The Red Thread

The red and murderous thread that runs through our Technological and Globalized world is Profit in the Short-Term. This inhibits too much spending on back-up systems and safety; it works against good ecology and husbandry of the earth; and it encourages inhuman Giantism of scale in the creation of enormous institutions.

The enormous Giant institutions are familiar as companies too-big-to-fail, enormous government departments - such as all the intelligence gathering being paid for by us, and the globalized tentacles of capital stretching around the world.

Even though the power companies give us cheap power, was it worth what we see now? Should we have spent more money to guard against the 1 back-up system failing? Should we not have spent more time on oversight of the financial markets back in 2006-2008? Should we allow the continuing clearing of the rain forests?

As matters stand now, we are leaving the door open to bigger and bigger disasters, and just assume we will have the wherewithal to deal with them. We have to change the way we are, change to respect the earth and everything thing that grows, and allow them the respect due to fellow beings of Creation that are playing an important role in Life today.
Cheap power? You get what you pay for. Actually, when you go cheap, you get a lot more than you paid for,or ever wanted.

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