Thank you.

There isn't much out there of other writing, as I see myself as more observer and feral philosopher, than a writer. The piece you clapped on, a Dissenting View, was one of the few and was incorporated into medium by the original site.

My entertainment is discussion on various sites, many of which I've been banned, or put into heavy moderation. Everything from Not Even Wrong, to Naked Capitalism. Which are iconoclastic sites in the first place, so it seems I'm just too far out there for even them.

I grew up on a horse and cattle farm and spent my life mostly with horses, though the last few years working for a somewhat eccentric farm equipment dealer, horse trainer. So it's mostly outside work and my hobby was always reading and trying to make sense of the world.

So, yes, I fully agree most people are not going to change, just cling to an ever shrinking view of a crumbling world. This though, is a fact of life. Adult cells don't go back to being stem cells, or chickens back to being eggs. People grow into the world they are given and when serious change happens, the meteor hits, the ones who survive will be the ones who adapt. Which won't necessarily be the most enlightened, intelligent ones. First it will be the sociopaths willing to take full advantage of the chaos, such as run the world today. Yet I'm sort of hoping the crash happens fast enough that many people will be both still in relatively stable situations, but understand the larger model failed and willing to look a little deeper into the reasons.

Personally I don't have any connections to any form of platform for these ideas and am adverse to banging my head on the wall uselessly, given there is always so much more to explore, so I'm just sharing them around to anyone who finds them interesting. Even when people just ask questions, it causes me to have to think through the issues from other perspectives and angles. Wisdom isn't so much seeing new things, more information, and knowledge, as it is seeing the same things from new perspectives.

The problem isn't that people are dumb, so much as they are in a rush and think the basics are understood and just have to build on them, but many of these axioms are just assumptions, like the sun moves east to west, rather than the earth turning west to east.

The result is ever more complicated patches. Given many of these patches, theoretical, economic, political, etc. are getting so far out into reductio ad absurdum, I'm hoping some movement will be towards a conceptual reset, that can't be co-opted by the current power players. Which means just trading ideas around, until some sort of critical mass can be generated.