Societal Sophistication Spectrum

Is there any real individual migration after the age of 14?

REGRETS, WE ARE ALL ON THE SAME PLANET

     When I ponder "being human", divergence dominates all insights.  Common ground is not much deeper than gravity and hydration.  Yes, most want to live long and prosper, but can't agree on the rules of the interpersonal game we all play in quest for "a better life".  Actually, there really aren't many options, given that a humans "life course" can be directed by only one's self, the imposed intent of a few, or the imposed aggregate intent of the many administered by an authorized few.  No surprise that, early on, virtually all humans came to prefer their chances for prospering in a group as opposed to pursuing  life fulfilment in social isolation. Of course, this risk-reward option was, and still is, dependent on where the individual winds up in the 'group hierarchy", presuming that the individual has the option to choose....historically most did not. Regardless of how much discression was/is at play, virtually all individuals wound up in groups, lesser at risk from the natural elements and more at risk from their standing in the hierarchy. Beyond this inherent risk of the hierachy, there was of course the risk of the group's competitiveness in the gamefication of all groups.

      As the world turned, no surprise again.  Individuals increasingly identified with larger groups vs. small groups through dominance or individual preference, having calculating that one's station in a large group hierarchy, might offer the advantage of obscurity , or that there large group was dominant, or frequently that they were simply conscripted.......and then,

     Those large group members, self assessing to be in the lower quadrants of the hierarchy, having sufficient number and production value to the :higher-ups" bartered  their support for privilege, including representation in group policy.  The managers, leaders, representatives office holders, (aka higher-ups" recognizing their individual and group vulnerability arising from low quadrant opposition, capitulated and "DEMOCRACY" became trendy.....and then,

     The low quadrants,  C's &D's),  we're appreciative of their improved place in the group and a season of prosperity came to past, bringing both direct and suble improvements to the C&D's.  The material and health benefits were notable and welcomed, the subtle changes not so much.  When the C&D's got their head above water they were able to see clearly that  their "better-offness" didn't hold a candle to the affluence of the "higher-ups".  This, they reasoned, would not be so if indeed all men we're "really" equal, so 'COMMUNISM" became trendy, not surprisingly most fervently among the C&d's in the lesser competitive big groups.... and then,

     A war, i.e. "a cold war" came to past as the "COMMUNIST & DEMOCRACIES" did public relations campaigns hoping to win the support of the C&D's. The PR wars were hard fought and the outcome was unclear, not the least of the reasons being that Jesus was on one side, but Jesus's policies were on the other side, but alas, it really didn't matter because..... well 

     The big groups, both COMMUNIST & DEMOCRACIES, each had so prospered from their economies of scale and member inclusiveness that they  invented NUCLEAR ARMAMENTS",  a safety strategy capable of annihalating all groups.  It worked, but it was expensive, such that the arms race was actually an economic race to see who would go bankrupt first.  It was the COMMUNIST and they were put in the "penalty box".....but

     The C&D's and the altruistic "higher-ups" among all groups just couldn't let it go.  They had this lingering sense that had there not have been a bankrupting arms race, the COMMUNIST would have brought Jesus's "all men are created equal" platform to a very polarized planet.  

     Would it have worked? Who knows!  For sure a bunch of "higher-up" college students and Marxist around the world, still think so.

                                         DONALD & THE JD BAND DO NOT!

The 'post-truth" interpersonal settlement dynamic is at near saturation

"in the post-truth condition, what matters is not whether something is true or false but how the matter is decided."

"The edge of reason lies in ones capacity to make strategically designed mistakes in a frame of mind  sufficiently open that they are not made again."

Why do we "lament"?

 

 Perhaps instead of hanging our heads in sorrow when we confront the "New America".... we can undertake to make sure that everyone has a gun, preparatory to a new and upgraded rendition of the 20th Century Blue & Grey Football Game.  We will call it the" Red & Blue Armageddon Game. We will do it on July 4.  Why "lament', when we have enough guns to get the feared "National Destruction" over and done in one day.

Decline & Redemption

In the fullness of my time

I choose only to sleep and rhyme

 Why fish in the river when twitter is hot

Streaming what’s true and more often what’s not

 I pass forward bits of wisdom from the ages

Cheap shots delivered via the cyber sages

 Some cheer but most just say “fuck”  

Unwanted advise, drivels of woke bad luck

So be it, it’s ok if I now be moving slow

There’s ample evidence that we all haven’t far to go