If environment helps create who we are, and I believe it does,
then we should create a better environment to create better people…
and by better people, I would contend that means people who
are honest and aren’t violent and follows the rules…to give some
examples… for society to exist, it must have participants who
help maintain the society…
think of it in terms of systems… a system with too many parts not functioning,
means eventually, the system will fail… if we have too many parts, people,
not helping maintaining the system, it will fail…
so if for example, Mars in the solar system decides to go its own way
and leave the system, the balance that is the solar system is lost
and it will destory the solar system…the smaller the system,
the more important the various parts become… a large system like
the human system, has billions of parts, thus if thousands go and attempt
to distrupt the system, there are enough humans to help maintain the system…
but in the solar system which only has 10 basic parts plus many minor parts,
the sun, 8 planets and whatever Pluto is these days and the mulitude of
moons means we can probably deal with the loss of a couple of smaller
moons but not our moon…as it is a very large moon…
so in the smaller the system, the individual parts must help stablize the
system as they are fewer of the individual parts… in a large, huge system,
it is less important that the individual parts help stablize the system…
there are enough individual parts to help stablize the system…
so we can throw into jail, millions of people who cause disruptions to
the system, because we have millions more who keep the system running…
so the question becomes, at what point do the numbers of people affect
the human system? clearly in the U.S that number that affects the system
is quite large…in other words, how many people need to stop working to
derail the entire system? we know at least 50 million people at any given time
is not working, the old, the young, mothers, disable, but that is accounted for
in the system understanding…in other words, the system has already
account for at least 50 million people not working, so that number shouldn’t
affect the system…so that leaves roughly, lookin it up, the claim is
that roughly 110 million people are working in the U.S…so roughly a third
of all people in the U.S work…
so to maintain the balance of the system, as we increase in the number of people,
there needs to be roughly a third of all people working…
as long as the balance is maintained, then the system should work…
and if we get more people working, that strengthens the system even more…
so, we have one aspect of the environment, the balance of the system…
as the environment is a system, we must have balance in any system…
we cannot disrupt any system very much, for that creates an unbalance
system…
so now we can understand what has happened in our system that has
created an unbalanced system…we have far too much wealth
at the top of the system, this creates a top heavy system and is now
unbalanced…if 500 people have as much wealth as half the world’s
population, 3.3 billion people, we have a unbalanced system…
this is part of our environment, our system and it is no longer in balance
and this threaten to tip over the entire system…
this is why income inequality is so dangerous…it threatens the balance
of the system…
and this is just one part of making a better environment… making an
environment balanced…environment is a system…
what we have now, is an inverted pyramid, with the wealth at top…
but small number of people and as we go lower down the pyramid, more
people but less wealth… this threatens to topple everything because
it is not balanced…the system as is, cannot maintain because of the
unbalanced nature of the environment, the system…
Kropotkin