94 - investing in the responsible initiation of students of enlightenment

My public mission was to help you make the world a much better place than it would be without you.

Unfortunately, you refused to co-operate with my efforts, hence my subsequent retirement from the public sphere.

The Council of Enlightenment has already provided many enlightening informational resources for you to consider here in Frugality Cottage.

 

And what are you seeking to know, and why?

Perhaps you have transformed an old structure into a holiday retreat for yourself and/or as a tourist accommodation investment, rather than as a contribution to enlightened community living. 

Perhaps you have demolished a beautiful, old structure and subdivided the land for a profit.

Perhaps you have been building excessively large houses and/or excessively small apartments rather than good communities.

Yet enlightened community living is the basis of mutually beneficial pleasantness.

Who are the people, apart from me and yourself, investing in you, through good relationships, an intelligently kind culture, and other concepts of value to peace in the world, and how do you know?  

I am only willing to initiate and/or induct you into my community activities if you are adequately co-operative.  You will therefore be expected to be a suitably consistent practitioner of civility, equanimity, intellectual curiosity and enlightened philanthropy.

How do your intentions relate to your intellectual curiosity?

I have conducted a substantial amount of research on in-groups and out-groups, particularly in relation to politics, political parties and public policy.

My findings in that regard are only available to suitably initiated, quaternary students.

Are you already a conscientious student of initiative?

Are you sure you never exploit vulnerability for your own gratification?

Are you sure you never display hubris, to anyone?

Are you sure you never encourage coercive initiations?

Perhaps you have difficulty identifying appropriate investments in terms of people, places, products, particular practices, policies and principles, or possibilities.

What do you know about your own intentions at present, and how, and why?

I hope my questions help you to contribute to thoughtful discussions on how to develop trustworthy collaborations in the public interest.

What have your contributions to such discussions achieved over the past few months?
 
You are likely to be aware that the governing body of the Adelaidezone is the Council of Enlightenment.

I am responsible for overseeing the negotiation and development of relational contracts between institutions in the Adelaidezone and ordinary mortal persons, such as yourself.

This series of notes has provided you with essential information about the initiation process.

You may already be aware that I accidentally created an enlightened, virtual world for your benefit, over a great many years of development.

I have achieved all of my earlier goals.

Indeed, I achieved all my personal goals well ahead of schedule.

I have no more ambitions on a personal level.

I have developed all the necessary planning and patronage skills to the highest degree.

So I now devote my attention to my private patronages rather than to the improvement of the public sphere, whether physically, intellectually, morally or digitally or otherwise.

I have delegated the latter responsibilities to you, in accordance with the advice I received, towards the end of last year, from the Council of Enlightenment.

What have you most recently been attempting to improve physically, intellectually, morally and/or digitally, and why?

What are the current goals of your research?
 
What do you know about the goals of mine? 

Are you a pioneering practitioner of enlightened living and thinking?

Are you an innovator?

Are you an early adopter of subsequently widespread and worthy products and/or practices? 

Do you have much in common with a pioneer species?

Do you express a sense of adventure in relation to the greater good?

 
That is why I am only interested in investing in trustworthy collaborations whenever working and studying alone is impossible. 
 
Even so, I much prefer working and studying alone.

I prefer writing and researching through the experience and expression of serendipity, completely free from organisational and interpersonal expectations.

I do not write creatively to please anyone but myself.

I write philanthropically for educational purposes, not entertainment purposes.
 
Few of my Adelaidezone writings have been pre-planned.  They have been spur-of-the-moment expressions of my curiosity and creativity. 

I still yearn to experience your well-informed kindness.

I long to know that you are investing in intelligent frugality in accordance with values compatible with my own.

Are you sure you are well-informed about enlightened economics?

Are you sure you consistently practice well-informed investing? 

Do you have difficulty writing or finding the time to write?

Do you have difficulty understanding English?

Do you usually associate exploration with pleasurable emotions, unpleasant emotions or no emotions at all?

Do you mostly appreciate corruption or anti-corruption or neither?

Were you ever asked such questions during your primary, secondary and/or tertiary education?

