I believe if we want to fix the root of our issues, we need to ask why things are the way they are. If we follow the chain of asking why all the way down, we can find a root cause that may fix all the other issues that spring from it.
So I don't feel good sometimes, because of anxiety or depression. Why?
Because I feel uncertain of my future, and it makes me uneasy. Why?
Because without income, I may be homeless and without food. Why?
Because our society is organized in a way where money is gotten by exchanging labor. But we have arrived at a time in history where there's a shortage of jobs due to automation and outsourcing, so there are many who simply cannot get access to a reliable income stream to survive. So why is there automation and globalization of wages?
Automation is happening because of the development of technology, which has to do with the human desire to control our environment. This desire seems to be in our genes, but we could probably culturally un-learn it over hundreds of years with effort. Globalization of the labor pool is allowed by technology too, airplanes and internet which allow for geographical distances to be less and less important. Because they have more money, companies can move locations more easily than citizens, and can manipulate law itself more easily than citizens. But why?
"I don't know. Stop asking why. It is what it is." say some who want to mentally check out when things get too deep, throwing out their preferred thought-terminating cliches.
But if globalism is made possible by technology, and technology comes from our desires to control our environment, and we can't find jobs because of automation and globalization, then why do we in effect keep desiring things that end up hurting us? Are we really that short-sighted? And/or are our genetic predispositions that ill-suited for modern society?
"Just shut up, kid. No one needs to be thinking about this stuff, do something real." I can hear it now.
My stomach still hurts though.
"Take some antacids."
So it goes.
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[–] Drenki 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Time to find your best people and remind yourselves why you trust one another.
[–] BoraxTheFungarian 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
My people had an old way they saw things and they have passed it down. This is the world. You cannot make it anything else. You might be in the world, but you would do best to not be of it.
[–] banenya ago
Why is the world run the way it is? As my grandmother answered whenever I asked that, "It always comes down to the Almighty Dollar."
[–] Gerplunckamo ago
I have the answer that you seek, OP. And once you receive it, your life will never be the same. A revelation so profound, and yet so humbling.
If you ever desire this, PM me and we'll talk.
[–] unclassified ago
Someday, probably soon Earthlings will have to figure out how to live on another planet. Other than that option there will have to be a great big Culling of undesirables. There are millions of Muslims that need to be gone. That's a good start.
[–] Tallest_Skil 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
Just read about the Frankfurt School. That's your why.
[–] magnora [S] 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Do you mean the Prussian School system design, that is designed to create obedient soldiers and was retooled when brought to America to create obedient factory workers? Or are you referring to something else.
[–] Tallest_Skil 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
I mean the Frankfurt School.