We have to do this because the system itself is no longer valid. Hasn't been for some time now.
It is no longer valid because it was invented hundreds of years ago. And despite the good efforts of a lot of well intended folks, who tried mightily to amend it, to be more equitable for both the many, as well as the few, over a good portion of those years, it is still not what it ought to be; and even worse, it has been corrupted so thoroughly, and for so long, as well as to be compounded in contradictory complexity by the very physical changes made, layer over layer, to change it, it comes out now as something attacked by a new kind of carcinogen. A new kind of mutation. Just one aspect of the over amplification of everything. in lockstep with ever more increasing, ever more dangerous, competitions.
In such a situation, is it really any surprise to you that the real players now are all operating under the rule that "rules don't apply anymore."
We, the people, must take back what has always been ours. The right to have a say in how we go about the process of doing social household. How else can it be when we are, at the very least, one half of the elemental relationship on display here: namely the same dichotomy just alluded to: the ever ongoing struggle to balance the rights, and responsibilities, of both the one, and the many, or the few and the majority; however you want to look at it.
This is why we are all going to have to sit down and figure out a new, "Grand Compromise," between what is essentially the current rift between the Right, and the Left. We have to do this because there is no other way we will be able to begin the effort it is going to take to both heal what has already been done to the planet, but also, to begin infrastructuring up, like humanity has never done before, to create the next great Ismus, for migration, that will be mandatory if we're to have any hope of keeping the planet from getting very sick again.
Even if the current operating system weren't a mutated monster, it would still not be able to take on this task; especially considering the critical time factor we now face. It couldn't because you simply cannot do this with a cost based economy. How could you when there is no way in hell you could ever even fully begin to calculate such a cost, within a profit based system; let alone who would, ultimately, pay that bill. And we already know who's actually going to have to do the work involved.
No, as with any other, mobilization on a national level, you always approach it in terms of how we best manage the effort, balancing all of the needs, and priorities, of all of the participants, as well as the basic limits of carrying capacity that all complex systems have; whether they be primarily human, or geophysical.
What we have to decide is how we are going to make this happen and still maintain it as a Democracy. Make mo mistake, though. It will involve asking very fundamental questions about how we do everything now; even as to how we define work in the first place, as well as what "citizenship" should encompass, in both rights and responsibilities; knowing that sacrifice is going to be required from all of us.
Think this through very carefully. Become as more informed as you can be. This is going to be the most important choice you have ever made.
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