ok, let us try this…
we know from relativity that we “see” events from two different
perspectives… let us take a car accident…if I stand next to the
car accident and you stand far away, because of our “perspective”
we will see different aspects of the car accident…now is there some
“neutral” ground upon which we can see that accident? no, from every
single “viewpoint” lies a different perspective and from each “viewpoint”
give us a "different answer as to what is the truth…
this idea of viewpoint also governs our understanding of the
social, political, historical and philosophical…
from where I stand and my historical background
determines what my perspective is… if I am poor and a minority,
changes my perspective on events, such as something like a tax cut…
or a how judges are chosen…if I am white and middle class, such as I am
today, then my viewpoint, my perspective is different on events like tax cuts…
at one time, my family was so poor, that we got lunches at school,
and sometimes that was close to all I had to eat…that perspective,
that viewpoint changes how I react to the idea of the role of government…
I see government as being a good thing because of my historical, philosophical,
and social history… whereas someone from a different background might see government
as being, as Raygun said, “Government isn’t the solution, its the problem”
where I see government as being part of the solution… but that is because of
perspective, viewpoint, my “historical baggage” of education and family
and life experiences… to say, one is wrong is to say, your “historical baggage”
is wrong… but given we have no one viewpoint from which we can state
unequivocally “this is the truth”…
that is not to say, solutions aren’t available…
we can understand and accept certain “truths” about human beings…
we are social creatures… a human alone is a human dead…we cannot,
cannot survive alone…… we must have help from other human beings if
we are to survive and even thrive…we cannot educate ourselves,
we cannot feed ourselves, we cannot raise ourselves… in the memorable
description of Hobbes, “life outside of society would be solitary, poor, nasty,
brutish and short”.
and he is right… we must, must have other human beings to exist…
from that we can to begin to understand the role of government and society
within our lives…
but Hobbes solution of putting some powerful individual or parliament in charge,
is a personal, individual viewpoint of one such solution to the human condition…
others seem to believe that the “best” government is the least government…
but that solution fails the test of being able to survive and thrive as human beings…
we must have a strong civic structure to survive, but that doesn’t mean we must
have a strong man or dictatorship for this to happen…
a strong civic structure can be a democracy or a monarchy or a
representative democracy… if we are to also include the basic premise
that all people should be able to determine their own past, present and future…
self determination is a crucial part of our human condition…
for if we do not have self determination, we become disconnected and
alienated from our political and social system………
this is quite evident today in America…we have more people not voting then
voting and this is a sign of the profound disconnect and alienation people
feel about our current political system…….
I have played sports my whole life and one of the key factors in
creating a successful team is every single member of the team must
buy into the teams success… if you see a successful team, you have seen
the buy in that every single team member did…….and in America today,
we don’t have the buy in that is essential for our society to succeed…
which is the next point of any political or social system, you must have
every single part of that system buying into that system… think of your body
as a system, for your body to work, every single part or individual system within
your body must buy into your system to work… if your arm is doing something different
then your body, then you have a physical problem and you go to see the doctor to fix that
problem……
so, how do we fix our current system where we don’t have a buy in by our individual
members of our system?
what is the cure to solve our current political and social problem?
the only answer is being everyone into the system… to get a buy in from
everybody, they must be included and involved and they must have
a say in our current system… otherwise, you won’t get a buy in from
people and no buy in means that our system, as all systems that have only
a partial buy in, our system will bleed out energy and eventually die…
as with any system, it must have energy to survive and thrive…
and the more people who disconnect from our current system, take
away energy from our system… if enough energy is taken from our current
system, our social or our political systems, those systems eventually run out
of gas and stop…… and so we must think of people as being part of a system…
some systems we belong to are small, the family system… two people commit into
being a system, we call that marriage, then the two grow with children… my current
family is me, my wife and my daughter… some systems have a smaller group
and some systems have a larger group…I grew up in a large family of two parents
and there were 5 of us… at times, people would move in and then move out…
so the number of people actually living at home would change… the system
would grow or become smaller depending upon factors…
we must make our choices given that we have many diverse and different
systems that human beings live in… we have the family system, the educational
system, the work system, we have voluntary systems like book clubs and involuntary
systems like being drafted into the Army… every single decision we make must
be made with systems in mind… every single individual and every single collective
decision we make…our fighting about how large a tax cut or tax increase doesn’t
actually answer any type of question of how it affects the various systems that
a change in taxes might affect…not one single candidate today is talking
about systems understanding in regards to the choices we make…
and that is my reason not to accept any candidate right now…
they talk about tax cuts and budgets plan and education but they
don’t tie all their babble into one coherent understanding of what
their plans means for the various systems that we inhabit…
if we eliminate student loans, what does that mean for our current
political and economic system? no one ever talks about that…
and as we are connected, every single person on planet earth is connected to
each other… we cannot make any decision without impacting every single person
on earth… every single decision we make individually and collectively impacts
everyone else… that is the systems theory in play… systems impact each other
in vast and different ways…… our thinking must not be ad hoc as it is in our
economic and political decisions made today… we must engage in large scale,
wholesale systems thinking in every single choice we make…
and that is the failure of our political and social systems today…
they act as if they are independent and separate from each other…
they are bound and connected together in ways we can’t even see………
to enter the future, we must begin with an understanding of our current
systems and that isn’t even a thing today… we must do so if we
are going to have any success at all, as individuals, members of a group,
part of systems, world wide…… that is why those who oppose globalism have
failed to see the point… that cannot see how connected and interdependent
we are already……… we are not fighting globalism… we are bringing the next,
logical step in human evolution which is to engage with everyone……
Kropotkin