What is a quest? It's more than acts of medieval chivalry like Ancient cultures had other names for quests, but they were one of many ways to prove your self worth.
rescuing women from knaves or squires struggling to
become full fledged knights.
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by Joseph Bolden Quests range from drinking the mythological dragon’s blood to gain immortality and strength, to trekking into new lands, to sailing alone across an ocean. There have always been high costs to discovering, learning, and exploring. The cost of such hard won knowledge is paid in unknown lives and blood. We Americans sometimes do not acknowledge the debts paid by the ancient world. We’re so young, new like scions of old money and we squander many a precious gift parents and relatives gave us to use with care.As a species, not a single one of our countries is on a quest. Quests await us. There are dangers to face and natural and technical laws to overcome. Right now a pendulum swings toward a conservative movement. Conservatives are needed to balance too radical departures from the norm, as moderate and radical factions are needed so conservative mindsets does not keep a society stagnant. These opposing forces are always slightly out of sync. With Church and State almost bound together today the Conservatives fight change as always. It’s their job. In the past there have been so many shocks to individuals by Conservatives that there is more of blend or joining of moderate and radical minds. Translation: rough rides are ahead for Conservatives. Their long-held theories and ideas will be put to the test.Paradigms will shift or fall away and new ones will form. We have a strange unfamiliar challenge. We still quest outward, changing and adapting ourselves to new and deadly environments away from our natural and terra formed world. How do we make our people smarter, stronger, better, more inventive, more innovative, and healthier? How many of our people can speak, write, play, or know the others’ languages, cultures, stories, musical instruments? Pick your quest from health, space, biotechnology, cybernetics, neurology, exobiology, other sciences or other exotic elements. Radicals, Moderates, and Conservatives will always be with us, it's just there is more room for all. This is not only one world dominated by three groups, in fact offshoots are forming and they too will have their worlds and their say… Please donate what can to Poor Magazine C/0 Ask Joe at 255 9th St. Street, For Joe only my snail mail: |