What a shame

We can argue till we are blue in the face about what is important, but in the end fellow humans may have to go hungry and cold, or die, or get malaria, or whatever. And when we humans seem to make things worse, well, we probably did. But then things will change. Nobody wants to wake up in the morning and make things worse. Nobody wants to wake up hungry and cold, or die. And our expanding numbers on this earth only make the frictions and demands on our resources, worse.

There are always alarming headlines. Today’s headlines include things like any day on the Drudge Report ( http://www.drudgereport.com/ ). The alarming headlines tend to focus on things economic, the status quo changing, lightweights and do gooders trying to run things, and the embarrassing and human tendencies to be human, which often translate to regional powers and dictators asserting themselves, and scientists still and always seeking patrons, mostly governments these days. They have to make a living, too.

But until people start dying in human caused stuff, things probably will not change much. What a shame.

The good news is that we have a “new world”. That is all of us who live here and are the progeny of our ancestors who immigrated, mostly for the hope to improve themselves, their families, their hope for the economic future, and to be here for so many other good reasons. In the process, we have made a new country in the USA with our own culture. And our culture is not too shabby, hence the immigration flows seem to be to the USA and not from the USA. Who cares what some “educated” elites say and think and rule by, since the patterns, mostly family and economic, will predominate in the end.

We today cannot rule and vote ourselves out of the future. Our history is full of such failed examples. This idea includes the three Neutrality Laws from the late 1930’s. Most rulers will try, though.

Our votes, where we can vote, may change things, maybe, and probably. But what happens when the have nots and deadbeats, can vote themselves benefits from the haves. Eventually, the whole thing will collapse. Somebody has to generate human wealth increases in the new world to pay for our culture, which is not too shabby.
What a shame.

Aren’t we humans fickle? And human.