Inaugurate
a new fate
President Trump’s Inauguration is today.
Some hope for a new golden age, and they have their reasons. America and its people have enormous untapped potential that are going to waste at best and actively being used to pull ourselves down at worst.
If half, or a quarter, or a tithe could be liberated it would be a new Golden Age of an educated, free cooperative people; lots of children in happy families; healthy food and healthy bodies; a return to beauty; a proliferation of manufacturing start ups and small town innovations and an explosion of forms of innovation for social organization. Power too cheap to meter. Bounty from the sea. Terraforming wastelands on the earth. Glory.
It says something shocking that one of the most likely dreams to happen is settlements on Mars—an achievement so historic that it compares with the invention of writing or of agriculture.
Some have their doubts, and they have their reasons too. He who makes a revolution plows the sea said one disappointed leader.
But those who hope are truer to what inauguration is and should mean.
An augury was the ancient roman practice of discerning fate by observing the signs sent by the gods in the form of flights of birds in the air.
An inauguration is a request for a fate at the beginning of a new enterprise. It is in effect a request for a new fate. The old thing is done. It turned out how it turned out. Now, in an inauguration, we are doing something new enough that it deserves a destiny of its own.
That destiny, we should hope, is a new golden age.
Is it time to do an inauguration of your own?
No founding can succeed without a refounding. Whether it be a family or an informal brotherhood or an institution, there comes a time when you realize your fate has become too small and you need to create a new beginning to submit for a new fate. You need to inaugurate.
This does not mean you have to completely change everything, but you cannot inaugurate the same old thing.
Inauguration in a family is hard because the leadership, necessarily, must stay the same. Even the format of the leadership must usually stay the same.
Inauguration is a family is easy because changing the character and course of the leadership is within your power—it’s you. Impressing the new course on the people involved in a personal and intimate way is much simpler than in a large grouping.
Inauguration needs a ritual or ceremonial aspect to it.
Inauguration needs a transcendent element to it. You are reaching out into the realm of God and fate in the hopes that they reach back to you. It is a serious mistake to think that approaching these higher things should be confined to ecclesiastical organizations only.
Inauguration needs a realization that the old fate was not enough. Mediocrity often seems pretty awesome when most groupings around you are worse than mediocre.
Inaugurate. Submit for a new fate to He who sits above the stars.