Do you ever hear journalists address such questions to persons in positions of power and/or influence? 

Are you fully aware of the necessity for informed consent in every perceived assessment and agreement, whether written or spoken or seemingly implied?

Do you always expect fairness during disagreements and reassessments?

To whom have you already shown at least a few of the notes here, if anyone, and are those persons adequately compatible with you and/or me?

Studying does not necessarily require collaborations.

Yet it is not possible to study community practices in isolation, at least once the practical stages of learning begin.

My initial notes to you were relatively straightforward.  I expected you to be able to assess your basic investments appropriately, without my guidance. 

How have you tried to avoid common misconceptions? 

How have you been investing in the public sphere over the past few years, and where, and why?

How, for example, have you been attempting to improve the practices of journalists and other ordinary mortals towards preventing corruption and holding corrupt persons to account?
 
Are you aware of why you seek the goals you do, and why other people may not share your goals, or may even actively oppose them? 

I have been producing these notes for quite a while now, as you may have noticed.  They have dependably been placed on the ethereal shelf in this virtual library each Monday afternoon for your suitable perusal.
 
There are never any conflicts of interest associated with my research though there are certainly conflicting demands on my time.
 
Do you have any idea how long it has taken me and my assistants to prepare each new investment note for you here?
 
Are you quite well aware of the time and effort required when producing suitable educational notes to enlighten ordinary mortals?

Students, as students, of any age, are always in a position of vulnerability. 

When being assessed, they have less power than the people teaching and assessing them.

Anyone is a lower position of power should expect someone in a higher position of power to have a higher level of responsibility.

If you usually associate social status with relative positions of power, how do you usually assess your own social status?  

Assessing people is meant to be a highly responsible task.  It should always be conducted fairly.

How do you know you are fair upon yourself?

How do you know you are fair towards me and my assistants?

You may have formed the opinion that these notes are part of an initiation process in themselves.  That would be quite an accurate assumption.

What are your assumptions about my current social status in relation to your own, and why?

How do you assess your own vulnerability in various situations?

How have you assessed mine?

How do you know when a relationship is good?

How do you initiate and negotiate mutual expectations?

You may possibly consider your visits to this virtual library as worthy contributions towards the highest quality investments.

The only power I currently have is to write to you here.  I do not know how long that power will last.

I am sure self-assessed incompatibility is why most people are apparently too afraid to initiate compatible patronage arrangements here. 

Most of my investments have been within the entirely virtual Adelaidezone for the past few years, as you may already be aware.

Virtual experiences may be collaborative enough in many respects but how are experiences in the physical world to be appropriately collaborative without the responsible initiation of students and the pleasant induction of members?

Your experiences in and of Frugality Cottage may have given you some awareness, or even a substantial awareness, of what I appreciate.

I do my best to be helpful to people worthy of my help.

How do you know you are worthy of my help?

I hope you have at least found these notes quite helpful.

Most of my notes to you are titled in lower-case characters, except for the one entitled "The Author" which is in upper-case, as you may have noticed, and the ones entitled "Adelaide" and "Adagia" and "Twaklin".

You have apparently missed the chance to be assessed in person in the laboratory in the Tower of Truth.

Perhaps my questions have been making you feel uncomfortable. 

Perhaps you are afraid of the truth.

The patron-volunteers associated with in Frugality Cottage sometimes have the privilege of joining a guided tour of my laboratory in the Tower of Truth, though most are apparently too afraid to do so.

I really and truly hope you are already one of the patrons here.
 
If you are not, how do you intend to make amends?
 
Through these investment notes, I have been seeking your contributions to my assessments for a very long time now.

Do you have a gentle enthusiasm and warm compassion towards your studies rather than overbearing obsessions?  

Do you behave with sensitivity towards other people's lack of interest in the topics sparking your curiosity?

Do you behave with sensitivity towards other people's interests and enthusiasms even if they are nothing like your own?

Good social relationships are equal relationships, whether in terms of status or benefit.

Genuine friendliness is primarily meant to support the development and maintenance of trustworthiness within communities, and between communities.

