We are Inventing a New Kind of Failure

With America showing the way.

It can point to some amazing technical successes, and equally amazing social failures.

It all boils down to one basic question "What are we trying to do?"

If you ask this of most people, all you will get is a blank look "What do you mean?"

If you say that. as people, we are responsible for our destiny, the response is clear "No way!" Something else is responsible for that, and not us.

We can take this as our point of departure: what is this something else, that is running the show?

There are no lack of answers. And most of them are defective. The most common one being: "I don't know, and anyone who asks this question should be severely punished!"

Or even more commonly, "This guy (or this group) has the answers, and they are enforcing them!" If these answers is not consistent (as they often are not) this is a problem.

People will have to move to where the rules suit them better. The people in my family all live far from where we were raised. They are still in the US. but the US is a huge country.

I knew of a Jewish family that left Germany as soon as Hitler came into power, and spent the War years living comfortably in Chili. I left Silicon Valley and moved to the Orosi Valley, in Costa Rica. Neither move was easy, but we ended up better off.

The present situation is more difficult, because of Globalization, and the huge number of people on the move.

Most of these people do not have the Computer skills needed in the Computer Economy. I had these skills, but could not stand the people who owned the Computer companies.

They elected Trump, and will probably elect him again.

This is the Failure I referred to. It's not easy to define, but easy to experience.