We desperately need a reset, I’ll explain.
Globalization: It is basically the wild west out there. This enables owners/investors/corporations to maximize profits. This also permits money laundering/wage gauging/tax evasion for those that can afford it. Hence, the development of a class that has no connection nor care for the societies that made them this leads to:-
Entanglement: Where businesses become so complex and transnational that it is nearly impossible to differentiate them financially or philosophically.
Enmeshment: This now global class goes to the same private schools and elite universities they become friends and believe they are above the humdrum and connections are everything. Hang the ere details of democracy/Authoritarianism/absolute monarchy, that's for the weak/poor.
Democracy may be flawed [in its application] but is far better than the alternatives. However, for it to function properly, it requires the rule of law and transparency, neither of which are applied fully. Every time a law is passed that enables secrecy of intentions and transactions Democracy suffers another cut, eventually it will go the way of communism.
Every time you hear “I/we have done nothing illegal” question yourself, is what they are doing moral and how to change the laws for full disclosure if in doubt.
“Fake news” has become the rallying cry of the dangerously disingenuous, no matter how contradictory the evidence happens to be.
Without a reset
- How do we tackle climate change
- How do we tackle pollution
- How do we tackle corruption.
- How do we tackle poverty/disease/hunger.
Will we let those responsible nip off to Elysium?
How many more wars of convenience as determined by those in power. During this invasion of Ukraine, in the west there is distinct memory loss and hypocrisy on show by all concerned, some of us still regard remembering history as an essential.