An Open Letter To The World On My 28th Birthday

It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. — Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, 1513

This is the first birthday that I found myself weeping most of the day.

I wept for the state of the world.

I wept for the suffering that I’ve been going through with communicating just what it is that I have to offer the world.

For my 28th birthday, I am writing this open letter to the world. I am writing a letter directed toward leaders, diplomats, dissidents, architects, anarchists, thinkers, students, mothers, fathers, children, and educators. This letter is for you because what I’m about to share with you affects us now and will effect future generations to come if we do not start talking more openly — and together.

I wept for peace, but not peace filled with geopolitical injustices attached. I wept for acceptance, but not acceptance rooted in quid pro quo. I wept for the lives lost in my country as brutality and racism and fire arms continue to sweep our streets at night. I wept for the many lives stolen when radicalism and extremism entered my world’s cities. I wept for the children wanting to be heard either at home or in school but grew up silent and feeling different because our systems don’t look within in order to influence outward. I wept for the opportunity to succeed in business when really trying. I wept for the voice that I have finally begun to command because she is powerful and studied and determined to not just be heard, but to be understood.

Over the years I have been an ambassador to the many — and diverse — things that drives me: machine, cultures, design, value, and potential of the individual…

And the greatest mission that I am now serving and building to serve has the potential to be one of the greatest feats in diplomacy in our modern world (and the greatest missions that I am now serving and building to serve is the greatest diplomatic mission of my current time here on Earth to set forth precedent and ethics for Earth-and-Spacekind’s future generations.

This mission, this herculean task is a grand stand for diplomacy in data and the accesses to that data.

This I want to serve the world that has given me life and perspective. I want to see it thrive. This world, this vast, big, communicating planet is speaking up. But it’s not the kind of conversation that many like to have. Our communication systems are going through a psychological breakdown.

It is a cry for help to speak up for the technology and technologies that have guarded my fine nation and aided in the relief, protection, sovereignty, and fortification of other. It is also this legacy of dominance and “way to the future” in these progressive tools that have silenced the voice of Earthly progress, that is, progress here on earth before we Earthkind explore further and create anew in a realm now even ours, extraterrestrially life and living.

There is a famous and interpreted quote, “there is nothing to fear but fear itself.” And I humbly state that I fear the state of the world and it’s leaders- and citizens alike — to see that this time now is the first time that the Earth’s nations can come together for a new type of dialog.

“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” — Leonardo

My motto is “common sense, and a sense of urgency” and in this huge change of pace, will, and mission in life to serve more people than ever, one thing that I never lost when I lost most everything was my self expression and my civil duty to help my many communities.