Center Of Society
I’ve always sucked at finding balance. No I do not have a ear infection, I simply lack the motor skills required to juggle more than 2 balls in the air, heck, even with 2 balls I’ll be constantly moving around like a gyroscope. Balancing is an artform I know I’ll never master. I mean have you ever seen Rong “Krystal” Niu aka Red Panda? She and many others make balancing look much easier than it is.
Even balancing equations had me cracking my head. From algebra to chemistry, compared to my peers, I took twice as long to perfect my equation. But brain teasers used to be so much fun especially under pressure during exams. Whether you were sitting for an accounting paper or an engineering one, you’d only realise you messed up somewhere if the final answer or the diagram was not in balance, or not in equilibrium. Leaving you to dissect your work somewhat forensically.
Many people say that whatever we’ve learnt in school mostly gets thrown out the window once you start working. I just think that people are too oblivious to apply whatever they’ve learnt. Maybe it’s because most people see education as a hurdle? Or only as a stepping stone? No one truly sees education as a means of understanding the world. They accept their surrounding as status quo and they conform/succumb to it.
Like most of us don’t even question existence until we’ve hit a stumbling block. We allow ourselves to be oblivious to what it means to be human and when it does happen, we end up crashing. Choose poorly, and we’ll keep crashing over and over again. Reality is our greatest teacher, and sometimes it keeps on teaching. Balancing life is especially difficult if we cannot balance our emotions well. Very few have mastered the art of balancing self with life, especially at a young age. So many are anxious, short tempered, irrational thinkers and even more are using introversion as an escape mechanism to integrating. Or is it a byproduct?
I honestly can’t blame them. In a world where we’re sold so many lies, we’re left with little time for personal reflection and introspection. We’re surrounded by many ideals, many ideologies, many perspectives and we want to accommodate them all. We don’t want to step on anyone’s tails and hardly learn the other point of view. We’ve learnt that we can’t completely trust the news and they’re filled with propaganda but we still give it our attention and on the 100th coverage, we eventually bend their way.
Whether we like it or not, everything that happens around us has been preplanned and programmed either through economic planning, policy making and etc. Everything that happens is intentional and I’m sure they have a playbook of different types of announcements for different types of situations. There could be categories to politicize everything around us. How do they decide what and when to politicize? There is a big boys club and we’re not part of it.
Is this also social engineering? Their reports carry biases and oftentimes are hardly ever neutral. We know that many industries are complicit of biases and are guilty of trying of brainwashing people according to either societal pressure or political pressure. I’m talking music, Netflix, even corporations forcing unsustainable agendas without any considerations for the long term. So don’t worry if you, like me, didn’t have a backbone and are easily swayed. Organizations waste millions, even billions on temporary gains. This is the smaller-big boys club and we’re not part of it either. I hardly think the WB or IMF is interested in such juvenile politics, right?
From Just Stop Oil to Peta, DEI to the Rainbow Revolution, everyone wants to make a point through anything that fits a propagandic narrative, except solving problems long term. Why? Perhaps they too forget history, or lack a strong value based foundation to stand on. But retaliation should be encouraged as it will help us find balance.
In the future, having free will and freedom should be encouraged in more countries. Most countries limit them now because it is extremely costly to manage and could deter whatever ‘progress’ they’ve been making. Human nature seeks balance and if constantly suppressed, depending on the issue, it will blow the lid off any ‘stable’ country. But progress is constant, does that mean that most of the world will never see freewill or freedom?
We should consider social engineering more seriously outside the realms of biased media and unethical social media algorithms. I’m talking mainly about collecting census’ from the people constantly. We’re already doing it, but not well enough. From the results, we’re able to gauge the ‘health’ of the public honestly and openly and can help key decision makers pivot accordingly. Are prices too high? How can we control prices better? Are wages too low? Are there gaps in the supply chain? Is maternity leave too short? How much is this actually costing companies? Are companies unethical in their practices? How are social concerns affecting the public? Do the public care? Should the public care? Why don’t they care? What are some policies that should be changed or tweaked? Why are communities marginalized? How can we control the banks better? How can we prevent gentrification? How can we prevent the free market from taking advantage of the people? How can we limit & encourage people to move? Is there a way to balance all these ecosystems more efficiently?
