Human sacrifices
The necessity of sacrifice
See this is the situation we're in right now. In order to secure our place on this planet and to rebuild society we're going to have to redistribute both income and opportunity and make cultural changes. This means that we're going to have to make do with less. We're going to have to maintain cultural positions we wanted to do away with. There is no way round this and there is no way forward without diminishing Ego and regulating capitalism.
I've been talking about this for roughly three decades, maybe more. Two decades I was making predictions. I've stopped making predictions about a decade ago. There is no need to make any predictions. The existential crisis is now. It's right here, right now, right in front of our faces if we care enough to pay any attention. Business as usual is not on the menu. Business as usual is not an option.
Business as usual is going to make this century far more horrific and tragic than the 20th century was. Even now, a quarter of the way into the 21st century we're struggling to deal with the trifecta of 20th century innovations - fascism, digital technology and Freudian Ego - so far there have been no new innovative ideas this century. There's maybe two, three decades before - continuing our current trajectory - society and life probably will end up being irreversibly screwed up.
There is no rosy, wonderful future here. If there is, nobody really believes it.
We're facing a future which involves persistent and widespread scarcity of resources. We're already struggling to deal with scarcity of financial resources and funding. We are dealing with increasing control and regimentation in our lives from governments and government-backed organizations. We are dealing with increasing amounts of propaganda to distort public perception about social issues forcing us into making different choices.
We are also seeing and dealing, increasingly, people put into situations where they are forced - beyond their circumstances and ability to make choices - to make sacrifices by others who have no knowledge or understanding of their life circumstances. People are being forced to sacrifice incomes, businesses, careers, opportunities, relationships, and even lives.
Premature mortality - where people die preventable deaths - is a very real thing. Currently there's roughly a million premature deaths in the UK every year. It's not suicide, because there's roughly 5,600 suicides a year in the UK. It's not homicide or murders, because the numbers and statistics are low as well. The vast bulk of these premature deaths are quite simply, and bluntly, human sacrifices. These are people who die as a result of not getting social care. These are people who are dying because they're waiting too long to access healthcare. These are people who are dying because they didn't get access to the healthcare to secure a diagnosis and effective treatment.