Storm in a tea cup

Ever notice how the near trivial becomes big news while the important underlying problems of our society quietly fester away? The mainstream news reports killings, wars or celebrity weddings while ignoring the on going wrongness in the world.

Politicians bicker about some outrage to public decency while the worlds resources are depleted with out concern for future generations. The public gets activated by the senseless murder of a child yet are unconcerned about poverty and death through neglect in our cities.

Drug abusers cause massive amounts of crime so the politician’s response is to hire more police. Eliminating the cause of the crime is simple but to unpalatable for the general public. Society ends up spending a heap of money funding police and prisons while the drug lords continue to reap massive profits and promote their trade. This is just an example – not even the tip of the problem.

Why is it that sub optimal responses are the norm. Why do we have to put up with such crap leadership? I live in a democracy and I have been lead to believe that this system is the one that delivers the best results for the people. People, we need to find a different way. We know of all the systems that don’t work but there must be some other way – there has to be otherwise we are doomed.

We need to contain our activities to some level below the sustainable output of the world. We need to reward hard work and innovation. We need to limit the power of individuals on others. We need to prevent cabals from forming. We need to limit the formation of bureaucracies.

What ever the next system is it must rely on the populus of the world for leadership and not individuals. A collective gestalt. Some way of distilling the wisdom of the masses without the interference from leaders. It should be capitalistic in its roots but socialistic in the branches. It must allow freedom and liberty but not at the cost of the rights of the individual to live unencumbered by the activities of others. It must be progressive and inclusive. It must prevent the build up of unreasonable wealth or power but allow extreme reward for extreme input. It must be by the people for the people not by the people for the few.

All this will never happen. People are just too dumb and greedy for a co-operative utopia to exist.

End of rant…