This afternoon, I'm flying to California to visit my old friend Kila. Kila (pronounced, "Keela") is a 60 pound siberian husky. She is all white with beautiful blue eyes and a very friendly disposition. Her owner has generously granted that she and I can live together for the forseeable future and that I, now, become Kila's new human.

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The first in a series of articles

©2011 Ben Weiss http://LionsLair.com

This series of articles will attempt to explain how to change the world. First, today's installment will explain why we must change the world. Next week's installment will describe into what we should change the world. Finally, a possible transition method for how we might change the world will be presented.

Why should we change the world?

In our society, the most effective way to get rich is not hard work, much as we cling to myths which purport otherwise. The most effective way to get rich is through a combination of intelligence, hard work and -especially- the willingness to risk. This is true of every discipline and in every culture of which I am aware. It is a by-product of our collective development over the past hundred thousand years.

The problem is, this allows those of us who are best at making money and exhibiting risking behaviors to make it to the top of our society's control apparatus, enabling them to be in charge of huge opportunities to risk the health and safety of not only the entire human race, but all life on this planet as well.

So, as a species, we have chosen to allow those of us who are willing to take great risks to be in charge of those aspects of our culture that allow the possibility to irrevocably change our livelihoods or annihilate the lives of every living thing on this planet. Does nobody else see a problem with this?

Why is it necessary for such persons to be in charge of the ability to destroy our species?

To answer such a question, it becomes necessary to actually describe what every person does require for their survival and thriving so that we can see how we can best meet everyone's needs and -in addition- perhaps lower our tendency as a species to create situations in which our existence is in doubt.

Here is a list of what I believe each of us require in our lives. While world domination does not precisely appear on this list, I can see how it is mapped onto items which do appear here in the minds of those for whom it is felt mandatory.

If anyone imagines this list to be incomplete, please post and let's discuss it. Also, if explanation is required, let me know and I'll take time out to expound there upon so that we're all on the same page.

How can all of us get what we need at the same time and still provide for the opportunity to create children who also can each get what they need at the same time, in perpetuity?

That discussion will appear in the next installment.

Last year, I got my carpentry education at CNM. This year, electrical trades. I'm still having a lot problems with sleep apnea, but I'm comforted (?!) by the observation that, as my stress from school causes an increase in weight, my sleep apnea gets worse -- so therefore, logically (I HOPE!) when school's finished and I can get back to actually loosing weight again, it'll get back under control. That's the current theory, anyway.

Well, Today Stephanie and I got the new server working. So far, we've got DNS, EMail and Web services going. Still left are calendar services, file services, Wiki services, this blog, mailing lists and chat services.