degero miro claro

you’re not safe and nothing will ever be okay

One of my biggest fears is that one day some one will come and take me away and lock me up, or have me executed, for no real reason. As in: I will be minding my own business, doing everything just fine, not damaging anyone’s life or property, and some power will decide that they don’t want me or people like me (whatever parameters that would include) to exist and our lives are going to be stopped.

Thank god that the chances of this happening are very very slim. Unfortunately, it still bothers me because it is very POSSIBLE. We do not really live in a civilization (in the sense of the word implying politeness or civil virtue and advance development). We have modern technology and conveniences, and we can communicate across the globe and very quickly, but very few systems that have been created for a society’s civilization actually work. And at different points and different times (relatively often) it will happen that an individual has to bear the result of the holes in the plans we are using for our systems.

What I always find really disturbing is that there hasn’t been more of an overwhelming and powerful (powerful by the number of people, and including people in positions of power in governments, corporation, etc.) shift in culture that demands that we actually figure out how the fuck to run things. There are so many scientists, and so much technology, and theorists, economists, engineers, leaders, and money/resources out there, I really don’t understand why SOME ONE, some politician, or head of some company, or random billionaire, hasn’t said, “You know, we could probably figure out how to make this all actually work. There are many areas that no one has explored where we could create efficiency, sustainability, jobs, and other byproducts that benefit human life/society. Let’s focus a lot of money and energy on figuring this out!”

But no. A lot of people are un-empathetic, short-sighted, selfish children.

So some individual will end up having to deal with the side effects of that, which may ruin them. We’re still in a survival environment, only instead of direct (finding food, running from predators) it’s now indirect (competing for limited jobs, trying to last through an illness if you can’t afford health insurance).