“The two most important days of your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
– Mark Twain
There is a long tradition, where I’m from, of ‘doing our bit’. You could say it’s a national trait. What it seems to refer to is a willingness to ignore what would be good for ourselves in favour of the bigger picture, even if by doing so we lose out.
Often this act of contrition takes the form of sacrificing our own core values in order to placate the needs of the group, punching down our fears to ensure we don’t appear to be making a fuss, or stifling the thing we know will make us feel truly alive, because to act in such a seemingly selfish manner might well be frowned upon by those around us.
This has become particularly acute in the last 12 months, but for most of us it has been in the national psyche for as long as we or anyone we know is able to recall. There is an implied moral superiority to denying our needs in favour of the needs of ‘the greater good’. Admittedly, at the moment, those needs do not appear as horrifying as was expected of my grandfather and great-grandfather during the first and second world wars, nor as entirely, stiflingly domineering as my great-great grandmother’s Victorian domesticity. Regardless of the apparent scale, the potential side effects of the last twelve months will be more far reaching than anything that has gone before.
Restriction, as a form of control, can take many forms and no era in the modern history of our species has been more controlling than at this present time, nor have their been more ways of manifesting control upon the individual. We appear to have more freedom, more choice and more potential than ever before and in many ways that’s true, but the price we risk paying is the complete detachment, not only from our purpose and the value of our individual agency.
The Field Society was set up to explore the true nature of who we are and the purpose we are here to fulfill. We do not follow dogmatic or ideological systems. We are simply kindred spirits who are united by our need to explore and discover what may exist beyond the dome of rhetoric and belief, a beleief that has been repeated to us for generations as the only truth.
We may discover that this life is exactly what we’ve always been told it is. But what if there’s much, much more?