Comments by "Hallands Menved" (@Hallands.) on "Do We Live in a Sick Society?" video.

  1. Everything we build and create is an externalization of our mind.  Thus the superstructure of rules and authorities will either reflect our overall state of mental health – if we have fair, election based governments – or be made artificially by self-appointed oligarchs, who will be motivated by that which made them powerful in the first place, which is essentially greed – at least for all those who would grab power without being elected. They will rarely if ever see any interest in improving the public state of mental health, nor do they typically want to raise the level of general education or information.  The pendulum is now swinging from representative governments towards hyper national bureaucracies, ruled by hidden oligarchs – as bureaucrats cannot know how to rule. The prevalent delusion of our time is that machine-like superstructures handled by Artificial Intelligence can improve human living conditions. The oligarchs probably know this is an impossible illusion and the wise commoner most certainly knows, but the bureaucrats do not!  They believe in authorities, they are addicted to firm rules and shun any awareness of intricacies or dynamic problems. They just need orders they can obey. It takes much more than the human mind to create and maintain happy and prosperous living conditions. So until we, as a species, fully transcend the mind, we will dreamily keep creating enough suffering for ourselves to awaken us from the idle daydreams of the mind to full, enthusiastic awareness.  Then, and only then, will the worlds we create truly change for the better.  But until then we will keep setting ourselves up for successes so tremendous, they become our repeated downfalls.
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