“The more you learn about humanity the more you realize that all human beings are the same. This frees you from the chains of inadequacy. You realize that everybody has the same potential, and that greatness is nothing but a choice. Anybody can choose to become somebody who matters.”
Saving the world is a noble cause.
But it’s not easy.
Especially when everybody’s expecting somebody else to show up and save the day.
But unfortunately there is nobody else.
There’s only us.
And we’re all the same.
Which is insane when you think about it.
Because we live in a society that is fuelled by trying to make us feel different.
Fuelled by trying to make us feel like we’re not enough.
So then we’ll pay them to fix us.
The psycho economy we’ve built is actually incredibly sociopathic.
We destroy people emotionally so they can pay us to rebuild them.
Think of how many things we spend our money on in order to try and feel better about ourselves.
How much marketing is dedicated to making us feel like we’re just not enough.
But it’s a lie, because we’re all the same.
We’re all just human beings.
Just a bunch of scared little monkeys trying to do our best.
There were two major moments in history that caused humanity to fall apart.
Two separate movements, that were started by two separate men.
One came along in 1938 to completely disrupt the way that we think.
And the other came along in 1970 to completely disrupt the way that we act.
Both of these men were just fighting for what they thought was right.
Never understanding the true consequence of what they were doing.
On April 18, 1938 the world got introduced to a man who changed how we see humanity.
And over the past eighty years, there have been millions of people who have worked incredibly hard to keep what this man stood for alive and strong.
Even though he’s been hailed as a hero by many, he is the reason why evil has the ability to triumph, while good men stand by and do nothing.
This man has left us feeling much too inadequate to be the change we wish to see in the world.
So we are always just waiting for somebody else to come save us.
Because on April 18, 1938 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster introduced a man named Clark Kent to the world.
Also known as Superman, he is the one who’s job it is to show up and save the day.
And this pervasive narrative has been continuously pounded into our heads for the past eighty years.
That it’s somebody else’s job to show up and save the day.
Whether it’s Superman, Spiderman, the Incredible Hulk, or any of the other fictional superheroes, they reinforce a narrative that normal people must wait to be saved.
Because what do all superheroes have in common?
First of all, a superhero must have super powers.
That’s a big one.
Can’t be a superhero if you don’t have super powers.
Second of all, a superhero must commit violence.
Usually in a battle to the death.
So if I don’t have super powers and I don’t want to be violent, how could I ever save the day?
But this is a false logic that has led society down a path of complacency.
Because nobody has super powers, and there’s nobody showing up to save us.
We must save ourselves.
Not that superheroes don’t exist in real life, because they most certainly do.
Mahatma Gandhi was a superhero.
So were Mother Teresa and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Because a true hero is just somebody who dedicates their life to helping those who cannot help themselves.
And the word “super” just means a large quantity.
Just look at super-sized fries, super-big gulps, and super-max prisons.
So then a real life superhero doesn’t really need to have super powers or engage in violence.
They merely need to dedicate their lives to helping those who cannot help themselves, but on a massive scale.
This is something that almost anybody can do.
Because all superheroes start out the same way.
They see an injustice in the world they just can’t turn away from.
They don’t want to be the hero.
But they know that somebody needs to deal with the situation.
And that nobody else is showing up to save the day.
The new narrative of our society needs to reflect the fact that there are many injustices in the world.
And that nobody is coming to save us.
We are the only potential superheroes that exist, whether we like it or not.
The second man responsible for the current state of our society is not a fictional character.
He’s a Nobel Prize winning American economist.
In the 1960’s we had a hippie revolution promoting the values of love and peace, honesty and joy, altruism and non-violence.
There was a change in what people wanted, and what people expected.
Especially from governments and institutions.
There was a loud opinion that big corporations were a large contributing factor to the demise of our society.
But in 1970, an economist named Milton Friedman stood up to set everybody straight.
And with one single statement he sent our society into an absolute tailspin.
In an article written for the New York Times, Milton quoted from his own book, which he had written in 1962.
The quote stated quite simply that a corporation has no social responsibility to the public or society.
That the only responsibility of a corporation is to increase profits for its shareholders.
This one statement was a sledgehammer to the keystone of our economic values.
And it quickly brought everything crashing down around us.
With profits being the only focal point, all other considerations were out the window.
It didn’t matter what the repercussions were, if you made a profit, then you did your job.
This greed induced sociopathic behaviour is what has turned our economy into a parasitic beast.
A carcinogenic monster that’s been ruthlessly destroying our planet and our society for the past 50 years.
The powerful “greed is good” narrative that Gordon Gekko infected us with in the eighties is just as alive today as it’s ever been.
So we have a bunch of money hungry psychopaths destroying the world, and a complacent society of helpless people waiting for somebody else to show up and save the day.
We all love superheroes, because they show up and help people.
But our society tells us that we cannot become what we love.
We all hate money hungry psychopaths, because they hurt people.
But our society tells us that we must strive to become what we hate.
Our entire lives have become a constant battle between who we are and who we’re told to be.
Is it any wonder why people are so angry and frustrated?
We’re making them play a game that they cannot win.
And we’ve locked them in a cage with no way to escape.
So now they’re just ripping each other apart and setting the world on fire.
But what if we give them the key and we change the game?
What would these people do if they had the freedom to choose their own destiny?
Who would they choose to become?
Hopefully somebody who chooses to go out and help as many people as they can.
Somebody who chooses to make a massive difference in the world.
Somebody who chooses to help serve the purpose of humanity.
We’re the only ones who can stand up and fight for the future that we wish to see.
All human beings have the same potential for greatness within them.
A greatness that gives us an incredible amount of power.
Power that we can use to go out and change the world.
That’s our purpose at Hypersonic Ventures.
To create an army of superheroes who can go out and save the world.
Social impact entrepreneurs who have the ability to help those who cannot help themselves.
We show ordinary people how to go out and do extraordinary things.
Because super powers do not exist.
Violence is not required.
And Milton Friedman was too simplistic for his own good.