Do you ever get frustrated with the futility of it all? Either people will talk to you and read what you write precisely because they have a view they want you to adopt, or individuals don’t really care and don’t want to engage you in dialog.

Not to say people don’t learn and change while interacting in our culture. Blogs, Main Stream Media, the conversations we have day to day, things we read in print in a book or periodical all certainly have their effect in molding and changing and shaping us.

But the issue comes down to efficacy. In short, if we don’t change the whole course we intend to change, then the variances, and the nuanced alterations, the conversation with a co-worker, the dialog while standing in some line, don’t result in much with regard to changing the big picture.

Like the proverbial butterfly fly in the non-linear “chaos theory” scenario, the tiny air displacement cascading into the seeding or amplifying of various meteorological patterns that land the raw output of the flap something on the order of our dear Katrina. That's what we hope to do.

In honesty that’s what a vast number of bloggers and internet enthusiasts and activists of every stripe imagine themselves as in their perceived moments of inspiration and justification.

But what about the trillions upon trillions of other winged insects who’s flaps ultimately negated each other or simply fed into the normative outputs of our proverbial global weather paradigm?

Up to this point I’m realizing some things about the whole situation we find ourselves set up in.

In relating this I’ll proceed with an earlier instance in which my blogging ventures had me rediscovering some basics of the human condition--one of those “Try it again, for the first time!” moments.

I find myself with a blog on some other site. I type. Wait. Get anxious. Ponder means of attracting attention. Decide to ‘fish’ for responses. Contact other bloggers by commenting and interacting with them on the issues they are discussing.

Then it hits me.

Friends.

MySpace has it’s “friends” lists. We have our own friends lists in real life. “Friend” has been kind of hijacked and distorted. Lots of reasons for this, not going to get into them now.

Reduced to it’s raw form we are all set into social constructs that we’re told have proceeded at some point from basic survival and fitness needs we have.

This gets back to the questions of existence, and such, but many of us have a view of an ideal manifestation that transcends any explanation that can be derived from logic or reason, at least as we can wield such.

Friends are fundamental.

Back to effecting a genuine change.

Alliances and connections feed the non-linear amplifications, or nullifications, or diminutions, in society as it relates to our ideals (all humans are unavoidably ideologists as anti-ideological sentiment, or disinterest, are themselves perception based, and thus, ideologically based.

Friends, as I discern it, in the “purest” sense of the word, are the means to power. Not the only/ultimate means, mind you.

As I see it, one of the primary reasons for this I will tie to something I can not substantiate and is entirely on the conjecture that there’s something about “pure” “friendship” (the terms and qualifiers can be adapted for whole other systems with little that can be done on a case by case basis to dispute many such claims to either the fidelity of the connection or the alleged “friendship”) that has some connection to something that I posit many, if not all of us, have some conscience of, regardless any solid interface between the forces acting on our empirical consciousness and the other aspects of our empirical consciousness that are aligned with such things as quantifiable and openly testable metrics.

This view of friendship I will take will have the properties I describe without any open justification, and in the hope that my references will incite correlating connections in the minds of most, if not all, readers who are indeed human and, as I suspect, share significant experiences and mental states as myself on matters beyond the quantifiable and nominally communicable.

These properties are—

• A tendency to strive for oneness with other intelligences.

• A tendency for seeking equality, with respect to the place or state of the existence of said intelligences.

• A universal respect for BOTH the laws of unity AND for the laws of distinctness.

---to be continued