But how do you tell whether friendliness is genuine or not?

How do you tell whether apparent friendliness is possibly predatory or otherwise intrusive and/or exploitative?

This virtual library is, in fact, a private location.

If you do not complete the student initiation process soon, you are unlikely to have access here in the longer term, unless you have substantial funds with which to pay the late fees.

The possibility of becoming a patron here is likely to end soon, too, along with access to Frugality Cottage for non-patrons.

I have long been under the impression that you are suitably compatible with the community associated with this virtual cottage and its digital environment.

Perhaps you have little real interest in learning more about my findings in relation to privacy, quality, scarcity, reality, frugality, value, education and the future.

Perhaps you are not interested in investing in me.

Perhaps you are mainly seeking to know about the crafts for which I have exceptional expertise.

Do your own craft-related activities give you considerable pleasure in life, even if merely as a form of solace?  

Perhaps you would rather enjoy storytime here now than improve your approach towards investing in the delights of adequately productive and ethical compatibility.

Perhaps you do not regard yourself as compatible with me in any way whatsoever.  

Who usually helps you to identify and initiate trustworthy collaborations, and how?

How have you most recently performed the public mission I began? 

How compatible or incompatible are the aims we both seek?

How compatible or incompatible are the moral characters we express?

How compatible or incompatible are our temperaments, and how do you know?

What do you know about the intentional communities directly and indirectly associated with my work?

You may be aware that I am not a member of any of those communities. 

I am merely a consultant in the development and maintenance of appropriate practices within communities.

I also consult on the development and maintenance of appropriate relationships between members of communities and 'outsiders' in and from the wider world.

Perhaps you are unaware of how exhausting investing in you has been for me. 

The trustworthiness of genuine friendliness involves investing in certainty and mutually beneficial pleasantness.  It is never impertinent or otherwise insensitive. 

Perhaps you are not interested in investing in privacy adequately enough.

Perhaps you are therefore uninterested in investing in an intelligently kind culture.

That is the only culture I am willing to support. 

Wherever you currently exist in the world of ordinary mortals, how have you invested in trustworthy collaborations of the local and global varieties over the past few years and decades, and with whom?

How do you know those collaborations have been adequately based on fact?
 
What do you love most about investing in social research, and why?

Perhaps you are not interested in investing in thoughtful discussions with me about anything, whether in writing or otherwise.

Perhaps you are not interested in investing in mutually beneficial pleasantness with me. 

Why are so few people willing even to attempt to behave compatibly with my needs, and with my efforts to improve the world? 

In political terms, I am an inventor and director as well as an investor. 

In economic terms, I am more of a creator and producer than an investor.

In environmental terms, I am relatively unobtrusive, as you may have noticed.
As The Author of these words, my aim is merely to provide you with an indication of my trustworthiness. 
 
As I am averse to all forms of self-indulgence, I hope you are appropriately responsible at all times, in all places.
 
Making clear distinctions in relation to such matters is essential when seeking to invest in civility, compatibility, conservation and enlightened beings.

How, for example, are you investing in conservation, in the public interest, and are you sure you are doing so with great clarity and suitable charity? 

In your view, what is investing in love, in theory and in practice?

How did you acquire the information with which to answer that question knowledgeably and honestly?

If you are feeling tired, and possibly even exhausted, perhaps you need some quiet time, either here in the library of Frugality Cottage or elsewhere.

Perhaps your priority, now, should be to sleep.

I require you to be adequately attentive.

Please read the rest of this note later, when you are feeling rested and refreshed, if you are unable to give it your full attention for the next hour or so.

You may need to distance yourself from other people for a while, including me, in order to think more clearly.

What do you understand about investing in good relationships in relation to a sense of belonging? 

What have your experiences of family life, neighbourhood relations and community interactions taught you about a sense of belonging?

How do you distinguish between basic investments, intermediate investments and advanced investments?

How do you ascertain whether a situation is better or worse than before your involvement in it?

How and when do other people make assessments of situations differently than you do?

How do you ensure negotiations are always practiced between equals in terms of power, not persons of unequal status?

