Even beyond all this, which is accurate and well-said, thank you,
Humanity has a psycho/sociopath problem.
They are everywhere and hands in pretty much everything, from local to global.
Until us Humans with Empathy figure out a way to cut them out of all our processes of society, we'll continue to be proper fooked.
The messed-up people who seek much more wealth than they need and those who seek power for its own sake end up being the super-rich and powerful. Anyone who can come up with a way out of that rule which is almost a definition is a real genius.
Even beyond all this, which is accurate and well-said, thank you,
Humanity has a psycho/sociopath problem.
They are everywhere and hands in pretty much everything, from local to global.
Until us Humans with Empathy figure out a way to cut them out of all our processes of society, we'll continue to be proper fooked.
Sociopathic traits are often quite useful which is why they haven't been bred out of society.
But societies do create structures to try to limit the power of anyone diverging from the norm.
There are no permanent remedies, because new people are born every minute, under every sort of condition that can influence brain wiring.
We have a pretty strong Constitution. Unfortunately the two current main political parties each try to misuse it to their taste.
That eternal vigilance thingy, it wasn't just a suggestion.
The messed-up people who seek much more wealth than they need and those who seek power for its own sake end up being the super-rich and powerful. Anyone who can come up with a way out of that rule which is almost a definition is a real genius.