The Syndicate Theory- An Introduction

Woo hoo! I'm back for another year of school (and blogs) up in these beautiful North Georgia mountains and I could not be more excited! But I'll post about that a little later because now something else has a bit more of my interest in relation to the blog.

As an introverted scholar I also tend to consider myself as something of a philosopher and as I sit writing I'm listing my favorite philosophers/political theorists/etc in my head. I'm big on Locke's ideas, I've read some Hobbes and Rousseau and Voltaire, and I'm all to familiar with the great American philosophers like Jefferson and Franklin but an unlikely place I found a bit of philosophy recently that I liked was in the latest Mission: Impossible film.

The roots of the theory I've developed, called the Syndicate Theory (named after the organization the IMF tries to bring down in the film), are actually found in the word itself. A syndicate is, by definition in the English language, "a self-organizing group of individuals companies, corporations, or entities formed to pursue or promote a shared interest."

Thus the Syndicate Theory is actually quite simple: everything in my life, and yours, and actually in the universe works like a system to promote a shared interest. Your body? It's a syndicate that has the shared goal of keeping you alive. School? It's a syndicate with the common end goal of preparing students for transition into the real world as functioning members of a society.

Another good example is government. I am taking a Political Science class that is required for my history minor and today we were just talking about my Syndicate Theory but we called it a balance of freedom vs. order. The goal of the syndicate that presents in the form of our government in this country, to me, is to preserve the peace and freedom the United States was founded on.

Now, no syndicate works perfectly. Your body gets sick from time to time and some of those illnesses can threaten the goal of the syndicate, the school system you're in might not be well run and thus you're launched totally unprepared into the real world, governments go rouge and then collapse, etc. By nature no one thing or person can be "perfect" it's just not possible and if that were the case what would be the point of existence? Humans learn to thrive in spite of their imperfections and those imperfections motivate us to better ourselves so we can better the Syndicate that we are all a part of.I don't believe one person can change the world- but certainly a group or a syndicate can.

So that's my rambling and bit of philosophy for the day! Cheers to another year of blogs!