which emerge between friends or coworkers or whoever gets to talking about their daily problems (which are often viewed in isolation and seem singular), for instance a great common subject between everyone is "How life Works" or "How life is supposed to be". This subject comes up frequently in the subtext of an individual's attempts to navigate their troubles. "What I am supposed to do?", etc. And in turn friends, coworkers, neighbors, whoever in your community, has opinions and ideas about what you should be doing for yourself, based on their idea of how life is supposed to be. And I think, now nearly 9 months along in this calendar year, that it has been a significant one for the arena where we battle about "How life is supposed to be". The rules are changing, and have changed, and it's not just with me or my local route.

I talk about this often: we as a society are not mentally up to date with the practical changes we have made. In past moments, we demanded and forced a significant evolution onto our methodologies, and the systems by which we live. One near example of this is technology; but it is also reflected in economy, government, and education. These institutions and how they transform are the hotbeds of human technique and organisation. Our day to day lived experiences, and conversations, are shaped by what has happened with these institutions, and vice versa.

I hear from others about the rug being swept out from under them.

In an overt sense: late 20s and early 30s American people haven't been honored on the deals they made with their education. They aren't getting the jobs, they still have to live with their parents and roommates, they don't know what to do about it - and the advice is slim, where the big guys used to be, there was stuff going on we could hook ourselves into. Now it's scary in America and communication feels disparate. We don't know who we look up to. We're in debt. We don't own land. We don't know our traditions.

In a covert sense:  Passive aggressiveness between friends and social communities, about "who's really working", displaying personal insecurity, and an unwillingness to accept oneself or their present job because it doesn't feel good enough, it doesn't pay enough, it's not important enough, or whatever. And many without jobs who very well should have jobs must answer to this. The old can't understand the young. The employed can't understand the unemployed.

I have already and I will continue to address this atmosphere, but I'd like to cut it off here to round out this post with my original point. This type of pressure in our social life makes for people to turn to the (presently) unconventional. In higher education institutions there are what seems like hundreds or even thousands of new departments, classes, and specialties which we don't hear of or understand because the lay person isn't involved in academia or training (he's supposed to be working or raising a family, most people will not always be students).

Yet these studies are wonderfully interdisciplinary - they offer the marriage of two or even three topics because it is coming about that society is not prepared to face our modern world armed with its singular considerations for  knowledge. This has always happened in education, but it supports my intuition: neural webs are converging and social and intellectual concerns are all polymath.

Anyone at the early or mid point of his career would understand this as well, because I know a few people who have had to address their path, switch gears into what seems like a completely "new" field, but actually boasts of a development from what they originally set out upon. It's very up and down right now, and in having to become realistic about what we expect of ourselves, we have to take part in the new reality. 

Well I'll do this again, it's all I ever really talk about. So for now: The new fields, the combined fields, changes to the base learning, youth attitudes and young professional attitudes which make and break how we spend our time. How the world is supposed to work, comes up every day, just listen out - What are we supposed to be doing?