Monday, April 29, 2013

We, the perfectors

I thought I ought to come up with a name or title for what I do, I am not alone it is a entirely acceptible part of the way things are done, As an idea evolves each change is directed by a type. It is one of the reasons Dialectics appealed to me so much. This is the latter-days so the finishers of the cycle are going to be walking the earth soon and I offer a name: The perfectors, or those who complete a thing.

I noticed that I really am not successful at inventing the wheel. I rather like to take the pieces that others created and put them together, like a mashup. I used to do that same thing in webdesign or programing, I have no skill or patience for coding itself, but I like to take the groundwork others have laid and fit it to what I need or tailor it to fit the site I am developing. I felt a bit  uneasy about this, but it wasn't until YouTube, specifically, or global use of the internet, in general, that I started to see how the one who really got the lable of artist was the origin or creator so, I felt really bad for my stolen ideas,but as I was watching an older video I manipulated, I realized that the part that I liked was not the origin or it but the insightful mashup. There is no license, so to speak, for that and each recieving due credit is so important. Since I neither wrote the music or the video scene I was almost entirely discouraged from doing it, but I persist not for any gain of any kind, but because I enjoy it so much and someone will enjoy it, too and appreciate it like I do the similiar videos that I see.

Time to liken my idea to Stargate. In Atlantis, there is a episode about a people who are able to continue their research by building on what others before them had established. What happened is that this other being regularly came to their planet and destroyed the population, but their works remain untouched. The people were working on a solution that might never be perfected in their lifetime,but they still worked and recorded it diligently. Ultimately, this work was used by so many others to shape the entire galaxy in unpredictable ways.

I am a perfector. I wanted to consider myself a creator, but I am only creatIVE..Every mother knows this, we do not construct a baby, but we take a life and mold it as we see best hoping to raise them to be perfect. This is what I do and hope to define and maybe bring some credit to the act of improving what already is. Though I cannot legally patten the wheel I can improve it.

I think it is an important job of missionaries to invite everyone to come bring the truth they have found and let's all share. It is impressive how Mormony of a concept sharing, like on facebook, is. It is perfectly natural to want to think out loud for so many perfectors, because we do not ever feel a sense of entitlement to the ideas we have like authors, composers, or filmakers do gaurding their intellectual property. Ideas come more freely because the motivation is not usually monetary gain,it is the desire to help others "see".

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