Easy Now

Ideology is shape. It is direction. But within it must be intelligent controls allowing for its disintegration if the ideology itself endangers the reality it crowns, just as medical research has allowed for disintegrating stitches and collapsing casts that take into account the dynamic nature of living tissue.

All historical social entities are birthed on new ideas, and then mature and age, running on those previous ideas until they diverge internally and die out due to energy loss. They become unable to adjust to the constantly changing environment.

The same thing is going to happen with the next iteration, whatever form it will take. And so we have a dual purpose, to design a system that is resilient in preserving its humanity, and a system that decays and dies in a humane way as well, making way for the birth of the next system.

In times of crisis, we must acknowledge that it is easy for our ideas to become radicalized and seek authoritarian power exercise, merely because the ideas themselves are tempered under authoritarian forces. It is too easy for a reactive force to push back in the opposite direction with the opposite force, until it aligns itself as the master in the power relationship, which leads to an endless cycle of oscillating exploitive power groups. These oscillating power shifts do seem to diminish until a new equilibrium is established. But at what cost? Don’t we have the choice to build machinery that doesn’t behave this way? If it is impossible to avoid fine, but let’s at least try something else to see if that is the case, rather than foolishly and fearfully stick to this ongoing hideous charade.