It just seems that there are so many metaphorical icebergs out there, all melting at a variety of different rates and spreading all sorts of issues around the planet.
We humans seem quite incapable of learning from well documented historical fact relative to our proven natural behavioural patterns in just about every set of circumstances we have faced from the ice age onward, which I suspect has provisioned us with more than enough data to argue over and fight over the differences in our adopted beliefs, and for as long as we might exist.
I think it was Adam Smith in the period termed the "enlightenment," who described the decision making of whoever had a plan and the power to put it into action, and which then might be accepted and followed by the people, had a good chance of creating a degree of well being within that population, and followed on by writing that the the fewer people within a population that might play by the rules, the more descent seems likely to be found with it that a population..? OK, OK, Adam Smith will have been far more eloquent in his writing, I just hope I have both understood and conveyed something reasonably close to that which he imparted all those hundreds of years ago. Anyone can please feel free to correct or...err... enlighten me... (-:
One has only to observe the resistance to govt determinations on Covid advice for our UK populations and the degree to which it was followed in a wide variety of situations ...? Given the known variety of possibilities for the disease to spread, it seemed as individuals we perhaps accepted some degree of the guidance as suited our personal priorities, or one might have taken the stance of a conspiracy theorist wholy or in part relative to our personal decision making..? I suspect there may be some conspiracy theorists in China too, but it seems authorities in China deal with such situations differently from here.. Shrug. Of course we in the UK seem free to spread Covid unlike the majority of Chinese...?
There seems to be differences between the anti-Covid measures of many countries, the effects of which will no doubt end up in history books of some future time.. The question is, will future populations learn from them..? I really would like to hope so, but if the war to end all wars is an example of expected human behaviour as it followed such a terrible event.... Hmm..?
As for corruption where there might be a bit of extra advantage to be found.... Really...??? (-: Bojo and Cameron have found out that in the world of ever increasing information on EVERYTHING, playing the game as once it was accepted if not expected to operate and did so for so very many centuries, has..err..evolved somewhat... ?
As for the evolutional process that created the "top 1%"..? I suspect as ever political parties of all shades were the fertiliser that created such a level of growth in that section of society, and no doubt we all played our part in varying degrees...?
I ain`t complaining, just observing and disappointed that there is so much in the way of continued suffering, when our greed/need aside, it seems perhaps best for a society to attempt to provide a sense of place and a sense of purpose for folk to feel worthwhile enough that they might assist others less advantaged than themselves on occasion..?
Enough already...? (-:
