A Simple Request: Occupy Your Mind. An Update on the Now Trending Occupy My Blog Movement.

A Simple Request: Occupy Your Mind.  An Open Invitation to Return to the Land of Reason, Logic and Rational Thought.  It’s Nice Out Here and We’re Feelin’ Fine.  You Will Too.  Please Join Us at Your Earliest Possible Convenience.

An update on the now trending Occupy My Blog Movement, which has recently embarked on a voyage to return to the shores of The Land of Reason. The faraway lands of Sanity. Charted a course, set sail and steaming full speed ahead. You are hereby cordially invited to join us at the next scheduled port of call. Current weather report is sunny with a chance of unicorns and rainbows. So spread the word. Invite your friends, your family, even complete strangers. Just Be There. And Don’t Miss The Boat on this growing trend now sweeping the nation.

  And forget your virtual insanity.

With the Occupy My Blog Movement picking up speed, gaining momentum, trending now, I’d like to take this opportunity to again, thank the supporters who have so faithfully occupied my blog as well as themselves.  It is you that is making all the difference in this very important revolution in the numerous ways to occupy various things that has taken the nation by storm.  Together we are changing the current political, musical, social and digital landscape and I appreciate your continued support. Keep up the good work!

Today I am happy to announce the next phase of the Occupy My Blog Movement with the following simple request: To Occupy Your Mind.  That’s right, I’d like us all to return again to the long lost land of reason and rational thought, the land of sanity.  Instead of simply using your head (as in to bash against a brick wall repeatedly) I’d like us all to actually Occupy Our Collective Minds and use our God-given gift of reason to think independently.  About anything.  Instead of simply taking the constant stream of media propaganda at face value, from either end of the spectrum of our current dysfunctional state of affairs, I’d like to ask that we actually take the time to analyze the issues at hand.  Dismiss sound bites for what they are: a tiny, one-sided piece of the overall puzzle.  A misguided attempt at summing it all up for us in one pretty package of delusion and confusion. 

I’m requesting a return to independent thought, to pondering issues from both sides of the isle before jumping on the bandwagon of <insert whatever-cause-you-are-passionate-about-at-the-moment here>.   Regardless of whether you’re an OWS supporter or Tea Partier, whether you’re White, Black, Hispanic, Portuguese, an Umpa Lumpa or purple with green polka dots.  I’d like you to occupy your minds with real analyses of the current issues at hand.  Take the time to study both sides of the arguments.  Jump to conclusions based on fact, logic, reason and reality versus being led like lambs to the proverbial slaughter.

We’re going to kick it up a notch and take this Occupation Movement to the next level and actually develop REAL solutions to the issues currently facing our nation and the world.  Cause unlike Jay Z, we got more than 99 problems to sort out.  So get your thinking caps on, Occupy Your Mind and come up with some feasible ideas for fixing whatever you believe to be currently broken.  Be it the current political landscape that really grinds your gears, be it the economic environment that is still distinctly lacking in jobs, be it your broken lawnmower that you haven’t the faintest idea about how to fix.  Whatever it is that’s put a bee in your bonnet today, I’m making the simple request that we all roll up our sleeves, dig into the crux of our issues, and figure out the path to a workable solution.  Chart a course to sanity.  Because simply occupying things and places is no longer enough.  A bridge to nowhere.  We all have to stop being part of the problem, and become part of the solution.  Where there’s a will, there’s a way, as they say. 

So however outrageous your idea for fixing whatever-it-is-that-you’re-currently-protesting is, make it public.  Make it known.  If you’re protesting your neighbor’s refusal to wear clothes or use blinds, get the relevant parties to the negotiating table and work it out.  Approach your fellow apartment building dwellers and start a fund for the exhibitionist across the street to purchase curtains.  I bet if you do, they’ll be grateful that you finally brought up what was on everyone’s minds, happy to fork over a few dollars for such a noble cause.  If you’re boycotting your local coffee establishment because they don’t offer free WIFI, get on the horn and bring it up.  Maybe offer to pay a little more for that cup of Joe in exchange for your coveted hours upon hours of free access to the worldwide web.  Give and take = Win, Win Win.  Relearn the art of compromise.  Because personally, if we don’t do some real problem solving soon, I’m not entirely sure that anyone else is gonna do it for us. 

We’ve collectively become a nation of whiners and complainers.  We sit back and hope that someone else does all the heavy lifting for us.  Hoping that someone, somewhere will have an ounce of reason and bring productive ideas to the bargaining table.  Well here’s your daily dose of reality check: No one is picking up the baton.  No one’s leading the charge.  If there’s one thing that is certain about everyone’s Various Occupations, it’s that the message is consistently inconsistent.  As a matter of fact, even if there were some heavy lifting to do, our current reality is that there’s actually nothing to even lift at the moment because there seems to be a dearth of intelligent ideas that have any meaningful chance of success.   

