Why “The Humanity Project”? What exactly is in this name?

That recent query from a friend seems a good topic for our first blog, so let me address it directly here.

First, quite honestly, I picked this name simply because I like it. The words somehow catch the feeling I’d always intended for this effort, an attempt to express in writing my intensely personal struggles and my very hard-won gains. This name just “feels” right to me and, as a writer, I’ve learned to trust that sense of the words as an important and usually reliable gauge.

But more deeply, I hope, “The Humanity Project” is a bit more than just a name that reflects my gut preference. I think the “humanity” part comes in because I really do view “A Human Drama” as an allegory of sorts. Penetrate deeply enough into any mind, I believe, and you’ll find overarching truths about its functions that apply to every mind. So “A Human Drama” tries to convey this very human story on the Internet using a new literary form while “In Detail: The Ideas” attempts to explain some of the key concepts in the most accurate, clinical detail possible.

It is a “project” because I view this as an ongoing effort, both in terms of getting this tale to the public and trying to make clear my story’s implications for others. I guess really, from my viewpoint, it all boils down to this: I see The Humanity Project as a serious new enterprise aimed at helping us each more fully explore and fulfill our personal potential, our “humanity” if you will.

We don’t feed the poor or assist hurricane victims. We do offer a fresh, honest view of what it means to be human. It just happens that one main vehicle for doing this is my own personal introspective journey, mostly because I can document it so thoroughly and because, as I’ve said, I think my experiences have a real bearing on the journey of other people too. As a professional writer, I feel certain that this is a story well worth telling.

In the end, I am undeniably the world’s foremost expert on only one thing. Myself. My explorations of me over such a long time, my lifelong “project,” has changed my daily existence and enriched my humanity. So we offer it here, in all humility, with the hope that you might discover something on these web pages that may enrich your life as well.
– RSK

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