I might be preaching to the choir on a loop here, but I do think that while materialistic well-being is at its highs and only rising, it's on the back of the metaphysical well-being. And that is not sustainable, eventually the psychological un-wellness will affect the materialistic one. If the latter is not completely in the hands of robots by then, people seem to be rather slow in realizing that they're not happy, but only told that they're happy.
As to the spiraling down, that indeed surprised me, too. An attack on the negotiation team of Hamas in Qatar, wow. If that doesn't say "We don't want to negotiate at all!", what does? And Russia flexing their muscles is indeed surprising, too, and quite against the up-beat news that the media wants to sell, about the Flamingo rocket and such.
What comes from it? Trump pressuring Europe to also use tariffs on India and China to pressure them into dropping Russia. Yeah, is that such a great idea? Would it work, or would it make BRICS even stronger, the "us against the world" mentality that I mentioned in my post about the AfD yesterday. Because it's just that - not wanting to debate, not wanting solutions, but pure propaganda firing from all cylinders. And that's what they call politics. Arg.
Enough distraction, until the distraction can't overwhelm reality. Will people wake up?
The entire concept of politics as we know it needs to change, because we are still fooled into thinking that at some point, politicians will do what is best for the people. That point will never come.
I'm thinking about writing an argument with the hypothesis that our society is not able to sustain politics anymore, based on my observations that values have eroded and are still spiraling down, and that politicians come out of that society that has no base values anymore. The disconnection between politics and people is obvious, and society is moving away from community, dragging politics and with it, making it as well more egoistical.
As I'm biased and haven't thought it through completely, I'd say that a focus on community as small fractions of society is the way to go for now. The masses won't turn, but it will be easier to manage adversities caused by politics when within a real community. Doesn't save the world, but maybe some folks.
For sure. I'd also add that on top of this, the drive for entertainment has also pushed politicians to be celebrities, without needing to be knowledgeable, or even close to good people. It is more social media point scoring, except with real world consequence.
Absolutely, it all falls into the same direction - downwards. There are so many reasons that it's going down, and so hard to change direction. Would be great to have some instructions on how to make an impact, as small as it may be. Something like mentioned in the podcast in the post yesterday - don't convince the troll, but put contra arguments for the lurkers.
The only one I've found so far is being the best human possible according to my values, and hope it would rub off. At least on Lily it will, and I do see some change in the folks working with me daily, but regarding most people my hope has the same fate as yours.
The challenge for Lily (and all decent children) is that they are going to grow up with a lot of kids that have been raised very poorly, with bad habits and terrible values.
That's why I focus so much on teaching her how to deal with those people. Stoic approaches, communication tactics, self-esteem, a little bit of everything, with reduced complexity (e.g. displayed in selected books for children) for her to understand step by step. It's hard though to be alone in that, the only support I have is from a few other parents in my community that understand the significance of this. Another reason why I cherish community so much 😅^
By the way, how's Smallsteps doing in her new school? If I missed the post about that, I'll look for it. The last one I remember reading was about her making a friend through sharing a GF meal 😅
Yeah I get it. So many say "let kids be kids" without recognising that the childhood they have designed for their kids is unnatural and makes them far weaker in the future.