So let’s get creative, Occupy Our Minds and get inspired to put our heads together towards some form of productive solutions and actions.  I don’t care if the country, lead by John Stewart and Steven Colbert, has to round up Republicans, Democrats, every member of Congress and the Senate, and collectively ship them off to a Tibetan Monetary, lock them in a room, force them to form a circle, join hands, smile and sing Cumbayá.  I don’t care if we have to form an entirely new political party altogether: A Party of Reason.  A Party of Enlightenment (Honey badger don't care either, but that's besides the point).  A new party who thinks clearly and thoughtfully and acts in a rational way for the benefit of their fellow countrymen and the world at large.  I don’t care if our mascots are unicorns, rainbows and dolphins (also currently trending, FYI).  If that will help them (and us all) to work together more effectively to enact some positive changes that might help our country (not to mention the world) return to former greatness, then I say let’s make it happen, captain.  The time is now. 

In my humble opinion, it’s high time we all quit complaining, quit whining, quit crying, and actually do something productive with our Occupying Activities.  So, let this be your official rally cry to Occupy Your Mind with Intelligent, Reasonable, Problem-Solving Endeavors from here on out.   Start your own Revolution of Reason and Rational Thought.  A Revolution of Creative Problem Solving that is both productive and produces positive outcomes. For everyone.  Not just positive for you, but for both you and me.  All of us.  The “Royal We”.  We all know what we have to do; we know the endgame we’re looking for.  High time we brainstorm on realistic ways to get there, for the benefit of all, rather than one particular party or limited school of thought.   

I’m requesting that we Occupy Our Minds to educate ourselves on the issues at hand, from many different angles and points of view.  I mean, am I the only one here thinking that we don’t have to be so polarized?  So “Us vs. Them”?  Such an “either you’re with us or against us”, mentality?  Because here’s the reality: it just simply doesn’t need to be the case.  We can all agree to disagree and work together towards a compromise and solution that will offer beneficial outcomes for each party involved.  Acknowledge each other’s point of view as valid, simply different from our own, and move on already.

Time to break out the whiteboard and use your God-given gift of logic to chart a course to sanity.  Because if we don’t do it now, I’m not exactly sure who will. 

Not to be a Debby Downer here, but given the current state of affairs, what we’re doing now is like rearranging chairs on the deck of the Titanic.  And I’m afraid our ship may have sprung a leak, slowly sinking into oblivion while we all argue over whether Rick Santorum actually believes half of the things that he says to the media.  It’s time to take on the big issues of the day.  Knock ‘em down one by one.  Stop ignoring the elephants in the room (and there’s way more than 99 elephants currently occupying this room).  Tackle them, and the rest of our petty complaints will eventually fall by the wayside, take care of themselves. 

So get on board, and take care of yourself, as well as your fellow countrymen, be they rich or poor, white or black, raspberry or snozberry flavored, and chart a return course to sanity.  A return course to reason and logic, to rational thought.  Set sail and launch a homecoming party to our founding fathers’ vision for this once great nation of ours.  Manifest Destiny, coin your own Declaration of Independence and Occupy Your Minds to solve the mystery of our unarguably dysfunctional state of affairs.  Follow in the footsteps of our founding fathers and become the Ben Franklin, the Thomas Jefferson, the Andrew Jackson of our time.  Become part of the solution as opposed to the problem, and stop wasting precious time.  Because, together, “we the people” can turn this ship around, chart a new course, make radically bold moves, change the world, one exhibitionist neighbor at a time. 

So let’s go retro, bring back old school and make Patriotism fashionable once more.  Let’s “Occupy Patriotism”, Ben Franklin style.  So don’t miss the boat on this latest trend that is soon be taking the nation by storm.   And while you’re at it, kick off the Occupation of your Minds in style, follow by example and, as Ben Franklin would say, in the parlance of our times, “Get down with thy badself.”

I mean, at this point, why not?  What’s there to lose?  After all, according to Gene Wilder in the classic Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (AKA: Post Modern Gospel), “We are the music makers.  And we are the dreamers of a dream.” 

Kick your imagination up into high gear, and launch into inspiration overdrive with the following song from this classic movie now no longer just for kids.

Oh and if you’re in need of even more inspiration overload for your occupation endeavors, set sail with the following classic scene from “What About Bob”.  Because if he can do it, so can we.  Ahoy! Baby steps to reasonable thoughts, rational ideas and logical conclusions before we have no other option but to bust out with the entirely too permanent solution of: “Death Therapy”. 

Happy Occupying!  Over and out for now.  More updates to follow.