>>>How can you possibly make due diligence when everyone around you is incentivized to lie?
Jolly doo wiggly jingle dee. This is actually the blueprint for society that I believe most of us are following to fine details. It's been largely rehearsal hitherto, but I do fear the show has begun and any moment now we'll have the doors to the theater welded shut and quite regardless of Amendments, someone's gonna yell fire, too late. And it'll get warm and fuzzy.
My vigilance is unaffected by my absence of optimism and I hold tightly to my values with clean ears to listen to those of others; but here's a scary consideration:
Those that are optimistic that this imminent hellscape can be managed tend to be either not very, or too intelligent. The intelligent ones forget in the bliss of creativity and grit that they are an extreme minority. They may see solutions everywhere, but if they were brave enough to stop and express this to random strangers, things wouldn't go well for long. In theory it could, but in practice wouldn't, and one would find the middle spectrum has been forged with indifference, hostility and abundantly rewarded for self-imposed ignorance and therefore has no time or patience to even hear. Although some might listen while staring at their phone, actual considerations would be outliers.
This is getting worse, not better. The filter bubble has gone live.
Future mitigation will be by necessity in accordance with public obtuseness. What of this mitigation that can be mustered will not be passive, nor pleasant, if any at all beyond headless self preservation. I foresee an inextricable mess, compounded by the winds of time which inevitably must change to carry back all the problems that for so long we have discarded into it. Environmental, social, fiduciary, tectonic, cosmi-oceanic - you name it - it's a big harsh universe and we've been taunting and shitting at it for too long.
Fraud, my friend, is our new religion. Speak against it too loudly and you'll get one tall wooden leg with a nice perpendicular one to secure you high upon it.
Jolly doo wiggly jingle dee. This is actually the blueprint for society that I believe most of us are following to fine details. It's been largely rehearsal hitherto, but I do fear the show has begun and any moment now we'll have the doors to the theater welded shut and quite regardless of Amendments, someone's gonna yell fire, too late. And it'll get warm and fuzzy.
My vigilance is unaffected by my absence of optimism and I hold tightly to my values with clean ears to listen to those of others; but here's a scary consideration:
Those that are optimistic that this imminent hellscape can be managed tend to be either not very, or too intelligent. The intelligent ones forget in the bliss of creativity and grit that they are an extreme minority. They may see solutions everywhere, but if they were brave enough to stop and express this to random strangers, things wouldn't go well for long. In theory it could, but in practice wouldn't, and one would find the middle spectrum has been forged with indifference, hostility and abundantly rewarded for self-imposed ignorance and therefore has no time or patience to even hear. Although some might listen while staring at their phone, actual considerations would be outliers.
This is getting worse, not better. The filter bubble has gone live.
Future mitigation will be by necessity in accordance with public obtuseness. What of this mitigation that can be mustered will not be passive, nor pleasant, if any at all beyond headless self preservation. I foresee an inextricable mess, compounded by the winds of time which inevitably must change to carry back all the problems that for so long we have discarded into it. Environmental, social, fiduciary, tectonic, cosmi-oceanic - you name it - it's a big harsh universe and we've been taunting and shitting at it for too long.
Fraud, my friend, is our new religion. Speak against it too loudly and you'll get one tall wooden leg with a nice perpendicular one to secure you high upon it.