Troughs in Human History
Human history has continually recorded excruciating resets from the troughs of systemic corruption under self-serving dictators and blind worship from their frightened acolytes. While sitting on his gold toilet, Donald J. Trump is delivering the U.S. into the latest trough and appears to be leading the rest of the industrialized nations there as well.
In my humble opinion, it’s time to endure a painful reset. The world needs to undergo a deep clean before a miracle can occur to forge something even close to an honest balance of power between filling the needs of the majority, while respecting the needs of the individual. I don’t pretend to know how that will be effected but Democratic leadership does. The problem is getting them together to act under the banner “United we stand, divided we fall.”
In human history there have been few leaders whose focus was the enrichment of their people as a whole. Our national leaders have turned away from nurturing the individual’s basic human needs to eschewing social supports and personal freedom. Corruption, cowardice and mendacity didn’t appear full-blown from the U.S. — but those three are now the insidious stock-in-trade of industrialized countries, with the U.S. in the lead and no virus protection allowed.
Accountability needs a flashing neon arrow to identify and reduce that triumvirate and those who embody it. Happily, vox populi is building to a crescendo heralding a seismic eruption around the world. We Boomers, GenX, GenY, Millennials et al, may be dead by the time the world finally rights itself — if it ever does. But it might be interesting to “come back” and see what the world looks like in 250 years.
It’s up to the Nexgens.