Humanity's Greatest Fear Is the Unknown Our current socio-economic model no longer works, same without educational model right up through University. The problem we sense is that nothing seems to work like we were told it would work. More below. The result is we turn to politics to help us create stability and to recover the socio-economic-educational model which we know worked in the past. But we are not in the past. While we inherently understand this, we do not accept this. The result is we see choo-choo trains being sold to every city as the "new" transit model as if trains did not fail and fall out of favor as the transit model by 1950. But indeed they did.
The problem we face is not globalization, or transit, or the automobile. The problem we face is the socio-economic-education model needs to be completely revised and rethought. Until we entirely, and organically revise these models, we will be left in the void, the unknown. Spending money on trains no one will ever ride makes us feel good because it signifies action towards a goal. But the goal has nothing to do with the solving the underlying problem. This is about like finding your house on fire and running down the street to warn distant neighbors that your home is on fire. The action may help you keep from dealing with your feelings about your house burning, but it will do nothing for your neighbors nor will it solve the house fire problem, calling the fire department might. The problem is both political parties do not want the graft and corruption party to end, and once the progressive model is put to rest, the graft and corruption will stop, or at least be significantly reduced. The progressive model was built to offer politicians great access to graft and corruption. and the ensuing 120 years have allowed the politicians to hone their graft and corruption skills. So, what do we do? The first thing is to determine what the problem is because we cannot find the answer if we cannot accurately frame the issues which need to be resolved. The problem is simple the progressive economic model no longer works to create the economic growth necessary to propel the world's economy. The solution is to look at the highly bureaucratic progressive model and realize that its inefficiencies are holding us back. That means streamlining the progressive model's bureaucratic inefficiencies will be mandatory. In short, the government will need to be downsized, not a little but nearly to zero employees. There is little need for massive bureaucracies filled with workers today; most everything should be able to be run by computer algorithms. This will mean reforming systems like the tax system. Instead of multiple tax codes with complex interrelationships necessitating armies of accountants and lawyers to complete your taxes we need something simple, virtually unseen, which can be handled by simple computer code. Ultimately, this is the answer for nearly every wasteful government bureaucracy. We need to cut the programs which are unnecessary or unproductive, reduce the employment to zero, and computer automate the jobs. Welfare should automatically function if you need it, proof of need should be simple, payments should be automated. The same thing needs to happen to education. The bureaucracy needs to go; this likely means no more school boards. Every school should be independent and free standing. The poor should receive vouchers. The middle class and above should pay for their children's education. Parents, teachers and the principal should run the school. This worked well in America for most of 180 years, then came the progressive model which after about 1950 built our schools into a huge bureaucratic mess, staffed with unionized teachers and workers. The ineffiency in the system is staggering. The solution is chuck the deadwood, eliminate sports, and return K-12 education to the learning of a core education through eighth grade. After that children should be offered tracks focusing on the type of work they are most likely to pursue whether that be a trade, profession, management, retail or something different. Upon leaving high school, the young adult should be fully prepared for any occupation not requiring a degree in higher education. Frankly, I just looked at that clock, it's late, and I've bitten off an entire book's worth of writing to get a minor handle on the issue of how our fear of the unknown is making us crazy. Of course, I am more interested in the solution than the problem. I've written on these issues at length. Perhaps I should write a book on this, but not tonight. I am too tired. I hope this was not gibberish! I think I will try to find something lighter to write about. The weather was beautiful today, 90˚!
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