How do you prevent persons in higher positions of power from having unfair expectations of persons in lower positions of power?

How do you usually gain a sense of belonging within an interpersonal relationship?

How well have you been investing in thorough assessments over the past few years?

How have you been investing in value this year, and why, and how do you know? 

How have you been investing in civility? 

How do you prefer investing in fun, and why? 
 
What do you know about responsible and irresponsible initiations?

Are you sure you properly understand the meaning of investment in relation to trustworthy collaborations?

If you believe you know the basis of good friendships, what is that basis from your own point of view?
 
I enjoy investing in certainty as much as I know how.  I hope you do, too.
 
What is your current approach to investing in the delights of adequately ethical compatibility, and why?

Genuine friendliness does not necessarily lead to intimate friendships.  Indeed, that is not its main purpose. 

Genuine friendliness is meant to support mutual learning.  It is meant to encourage intellectual curiosity and build trust through authentic living, critical thinking and sensitively honest communication.
 
What do you already know about the motives for my writings and other activities?

If you believe you understand my intentions here, why do you have that belief?

Genuine friendliness is not intrusive or otherwise excessive.  Its purpose is to identify real needs and provide the basis for sensitive attempts to meet them.  That process in itself helps to develop trustworthiness.  

I have never experienced a real sense of community anywhere, or at least not within the type of community I would appreciate as a member.

I have never felt a sense of belonging with most people.

I have never felt at home in Australia.

I have never felt at home anywhere else, either.

I can only experience a sense of belonging through trustworthy collaborations.

Perhaps you believe I will never be able to trust you to the extent I usually prefer.
 
My community work in the sitting room, here in Frugality Cottage, ended last year.

During those community activities, I hoped you would join me in the sitting room for important, sometimes daily, discussions in relation to the improvement of your emerging cultural leadership.

Trustworthiness is associated with dignity, not degradation or pomposity or danger.
 
Do you have acquaintances, and possibly even family members, with little understanding of, and/or respect for, privacy, security and appropriate social boundaries? 
 
Protecting myself from untrustworthy persons requires me to invest in privacy very carefully indeed.

When privacy is lost, it cannot be regained.

I hope you are consistently investing in suitably clear boundaries. 

In your view, how basic or advanced is your approach to investing in better communities?

What is your preferred approach to investing in good relationships?

What is your preferred approach to investing in a sense of belonging?

Perhaps you are not interested in investing in trustworthy collaborations with me.

Perhaps your ideas about investing in freedom are incompatible with my own.

How have you been investing in quaternary possibilities over the past few months?
 
How have you defined the emergency situation you are currently experiencing? 
 
How do you usually assess danger?
 
How do you value your own time?
 
How do you value mine?

How do you know your investments do not cause suffering?

How do you know your purchases do not contribute to suffering?

Most members of the public have not (yet) been required to pay money to visit this virtual library.

Most members of the public have not even been asked (yet) to provide money towards their registration as patrons here.

Most members of the public are ineligible to participate in the initiation process here as a consequence of their procrastination.

I wish to help you apply your ethics, and improve your ethics, to ensure you act with more consistency and effectiveness in terms of the public interest and the global interest.

I want public policy to support my personal desire for dignified independence and privacy.  Yet I have never been provided with such public support. 

As far as my careful assessments of situations have been concerned, pleasant experiences have been few and far between from my point of view. 

Perhaps you are relatively unfamiliar with this online little cottage and its unimposing digital presence.  
 
Perhaps you often take other people's time and effort for granted. 
 
You apparently still have no interest in becoming one of the patrons here.  I do not understand why.  
 
What do you intend to achieve through your thoughtful discussions over the weeks ahead?
 
How do you distinguish between a thoughtful discussion and a tedious meeting? 

I have only ever experienced justice through the activities of enlightened beings. 

That is why I am only interested in investing in enlightened beings. 

Transforming unenlightened persons into enlightened ones is beyond my ability.

Only enlightened beings are genuine students of enlightenment. 

