The Struggle to do the Impossible

The Impossible is what seemed possible a few hundred years ago during the Enlightenment - making a better world. We now have to say this is impossible.

Making a better world involved making better people. But people do not want to be made better, they want to be made worse.

We now have to ask ourselves "What is the nature of this trend toward making things worse?"

There is no easy answer to this question. But it seems to have been one effect of Industrialization. A very complicated process few have tried to analyze, and is probably impossible to analyse.

But it has made inferior people,  One has to begin with that, and try to analyse how we have been made inferior.

Fortunately, we have a laboratory built into our world that we can refer to. The difference between North America and Latin America. North America is Industrialized and Latin America is not.

I have made this switch myself, moving from Silicon Valley, in California, to Costa Rica, in Central America.

One can say, easily enough, that Latinos are friendlier. But one also has to say, they are not better at doing anything. Americans are better at making money, but worse at liking people.

This is a crucial point, the difference between being and doing.  As humans we have both skills, but in affluent countries we are now better at doing.

Affluent countries have bigger guns, and they can call the shots.