{"id":6755,"date":"2025-07-16T21:04:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T04:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=6755"},"modified":"2025-07-16T21:04:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T04:04:24","slug":"back-to-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2025\/07\/back-to-the-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"back to the beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been writing most of my life. This last bit, with the chemo and everything, I let myself put my attention eslewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I remember getting in the habit of blogging in the 2000s. I wrote every day. I didn&#8217;t try to be profound. At this moment I am trying to find a way to increase my excitement and determination.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No one comes to this blog. And by no one, I mean I have less than ten visitors a week. It might be the same person. It might be a bot that is trying to figure out a way to exploit this site somehow<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>but for sure, this is not a platform to impress anyone. This is my empty corner where I can do repetitive exercises to see if i can eventually attain something I like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> And if I like it I might share it with others. I certainly don&#8217;t expect them to find it HERE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I used to get readers here. That has changed. And that&#8217;s ok.<br><br>today I hope to start a habit to get better at writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was talking about mission statements with Veronica yesterday. We had been talking about how governments formed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>families&#8211;>clans &#8211;>tribes &#8211;>nations<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>then the nations in combination with religion came up with a reason for why the ruler was the ruler<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>divine right of kings<br><br>then the enlightenment happened, and people decided not to leave leadership up to kings and elected leaders<br><br>once that was out of place, people could imagine other ways of running a society and other ideas emerged including marxism<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marxism also wants to get rid of Religion<br><br>which means a bigger overthrow of the controlling parts of societyz<br><br>the enlightenment coincided with the industrial revolution and over time this has led to corporate entities, businesses who had to create new mission statements to give a common goal to their constituents<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I shared this idea with Veronica and we looked at some fortune 500 mission statements<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are basic, recreations of common goals that used to be part of the culture. But the culture got upended<br><br>and now we have to redefine everything.<br><br>But it doens&#8217;t have a soul<br><br>Veronica said &#8220;They don&#8217;t define &#8220;best.&#8221;<br><br>All the mission statement ssay something like &#8220;to be the best provider of the thing we provide&#8221;<br><br>We dont&#8217; have a workign definition of best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been writing most of my life. This last bit, with the chemo and everything, I let myself put my attention eslewhere. I remember getting in the habit of blogging in the 2000s. I wrote every day. 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