Fortunate Reality/Unfortunate Reality

In a world made ever faster by binary systems (a.k.a. computers), it is also made ever smaller and isolated.

The technology that can disseminate an idea worldwide in an instant also allows people to get all their info at home and never see another person in the flesh.

While hard science is the basis for the technology everyone is ever more dependent on to be heard and informed, what is being said is a grab bag of retro thinking based on a reality that doesn't exist any more, if it ever did.  While diversity globally is obvious, those who were sequestered into their ideal communities didn't have to see the differences all around them.  Of course, in "the good old days", that brief period of post-war ebullience (in the west), buffered by the victors' spoils and military dominance without budget and environment killing resource depletion, human nature made sure that the status quo was kept and the lawns were cut and the garbage out, and heaven forbid someone should whisper the word "divorce".

Lack of information was bliss, except for the nagging feeling that something was missing in the perfect recipe laid out by the American manufacturers for all the consumers to consume.

Now, as the planet is becoming more and more plugged with garbage, plastics turned into instant landfill regiftables, the dollar dictates the conversation even while people start to waken to the injustices kept in place by the buoyancy of the economy.

Articles are still being written by experts and analysts woefully pointing to the great standard of living afforded by resource exploitation.  This wishful thinking of the days gone by nonsense cannot point the way to the future. So, the very technology that allows for the dissemination of the bs nonsense that cries about spilt milk and horses out of the corral, refuses to apply itself to the hard but not impossible task of thinking through how to manage human resources and maintain the environment.

The fortunate reality is that we are not done yet.  There is a possibility for new thought and revaluing of human life and the planet's relationship.

The unfortunate reality is that massive damage has been done to that relationship and those who could do the most the fastest to correct it are buried in the past.  Not because they're dead, but because their entire economic theory is blind to the value of a healthy planet and an educated population that self-regulates.  Domination by division and enforced ignorance is the norm.

Ultimately (taking a major quantum leap in thought direction),  Galileo was believed and so it is possible that the powers that be could wake up to reality and stop sending the earth into inevitable over-population civilization destruction.  Only those who count on war to keep them rich think that life is normal with paid body guards and high walls all around. The thinking that causes violent conflict to be perpetuated is becoming ever more obvious and blatantly false. People will see who the real perpetrators are, those who profit from the losses of others, protected from their malfeasance by a system they have bought.