They Have Decided to Not Function Very Well

I am still trying to understand Americans, who have always baffled me. What makes them act so strangely? Their response is simple, there is nothing strange about us - you are the strange one!

Which baffles me even more, why are they being so secretive?

The conclusion I have reached is simple, and depends on functioning properly as contrasted with power struggles.

Power struggles are ancient, and have gone on forever - but the invention of machines (especially cars) powered by fossil fuels (especially oil) changed everything - especially the people involved. They changed - and not for the better.

We can see this now, looking back on it. But the people of that time, felt just the other way - that they had been greatly improved, because they had become more powerful!

And this power led directly to WWI and WWII (really the same war) followed by the Cold War, that destroyed the USSR. Throughout this period, the struggle for oil was an important part of what was going on.

I am not saying anything new here - everyone agreed, that power struggles (on a global scale) were going on - and were the normal condition!

And, on a smaller scale, power struggles were going on between organizations (mainly corporations). Everyone was grabbing for power, and did not try to hide this! And everyone considered this normal.

Until the coming of the Computer, and its networks (Internet and Cellular). When it became obvious that people would have to cooperate - and actually help each other! In other words, they would have to function properly.

Here again, this is not a new idea - Adam Smith spoke of it, in 1776. He assumed the State, would intervene to make everything function properly.

Now, in the Computer Economy, those who function properly, will become rich. But most people do not care - they want their share of the pie - whether they helped make it or not!