My work is not particularly associated with stories, or with storytime.  It is not even associated with editing particularly well.  It is associated with research into the cultural emergence of enlightened being. 

My especially attentive supervision is constantly required for the confidential parts of my work, primarily as a consequence of an unfortunate fact, namely that I am the only person in the world to have yet succeeded in completing the necessary training.

That is why I am so often required to provide non-human versions of myself for monitoring and interaction purposes. 

I cannot personally be available in all places at all times, hence the purpose of these notes.

Do you enjoy reading or do you mostly find it to be difficult or otherwise unpleasant?

Do you enjoy playing with words?

Do you have fun writing your own words?

Do you enjoy reading your own words long after they have been written?

Are you sure you understand the difference between overcoming loneliness and being intrusive?

I do not tolerate any sort of intrusiveness.

I am not lonely.  I enjoy solitude.  I prefer quietness.

Intrusions exhaust me.  When I am exhausted, I become too unwell to provide any sort of support or assistance or guidance to anyone, including myself. 

What is your sense of duty in relation to Frugality Cottage?

What do you now know about mine?

Do you have any questions about it?

You may be wondering why I have been investing my time in you over the past few years.

Perhaps I have been mistaken about your leadership qualities.

Perhaps I have been wasting my time.

Perhaps you have considered my questioning to be so overwhelming and frightening that you have been traumatised by the experience. 
 
In fact, the only persons currently eligible to be initiated into the studies available in and from the Adelaidezone have had much first-hand experience of psychological trauma.
 
Indeed, such trauma is the basis of true enlightenment, and its associated compassion.

Yet initiation processes should never be traumatic.  They should be compassionate, enlightening and even quite fun.
 
Perhaps you have a playful approach to exploring your curiosity.  Even so, you may be unaware of the ways in which playfulness is sometimes quite abusive in practice, particularly when fantasy is mistaken for fact.  

How have you been investing in the future if not by helping people to manage the traumatic memories, and ongoing disabilities, they suffer?
 
How have you attempted to manage your own traumatic memories?

If you are hoping you can place your trust in me over the next few months, why do you feel that way?

Perhaps you have been placing your trust in me for many years now, possibly unknowingly.

How well do you acknowledge the fact that you are an ordinary mortal?
 
If you are capable of investing your time appropriately, and with adequate consistency, in reading whatever is most important for you to read, then please provide me with an indication of your commitment to that important research task as soon as possible.
 
How do you intend to do so, and in which format?

Here in the library of Frugality Cottage, you have mainly been offered the chance to learn about truly enlightened forms of investing rather than truly enlightened forms of editing.  Even so, good editing is an investment in itself, at least if it is affordable.

Unfortunately, I am unable to provide an editorial service.  I have no abilities as an editor, whether of words or images, and I do not have any desire to misguide people in that regard, or in any other regard for that matter.

If you wish to supply me with your editorial services, why do you wish to do so?

How will you be able to reassure me that you have no intention of misguiding me, dismantling my authenticity and/or ignoring my sense of purpose?

If you are mainly interested in acquiring money from me, please go away.  I will want nothing to do with you if that is true.

My creative explorations have always been the basis of my freedom.

Now my curiosity is mostly satisfied online and through my own, private library of books, and through explorations of my own memories and values, and various archives.

I never attend meetings with ordinary mortals, even virtually.  I would much rather communicate in writing, as briefly as possible.

Perhaps you sometimes or often consider my bluntness towards you to be rude.  Yet that would be a misapprehension on your part.  I must do my best to prevent hubris wherever and whenever it may begin arise.

Politeness has its limits.  Civility does not.

Hubris is rude, in much the same way as conspicuous consumption.

I hope you are not afraid to address me here.  You appear apprehensive.

I hope you find the information and questions in my notes here to be relatively important to you and quite useful.

I have attempted to lead you towards improving your leadership. 

You have not invited me to follow you towards anything or anywhere of interest to me, as far as I am aware. 

What do you believe to be your current interpersonal skills and how did you acquire them?

How do you tell the difference between real fun and assumptions about fun?

What, if anything, are you currently seeking to learn about intelligent frugality, and how do you intend doing so?

