I always agree with your analysis of our predicament but I have no expectation of change. It's a bit like listening to the leading climate scientists post their data and warn of the worsening prospects and knowing nothing will be done except where profit sees a path to new returns. Thanks for keeping going.
Thanks for the positive comments. I too might have no expectation of change but that is only really confined to no expectation of change from the top, i.e., from politicians themselves. I suspect the only option we have is to organise ordinary people to take control of their future. I imagine it will take a decade but it's worth a go.
Thanks Bronwyn, for your further explanations around our crisis of self-determination. Enthusiastic participants in the existing 'top-down' arrangements seem so beguiled by power that the apparatus becomes ever more vulnerable to capture by other forms of power, often mendacious forms designed to repudiate the will and reason of the people. Interesting to think about the devolution of executive power wherein the aspirant to power always looks upward (and at least feigns deference) rather than availing themselves of the potency of the masses on whom they look down, while potentially exploiting the good faith invested by citizenry. Something I fail to understand is whether participants in the current arrangements have any idea as to the illegitimacy of the narrative which pretends to offer democracy and self-determination; and if so, how can they keep showing up and going through the elaborate motions of what appears to be a game of deception.
I always agree with your analysis of our predicament but I have no expectation of change. It's a bit like listening to the leading climate scientists post their data and warn of the worsening prospects and knowing nothing will be done except where profit sees a path to new returns. Thanks for keeping going.
Thanks for the positive comments. I too might have no expectation of change but that is only really confined to no expectation of change from the top, i.e., from politicians themselves. I suspect the only option we have is to organise ordinary people to take control of their future. I imagine it will take a decade but it's worth a go.
Thanks Bronwyn, for your further explanations around our crisis of self-determination. Enthusiastic participants in the existing 'top-down' arrangements seem so beguiled by power that the apparatus becomes ever more vulnerable to capture by other forms of power, often mendacious forms designed to repudiate the will and reason of the people. Interesting to think about the devolution of executive power wherein the aspirant to power always looks upward (and at least feigns deference) rather than availing themselves of the potency of the masses on whom they look down, while potentially exploiting the good faith invested by citizenry. Something I fail to understand is whether participants in the current arrangements have any idea as to the illegitimacy of the narrative which pretends to offer democracy and self-determination; and if so, how can they keep showing up and going through the elaborate motions of what appears to be a game of deception.