Surmounting Our Current Existential Crisis: Why and How We MUST Enact a Political Revolution
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The Existential Crisis We Face: Passing Through and Surmounting It
definitions:
Existential Crisis
description of the term
Surmounting -- being bigger-than and overcoming
1. overcome (a difficulty or obstacle).
conquer
get over
prevail over
triumph over
get the better of
beat
vanquish
master
clear
make one's way round/past/over
make it round/past/over
pass over
be unstoppable by
deal with
cope with
resist
endure
Opposite:
be beaten by
2. stand or be placed on top of.
What's coming:
OVERVIEW
What's Needed
What's in the Way
Clearing What's in the Way
First Steps
Self-Help for Navigating These Turbulent Waters
The essentials: RECONFIGURATIONS
definition:
Reconfiguration
changing intended results of action
changing how we cause those results: new directions
These measures are more than any one individual can undertake and in hearing them, you may feel
a sense of "overwhelm".
You'll know why certain political candidates have these measures their plans,
once elected.
Education
Health Care
Environmental Protection
Circulation of Wealth
money, like blood, functions by circulating, not by pooling
Fair Politics
honesty/transparency
service orientation rather than self-service orientation
What's in the Way:
Pooling of Wealth:
what happens when it pools:
vulnerability to clotting: unworkability, breakdowns of systems
obesity: fat cats
a diabetic economy: sluggishness, loss of ability to function, stress, social blindness
("out of touch" government)
chronic diseases (poverty and hunger), shock (crime and wars)
Lazy complacency
"It hasn't hit yet." It has.
Lack of imagination how it could be better than it is. Memory dominating imagination.
Preferring the known status quo over the unknown reconfiguration.
Feeling more at home with the status quo than with reconfiguration.
The clearings:
Recognition that "The biggest problem could have been solved when it was small."
Exercising foresight
Foresight requires imagination.
Cultivating and rewarding foresight.
Using imagination to "bootstrap" an appetite for reconfiguration.
definition: "bootstrap" like the "pilot chute of a parachute"
Reconfiguring and expanding education to cultivate imagination equally with memory
Reconfiguring health care to emphasize health maintenance vs. treatment of disease.
lighten the financial burden on society that bad health causes
reducing the need for pharmaceutical drugs
improving the vital capacity to meet the challenges
Returning pooled wealth into circulation
fulfilling the promise of Trick-Down Theory
reducing drug abuse (self-medication)
reducing str
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