David Swafford

"It's not my job to decide; I know what I think. My job is to listen."

A life spent looking for answers may, if done consistently and with luck, yield exactly to the sum answer of one life spent searching. To what end seeking this answer can be justified or is of value is questionable in a society dependant on physical production and commodity to susain economic viability.

The combination of insight and resolve has resulted in a duality of human nature. We ARE thinkers who creatively solve problems. We are also cultured and do not exist in an ecological niche - rather we exist in an economic niche. We are as signficiantly as much traders as another thing else.

Only in service to posterity can a person come to know the things every man should be granted on the basis of human dignity as well those things no man should ever face alone.

As humans, we define ourselves in that space: the space between the rights all men have as well as the oblgation of all men through defense of life not his own. Anything can only hold in it a value equal to what another will give for it. This is as true of humans as any other thing.

Success follows only through generosity and only through time. Philanthropy IS the key to all success, past, present and future. Failure is always present. The value of finding purpouse is in inspiring another to discover that purpouse for themselves.