The cauldron bubbles on

Much is said of the problems our western cultures and governments are having. Mostly it seems like decades of elected habits have caught up and the era of status quo western type dominance is changing. This is not just an unsustainable borrowing and benefits problem, but longer than that; as in the final end of the European colonial era, and even the results of the last World War which ended in 1945. Also the “new world” experience continues to brew.

But all in the eastern cultures and governments is not so good, either. While in most western cultures the birth rate is declining towards sustainability, most eastern cultures have inclining birth rates. This rate multiplied by ever increasing demands for energy, like having electricity at all, and the friction between the rural elements and the urban elements, is generating many present and even future problems in our eastern world, or at least so I think. These eastern politicians have their own significant problems.

Bottom line, we humans are procreating more humans than perhaps the planet can support? Perhaps the western cultures have introduced a quality of life that many eastern cultures aspire too, but our future planet cannot support…as well as the local country. For example, China today is still ¾ rural, I think, and if these ¾ of a billion plus people start living like those in western cultures, then we humans have a problem. The handwriting is already on the wall, so to speak. Just look at what the overseas’ Chinese are doing to the rainforests in Borneo, for example.

Even very sincere Muslim’s are now asserting themselves. Having lived in Saudi Arabia, I as westerner don’t like their treatment of women, but that is just me. Now the weirdos who have bought radicalism is another subject, but still a minority of humans. Now this idea of weirdos can be applied to many groups. Being a GaTech type of engineer, a small percentage of humans multiplied by any human population can present many problems.

Having been a US Marine, identifying a problem is no good unless one also offers solutions to decision makers. The way I am taught, one should usually offer three solutions…two alternatives are usually obvious, and the third is a kinda wildcard. The rewarding part of doing this drill is that one can be “human” vice political. Certain alternatives might work, but if the humanity is not factored in, then it will fail, I think. The idea is success, by the way. Good intentions or idealogy don’t count for much.

Anyway, I suggest, if you buy this cauldron idea, then make up your own mind, and vote accordingly. I assume most of any readership is western, but there may be a few eastern culture types, too. Bottom line, this cauldron is human, not western or eastern, and in this idea is a way forward. I just hope we can vote, vice the alternatives like revolution or civil war. Now I am not that optimistic, but only time will tell.