Clarify
My apologies for the delay in getting this site going, which I hope will dispel any concerns that I may have become extinct. Three of the four comments I received wanted to be sure what this blog site is all about so I' try to do that now.
To put things in perspective look at today's news. The theme that comes through to me is consistent with yesterday's news and probably tomorrow's: specifically it screams loudly that the world we humans have created is extremely dysfunctional and there is no viable plan at any level to convert that to 'functional'
The violence in France has set off alarm bells throughout the world, coming as it does as the wars in the Middle East reach new levels of violence, when elections are declared fraudulent by the UN observers, when natural disasters seem to be reaching record levels of destruction in Kashmir, when the American Economic
meeting rejected the attempt by the US to push the member states into establishing a free trade agreement.
These levels of dysfunction are the result of actions by individuals and by collections of individuals of various shapes and sizes and with the exceptions of some organisations such as the UN, there seems to be little interest in all the major players in the international game in changing their behavior. When there
.is an attempt made to create agreements that work for the benefit of all concerned, personal and governmental, the national policies
invariably find ways to prevent anything significant happening unless it coincides with additional benefits for them.
So if these individual or collective actions are directly responsible for these growing threats it is obvious that it is they that must be changed. But that is not possible without a profound understanding of the motives that result in such destruct-
ive behavior: why do they do what they do? And then, what can be done about it that won't make matters worse.
That is what this blog site is all about: Why do we do what we do and how can we change it? In any language or culture that is a formidable task which makes the Labors of Hercules look like child's play, and without awareness of the processes involved at all levels it is impossible.I am going to explain in non-technical language what we know so far, and what else we need to know, to accomplish something like a sane world, which is at this moments a long way off. This will be, of course, my personal views of such a task, but one of the purposes of this blog site is to initiate a feedback system from anyone who is interested and concerned enough to provide comments on anything I say, or the validity of my view point. Though I don't envisage any joint action - though I wouldn't
oppose it - these blogs may of be some help in clarifying other points of view, which may be more valid than mine. I am not interested in convincing people to agree with me - or anyone else: I am interested in helping anyone interested to learn more about how we function and in developing their own points of view
.
To put things in perspective look at today's news. The theme that comes through to me is consistent with yesterday's news and probably tomorrow's: specifically it screams loudly that the world we humans have created is extremely dysfunctional and there is no viable plan at any level to convert that to 'functional'
The violence in France has set off alarm bells throughout the world, coming as it does as the wars in the Middle East reach new levels of violence, when elections are declared fraudulent by the UN observers, when natural disasters seem to be reaching record levels of destruction in Kashmir, when the American Economic
meeting rejected the attempt by the US to push the member states into establishing a free trade agreement.
These levels of dysfunction are the result of actions by individuals and by collections of individuals of various shapes and sizes and with the exceptions of some organisations such as the UN, there seems to be little interest in all the major players in the international game in changing their behavior. When there
.is an attempt made to create agreements that work for the benefit of all concerned, personal and governmental, the national policies
invariably find ways to prevent anything significant happening unless it coincides with additional benefits for them.
So if these individual or collective actions are directly responsible for these growing threats it is obvious that it is they that must be changed. But that is not possible without a profound understanding of the motives that result in such destruct-
ive behavior: why do they do what they do? And then, what can be done about it that won't make matters worse.
That is what this blog site is all about: Why do we do what we do and how can we change it? In any language or culture that is a formidable task which makes the Labors of Hercules look like child's play, and without awareness of the processes involved at all levels it is impossible.I am going to explain in non-technical language what we know so far, and what else we need to know, to accomplish something like a sane world, which is at this moments a long way off. This will be, of course, my personal views of such a task, but one of the purposes of this blog site is to initiate a feedback system from anyone who is interested and concerned enough to provide comments on anything I say, or the validity of my view point. Though I don't envisage any joint action - though I wouldn't
oppose it - these blogs may of be some help in clarifying other points of view, which may be more valid than mine. I am not interested in convincing people to agree with me - or anyone else: I am interested in helping anyone interested to learn more about how we function and in developing their own points of view
.
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