Anyone who has been reading this blog in recent weeks knows that I am in the founding stages of starting a non-profit organization committed to changing the world and affecting as many people as possible in the process.

When you think about it that’s a pretty vague description of what No Motives is looking to accomplish. Actually, the mission statement will probably be tweaked as this process goes on, but the focus of the organization will remain to change the world and affect as many people as possible in the process. Doing it all the while without any sort of selfish ambition, any desire to do it for a certain religious sect, or do it for any other reason then just because.

You see I believe whole-heartedly that as human-beings we rely heavily on each other, I won’t deny that. That’s not to say that we have to constantly be surrounding each other with our presence, but think about it for a second. Say one night you realize you need fish food. You walk out of your house, close your door, which while mostly mechanically assembled, was loaded by a human being on to a truck that was driven by a human being. You lock your door, with a copy of your house key that was cut by an associate (coincidentally a human being) at the local hardware store. You get into your car, which was mostly manufactured by machines, but was at some point driven onto a ship, or rail car by a human being, and then driven off and loaded on some sort of vehicle that will be directed by a human being to a car lot, where a human being sold it to you. You drive to the store, stopping to fill up your vehicle with fuel that was refined by a human being, at a gas station that has a human being attending to it. You then continue on your journey to the store for fish food, you get to the store, have to ask for help to find the fish food, a human being who works at the store helps you, you grab the food you want, check-out using the automated cash registers, which need a human being to attend to them, and then go back home.

Do you get my point?

While we are largely becoming a mechanically dependent society, we still need each other for survival. I feel that it will ALWAYS be this way, even if it the needs change. That’s why changing the world we live in and affecting our fellow man is so important to me. Not because I’m a Christ-follower, activist, politician, author, musician, or anything else, but simply because.
Because it’s the way it’s suppose to be, and you shouldn’t need an agenda or any sort of motivation to change the world and make a difference in peoples lives.

I have in the last month became a huge fan of the band Flobots. If you are not familiar with their music I encourage you to check out their website where you can listen to some of it. Their music is empowering and is going to change this world. They have a clear mission and according to their website their music “is a fire-breathing rallying cry for all free-thinking individuals fed-up with the violence and apathy that have thus far defined the new millennium.” I’d love for No Motives to partner with them and any other band, or organization that wants to make a difference in this world in whatever way they see fit. I feel this is the direction that No Motives is headed in, that is to be a support organization that helps advance folks like the Flobots missions.

Freethought is the idea that you should neither accept nor reject ideas proposed as truth without recourse to knowledge and reason. It is striving to build your beliefs on the basis of facts, scientific inquiry, and logical principles, independent of any factual/logical fallacies or intellectually-limiting effects of authority, cognitive bias, conventional wisdom, popular culture, prejudice, sectarianism, tradition, urban legend, and all other dogmatic or otherwise fallacious principles.(1) I’m finding that I am becoming more of a free-thinker on a daily basis. I’m also finding that interaction with other free-thinkers is hard to come by. But that’s another entry for another day.

I’m excited to continue the birth of No Motives and I’m excited to see the things that the organization is going to accomplish. If you haven’t please check out the Flobots, go purchase their cd if you like them, and get involved in their street team. We need more musicians out there who are making an impact changing the world.

We are building up a new world
Do not sit idly by
Do not remain neutral
Do not rely on this broadcast alone
We are only as strong as our signal
There is a war going on for your mind
If you are thinking you are winning
Resistance is victory
Defeat is impossible
Your weapons are already in hand
Reach within you and find the means by which to gain your freedom
Fight with tools
Your fate and that of everyone you know depends on it
– from We are Winning by Flobots

One Response to “Inspired by the Flobots”

1. Ken Storey Says:
   June 21st, 2008 at 2:14 am

   I find it funny I get fish food the night of the 19th and then the 20th you blog about fish food. While I was at the store buying the fish food they were stocking the shelves, I walked around looking at how many people were working. I bet I saw two dozen people stocking shelves, strange how I realize it while buying fish food and then you talk about.

   I can’t wait for No Motives to launch. I’m right there with you, count me in!

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