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Existential Questions For 2023
As the curtain closes on 2022, existential questions abound.
Is the world headed for a global milit
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That is a lot to digest.
Thank you for this past year Mr. H.
I and many others will stay dialed in this coming year.
Peace Joy Serenity
Wow!
The greatest existential threat in my mind is the intentional collapse of the US Treasury complex driven by an intentional default. It’s insane that anyone would intentionally support such an outcome, but extremists are wholly disconnected from reality. A large contingent of Republicans in the house have vowed to shut down the government. In “normal” times you would simply shrug off such comments as campaign fodder. Now, in this moment in history, I take them at their word.
It should not even be possible, but at this point I put the odds of a default at 50/50.
This is why, I think, it’s important for the country to conduct a cost-benefit analysis vis-à-vis what we gain from subjugating common sense to a torturously expansive definition of “rights.” At this point, the US is basically just letting anyone from random citizens to members of Congress to former presidents do and say anything they want, whenever they want to do or say it, regardless of the risks, on the excuse that the Constitution demands it. That isn’t what the Constitution says.
They wrote the constitution at the dawn of the industrial revolution. During the onset of modernity, concurrent with a parabolic increase in population. It has much foresight. The deep freeze of this Christmas is showing many people that the electrical grid and the transportation routes are far more fragile than people realize.
Far too many people assume themselves immune to the consequences of what their beliefs can actually entail. Staunch individualism does not acknowledge the fragility of an individuals life. We are herd, clannish, mammalians who often assume we may survive the herds demise. That our clan within will be there to rebuild from the wreckage. That is ridiculous planning. War mentality. Humans more or less are always at a state of war. Thinking that taking down your own herd is a good idea because your particular clan will survive and thrive is exactly what the constitution was ensuring could be avoided.
Doesn’t mean shit to a tree.
I think I posted this to the wrong article. I am getting old and stupid. Excuse me.