To Grok or not to Grok?

Hello my fellow Grokers!

Last Saturday we had one of our very delightful groker nights. Although not all of the members of the group made it, they were there in spirit. A lot of things happened that night, like me demonstrating that I am the worst Jenga player in history (3 out of 4, jeez!) and confirming that I am a drunk jerk (sorry baby, again), but most importantly we had a bit of conversation that resulted in this blog being created. I believe it was a sort of awakening ceremony. As always, me being a couch-activist, I was very vocal about our duty, no, our right, to do something, to modify and influence society around us, but of course by the time I got home even through my drunken stupor I was able to realize that, we are far from being ready to do anything about anything at all.

So with the appropriate regret of having a bit too much to drink the night before I started to reevaluate Mikey's words, that now seem far more a fruit of wisdom than a negative for change as I thought them to be. First, I believe now that we should stick to the name "Grokers". Even though I might not like the origin of the word, we have made it our own, and by doing that we can do whatever we please to it and that may well be to strip it of any relation to the fiction novel of its birth and to make it the conceptual launch pad of our beloved group. So Grokers it is.
Secondly, to maintain this blog is certainly the best way to start our "public" activities. As Mikey said: "...we need some sort of business plan!". To gage the resonance of our thoughts and the relevancy of what we are doing through a webpage is as good a market research strategy as any; keeping up with the business plan analogy.

Though this exercise we might consolidate our different points of view into a unified, multi-lateral vision of what we represent, and what we can help create in our society. It might help us define our single most powerful idea of what we are since this Saturday it was more than obvious that we haven't really decided on that one yet.

So my dear grokers, this is what I believe should demand of each other: what are we?


Grok on!