A rock and a hard place.

   I’ve been working with a project the last four years that I strongly believe in for a few reasons. The product is totally organic. It eats away at rust and scaling and can be washed away. Simple.

   The project will stimulate the local economies, cut costs on many industry’s corrosive expenses and of course, lessen the adverse impact of industrialization on the environment.

   A large corporation that I can’t mention at this time said they believed they would do $4 billion in sales in the first year. This same corporation also wasted our time (one year) by stalling and not following tests procedures to finally admit that our product would interrupt an already established system and cause too many ripples in the pond. That’s when I realized we were in between a rock and a hard place.

   It’s a shame that we, as a culture, are so resistant to change and its minor discomforts. Our history shows a masochistic attitude of waiting until the last minute to change and only after we have suffered. We like to blame those we put in charge with looking out for us (who we couldn’t be bothered with supervising) for letting us get into suffrage.

    Apathy: The leading cause of death to good ideas of foresight of prevention.

   Anyone with any intelligence saw this economic state coming a few years ago. Anyone who paid attention in Jr. High School knew how it was going to happen. Same people know that inflation is about the only way we can get out of it at this point.

   So the preventive aspects of our product are already meeting resistance from the established system.

   Phosphoric acid is one of those “organic” products deemed safe by the FDA for human consumption. This same acid eats up some alloys in condensers for boilers and nuclear engines. It causes pitting. Let me make this real simple. If an alloy has a pit, it means that is missing some of the alloy. Hmmm, where did it go? Our product doesn’t have phosphoric acid nor anything else that would eat any metal, there fore, never releasing it into the environment.

   I saw a documentary that said the reservoirs were contaminated with prescription drugs as well as other industrial products. You would think by now that people would wonder if we are at critical mass in some points of out pollution.

   I guess the old rich guys know they’ll be dead soon and don’t care. Their kids know that the situation is screwed up so they need to buy better in home air and water filtration systems and do better screening on the third world help they have around the mansion. The rest of us need to get busy on finding ways to fix things and be ready for the rich guys to slow us until they figure a way to make money off our ideas, even if its helping our opposition.

   An industrialist in the early 1800’s once said, “ The smoke and noise in the cities is a sign of American ingenuity and progress. Those who don’t like it should move to the country and live the primitive life with the savages.” Call me savage.

   So me and my buddies are at this place where we are looking to the big boys for financing. The same guys that are planning to Screw us everyway they can. The same guys that would love to start a plant in an underdeveloped country, bring in TVs so the locals can see all the material things they need to buy to be “civilized” are going to be my well financed road blocks to building a green town where our employees can live in solar powered houses and eat organic food from their personal or community gardens.

   I have to find a way to soothe the greed of those politically minded morons that want to have power over utilities and get kickbacks from every industry that settles in and around us as I try to convince the locals that they really don’t need all that stuff they see on TV.

   Then there is the task of finding young, energetic, green minded people who are self motivated to work with us for the long term. That may seem like a lot to ask of one group but I have to start somewhere.

   There will be heavy resistance at every turn to ward off those green washed posers and the lazy fat asses that want to push the agendas of the “Old School” in the alleged interest of the masses.

   So here we are in that place of idealism and thankless drive to do what feels right in the midst of overwhelming opposition and apathy.

   There are so many examples of those few who pursued seemingly fruitless ventures succeeded, only to hear the changed tunes of the hecklers saying, “We knew you could do it, we were with you the whole way” yet they are always obscured by the shadows of feared ridicule.

   We’ll have our day when the letters of non disclosure are void and we can let out the whole truth of how big business and government are perverse bedfellows that see the working masses as nothing more than a resource .