Category: At the precipice
We are seeing that the social systems that we evolved are not serving the general wellbeing of people. What had led us here?
- At the precipice
- We are living in times where there is supposed to be properity for all, but our societal systems are not serving us. Where do we go from here?
- A price on the US's head
- Trump's has been vocal about violating the sovereignty of several nations.
- Addiction
- Much is made of the unsanctioned addictions, like that to drugs, but the economy is heavily dependent upon people unquestioningly wanting the new and self-indulgent, also making them addictions.
- Apologies for the sins of our fathers
- Many think that whatever our ancestors did is not our problem, because we are not them, and so we have nothing to answer for. Why should we apologise?
- Gaslighting
- A form of gaslighting is when we are subject to others trying to make out that we are the cause of a problem of their making.
- Mercenaries are terrorists
- In the context of war, any fighters need to be members of the armed forces of a participating country.
- Misleading economic health measures
- There are many measures used to rate the health of countries, but they tend to look in a purely macroeconomic way that doesn't relate to the economic reality of most people.
- Political parties
- It is hard to imagine any modern democracy without political parties, but their very nature and modus operandi undermines the democratic process.
- Pyramid belief schemes
- We have heard about financial pyramid schemes where they only work while everyone believes in them, collapsing otherwise. However, a lot of what we take for granted has exactly the same fragile basis.
- Religion in politics
- Those who follow a religion seek to make it a guide for how they live their life. Politics is where enforcable laws are defined to rule how others live their lives. Problems can occur when the two meet.
- Right to rule?
- Many groups claim they are superior because of what they have achieved, but are those achievements actually a covering up of their own sense of inadequacy?
- Shit and shit-lite parties
- It seems that politics in the English-speaking world has settled on the two-party system.