Fellow explorer,

Hello and allow me to thank you. For this will surely be a grand experiment. To create an organization unlike any other before it. Many of our past years have been spent learning about and feeling out our own condition. We hope and dream with the very heart of our passion, believing absolutely that we can overcome. The grim reality is however, not all can overcome, and that there are many obstacles placed before you. A viscous disadvantage seeks and is set upon you.

A dreadful side effect of the system...

A system intent on maintaining itself. A system that continually declines to give all but the most marginal social returns on investment. A system entirely interwoven and seeping with corruption. The leadership in this system is vast and those who remain pure are few.

Politicians can no longer be trusted!!!

They have been, save but few, corrupted to the core by money, whether they know it or not. If they themselves are not corrupted then definitely the system they work within is. Individuals or corporations wielding large amounts of capital can greatly affect and influence a great range of social and economic areas, from politics to media outlets. Money equals power and those with too much risk being morally consumed, sacrificing a part of themselves that would have , on a previous occasion, been objective and questioned the methods, the costs. Am I doing more good than bad?

I don't know...are they?

The question, then, is raised. What can we do? The many answers to this question are expansive in scope, and dauntingly important. I leave you with one responsibility and one responsibility only. This charge is to search yourself and truely question what it is that will be necessary to create a future that is free of corruption. To create a place where justice takes no prejudice, where education and opportunity are broad and equal in their distribution. How this future is built will be decided by the many, not the few.

It's not to late...

We still have time. Time to build an organization that seeks only what is just and good for all. Time to build an organization that will be prepared to fight when our liberty is threatened. And most importantly, time to build the foundations for which future generations can lay a house, truely united and totally inclusive.

What these principles are and how they are developed is up to all of us. If you are ready to collaborate...then let us change the world.

Come. Listen. Learn. Ponder. Post.

-Shipwreck

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you and welcome to the show.

...you have officially been shipwrecked...

Now I'm not positive, but sometimes I get this feeling; the feeling that the earth is standing still, that time is slowing, that the lights are fading....

Weary, an awkward thrust settles me backwards. I've been pushed before and always with little consequence. Never before have I minded the gentle usherings of an intelligent and benevolent guide. Always have these paths been illuminated and suggested, well and in timely fashion of one another. Insignificant are the requests and nothing more than tedious to be complied with. Why then, this time of all times, am I fearful?

A static, profound and highly viscous, permeates my being, cutting a swath regretfully dense. Fear has left me frozen and fire proves an inadequate remedy. Fully enclosed and peering through a prison of eager teeth I stand defiant, refusing to be enveloped. The maw in which I find myself now has devoured many before me, many who were stronger than I, who were more courageous, many who would not be deterred, but died instead....

I assure you there are things worse than death.

And this time I would have died. My back was worn, my muscles strained, my mind fatigued. Holding my last breath wishing for a reason to let it go. But instead...I look out. I see. I see that I am not the only one being consumed. I see there are many others like me and that they are fighting! Roaring from an unseen depth, a strength comes to me. Resolute I stand broad, putting on a display in which Atlas himself would revel.

This is where I stand now...waiting. Others will come. We are here to build for our future, and anyone who is willing to help is welcome.

Come. Listen. Learn. Ponder. Post. It's that simple....

-Shipwreck