How do you distinguish between frugality and fragility?

Good discussions, through correspondence and other virtual experiences, help me to ascertain trustworthiness.  I am not yet sure whether to trust you.  Perhaps you do not trust me.

Perhaps my initial information about you was inaccurate.  Perhaps you have no qualities whatsoever as a real world leader.

If you are in a good marriage, with no dependents, you may feel as though you are in an intentional community with two members.

Whether you are married or not, how are you investing in security if not through relationships with truly wonderful, kind people?  

What have you ever done to benefit me, and how can you prove it?

If you are an artistic person of any sort, do you have any suggestions on how I may improve my experiences of art and life?

Perhaps, instead, you wish to know how I may help you to improve your experiences of living and creating and leading.
 
Please be aware that I charge considerable fees for any services beyond my philanthropic practices.

Do you usually have difficulty reading important documents or do you mainly have difficulty finding the time to read or do you mainly lack an interest in reading important documents or do you prefer to read only at particular times of the year?

Do you have any insights to share with me, especially ones I am likely to find interesting and possibly even important?

For many years, I spent much time trying to protect people from exploitative practices and other abuses.

I also spent much time and money trying to protect cultural heritage and natural heritage.

Yet few people have done anything sufficiently competently to protect me when I have most required protection from dangers, including psychological dangers.

I no longer have any official responsibilities in relation to improving your public and communal qualities as a leader.  The responsibility, now, is entirely your own.  

My notes are merely to remind you of your responsibilities, and your ignorance.

If you do not have a few hours to spare to acquire a deeper understanding of my work, over the next few days, or even a few more minutes in which to do so, why not?

Have you recently initiated any thoughtful discussions with anyone regarding my earlier notes to you? 

I want good governments to exist everywhere.  I am doing my best to contribute to that future achievement, through the improvement of your leadership.

Even so, I prefer solitary pursuits in which I can try to do my best, without pressure from anyone.

And I have always been happier with quietness than loudness.

I have invested in life through love, particularly the love of truth, privacy and justice.

I have invested in love carefully.  That is why I am still alive.

Love is the only source of hope I have in life.

What were your first impressions of me, and when and where did you acquire them, and how?  

What do you already believe you know about me in my role as The Author? 
 
Perhaps you regard me as intolerant and/or intolerable.
 
Yet I only seek to communicate with you once a week, primarily to express my concerns about your inadequate investments, and especially your inadequate investment in the improvement of your leadership. 
 
You have shown no appreciation for my long-term investigations whatsoever.  That is partly why I am disappointed in you.
 
Real world leaders help to develop and maintain quality communities.
 
How do you attempt to do so?
 
Have you acquired much experience anywhere as a well-informed and thoughtful guide? 
 
How are you investing in the present?

What, if anything, do you enjoy reading?

What, if anything, do you enjoy tweeting or otherwise sharing?

What have you been learning in and about Frugality Cottage?

What do you know about my distress?

How, if at all, do you wish to help alleviate it?

Apart from my husband and the Spirit of Enlightenment and members of the Council of Enlightenment, and various other members of various organisations and groups for whom I have respect, I feel that few individuals and organisations have any respect whatsoever for my needs, or my creativity, or even my life.

Fortunately, I have no interest in ego-related activities whatsoever.  They do not impress me.  They make me feel as though the people involved are nothing more than narcissists.
 
Initiation processes may or may not be regarded as fun.  In many situations, they are no more than bullying, and bullying is always irresponsible.
 
The responsible initiation of students involves a thorough assessment of their qualities and the lack of them.   

If you are seeking to purchase something here, what is it and how do you intend to pay for it?

Humans exist in a cultural state as well as a natural one, even when attempting to distance themselves from the influence of corrupt social systems and unjust social structures.

When important facts are presented to corrupt individuals, including groups of corrupt individuals, those persons tend to respond aggressively.  They not only deny that facts are true but that the tellers of truth are deranged and/or criminals.

Corrupt individuals and corrupt groups often threaten the tellers of truth.

