Take a look around you—the symptoms are undeniable. The U.S. appears to be going the way of the U.S.S.R. Just as the Soviet Union, exhausted by years of combat in Afghanistan, finally collapsed under the weight of its own clunky, slow-witted, unmanageable bureaucracy, it appears that the U.S., in the wake of its own wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, is headed in a similar direction.
Now before you denounce me as some sort of "enemy of the state"—which you might well do if you happen to be infected by the Orwellian paranoia and mass hysteria that appears to be gripping our nation—I ask you to hear me out.
From the very beginning, the American Economy has been fueled by ideas and ingenuity, imagination and innovation. It has only been thanks to ambitious entrepreneurs who have been willing to take the risk of funding creative ideas that our Society has been able to advance from the era of horse-drawn carriages to that of space flight and the internet in the space of barely one century. It has been the radical visionaries of our age—the Edisons, the Einsteins, the Marconis—who have truly been responsible for advancing our society and economy into the modern age and away from the feudal past, enabling science to triumph over primitive superstition and ignorance.
What we are seeing in our society right now—the "New Deal" of the Obama administration—is, perhaps, important to keep the economy from bleeding to death. However, it is a patch fix at best—a short-term measure to keep the U.S. from going the way of the Soviet Union, which was total disintegration.
Moving forward—in order truly to stimulate the economy and bring about true economic growth, along with jobs and opportunities—in order to restore the failing heartbeat of our society—what is needed is radical action similar to applying an AED to a heart-attack victim.
In other words, what is needed is for entrepreneurs and financiers to start valuing radical ideas and visions and to start actively funding them at an unprecedented scale.
Sure, not all of them will succeed—but if even a fraction of all genuinely creative, imaginative ideas bears fruition, the rewards to the economy as well as to investors and creative innovators alike, is bound to be significant. It is only by taking risks with big ideas and encouraging creative and imaginative thinking in our society that we can reverse the trend towards gradual degeneration, in the direction of social disintegration and/or totalitarianism, as taken by the former Soviet Union, that we currently appear to be on.
In a prior weblog post, I compared my nascent Media Company, Horizon Cybermedia, to the Apollo 11 moon mission and the moon landing. Admittedly, the comparison is somewhat far-fetched, but, nevertheless, I continue to argue that the parallels that I drew do stand. I honestly believe that my vision of what a media company can be in our modern Information Age deserves serious consideration and the opportunity to succeed—if only I could inspire an investor to believe in my vision and provide the necessary financial backing!
But continuing on the subject of the Apollo 11 mission, I believe that there is a true visionary affiliated with that mission who deserves serious consideration by our society and especially by the current administration. I am referring to the astronaut and MIT Ph.D., Dr. Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin—surely a man who knows what he is talking about if there ever was one. His vision of a NASA funded project to take the era of space exploration beyond the moon—to Mars and beyond—thereby helping to jump-start the economy with a massive enterprise in Technological Innovation, one that would also promote the virtues of creativity and hard work, is a project that we all need to take very seriously if human society is to advance to the next phase of our cultural evolution—namely as a culture that looks beyond our terrestrial habitation to the heavens and stars.
This would be a massive investment in terms of new technology and innovation—but if the government can invest billions of taxpayer dollars in deficit spending as a cash incentive for people to trade in their gas-guzzling clunkers for more fuel-efficient vehicles as part of the so-called "Cash for Clunkers" program, then surely they can spare a few billion dollars to fund genuine Technological creativity and innovation. After all, NASA has been at the forefront of technological innovation for decades past and in terms of ROI, it boasts a remarkable record, to say nothing of the contributions that NASA innovation has made to the world of consumer products.
Ultimately, all I can say is that if enterprising financiers displayed true far-sightedness by taking risks on projects that involve genuine technological innovation and imaginative creativity, I would venture to suggest that the odds of a healthy ROI are far greater than if they were to invest in shady financial dealings or risky ventures involving overseas capital!
Horizon Cybermedia is about taking media production forward into the Cyber Age—in a healthy, progressive direction and with attention to quality and high standards. All we need, at this stage, is for investors who are willing to believe in us and our vision—to take the risk of funding us in the second phase of our growth and expansion!
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Currently, we are in the middle of editing the next episode in our film series, Exploration with Uday Gunjikar, which will soon be available for viewing at our website, http://www.explorationtheseries.com.
Wishing you the very best,
Uday Gunjikar,
Founder and CEO,
Horizon Cybermedia, Inc.
