Having lived and worked in the mountains in BC for most of my life it has given me enough space and certainly reduced my interaction with people. Specifically random encounters, people I work with are much easier to deal with as I see them daily when working and rarely or never when I'm not working. Keeping home and work separated allows for much better relations on both ends.
Now (in the last 1.5 years) my perspective has shifted, once people were the bane of creation to me and it just seemed they were getting dumber with each new one I met. I really cant say specifically why (maybe crabby old man syndrome), but now I look forward to even random encounters. I want to see if they are awake by subtly engaging them. I've been shocked by a few I didn't expect to pick up on the crumbs I dropped. For me it is like finding my purpose late in life.
Regarding the dilemmas we are facing as a planet I don't agree with the need to thin out the herd. There is enough now and with a redistribution of labour and a world focused on surviving as a single tribe we will be able to even grow. Primarily though we need to get off planet now and succeed at it or any social economic plans we make will only last a few years. We need to face this task as a single entity, not a bunch of competing teams that will actively sabotage each other.
In looking at this issue over years I'm convinced we need to remake our economy from the ground up. I would suggest giving up money and the advantage we take over others with it and replacing it. In almost every scenario money and the scarcity of it are the culprit, eliminating it and becoming a single group with a purpose gives us back all the lost labour currently counting imaginary beans. Choices become clear when money is no longer a factor, it's served us well and produced a drive in some humans to excell.
We need to remove the decision making process from our government, none are competent enough to deal with our far more complicated society. Reforming how we decide which tasks we are doing next becomes simple when only those people affected by the results are involved in deciding. We, the citizens, need to make all decisions and our government becomes the tool to get it done. Right now it's just a joke and we all bitch loudly about how broken it is so let's just change it. Constitutions, like the ten commandments, may all be well and good for the group who wrote them in the place and time they were written but we are not them or in their world anymore and we need far more flexible control of our governance, we need real time social government with all citizens having active participation in their fields of expertise, their local, their areas of concern.
When I look at how we should be self governing the biggest issue was money or advantage that could be had by making selfish or greedy choices that had negative effects. Because of this I'm big on just getting rid of money entirely. I've considered just end banking but it will simply become a black market and most crime would continue if money was still used. Because of this we need a way to make luxury availabe and obtainable. I'd suggest reverse how people gain luxury, like tips for good service, I think the population should decide which corporate heads and which scientific advances should be granted luxury. If each year all citizens were allotted a number of 'perks' to hand out to anyone but themselves it would change corporate behavior from 'good for the bottom line' to good for humanity.
Again, I'm just one old man with a crazy Eddie plan, but because I exist there are more and some will have better plans. We keep repeating this war to save the economy, repeating what hasn't worked before seems insane to me. We have yet to try cooperation as a species, personally I'm for giving it a shot before we unleash a planet killing war over money.
Now (in the last 1.5 years) my perspective has shifted, once people were the bane of creation to me and it just seemed they were getting dumber with each new one I met. I really cant say specifically why (maybe crabby old man syndrome), but now I look forward to even random encounters. I want to see if they are awake by subtly engaging them. I've been shocked by a few I didn't expect to pick up on the crumbs I dropped. For me it is like finding my purpose late in life.
Regarding the dilemmas we are facing as a planet I don't agree with the need to thin out the herd. There is enough now and with a redistribution of labour and a world focused on surviving as a single tribe we will be able to even grow. Primarily though we need to get off planet now and succeed at it or any social economic plans we make will only last a few years. We need to face this task as a single entity, not a bunch of competing teams that will actively sabotage each other.
In looking at this issue over years I'm convinced we need to remake our economy from the ground up. I would suggest giving up money and the advantage we take over others with it and replacing it. In almost every scenario money and the scarcity of it are the culprit, eliminating it and becoming a single group with a purpose gives us back all the lost labour currently counting imaginary beans. Choices become clear when money is no longer a factor, it's served us well and produced a drive in some humans to excell.
We need to remove the decision making process from our government, none are competent enough to deal with our far more complicated society. Reforming how we decide which tasks we are doing next becomes simple when only those people affected by the results are involved in deciding. We, the citizens, need to make all decisions and our government becomes the tool to get it done. Right now it's just a joke and we all bitch loudly about how broken it is so let's just change it. Constitutions, like the ten commandments, may all be well and good for the group who wrote them in the place and time they were written but we are not them or in their world anymore and we need far more flexible control of our governance, we need real time social government with all citizens having active participation in their fields of expertise, their local, their areas of concern.
When I look at how we should be self governing the biggest issue was money or advantage that could be had by making selfish or greedy choices that had negative effects. Because of this I'm big on just getting rid of money entirely. I've considered just end banking but it will simply become a black market and most crime would continue if money was still used. Because of this we need a way to make luxury availabe and obtainable. I'd suggest reverse how people gain luxury, like tips for good service, I think the population should decide which corporate heads and which scientific advances should be granted luxury. If each year all citizens were allotted a number of 'perks' to hand out to anyone but themselves it would change corporate behavior from 'good for the bottom line' to good for humanity.
Again, I'm just one old man with a crazy Eddie plan, but because I exist there are more and some will have better plans. We keep repeating this war to save the economy, repeating what hasn't worked before seems insane to me. We have yet to try cooperation as a species, personally I'm for giving it a shot before we unleash a planet killing war over money.