Do You Believe In Mandate Of Heaven? or: Farewell to Gemini, Part 3

Do you believe in Mandate of Heaven?

I do. I'm referring to a "derived" meaning of the phrase instead of the original notion that the ruler of China is chosen (and thus blessed) by Heaven - I believe that certain individuals are indeed secretly chosen by God to complete certain tasks, and that's the reason why they are the ones who did what they've done and no one else; and because they've clearly had the mandate of Heaven, whenever they are not carrying out the task God has offered them to complete, I get slightly annoyed.

I get the same feeling when I think of Project Gemini and certain geek communities.

Project Gemini is a community that comes into being around a protocol from absolutely nowhere; I envy its creator's such abilities. It could've served to take back the Internet, or at the very least create a new one that's just as capable; but no, they've decided that Project Gemini must be this limp flaccid thing that's good for nothing other than a very limited number of things and forces developers to do gymnastics when they wanted something that's only slightly more complex. I wish that I, too, have the mandate of Heaven just like them. I wish to have the power to actually move people to action for the greater good and elevate them to the heights they'd never believe they could be at in the process, so even if I'm in a really bad state I could at least convince myself to struggle a little.

I read two blog post yesterday:

I align with most (if not all) of the views in these two blog post, and I would like to add a bit of personal tangent here. Some people would argue that there do be hackers (in the word's original sense) and they just need to look elsewhere, but I believe that (at least a good part of) the core problem is never about whether such people exist in the first place: I believe that most (if not all) the supposed-to-be modern hacker (again, in the word's original sense) or modern hacker "candidate" are way too comfortable about living a double life. It feels like they are all okay with the current state of the scene as it is because they created a separate world they can retreat into; and because they can always retreat, they will never have to work as hard and thus will never work as hard as needed to go against the "outside" world. Project Gemini, in my opinion, is the perfect example of this mentality: the Web sucked ass? It's fine, just setup a Gemini pod and hang out with the Gemini crowd; the Web could go and rot, we are safe within our social bubble here.

I dislike people who received God's eminent grace and yet casually let it go to waste like this.

What can I do? Nothing, other than picking up the jobs these people refuse to do and try to find other people who's in the same spot as mine, while praying to God for guidance or at least regards…

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