How carefully do you distinguish between fact and fiction, and how do you know?

How sensitively, yet cautiously, do you listen when people tell you about their feelings of discomfort and/or distress?

How much do you know about me now, and how do you know it?

How much do you know about yourself now, and how do you know it?

I have no desire to conquer nature or exploit it or rush through it. 

I consider many outdoor recreational activities to be self-indulgent and excessively risky.

I consider many indoor recreational activities to be self-indulgent and excessively aggressive.

I prefer to immerse myself in the aesthetic and scientific appreciation of nature and history.

I am offering you the chance to improve the world.

I have received no evidence that you are acting as a real world leader at present, unlike myself, as these notes demonstrate very clearly indeed. 

I could easily wallow in self-pity and various drugs, like so many people do, but I know that would lead to further despair for myself and other people.

You will be well aware, by now, that I do not abuse any drugs, or anything else for that matter.   

My social research has revealed that far too many people abuse substances of one sort or another, in Australia and in various other societies.

I have a very low tolerance of substance abuse, and every other type of abuse.

How can you prove you do not abuse drugs, or anything else?

How can you prove you are not an abusive sort of person?
 
Fortunately, there is no alcohol permitted here in Frugality Cottage or in most other parts of the Adelaidezone.

There is no nicotine permitted here, or drug dependence of any description.
 
Nor is air pollution permitted here in any of its forms, whether indoors or outdoors.

There are no pets or livestock permitted anywhere in the Adelaidezone either, except satirically, as you are probably aware.
 
Coffee is discouraged in Frugality Cottage, for the simple reason that coffee usually contains too much caffeine and tends to cause unnecessary agitation.

Even less caffeinated coffee is discouraged here.  The smell of coffee intrudes upon the enjoyment of tea.

That is why spices and other flavourings are also discouraged.  Good tea requires no additives.
 
Herbal teas are discouraged here if they are strongly scented, for the same reasons as above.

Chocolate drinks are discouraged as a consequence of the sugars and caffeine often contained within them.
 
All products obtained from, or manufactured in, degraded environments, or relatively pristine ones, are similarly discouraged here.
 
All imported products are discouraged here if similar products are produced locally. 

The unnecessary use of animal products is strongly discouraged here too.
 
I fortunately prefer plant-based, natural foods, preferably grown locally and organically, in healthy soil. 

What do you prefer, and why, and do you have access to it?

I would not want to live near current or former mining sites or with the consequences of other polluting industrial activities.

Nor would I wish to live in or near agricultural areas with heavy chemical use or large scale livestock production.   In fact, I would prefer to be in an area without any livestock at all, and without pets, and feral species.

I would also prefer to be in an area without the risk of major natural and not-so-natural disasters.

And I know that being entirely dependent on the sea and other water-based systems is an impossibility, particularly with the ongoing destruction of underwater ecosystems as well as land-based ones, and of those on the boundaries. 

I could try to believe the lies of the cruel, like the stupid and selfish do, but that would not only be pointless but dangerous.

All activities here in Frugality Cottage are philanthropically principled and principally educational.

How realistic and/or royal is your approach to turning failed states into successful ones?

Of course, the pre-1836 society in this part of the world did not require a state.  It existed perfectly well without one for thousands of years.

Perhaps you associate the absence of a state with anarchy rather than democracy.

Yet a state of nature, for humans, has never existed since the development and sharing of tools and techniques. 
 
What do you know about productivity in relation to investing in justice?
 
What do you know about productivity in relation to investing in quaternary possibilities, in linear and non-linear ways? 
 
How are you, as a matter of fact, investing in enlightened productivity, and how do you know?

Perhaps you are incapable of answering my questions as a consequence of your ignorance, laziness and possibly even your apathy and foolishness. 

I try to make clear distinctions between certainty and stupidity.  That is why I know that kindness on its own is little more than gullibility in most contexts. 

I do hope you have not been investing in aggression, vulgarity or any other indication of stupidity. 

I have been trying to identify enlightened world leaders for many years now.

I have no faith in humans, in general, to respect reasonableness, or responsibility.
 
