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Conquerors & Dreamers: The Noble Path to Ambition & Peace
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. — Ernest Hemingway
Who are we to each other if we cannot be genuine and generous — Guilty stepping stones towards undeclared goals?
Gardeners tend to gardens to nurture growth. Gamers game. Go-getters gallop across galaxies, grappling egos and empires. When an empire rises, another falls. Goals are a double-edged sword forged out of ambition. Ambition is the constitution of mortals and the worship of power. Power is used as a proxy of worth. Generals aspire to be the Greatest Of All Time, an almost oxymoron — who says time is finite? Still, without Generals, where would we be? These are a group who death deal in the ghastly gory others won’t, repeating tragic patterns to garner selective glory along the way.
That is why we need Dreamers who dream gallant dreams, imagining greater virtues, severing cycles of pain and suffering — painting glorious visions so that we may all gather grand glimpses of greater versions of ourselves. Thankfully, grandiose dreams are not the reserve of genius; some say we all have the God gene, only not all of us believe. Genes can skip but invariably are passed down through generations. Generations are a testimony of survival. God’s particle is the answer…
