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Future Jim
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Here's the beginning:
First, there is plenty of reason for hope, so don’t despair, but …
Something is wrong with the people, who seem increasingly partisan, ignorant, apathetic, dishonest, evasive, cowardly, hypocritical, passive aggressive, insecure, conformist, closed minded, irrational, illogical, and unprincipled. Perhaps most obvious is the increase in cognitive dissonance, but the entirety of the character devolution of the people should be really obvious to any American who has lived long enough. I first noticed it during the Clinton Administration, but the root cause actually started long before that and merely caused a rather obvious leap under Clinton.
A lifetime of experience has taught me that just about everyone has the potential for the dark side as well as the potential for nobility. Both impulses are in our genes, but something in our environment is favoring the dark side.
First, let’s identify the rather obvious trends that motivate us to find a cause. Then, we will learn how they all have the same root cause:
Physical health problems are growing exponentially.
(i.e. infertility, cancer, autism, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and allergies.)
Mental health problems are growing exponentially.
(e.g. psychotropic drug prescriptions.)
Prices are going up, and wealth is going down.
Dependency on government is growing exponentially.
Government spending, borrowing, and intervention is growing exponentially.
The only viable political candidates at election time are those lacking principles.
The people who gain the most wealth tend to be those who lack principles.
The people who best climb the corporate ladder tend to be those who lack principles.
The people who gain the most fame tend to be those who lack principles.
The mainstream media suppress reality and promote myths.
(i.e. 9/11, Obama, Clintonomics, anthropogenic global warming, the economic recovery, the police state, Syrian intervention, the Tea Parties, Detroit, race, racism, Trayvon, gender, guns, abortion, homosexuality, the Constitution, history, the free-market, science, innovation, libertarianism, progressivism, fascism.)
Before we can solve a problem, we usually must understand the cause; otherwise, the unintended consequences could be worse than the original problem. In fact, the solutions of the past are the cause of most of our problems today.
Given that those who are most successful tend to be those who are least principled, we can see why every other problem is the result of unhealthy interventions at the top, but how did it get to be this way?
After a few generations of unhealthy interventions from the top by men who may or may not have been principled, we can see how their bad solutions created a perverse incentive structure that rewards bad behavior and punishes good behavior. Just like bad parenting creates a spoiled child who suffers from arrested development, now an entire people are increasingly spoiled children who suffer from arrested development.
The Soviet Union had a system that rewarded unprincipled people, and it crumbled from within.
Everything afflicting the people (that wasn’t caused by evolution) is caused by dishonest banking and a dishonest money supply, and the watershed of problems are self reinforcing. One unusually large cause of problems, that was itself indirectly caused by dishonest banking and dishonest money, is political correctness. Another unusually large cause of problems that was itself indirectly caused by dishonest banking and dishonest money, is media bias.
This is where the real explanation begins.
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by gerald --
In other words general dishonesty, such as not calling a spade a spade.