Politicians are notorious for "lies" and failed promises. They are encouraged and even forced to make such promises by their voters. Politics and its hierarchy can hardly deal with increasingly complex problems. No one can predict what will happen, especially not years in advance. In statistics and theory of measurement there is an average value and error. In society, economy, and politics such "errors" are generators of changes. As unexpected and significant events emerge and grow in intensity, they create their own statistics and can bring the whole bell curve closer to them.

A single person can be an expert for a very specific situation. As circumstances change (and we are living in times of ever-changing circumstances), someone else may be helpful. There should be some kind of ad-hoc and adaptive (Online?) network capable to both behave flexibly and encourage its members. Complex problems should be dealt with complex approaches to solutions. Elected politicians, whoever they are, are a few people out of many. They are elected after their promises ("lies") of the eternal growth. The eternal growth of population and economy is one approach to reality out of many. It's our choice to sacrifice everything, even lives of our children, to that cause or not.

If we presume that natural resources are unlimited, anything opposite to this presumption appears to us as "highly improbable" and unexpected. We can't blame anyone or anything (except our evolutionarily advantageous herd mentality) for our wrong perception. If simple mathematics (simpler than proving that we live on a round planet that moves around the Sun) is enough to prove that spreading the virus of eternal growth and global competition can cause some serious damage, experts can't change the situation by their perception (belonging to the past) and wishful thinking. Bell curves are models of static reality, and our reality is anything but static. Politicians and experts are as much to blame as people who force them to make predictions (as optimistic as possible) and put the real world in "realistic" models and predictions. Only changes are eternal. Our thoughts and hopes can't change anything about this fact.

politics, Policy

Last updated 517 days ago by Aleksandar Malečić