I assume the only reason we’re in this mess is because the govts aren’t able to balance an extremely wide set of data. The free market was designed to outsource everything to the public assuming the public would care for one another. Outsourcing left fewer things for the govt to worry about and even then they’re acting like they’re overwhelmed. They’re constantly trying to put out fires they’re technically supposed to be in control of. So they keep finding new ways to put them out, convoluting the system more and more. But all they’re interested in is pretending to work while benefitting themselves. That’s why from the top to the bottom, a decent % is corrupt. Its literally a dog eat dog world out there and they’re the reason.
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What could’ve been a simple stewardship role has now become a semi-authoritarian, more fascist role. All because they’re losing control having outsourced almost every aspect of growth. Just increase the GDP somehow someway, I will let you operate no matter how diabolical it sounds in the name of freewill and freedom! In most ways, Chyna has a better govt. But they limit freedom and free will. Both are equally immoral and corrupt. So what can you do?
Well my suggestion is to find balance, and the only way to do it is to map everything out. Start to end, top to bottom in every sense of the word. Like shaping and pruning a Bonsai tree, you’ll first need to visualize it and see if it matches the aesthetics you desire. I truly hoped this was DOGE’s plan, perhaps it was, and that’s why Elon got fired. Elon threatened the crux of the American economy, corruption where it truly mattered, in individuals and policies.
A healthy ecosystem has a pulse of sorts, movement and life. A map of every vein and every node has to be in place, their relationships, their designers, their benefactors and their volume/impact for all to see.
If we’re able to collect real-time data from a wider network of platforms, agencies, businesses, organizations, all the way down to individuals, we’ll be able to finally see a pulse. That pulse would be a key indicator of our health of a society. We’d soon be able to see what balances are required to keep a healthy pulse and we’d then be able to see what sort of pulse is healthy or unhealthy for a society.
It’s too wide an area of parameters of constants and variables, quantifiable and not, that could be monitored; and would be close to impossible to determine if we were to try to implement now. Especially impossible in a bureaucratic system. It’ll take too long to jump through hurdles, hence why we need to build up into it (while abiding local laws) and perhaps in the future try to replicate it into existing systems. A global ID or user validation is pertinent before we can properly study this. To keep it ethical, the user ID has to be encrypted/hidden.
As we improve efficiencies throughout the system, we will slowly be able to work and focus on more important areas like the environment, nature, sustainability and etc. more closely. That can only happen after we’ve removed all unnecessary constraints currently limiting us, especially in matters of economics, capitalism, policies, bilateral relationships and shifted it to more a more universal understanding of coexistence.
Balance is necessary if we want to look at the far future. Otherwise we’re just going to be in the same old cycle of ups and downs and with time unfortunately, the highs will be higher, and the lows will be lower. Why does it grow? Well, I’m mostly attributing it to the population of the world, globalization and social media. Everything is currently trailing an exponential, if you think this is bad, it’ll only get worse. Let us find an alternative we can all work on together.
To the high rollers of society, build a cyclical ecosystem that can exist perpetually. Allow and encourage your team/employees to get rich to keep adding into your ecosystem. A collection of ideas, businesses contributing to your ecosystem is the only way we’re going to be able to break out of current systems. Be righteous and do not succumb to political correctness. Find your tribe and grow and empower them to keep the ecosystem expanding. The most important thing to keep an ecosystem perpetual is by ensuring everyone onboard shares the same value. Make it love.
We know the center of gravity of an object, I think it’s time to find the center of a healthy society and balance ourselves out. I am 100% confident at the center is love, no matter how you diverge your way away, it will remain love. Agape love. God’s love.
Love would never leave us alone, in the darkness, there must come out the light. Is there a place for the hopeless sinners Who has hurt all mankind just to save his own beliefs? One Love. Won’t you help to sing these songs of freedom?
Love is the only answer and I don’t mean the ways of the flesh, not even remotely, not even at all. For those that already know love, don’t let them change ya’, or even rearrange ya’. Remain the blue birds of society.
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