My wife has a common problem which is when faced with a problem, she panics.
Like in cleaning the kitchen, she see’s the mess and she get overwhelmed and doesn’t
know how to get started. When she freaks like this, she just get’s overwhelmed and she
just stops. Just stops. Instead of breaking the problem down into smaller pieces, like
instead of looking at the whole thing, look at one aspect of the problem which might just
doing the dishes. than without looking at any other part, clean the floor, then maybe clean the
counters. Break the problem down into smaller more doable pieces.
We, America is like my wife. We see a whole lot of problems and because they seem so big,
we panic. We need to break down the problem into smaller pieces. If we did that, we wouldn’t be so
overwhelmed. We have several problems but if we break them down into smaller pieces, something
interesting becomes noticeable. Take immigration for example. We have people in our country, illegally,
I will grant you but how do we deal with it? the Donald, in a remarkably stupid response, says let us
deport everyone who isn’t an American. this answer belongs in the hall of fame for answers that
will set a country back in more ways than you can imagine. Deporting everyone who isn’t an American
will destroy the American economy, cause food prices to absolutely rocket upwards, decimate entire
industries. It is a solution that would create far more problems than it would solve. the point of a solution
is to have less problems than more problems.
But to look at the bigger picture, we can categorize our problems into environment, economy,
defense/safety and resources. Environment can be climate and pollution for example.
Economy can be jobs, economic growth, standard of living, that sort of thing. Defense/safety
can be, how do we protect ourselves. Resources can be such things as water, oil, land.
Is that list, THE LIST? Hardly, the list can be made and remade in a dozen of different ways.
But that is a list of issues and will give us some idea of what we are facing. Now the big
brick in the wall is simple, how do we find solutions to all these problems?
I must admit it is hard to find solutions that seem to cover all the area’s that need to be solved.
Until, I broke down the list of issues and reduced the issue’s to a couple of points. then the
answer became obvious. It has two aspects and involves EVERY single human on earth as every
single problem I listed affects every single human on earth. Finding the answers to our problems
is really every person on earth problem. Take pollution for example, it affects every single person on earth.
It is not isolated to just California or America or north America, or even the western hemisphere, no,
every single country on earth and everyone on earth faces this problem. so what is the solution?
The answer becomes obvious if you break down the problem. think about it. I shall give
my answer in a few days.
Kropotkin