Jarrah's Uplink

Coz nothing's happened there in weeks, I draw your attention to Our Forum!

I'm mildly peeved because I found some weird and cool things this week, but I can't show you because I want to use them as RPG plots, and all my players read this site.

Oh well, have a link to Alpha Shade. I haven't actually read it yet, but it was recommended by Anna (Dari's original creator), so its coming to you on good authority.

It's 4am. I'm off to bed.

John's Uplink

We can't all be Mozart. It's a realization I'm afraid slowly dawns on most of us: the realization of the fact that we're not going to be the next Einstein or Churchill; or even the next Ledger or Keating... when we are born, we are full of possibilities and dreams: the future is made up of a thousand open flowers. We know we can be anyone. As we grow older, however, we prune down those branches, move from wilder dreams to the more concrete realities of the world in front of us.

It's true. We're just faces in a crowd to everyone outside of our monkeysphere. We're not special and we're not unique; we're all people and we're all in this together. And that's alright, because it's not individuals that change the world: it's societies and groups of people working hard together who make the world a better place. The power to change the world is in your hands... but it's also in the hands of everyone else.

The truly successful societies of the modern day are those who harness the power and potential of the many and not the few: competitive markets and the internet, mass democracy and equal freedom. Take this to heart, and understand that you are part of something that will assuredly change the world.