It’s Throwback Thursday!

Today marks the one year anniversary of the TAV blog. A year ago today, I published my first post, a short plea for uniting our species and thinking about the big picture. I didn’t include a picture (or link my blog posts to my instagram account). But I did understand what I was trying to create. Dreams come slow. I’m still in the process of fleshing everything out, but I am proud to say blogging is now a daily and integral part of my life. What have I learned? Writing can be the most fluid feeling in the world, or it can be utter agony. We are capable of thinking deeper, thinking of the larger picture, thinking about what matters, we just need to make a habit of doing it.

I created TAV for a very simple reason: we can change the world. You, me, our neighbors, those on the other side of the world—we can change it together. We have the power to make the world we want. A more fair and just world, a kinder world, a happier world. A better world. It all starts with a vision.

Trevor Allen Vision’s name has both a literal origin and a figurative one. It refers to my vision of the world and the universe. How it exists, how it works, and the innate beauty and complexity that make it up. Put more simply, it’s my perspective on the world. However, my purpose is not to simply commentate on the state of the world, but to inspire and lead change toward the vision that I have for it: where we can go as a species, where we can go as a planet. There are difficult, complex problems in our world right now. They are not easy to solve. Wouldn’t we have solved them if they were easy and simple?

Fortunately, they are not. Yes, fortunately—because it is the great calling of our society, of our civilization, of our species, of our existence. My vision is lofty, utopian, near-impossible. And yet because this vision is so hard to reach, it calls for us, challenges us, to be absolute best we can possibly be. It requires us to be our best. It is vital, crucial; to be less will result in complete and abject failure. The stakes cannot be any higher. We are talking about the security, the prosperity, the peace, the sanctity, the future of our world.

My work, my purpose, is to shape that vision so it is accessible to all, to every single human being on this planet. It will shift and change based on new evidence, new information, new data and insight. It will forever continue to evolve, and I hope it continues to do so well after I die. I hope for a legacy of lasting and continually striving human progress. That is Trevor Allen Vision. The organization and mobilization of human power, to create a beautiful, peaceful, prosperous world in which all life thrives.

Can we achieve this? Can we achieve it together? Can we connect and link every single human to all others, to facilitate the understanding that although we might not all be the same, we are similar, that we want similar things? For what human does not want health, happiness, and the security and prosperity of one’s family? Are there human beings who do not want these things above all else? Are those elements of a healthy, happy, successful, full life determined by a zero-sum game?

Let’s find out, shall we. Let’s discover if we cannot reconfigure the rules to the game, reimagine our institutions born out of history, tradition, and economic mechanization so that they favor our collective prosperity. Let’s determine which factors and incentives work well for all, and organize them in such a way that collective human consciousness flourishes and evolves forevermore into higher and higher awareness. A vision indeed. Let’s, together, make it a reality.

I can’t wait for the next year of blogging, and for the more that is to come. In the near future, I will be revamping the website to make it more functional and intuitive, adding some new features, and releasing more content. Stay tuned.