“I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man[sic]” Thomas Jefferson.
I’ll wrap up my ranting reality checks, that I hope you all recognize and now see in the existing world, and then get onto more positive aspects of creating sustainable living. But first; I scan the news and no matter which country I read about, people are protesting about corruption and how billionaires and corporations are spending inordinate amounts of money to unduly influence politics and ‘buy’ politicians. This is especially true of the USA. I have studied Environmental Worldviews for over 35 years, and when you talk about using natural resources, which in our modern world is nearly always, you are talking political decisions made from a market economy driven worldview. The news makes it seem like a more modern problem, but it isn’t. I smile when I consider how ‘money’ has driven politics forever and people have forever known the truth of this knowledge. Nothing new under the sun. It’s just how ‘they’ distract us, and how we let them do so, that I find fascinating.
News political cartoons (many childrens’ nursery rhymes today were once political commentaries) made it abundantly clear just how corrupt the political system could be. The linked cartoon is set in the 1889 U.S., but it was typical of all industrialized nations in the latter part of the nineteenth century – and commentary we see right back to the Medieval Renaissance. No need for dark corruption before then, because we were just used to royalty, emperors, and warlords, etc., having supreme control while we suffered and did their bidding. When we finally overthrew ‘Kings and Queens’ and formed democracies of the people, we thought we got rid of the old systems. They never went away. They just transformed themselves into monied hierarchies and gave us the illusion that the people were democratically in charge.
As Jefferson feared, tyrannies of the mind control us. I have said a lot about this, but looking at the current economic systems all I can see is incipient collapse coming. I think I made my point already, but to reiterate my position more. You would think the business leaders would also recognize what is happening. Some do, but most don’t. Business and technology writer, Joseph Orefice, says it succinctly, “Companies see it coming yet fail to adapt. The common thread across these failures is that incumbent leadership’s attachment to existing business models, organizational structures optimized for current operations rather than transformation, and strategic choices that prioritized short-term profitability over long-term adaptation.”
AI has become one of the most disruptive things since the steam engine leap-frogged us out of the Agrarian age. Most have heard the buggy whip argument; when cars became the new technological rage, it didn’t matter how well the last company made buggy whips for horse drawn carriages, they just became obsolete. Now consider the whole range of ‘big’ companies that most of you will recognize that have failed in just the last 30 years and are still doing. Examples such as telephone Yellow-Pages; Blockbuster video, Kodak, even though they pioneering digital imagery; Ridesharing apps such as Uber, and Lyft as Waymo takes over; etc. The list seems endless as disruptive technologies and monopolies become prevalent again. Anti-monopoly legislation never seems to last long.
Recently, Oracle software announced the elimination of somewhere between 20,000 and 30,000 jobs. AI develops better software and much quicker. AI is infusing itself into all aspects of our business and economic systems. It is an economic bubble that is growing exponentially and cannot sustain its own growth, any more than humanity can with its extraction and endless growth mindset. AI eliminates the needs for any thinking human job. And then robotics are now doing better at even physical jobs. What does humanity do in this market economy driven by profit and efficiency, when everything we once built our society upon is done better, faster, and more consistently by AI and robotics? Lots of leisure time for sure, but how will you eat and live if you do not have any income in this system? Welcome to neo-feudalism. I’m not trying to scare you. Just emphasizing that the world has just changed in ways over the last 4 years we can barely comprehend. AI isn’t just the next new technology, it is humanity’s game changer, for better or worse. This is where our choice as a collective now lies.
The economic system we once knew is crashing. With AI, insurance industries are finding themselves redundant, financial analysts are not needed, and almost any white-collar job is now redundant. The only place where I curiously see improvement is the healthcare (or sick-care as I prefer to call it) industry. Especially here in the U.S. “Healthcare is broken. Everyone knows it. But what if the same AI technology disrupting every other industry could finally fix the most dysfunctional sector in the American economy?” Joseph Orifice. Even in the rest of the world with universal healthcare, the problem now lies in how it works financially. Again, as Orifice points out, Healthcare “isn’t designed for health — it’s designed for billing. It’s not that doctors are greedy — most went into medicine to help people. It’s that the system has turned healing into a database-driven, insurance-optimized, administratively-burdened exercise in bureaucratic survival. And the patient and the taxpayers are the victims.” Once we make actual health the priority, I suspect AI will do a great job running the show – how it does that depends on how much we have a say in the matter.
Software architect Dick Dowdell, has a sobering view of how the world presently works, “Tax structures favoring capital over labor. Deregulation. Financialization. Stock buybacks. Monopoly power. Regulatory capture. Each step defensible in isolation. Devastating in aggregate. The data is overwhelming. But data does not drive political behavior. Psychology does. When people feel economically cornered and powerless, they seek explanations that preserve dignity. It is easier to believe you are under attack by enemies than to accept you are being exploited by systems. It is easier to blame immigrants, cultural elites, universities, journalists, or social change than to confront the uncomfortable truth that wealth and power have been methodically extracted upward…While cultural outrage dominates attention, wealth concentration accelerates. While voters fight over symbols, policy quietly favors capital. While elections are framed as existential identity battles, antitrust enforcement weakens and regulatory capture deepens.”
I think humanity can benefit from AI, but it has to be thought out with all our inputs. You can’t phase out humans just because it is profitable to do so, which is what is occurring. What exactly do we do if most people are not working? Humanity has never faced this problem, ever. The tech giants are raking in all the money, but to what end? If the potential consumers have no income, then the market economy is defunct. What is next?
After all that doom and gloom, I see cracks of bright lights shining out of the dark world these Cabal psychopaths created to control us. The very system of economics and political control they created is now acting like a harmful parasite in their world. Their system is breaking down from the sheer greed and moral ineptitude they have exuded for millennia. We don’t need to fight their systems any longer. Just let them go and focus on what we have at hand locally. For that is where humanity is to be reborn. To who we were always meant to be. Where we find purpose in living and working with each other for the benefit of all. In Love and Peace and Harmony. It is a real possibility.
At the moment, even though it looks at times that people no longer think, we are still be free to think. And that freedom is our personal sovereignty that shows us a new human path. The German philosopher, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, writing within Nazi Germany, tried to understand how highly educated people could fall into moral ruin. His conclusion was disturbingly simple. It wasn’t because they were ignorant. They simple surrendered their sovereignty and independence. When we, yes, we the common people take back our sovereignty, we will rise quickly like the phoenix rising from the remnants of the old world that has controlled us for so long.
Ok, enough of the soapbox hysterics. Back to what I prefer more; ideas and stories that promote a new humanity in a better world that works for life and the biosphere. I think we can only do that through a spiritual perspective. It doesn’t mean living some strange ascetic life, far from it. Rather a life full of joy and peace through actions where we have purpose and see the beautiful rewards of living harmoniously in the world. Imagine a world where the use of money lies in its flow to achieve this harmony not its accumulation – a future with new sovereign currencies supported by ethical technologies that benefit everyone and support how the biosphere thrives.
“If you believe in what you’re doing, and someone criticizes that, it’s likely that they’re just coming from a different place and they’re bringing their own baggage and its basically projection. I try not to let it get to me” Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero. Sage words indeed. To Be Continued …………….
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