4 days agoCan We Tame the Dragon?We must learn to live in the world we have created — by Mike Meyer ~ Honolulu ~ May 20, 2022 The insanity that is overwhelming us is understandable and predictable. But, it is also only part of what is happening. A collapsing global paradigm on a planet with the technology we have is a metamorphic transformation. There is no escape, but…Climate Change5 min read
May 14We Declared War on Our ChildrenWithout thinking about what that would mean — by Mike Meyer ~ Honolulu ~ May 13, 2022 Let’s flip this thing around. Paradigmatic change is a dramatic change of perspective caused by something new that knocks us into a new place hence a different view of the world. That new perspective makes old things appear new and different…Climate Change4 min read
Published in DataDrivenInvestor·May 8Devolution Will Win in the EndDenying change does not stop it — by Mike Meyer ~ Honolulu ~ May 8, 2022 As Bill Gates noted on technological change: We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.* This mistake applies…Politics5 min read
May 1Russia as a Good ExampleIt is a lesson but not the one our rulers think — by Mike Meyer ~ Honolulu ~ April 30, 2022 Significant social and cultural problems often appear to be impossible to solve from inside that problem. Nothing seems to work, and no route out seems to exist. However, the solution to these problems exists and is later obvious to historians. The…America4 min read
Apr 23War: Our Most Important ProductAnd also, our most significant consumer — by Mike Meyer ~ Honolulu ~ April 23, 2022 The disparities we are living with are becoming more extreme. Yet, we struggle to stay sane and functional by denying the social and planetary chaos that intrudes further into our daily lives. What we are forced to accept as normal is…Life5 min read
Apr 14Mistaking Manipulators for LeadersThe war between the oligarchs and the rest of us — by Mike Meyer ~ Honolulu ~ April 14, 2022 Providing yet another list of outrages produced around the planet by the current collection of neofascist cults, including the one previously known as the Republican Party in America, is of limited value. …Putin8 min read
Apr 3After the Nation-StateWe have run out of easy options to recycle — by Mike Meyer ~ Honolulu ~ April 3, 2022 What comes after the nation-state? This is a life or death question. Late-stage capitalism is dominant and has blocked all human organizational options except ownership with everything as a commodity. Only commodities have any value, an artificial value set by markets…Life5 min read
Mar 26The End of the Nation-StateThe nation-state experiment has become empires in disguise — by Mike Meyer ~ Honolulu ~ March 26, 2022 Talk about a handicap. Our species is struggling under the massive weight of unacknowledged failure. The denied awareness that almost all of our preeminent Western systems are failing haunts and deforms us. We hide that failure under the individual daily and…Life5 min read
Mar 18From the Frying Pan. . .Growing stupidity confused as cunning by Mike Meyer ~ Honolulu ~ March 17, 2022 I hate to be negative, but life is much easier for the assholes, and they are proliferating. This requires a closer at the source of these problems. All of this is a product of growing complexity…Life4 min read
Mar 13Floundering in ComplexityWhile assholes manipulate the confused — by Mike Meyer ~ Honolulu ~ March 13, 2022 Not only are we overwhelmed by assholes, but we are also floundering in complexity, unable to understand the explosion of stupidity. The assholes are committed to absurdity and willful ignorance, increasing that complexity. It is a very nasty feedback loop that…Life5 min read
