More concerns about the future

Since I was going on about not-having-to-be-a-genius last time, I think I should just pick up here where I left off. If the system we have is not going to work in the future (and it isn't going to), then we need to think seriously about what we have to do so that we don't screw our children over. Unfortunately, too many of us have bought into the capitalist lie: there isn't enough to go around, because as one wise person once noted, if all the rich people sat down to divide up all the wealth, there wouldn't be enough to go around. There's always someone who thinks they are entitled (and it's at the top that true entitlements are believed in) to more than everyone else.

Oh, and by the way, for all of you who are thinking this really isn't your problem ... because you don't have kids or disowned your kids, or just because you don't like thinking anymore, or whatever, I just want you to know that you're the biggest problem of all. And that's all I have to say about that.

Just like I have shown that our most fundamental concept of education is no longer applicable to the reality with which we are confronted, it should be increasingly clear that our entire notion of economics isn't really all that sustainable. Education as we know it, no longer applies. Economics as we envision it, no longer applies. For the quick-witted amongst you, yes, politics as we know it is also so dysfunctional that it's only a matter of time until it collapses.

Such events are threats as well as opportunities, of course. Any collapse can be utterly destructive, but any time one thing outlives its usefulness, an alternative has the opportunity to establish itself. The question is whether we're satisfied with how power and wealth is determined, seen, acknowledged, and, yes, distributed.

I really don't know if any of this is really sinking in, but it should be slowly obvious to the most casual observer that the way things are are not the way they can remain. Things are changing, whether we like it or not, and they are going to change in ways that we may or may not like, but for all of you who think I've got mine, let the others fend for themselves, well, I'm afraid you may be in for a rude awakening. Oh, I'm not talking about some bottom-up revolution and guillotines or anything. No, not at all. For all of you who think you've got yours and you're secure: you're not. And it's not that have-nots that are going to destroy you, it's the haves. They haven't got it all yet and they are not going to stop till they get it all ... including whatever you think is yours. I don't want to reveal the end of the story, rather, I feel simply obligated to tell you what's written on the wall over there.