by rollin » Fri 21 Feb 2014, 00:18:57

Have you ever wondered why there is no general response to major looming predicaments despite a hard-won deep knowledge of them? Has society and it's actions stopped making sense to you? Here are some of my thoughts on the subject, hopefully it will stimulate some of your thoughts and responses.



Money is losing it's effectiveness to accomplish "gains" in the world. People, all the way up through high level professions, are being driven harder and losing their effectiveness. Land and people are being misused. We have taken prime farmland and covered it with industrial parks, malls, houses, businesses. We educate people for 12 or more years, high level educations, and give them jobs that could be done with a three or four year education.



Money, society and civilization is becoming less and less effective. Major problems are ignored and pushed down the road, even as they get worse. Minor problems are sometimes dealt with but even these are done poorly and not done in context with the greater good or larger picture. Huge amounts of knowledge is being ignored or flagrantly crippled. Much energy, resources and time is being wasted by misdirection and poor leadership. We are wasting talent on creating the next great fad and little boxes that talk to each other, instead of dealing with reality. Global attempts to deal with major problems end up with little positive result or misdirected actions.



The result will not just be riots and uprisings, but a total hollowing out of our abilities to cope with the real world. A world of hollow societies and empty ineffective reactions, if they react at all.



If you look carefully, all those wonderful machines do not prevent poor decisions and poor judgment. The scary part is that obvious problems are not even being recognized by people or governments, it's like giant blind spots are forming in the collective mind.



I sometimes wonder if the predicaments we are in merely point out these systemic delusional states and blind-spots. That they are not the cause but the tell. That we were already on a path of ineffectiveness and inability when some people discovered the obvious true ramifications of our actions and directions. That would explain our general lack of response to critical predicaments. Maybe this toxic world we created has had a deeper effect than we can now fathom. Maybe we are (in general) just sick from our own creations and have become very muddle headed and incapable.



If what I surmise from observation and logic is true, then societies will move to a lower state of effectiveness. Creativity and individuality will be supplanted by bureaucracy. Leadership will become thug-like and follow simple self-interest. Short-term thinking and action will prevail over long term thinking and action. The ability to respond to large scale threats will be minimal. Only simple threats (real or delusional) will be the only scope of action. The individual will be suppressed over the group. Decisions will make no sense in a larger context.

A true world of keep it stupidly simple. Keep doing the same thing over and over and over. Where we can at best merely repeat history and at worst make no sense at all.

Once in a while the peasants do win. Of course then they just go and find new rulers, you think they would learn.