Why I Wrote a Book About Benevolence When Benevolence Doesn’t Sell.
Perhaps John Lennon had the answer.
“You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one,” sung John Lennon in his famous song, Imagine. I guess I’m a dreamer. I’ve been passionate about benevolent systems and benevolent acts for as long as I can remember. Unfortunately, that path took me into the world of evangelical Christianity which destroyed much of my life and gave me PTSD. Later, I converted to become a Jew, but within a few years, I had left that path, as well. I eventually became an atheist with no belief in personal deities, and yet this absorption with doing the right thing never left me — no matter what the personal cost.
Systems
I’m a systems person. That means I organize information all the time. That’s what goes on inside my head. While other people dream of buying new cars or pilfering the last chocolate on the plate, my mind is figuring out how the big picture works. How does the economic system work? Why do different political systems have different results? How does Mother Nature stitch everything together? Not unusually, I’m a classic INTJ.
