(Commentary posted by Roger Erickson)
Many of the images listed here are of ongoing protests against austerity.
A friend from Ukraine writes: "There are some very good people living in Kiev who are choking in the insane tornado of corruption and violence. Breaks my heart."
Other contacts, from Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Spain, Portugal and Greece have all sent similar emails - about most of their talented people and/or youth simply leaving, or becoming a lost, unemployed generation. And our coping methods in the USA are not much better.
In parallel, a friend from Bulgaria writes: "Turned out BG antigovernment protests [Nov, 2013] were kidnapped by the opposition, .. which is the same as the government :-(
.. So now we are waiting the misery to make all Bulgarian people go out and protest. 2 million young already left the country during the last 20 years. Mostly old are left. Old people don't protest, or do they??"
Will Europe survive this? Will we?
That such stupidity could re-occur, in the 21st Century .... is simply unbelievable!
How is this happening?
Humans can't possibly be this selectively stupid ... can they?
Millions of specialist plumbers, programmers, PhDs, Engineers, Physicians, Bankers .... even priests, you name it .... and 99% of them are so narrowly informed so as to be more trouble than their talents are worth.
In the midst of all this talent, we need to remind ourselves that organized teams can do amazing things ... yet we somehow find ourselves no longer capable of coordinating anything except looting one another?
The trivial, distracting details DO NOT MATTER. We first need to decide to stop being this stupid.
Then, as always, anything is possible. All we need to do is simply remind ourselves that coordinated teams, especially whole electorates, can accomplish truly amazing things.
If it doesn't have to be this way, then it won't ... as soon as people decide that it doesn't have to be this way.
Please stop all the preaching and protesting, which only trigger defense mechanisms (exactly what the worst frauds WANT to hide behind). Then please start PATIENTLY engaging all the disconnected people, on what desired outcomes they'd like to see happen. Only by patiently going over the actual operations, context and finally data ... can all people get on the same wavelength, and work well together.
Humans can't possibly be this selectively stupid ... can they?
Sadly, I think yes. I still routinely meet highly "educated" and/or experienced people in Washington DC - from all kind of professions - who truly believe that we should simply return to the gold standard, stop welfare, stop immigration ... yada, yada. Every blind person groping every context is increasingly certain of their view on parsing a human context, the vast majority of whose operations they are not even aware of, let alone understand!
Millions of specialist plumbers, programmers, PhDs, Engineers, Physicians, Bankers .... even priests, you name it .... and 99% of them are so narrowly informed so as to be more trouble than their talents are worth.
In the midst of all this talent, we need to remind ourselves that organized teams can do amazing things ... yet we somehow find ourselves no longer capable of coordinating anything except looting one another?
The trivial, distracting details DO NOT MATTER. We first need to decide to stop being this stupid.
Then, as always, anything is possible. All we need to do is simply remind ourselves that coordinated teams, especially whole electorates, can accomplish truly amazing things.
If it doesn't have to be this way, then it won't ... as soon as people decide that it doesn't have to be this way.
Please stop all the preaching and protesting, which only trigger defense mechanisms (exactly what the worst frauds WANT to hide behind). Then please start PATIENTLY engaging all the disconnected people, on what desired outcomes they'd like to see happen. Only by patiently going over the actual operations, context and finally data ... can all people get on the same wavelength, and work well together.
What we're doing now simply isn't working. We're smarter than this. There is ALWAYS a better way, but only if we're willing to look for one, and are then persistent and patient enough to avoid useless argument.
The few frauds who want to see us all arguing are the very idiot savants who pursue their looting strategy of divide & conquer.
Do NOT let the idiot savants conquer us!
We can be smarter than them, but ONLY if we choose to act more intelligently.
