Systemic overload

Understand systems?

If not, you're doomed. Everything we do in this world, unless your a caveman, or more prosaically, a third world man; and even then in this day and age, is systemically controlled. Our government. Our businesses. Our politics. All. Everything in human history related to our social organization, which is a fancy way to say our lives, are systemic. From loose tribal associations to nation states; from bartering to multinational corporations; from feuds to world war and nuclear annihilation. Everything is a big interconnected system.

Some of us have accepted this as the way it is; for better or worse. Some of us, remarkably, seem to be surprised that they have very little say over the events of their lives.

Surprised that the government would focus on big financial institutions over the average smuck lost in the dross of our ever depressing recession? Why? We are interchangeable parts, easily replaced. We are all, to one extent or another, waist deep in the whirl of systemic developments beyond our puny control. We are not important players whose function is necessary in order to continue our march along civility's trail. It is the price of our inextricable march towards being the Gods we so believe we are. That our machines and systems will swallow us is to be expected. That we are doomed is our destiny.

The farce, of course, is the umbrage we see on all the blue, bug-eyed faces shocked, SHOCKED, that they do not have any real control over their lives, and all those papers they signed without reading do, in fact, bear indelibly upon their now miserable lives. Beyond retreating to the caves of our forefathers, there are only two things we can do: accept our doom in all it's glory, or gather and use the impact of our mass ( God bless physics ) to exert some means of influence on the systems that be.

Nominally, the government is the agent of the people. Naturally, that means that some care has to be exercised in the individuals sent to participate in it's administration. Any entity having business with the government will apply whatever pressure it can to sway those in government to it's line of thinking. The bigger you are the more your words have purchase. Some see this as corrupting; thus the moral outrage at the shills of DC trampling the unwashed masses. BUT, those representing us are sent there by us, and as such, speak for us. This is basic civics. It's also a lot of hard work in addition to everything else that occupies our time. This is why when the perception is that the money is coming in, we trollop along in gleeful ignorance. That we're not actually in the money, that it's all inflation and debt, is someone else's problem so long as we feel no impact on our daily lives. Now that that little bubble has been deflated and the hardscape has left us bruised and bloodied, we want answers, answers.

We just don't like the answers we're being given.

Sorry, but there is a reason for education. For all the talk of elites callously shivving the masses, and the wisdom of the common man made plain by the media deceivers enraptured by the sound of their own voices, the angst emanating is that of ignorance butting up against the walls of reality. Maybe we all should have been paying attention to the way the world works; to the interconnectedness of government, business, and finance. To the intricacies incarnate in such affairs we should be aware, but for so many of us school is a social function, and as knowledge leeches out of us over the years our ignorance leaves us supine in the face of those who are. The sputtering of impotent rage notwithstanding, what are we to do?

We can elect morons promising to dismantle the world as we know it, but they won't because the institutions are too strong for that, besides do any of the morons advocating such things have any idea what that would entail? I doubt it. Mostly it more sound and fury signifying nothing that substantive. The answers are there; there simply isn't the will to do it. It's not glamorous, nor will it advance the putative machinations of our national parties as they continue to out asinine each other. Morons all. As Nero fiddles goes the saying.

Which leads us back to systems, all of which have a strong instinct to self preservation. So while we strut and fret upon the stage of outrage and indignation, the systems, and those who care for them; you know the ones who were actually studying and paying attention, will change as they need to in order to survive and perpetuate.

We're mostly just along for the ride.