RE:"Perhaps this moment of mounting crises will shake our leaders from their complacency."

If a leader is not focused on leadership with the goal of accomplishing good for others, the leader only is another distracted performer accomplishing short-term immediate self-centered and focused goals. Every personality, every person has to accomplish the "mundane tasks" to survive. Those tasks vary depending upon who, how, why etc. the individual leader can be, demands, or is personally accommodated by others. When there is a total imbalance, or true foget-full-ness by any leader that is in the hot-seat at any time, the leader most often than not has minimal awareness of his/her own level of complacency.

The positions of participatory engagement in governmental process, as designed in the down-to-earth plans of the men that wrote the D-of-In, constitution and initial amendments- were not rooted in guarantees of aristocracy, but rooted in reasonable activities. Actor-rooted-from-reason. The balance to unfocused, unchanneled power is reason.



EX: One political contender uses ridicule of physical size of another political contender. Roaring crowd response. Clapping, hooting, yelling etc. The contender is an actor. The actor can work any audience to elicit a certain response, based on certain cues, from certain levels of focused group interests. If you are a member of the in-group, you will probably react in a predictive response. If you are a member of the out-group, you will probably react in a different, expected, and defined predictive response. The strategizing over time to elicit a focus for the different groups is the desired goal over a specific time interval.



Now, depending on your abilities to interpret, generalize, focus, discriminate, explain, share and communicate, the narrative can wander in whatever direction that actor, and certain cohorts desire. An actor is not necessarily qualified to be a leader on any level, especially of a nation.



Propaganda is selling the narrative. Propaganda is exactly the same thing as strategized advertising. Propaganda used to be primarily messaged on paper prior to the Telecommunication and Film Industrial development. Circulation of the paper/media used, use to be the town square which moved to the house/room, and from that point/now has moved to the social/cell-phone platforms. The AI applications are essentially the tools for focused propaganda. AI applications should not be only used for focused propaganda. However, it is always easier to mis-use a tool, than use it for what it was meant for.



RE: "We are on an unsustainable path." Not necessarily, it just depends on who, "who is" or "who isn't". Of course, I've only narrowed that quite lengthy theory down to try to get to a point for this narrative.



So, here's a link to read. It's worth the time. This is an absolute first for me. I have never sent a link from FOX news for any retransmission on any level or form. This is a real exception. There is some real good stuff in this man's comments, like, to think about.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/daniel-davis-all-us-troops-should-leave-syria-we-shouldnt-get-sucked-into-war



War is NOT the best strategy to reform capitalism, in any shape, form, plan, or interim phase for any type of sound or soundless wave. However, we are and have been at war for ages.



(PS. I may have just been sucked-in by whatever AI is being used for the latest messaging too! of course Murdoch team pretty much controls whatever Gates team doesn't.)