As usual you have exposed a critical issue at a core level. One of the most fundamental drivers in human nature is a desire for constancy. This drive gives the illusion of stability and security and helps support faith in the continuity of one's existence (a psychological counter to a primal fear). Unfortunately it also creates a significant resistance to change. Moreover it all operates at a subconscious level making it extremely hard for us to realize how we participate in our own struggles.
Knowledge and understanding through sound education are a critical element in combating this behavior. To my way of thinking this is one of the great values of social systems such as Hive. It is also a reason I enjoy reading your thoughts and responding to them.
Another critical factor needed in creating the change is good leadership in our social/political environments, sadly this is almost non existent. This is one of the major issues I am currently working on trying to change. As a political analyst focused in Ethics, Constitutional Law and the Role of Law in Society I see real potential to make changes (at least here in America) to fix our system and make it work as it was so brilliantly designed to do. This will redirect the ship of state in a manner that can only tolerate good leadership in those areas that need to be centralized while at the same time supporting movement into decentralized economics.
I define leadership thus: A Ruler is someone who wears a mantle of Authority and only takes up Responsibility when circumstances force them to, A leader is someone who wears a mantle of Responsibility and only takes up Authority when situations require them to. Sadly we see far to much of the former and almost none of the latter. Worse still is how so many leaders in the world believe, in their ignorance, that they are actually the latter.
As always an enjoyable read on your part. keep being you and doing what you do.
Blessed be.
It is a funny blindness, where we hold ourselves back, yet don't see that we do it. It is like we are mentally numb, unable to feel our own movement.
It is getting worse, because we punish completely anyone who does anything with which we disagree. We see things as black and white and there is no nuance, therefore no room for error. Make a slight miscalculation, get cancelled totally. What this means is that the people who become the next leader in place are a little worse than the one being replaced, and this happens a hundred times. We are moving toward less qualified people, lower quality leaders, disposable everything.
Benevolent dictators are so few and far between, it is better to build a system that doesn't rely on them.
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