Our modern society has made everything about EGO...money is not about resources, but about status...politics is not about structuring society intelligently, but about personalities and elections...but POWER MATTERS. The Kurds are the biggest reminder; with one careless tweet tens of thousands of (from what I can tell) some of the finest people...erased by fascists. We can't keep letting psychopaths erase good people...while I was once of the opinion that you can't kill good ideas...having seen the madness of genocide, the targeting of social leaders like Martin Luther King Jr., CIA confessions to destroying leftist agendas, and McCarthyist witch-hunts...I think ideas and the people with the temperament to derive them are in real danger. Power is not just a word, and we need intelligently benevolent people to hold the VAST majority of it...we have let it sit with people who are quite frankly, morons and despots. We must stop making elections about personalities and tribes, and bring them back to intelligent conversations about sound policy, ethics, and stewardship. The bar for who gains power should have nothing to do with how much money they can raise or if they can speak in ways that are meme worthy...we are devolving into Idiocracy. I know correcting this touches many industries, from media, to education, to government itself...but we MUST try, and with everything we've got because we are almost at a point where the machine runs autonomously and into oblivion.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair The truth abo...
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First, just to vent a little, I want to translate what a reasonable person (i.e. Atheist) hears when a religious person says something like:...