Our future and our solution

The most striking thing about the News International, News of the world scandal was not the disgust I felt at the journalists and their contempt for humanity and the rule of law, but how poorly educated and completely dull the elite that mix with each other are.

News International was run by a lady with minimal education and quite simply an intellectual embarrassment. An elite must exist but that which dominates our society now is intellectually humiliating, and they were courted by politicians of all parties. She doesn't surround herself with intellectuals, David Cameron doesn't meet the great thinkers of our day, he meets a fairly poorly educated, but by some accounts nice lady. I would much prefer a man or woman who met with scoundrels, thinkers, whores and anarchists than someone who meets with nice, dull and intellectually vacant individuals. We continually moan about broadening access to elite institutions, I worry more about how embarrassingly stupid our elite seem.

So what are the solutions to our malaise?

1 Intellectual thought
We need a way of ensuring scientific studies and analysis are open to all. That people are taught to think generally and in a detailed manner, that the acquisition of knowledge is our duty. A human must play, but also study. Too many humans are kept in a child like state like puppies only ever playing. They have children and view this as their only commitment to serious thought. They frequently like Jeremy Clarkson espouse his worries about the decline of British industry yet who does he surround himself with, the Chipping Norton set, nice people he says, but intellectually dull individuals who do very little. They talk about sausage rolls for Christ sake, no wonder our country is in a mess. Our elite need to challenge themselves, work harder, stop just playing but play harder, work harder and look for intellectually stimulating individuals who push them. Not like minded individuals who do nothing, yet make a living from their personalities and networking.

2 Mechanics of our system
We need to be honest about the mechanics of our system. We have a capitalist society with varying degrees of democracy. Some countries such as Italy, Russia, China and Saudi Arabia have chosen a different path away from the liberal norms of north America and north Europe. Capitalism is a great wealth generator but decision making is increasingly flawed due to the short term nature of stock markets and the increasing juvenile nature of adults. We are also reaching the stage where long term decisions are increasingly important and democracy seems incapable of making them. We need to be more honest about our failures and those countries such as Italy which are not really Democratic and parts of Italy are similar to those failed or struggling states in South America. The Asian dictator is fast rising and in some cases solves international problems better than the West, as much as I hate to say it.

Democracy is flawed due to its short term decision making, its naive lack of realism often based around Hollywood movies. In life what is good and decent is not always right, and its voracious consumption of resources threatens the globe.

3 our animal heritage

Prejudice
Our animal heritage means we think about ourselves and our immediate group first, this was fine when did not have the potential to impact the biosphere and the planet. Our thoughts are chained in an ape man past but our power exceeds almost all elements of the universe excepting the power of the stars in it's different forms. We must accept this and define a way of combating it.
Sex
We are a strange discontented animal partly due to our unnatural life style and also our confused heritage, a creature who pair bonds but who is driven to infidelity. A highly sexed creature. We must gain a sense of our sexuality not suppress it, but work out the best way of harnessing it to maintain the stability of families.



4 need for belief
We have Need for belief but our belief systems are ancient and outside of simple child like truths offer modern man little in practical tools, but many ways to help us bond and find solace. We need a new more global inclusive belief system adopting the simple truths of the older ones but with practical direction to enable us to work together and think about the whole

5 managing complexity
People are pitiful in their ability to move from the small picture to the large picture. Most people are big picture or small picture idiots, whatever university or education they had. We must revolutionise our education system and analyze how to combat overcome this problem.

6 Eduction

99 percent of educated individuals are intellectually embarrassing, we have few broadly educated people on the planet. Few people read across our society and many understand small elements of our literary and scientific culture. The obtaining of degrees has blinded people to the fact that most are intellectually flawed and badly educated.

7 short term v long term how to persuade the mob

The story of history is of rulers persuading the mob to accept short term sacrifice and the mob fighting the ruler to stop over exploitation

Daily we need to eat and drink, satisfy our family demands yet the planet and societies have longer term needs.

In summary we have become complacent, arrogant and objectionable blinded by our democratic values to the wrongs we commit, blinded by our degrees and scientific achievements to our general stupidity, blinded by our governments to the decision making failures and selfishness that afflicts us all
We must first accept our flaws like an alcoholic, curtail the influence of our ancient belief systems and act more in a more modern, global way. We must realise our our own selfish aims and desires are inflicting damage on the planet, we must have fewer children, consume less, read more and devote ourselves to our planet and our global society not ourselves. We must once again realise what is good is not always right. We must learn to make hard choices.

Our elite must stop their lazy self serving ways which revolve around fun and acquiring greater wealth and space.

The poor work hard, starve or wonder how to exploit the system and produce too many children.

The middle classes treat life and the world as an entertainment park, earning enough for their families, but never really doing anything which stops their objective of having fun, some break into the rich echelons, they pay for most social works but run from personal commitments on their time and money. Their participation and commitment to society continues to drop. They must consume less and do more.

The rich separate themselves from society, they live in shuttered estates, take up ever more resources, and move to wherever taxes them less. They feel little commitment to society as they simply move. They avoid taxes and benefit the most but care little for anything but themselves. They do not support intellectuals, but puerile artists who offer little to our societies. They have become devotees of fun, and selfishness. An elite who care about more than just for themselves, who take on responsibility to society and a planet are critical. They are broadly though, shallow, poorly educated embarrassment to our civilisation. We do not produce John Ruskins anymore. There are exceptions, however, Bill Gates change the rich and you will change the world. Promote birth control and you will prevent a famine. Yet he shows his inability to move from the small to the big picture and misdirects his resources, operating as if life were a Hollywood movie.