“If humans are so smart, why are we so stupid?” -Yuval Noah Harari

Democracy is a messy business

I’ve always said that Humans only fix things when we’ve burned our hands on a hot stove. In other words, we need to suffer severe damage to make a change. It seems a stupid way to run a society but we aren’t all that bright.

Fuck Man!

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After everything that has happened I’ve heard that a lot of people are changing their lifestyles. You’ve probably heard of restaurants not having enough staff to operate. People weren’t getting paid enough to risk their lives for covid and they also realized that they really didn’t want to work in food service anymore. They went back to school, or taught themselves programming/3d modelling/art while stuck at home. We can look at the history of pandemics and they caused many changes to society. Some say that democracy rose because religion & monarchs didn’t have the answer to these plagues.

Our pandemic instincts are perhaps less homicidal today, but the human desire to blame anything other than the virus itself is still around.

And while Americans ran after hoax therapies, that too is predictable. In the plague of Justinian in the sixth century, people started throwing pitchers out their windows in the belief that the noise would scare death away. A witness said that for three days the city rang with the sounds of breaking pottery.

Nicholas Christakis, a physician and sociologist

The world has changed and it is time we adapted to the new reality. We need to live more sustainably and realize that what we’ve done in the past is no longer viable. Also, humankind has rustled a lot of habitats with the takeover of the planet. Pathogens who lived in lower animals are coming for us. Good thing is that we have dedicated scientists looking for solutions.

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*take a deep breath* It’s Going to be OK

The fact that you realize the world is a little crazy means your paying attention. Also realize that it is short term crazy, not long term crazy. Long Term Crazy = more than a decade. This short term crazy is created by people who are finding the world considers their ideas shit. So the short term crazy people feeling marginalized start yelling loudly about ‘scary socialists’, electing orange presidents and having delusional fantasies about the ‘good old days’. Like ‘Women should serve Men’ and let’s be openly racist again. And being scared of brown people at the border!

*take a deep breath* It’s Going to be OK

It’s readily apparent that the world is becoming more progressive with the United States lagging behind. What the old guard is forgetting is that this is the Age of Disruption. Anybody with a powerful idea can use technology to disrupt old industries, old ideas and old politics. But it does take effort to move the needle. We all need to seek out disruptive ideas and put energy into them. The democracy that the Internet provides allows more flexibility to individuals and organizations. You have the freedom to challenge incumbent ideas. Those ideas have been dominating the landscape long enough.

Really, It’s Going to be OK. Get out there and fight for Team Human!

(I briefly mentioned Long Term Crazy above. The largest pot of long term crazy is our Economic system but that’s for another day)

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