Philosophy for the Age of Change - the Book of Zeta

What a ridiculous title! Still, there's no point being half-hearted about these things, especially when there is such competition for our attention out there.

So, what's it all about? Good question, and one that might take quite some answering. The short version is that it is about how to live a good life - good in every sense: content, useful, successful etc.

The whole zeta way of life is a good idea at the moment, as it is a toolkit for success, but it will become ever more useful as the Age of Change comes upon us - as resources run low and current lifestyles are squeezed out of existance. Success does not mean having fast cars, big houses or race horses, but rather friends, love and contentment.

Zeta is basically a state of mind, a way of looking at life, a philosophy. The only problem is that it is really hard to talk about the concepts involved without sounding either like a religious zealot or a new age etherial. Terms such as 'acceptance', 'enlightenment', 'peace', 'understanding', 'creation' and 'ketchup' are all useful and apt terms, but somehow conjure up completely the wrong atmosphere of discussion (apart from ketchup, of course). There is nothing wrong with new age or religious concepts and beliefs, it is just that zeta is possibly neither. It might be both, as it happens, or either - it doesn't actually matter & I am certainly not sufficiently enlightened to understand the fundamental workings of the universe.

Which brings us to the problem of my not being very clever, so failing horribly at expressing myself succinctly. I am also not particularly zeta myself - not charismatic, brave or assertive enough - so I can only understand the concepts through a few personal triumphs, some knowledge of zetas and through recognising my mistakes. This again makes it hard to deliver my thoughts as words of wisdom, like delicate petals blown from the tree of knowledge, rather than just incoherant blather. Hey ho.

Well, enough for now - I'll start properly next time with some actual thoughts on Being Zeta and at some point get around to talking about love, religion, sex, drugs, rocks & rolls.

It'll be worth waiting for, I promise.