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The planet should be managed for the centuries, plural.

But we're just not smart enough to understand that, never mind make it happen.

Instead we prefer to cling to the bizarre delusion that billions of individuals with competing interests will somehow spontaneously self-organise into the best of all possible worlds.




That is indeed pretty much what it says on the tin.

However, to be fair, it has always been the most greedy and self-interested, with already the most disproportionate power to rig the game in their favor, that have been most vocally advocating this system. No surprise there, of course.

What fascinates me is how a majority of people, who certainly do not personally benefit from that system, have been made to believe that they do. Sure, political corruption, cultural indoctrination/propaganda, horrendous general education, and I can think of a few more .. but still I've always been amazed, how it appears to have canceled even basic logic reasoning among so many.

Who knows, maybe one day, it will turn out to not just "correlate" with an addiction to carbs/sugars, of which the country has plenty of problems with too. Junkies have always been easy to manipulate.

Until then, at least it still gives some hope that a growing number of people now realize that this system just doesn't work as it is advertised.




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