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Short-sighted....
Jan. 6th, 2011 03:11 pmI was recently watching one of the educational networks and on one of the shows a professor stated something I've always recognised;that Humans Evolved to deal with Problems directly Affecting them. If not Immediately Threatening...not very well for the majority.
Most folks don't think past their next paycheck, let alone how to make the life of their grandkids at least as comfortable as their own. The whole point of Leaders IS to overcome the Inertia of this Trait to get things done. A typical example is my folks. They literally can't Understand paying Taxes for things they aren't presently using, like schools, roads in areas they don't travel,police in places they don't live. They can both Vote to cut the taxes to pay for road repair AND complain that the roads aren't repaired...and NOT figure out why I'm shaking my head;>!
Truth is, they're pretty representative of most folks. Even some that have a "clue" about the Future don't quite "get it". I've family members and friends in the Survivalist Movement. They all have their stockpiles of MREs, Guns and Gold. As I've tried to get through their heads REPEATEDLY, if things get as bad as they think, those with ANY surplus will be trading for stuff they don't have and need....and what they'll NOT need is gold coins or bars.
Today I planted my Winter/Early Spring garden with crops that I would have laughed at you even a yr ago. When something that until this yr never got above 3 for a $1.00 now is more than a dollar each!?!!! Green Onions!?!! Turnips??!! If I didn't have my own well I couldn't afford to grow even this AND I LIVE IN FLORIDA!!!!!
But that's the world we live in and it ain't gunna get back to what it was even a few yrs ago. America is like Britain after WWII except there's no friendly ex-colony to give at least moral support to help them regain some of their former position and power.
Humans are, like all Scavengers, resilient. We'll survive and until Extinction we'll always be the Dominant "predator";> on the planet. But our chances of Seeding the Stars has Passed. The God/desses give each Sentient Species the resources to do so. Some destroy themselves in war. Some never get out of their system and some species are so short-sighted that they use those finite resources for individual enjoyment so that they never get anywhere.
Probably a good thing for the Universe anyway. If Humans had reached the stars, we'd have left a tail of trashed planets and systems behind us...
Truth,
Patrick Thomas Duffy
Most folks don't think past their next paycheck, let alone how to make the life of their grandkids at least as comfortable as their own. The whole point of Leaders IS to overcome the Inertia of this Trait to get things done. A typical example is my folks. They literally can't Understand paying Taxes for things they aren't presently using, like schools, roads in areas they don't travel,police in places they don't live. They can both Vote to cut the taxes to pay for road repair AND complain that the roads aren't repaired...and NOT figure out why I'm shaking my head;>!
Truth is, they're pretty representative of most folks. Even some that have a "clue" about the Future don't quite "get it". I've family members and friends in the Survivalist Movement. They all have their stockpiles of MREs, Guns and Gold. As I've tried to get through their heads REPEATEDLY, if things get as bad as they think, those with ANY surplus will be trading for stuff they don't have and need....and what they'll NOT need is gold coins or bars.
Today I planted my Winter/Early Spring garden with crops that I would have laughed at you even a yr ago. When something that until this yr never got above 3 for a $1.00 now is more than a dollar each!?!!! Green Onions!?!! Turnips??!! If I didn't have my own well I couldn't afford to grow even this AND I LIVE IN FLORIDA!!!!!
But that's the world we live in and it ain't gunna get back to what it was even a few yrs ago. America is like Britain after WWII except there's no friendly ex-colony to give at least moral support to help them regain some of their former position and power.
Humans are, like all Scavengers, resilient. We'll survive and until Extinction we'll always be the Dominant "predator";> on the planet. But our chances of Seeding the Stars has Passed. The God/desses give each Sentient Species the resources to do so. Some destroy themselves in war. Some never get out of their system and some species are so short-sighted that they use those finite resources for individual enjoyment so that they never get anywhere.
Probably a good thing for the Universe anyway. If Humans had reached the stars, we'd have left a tail of trashed planets and systems behind us...
Truth,
Patrick Thomas Duffy