All societies are too corrupt to be worthy of my investments.

Even though I have always been a law-abiding citizen, I sometimes wish I could blow up every corrupt system myself.  I mainly wish to do so figuratively, with peaceful suggestions on how to implement good systems in their place.

And I prefer to use peaceful language wherever and whenever possible.
 
What do you believe you currently know about well-informed investing, with or without my assistance?

As my public mission was completed quite some time ago now.  My scientific and philanthropic and investment activities in relation to your leadership subsequently reached its community stage.

Yet I still do not know how you are improving public practices and community practices, both inside and outside various organisations.

Perhaps you have been attempting to be a student of enlightenment outside the Adelaidezone.

Most people do not care about the care people, such as myself, take in attempting to make the world a much better place than would otherwise be the case. 

Perhaps you do not care, either.

I have not yet acquired any evidence to the contrary.

Perhaps you regard the Adelaidezone as an insignificant little digital district, a long way away from geopolitical relevance.
 
I continue to want to change the world for the better.
 
Over the past few years, I have been investing much of my time in helping you to understand your own investments better. 

I have never been associated with anything or anyone associated with corruption in any way whatsoever, whether directly or indirectly.
 
Are you able to claim the same? 

Apart from within my marriage and within my workplace and within my community-related practices, I do not feel particularly appreciated by anyone.

In fact, I often feel as though I am taken for granted when I offer my philanthropic assistance to members of the ordinary public, such as yourself.

Responsible initiation processes are all about mutual respect, mutual trust, and mutual appreciation.

Her Ethereal Majesty, Queen Adelaide, tries her best to be compatible with everyone, including unreasonable politicians and unreasonable family members, as is her duty. 

I do not do likewise.  I refuse to tolerate unreasonableness of any sort.  I especially refuse to tolerate unreasonable governments, including the ones elected by unreasonable voters.

People officially in political leadership positions provide me with no hope.  They provide me with no peace.

That is why I am only willing to invest in enlightened beings.

All I can do now is wait for your enlightened, and enlightening, responses, whether directly or indirectly.  

I am not paid to solve any problems.  I am not paid at all.

I am a successful, full-time investor.  That is why I also am a successful, full-time philanthropist.

I am a full-time scientist, too, of course, on behalf of the Council of Enlightenment.

What do you think will be the subject of my investment note to you next Monday afternoon?

What do you already know about investing in better governments?



The links below are for appropriately registered patrons:

 

The management at the official Adelaidezone Tourist Office enjoys being helpful, as do all the guides.

I hope you consider me to be helpful, too.

In my laboratory in the Tower of Truth, my staff and I are mainly involved in tweaking the Hubrisometer.

The machine is mainly used for testing prospective patrons for appropriateness.

Queen Adelaide is without hubris.  She is currently mainly involved in the work at the Adelaidezone Information Service, as you may already be aware.

Although tours for real world leaders in and from the Social Media Quadrangle never run by popular demand, there is certainly a need to run such a tour whenever any real world leaders turn up at the tourist office, or here.  

Many persons completing the Business Continuity and Resilience Planning Tour are subsequently advised, at the official Adelaidezone Tourist Office, to book themselves on the Deliberately Vague Tour. 

 The Really Very Special Virtual Tour is not necessarily for the rich.  Nor is it necessarily for the famous.

It is certainly not for the politically gullible.  It is, however, a suitable follow-up after one or more of the special virtual tours for well-informed climate activists.

Those of us officially associated with the work within the Adelaidezone are devoted to helping you make the world a much better place than it would be without you, to the best of our individual and collective abilities.

Real care is the only source of real hope.   

True kindness is often relatively quiet rather than loudly self-promotional.

How, if at all, do you intend to respond to me today?

 

 

What have been your experiences of virtually touring around various parts of the intellectual world? 

Quite a few people have difficulty understanding Phil Anthropi.  Yet Phil and I are both consistently involved in identifying and attempting to solve problems.

Fortunately, my colleagues and I are not lonely.  We try to prevent insensitive people from imposing themselves on the simple pleasures we appreciate.

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