Everyone is good, yet somehow the product of our civilisation is often pain and suffering.<\/p>\n
More people are becoming aware that something needs to change and are even doing something about it.\u00a0 Simply talking about the challenges is a start, while others initiate changes in behaviour such as what they eat or wear.\u00a0 But engaging a big picture perspective is difficult and can seem futile because the system seems dysfunctional.<\/p>\n
The text below is from a blog about morals (personal) and ethics (system) which is a short read offering insight in to the nature of the problem.\u00a0 Perhaps having read it you might contrive ways in which you can contribute to system enlightenment in your work and life, before this civilisation implodes like all those before it.\u00a0 Enjoy …<\/p>\n
Extract from Ethics 101: The difference between ethics and morals by Ian Welsh<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0Our current ethical system requires politicians to act unethically, to do great harm to people they don\u2019t know, while protecting those they do.\u00a0 This can hardly be denied, and was on display in the 2007\/8 financial collapse and the bailout after.\u00a0 The millions of homeowners and employees politicians and central bankers did not know were not helped, and the people the politicians and central bankers and treasury officials did know, were bailed out.\u00a0 Austerity, likewise, has hurt people politicians don\u2019t know, while enriching the corporate officers and rich they do know.<\/p>\n The structure of our economy is designed to impoverish people we don\u2019t know.\u00a0 For developed nations\u2019 citizens this means people in undeveloped nations.\u00a0 For the rich this means cutting the wages of the middle class.\u00a0 For the middle class it means screwing over the poor (yes, the middle class does the day to day enforcement, don\u2019t pretend otherwise.)\u00a0 We are obsessed with \u201clowering costs\u201d and making loans, and both of those are meant to extract maximum value from people while giving them as little as they can in return.<\/p>\n We likewise ignore the future, refusing to build or repair infrastructure, to invest properly in basic science, and refusing to deal with global warming.\u00a0 These decisions will overwhelmingly affect people we don\u2019t know: any individual infrastructure collapse won\u2019t hit us, odds are, and global warming will kill most of its victims in the future.\u00a0 The rich and powerful, in particular, believe that they will avoid the consequences of these things.\u00a0 It will affect people other than them.<\/p>\n To put the needs of the few before the needs of the many, in public life, is to be a monster.\u00a0 But even in private life if we all act selfishly, as our reigning ideology indicates we should, we destroy ourselves. If we all put only ourselves and those we love first, and damn the cost to everyone else, our societies cannot and will not be prosperous, safe, or kind.<\/p>\n The war of all against all is just as nasty when it is waged by small kin groups as when it is waged by individuals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Everyone is good, yet somehow the product of our civilisation is often pain and suffering. More people are becoming aware that something needs to change and are even doing something about it.\u00a0 Simply talking about the challenges is a start, while others initiate changes in behaviour such as what they eat or wear.\u00a0 But engaging …
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