The Image And The Empire
June 28, 2008
The most difficult task seems to be to find that single focus under which all other tasks hide. That one idea, goal, “vision”, “image”, or “thing” that drives all else for the best possible result is both all-important and all-elusive.
“Where there is no vision, the people perish.”
The end for which we hold vision is much bigger than the act of holding it. Some people, it seems, tend to confuse the two.
The purpose of the goal is not to keep going. On the contrary, the purpose of “keeping going” is to reach the goal.
The goal has become a motivational tool (a means to an end) rather than the end itself. Like a carrot dangling in front of us by a string, it serves to motivate us to finally do what we should have been doing all along.
At some point we stopped holding onto the image for the sake of the empire, and started daydreaming about the empire for the sake of keeping the image instead.
