TRIADs and Teens
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Before proceeding on to chapters dealing with the subjective and, in my
opinion, the most important aspect of TRIADs, I wish to interject this
chapter because I feel that the future of TRIADs will depend upon the
teens of today or tomorrow.
I don't know which generation of teens it may be that will introduce the
next revolutionary change in the social culture of humanity, but it
will be some generation in its teens. This is because it is the teens
that are flexible enough to adopt a new social culture. This has always been the case. It is the young who fight and die in the wars or who refuse to do so, as they did at the time of Vietnam. It is the youth who move forward the scientific advances of technology. A famous newscaster expressed his amazement, when observing the orbit planners for the first moon landing, that they were all so young. It was youth who created and established the Internet, regardless of the claims of some older politicians. In chess and sports, the older have to give way to the younger. Some older may act as coaches but the new records are established by the young. When humanity changes it will be, and must be, the youth that change it. Whether it is the present generation of youth that will make the changes, I can't say. They have certainly witnessed the failure of the previous generations to establish peace, to demonstrate integrity in the banking, business and legal communities, to foster unity among the religions, to champion morality in the entertainment industry, to emphasize the value of the spiritual over the material in everyday life-style. The present generation, while seeing the failure of the old, certainly has the technological tools to implement the changes. They have mastered these electronic tools to the extent that their intense games of war have now become the employed means of alienated destruction of people at a distance. Powers for both good and harm, because it has been shown that the better more dexterous surgeons in the new generation are those who developed coordination skills from playing long hours of games. The question is that: while the current generation has mastered the tools, have they the strength of character and the necessary insight to examine the purposes to which they put the tools? Yes, they have all the social interaction tools, the social networking in Facebook and Twittering, texting and cell phone communication. Never has there been a generation so connected -- and disconnected. So connected to each other and disconnected from reality: able to send out their messages everywhere, but not knowing which message to send; spontaneous generation of communication by humanity's spontaneous generation, suddenly creating colored and flavored revolutions; realizing and recognizing their power but not knowing for what to use it. TRIAD gives them the ability to find out why. It does not give them the answers, but the tool to find the answers. Every life must be self-examined and, as a philosopher once said, that life which is not self-examined is not worth living. There are correct answers but the lost generations have lost faith in that and in those that claim to have found the answers because of the dogmatic and obviously contradicting opinions between them. But correct answers are findable. Two plus two really does add up to four, no matter who searches for it. One does have to be willing, however, to make the search. TRIAD is the Tool for conducting the search. Maybe this generation of teens will be the one to find the correct answers. Maybe not. They too can become the generation of the past and, inexorably, time will make that the case. But if their time passes and they do not make the effort to find the answers, then humanity awaits another generation. TRIAD between Teens -- currently unbound by the dogmas put forth by the religions, the political parties, the media and entertainment industries (well, maybe not the latter). Bound, however, by conformity to a culture of conformity and unwilling to examine independently. Texting and TRIADing without correctly defining the goals and ends is means without morality. A TRIAD can be a very small clique. It can offer support, comfort and belonging, without insight -- potential without purpose. A TRIAD can be a very small clique, but it need not be because every individual member of a TRIAD can respond, "Go and find another person with whom you are not TEAMed, and I shall join you in a TRIAD." TRIADs are far from being closed. Indeed, the very opposite; they are the key to the exponential and most explosive rapidity of expansion of a network that has ever existed. Not mindless broadcasting, as with Twitter. Not collective acceptance by a closed group, as with Facebook. Not the emotional demagoguery of charismatic leaders as seen on YouTube. But rather individual introspection critiqued and evaluated by one's peers and chained through an infinite network of nodes connecting to every possible point of view possible. A primary goal for this book is to prepare great numbers of people for societal collapse, and the proposed specific use for TRIADs for this purpose is set off, and set out, in an appendix. The nature of TRIAD networking, as explained there, is that it can almost instantaneously go viral. That is good, when the cause is good. It is certainly not the intent of this author to use TRIADs to instigate societal collapse. Unfortunately, no matter how idealistic our wishes for this we must realize that it is a sword that can cut both ways. We can call this the Yin and Yang of TRIAding. I do not want to be like Robert Oppenheimer, as when he watched the explosion of the first atomic weapon and quoted the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita, saying, "Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." Through TRIADing a mass social consciousness and consensus can arise beyond anything seen in the Mideast Springs or the European Falls. Emerging mass consciousness need not be a force for destruction, as it has been so far but can, instead, become a force for the construction of a better society. Youth quickly adopt new technology and often adapt it to their purpose. There is no question about the capability of the present generation of youth to adopt the TRIAD culture. The question is whether they are willing to make the effort to understand the potential that it offers to take society to new and better heights. It is easy for a youth to say to two other youths, "Let's form a TRIAD," and to explain how it works. But for the three to understand and find out the higher purpose for it, that will be a challenge and an achievement. If, as a generation, they are successful they will be recognized as the one that began the maturity of humanity. I hope that the next chapters will be some help in setting them on the path to that understanding, but my young teen grandson insisted that the following is the kind of story that young people would be interested in.
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