From: lessgovt@gmail.com   
      
   steve hawkins, July 4, 2023 at 5:58 pm   
   Economists think that people exist to service The Economy. They believe the   
   only    
   point of life is to make The Economy grow. Their Economy is just a bonfire of    
   resources that they need more and more people to stoke with more and more fuel    
   from further and further away, just to try to make their bonfire the biggest.    
   From space, the fires and lights are starting to make a planet shine like a   
   star:    
   a dying star.   
      
   Oeconomics and oecology, started out, as their names imply, as â   
   ˜housekeeping’.    
   As with almost any good thing, greed and the human instinct to multiply even   
   if it    
   means driving out or cannibalising the neighbours, always wins out over   
   science    
   and parsimony. While the consciencious are labouring to lay in stock for the   
   future,    
   the physically stronger fight their way to the ‘top’ and then want a   
   bigger bonfire.    
   The workers are too busy working to stop them.   
      
   Only science and good leadership can save us, but everywhere, as George   
   Washington    
   warned, ‘the baleful spirit of party’, has prevented true democracies from   
   ever    
   forming, and turned government from a basic housekeeping exercise, into just   
   another    
   tribal competition to be ‘king of the hill’. The media has turned this   
   into just    
   another sport to report the latest results on, and the public’s natural   
   tribal    
   instinct has been turned to just stopping the other side from doing anything   
   at all.   
      
   So the tragedy of the only species to have evolved the ability to be aware of   
   the    
   balances that keep the world suitable for its survival, is that the instincts   
   of the    
   majority are still as self centred and rapacious as they have been since they   
   were    
   purely wild animals.   
      
   The leopards are still in charge and they cannot change their spots. They will   
   soon    
   be burned and forgotten by creatures suited to the hothouse world we made them.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)