To Solve Humanity
Understanding the problem is not enough.
NOTE: Within this text, wherever gender is not key to the explanation, I am using the Elverson ey/em construction of the Spivak Pronouns.
I sometimes imagine this fictional exchange. Two people side-by-side. One is carrying a large box full of books, the other watching on. The watcher finally asks, “Is that heavy?” to which the other replies, “Oh no. After the weight of the world, this is nothing.”
It seems that we are all carrying the weight of the world, of late. From actual wage stagnation to fake border wars; from actual fuel prices to fake kindergarten litter boxes; from actual corporate malfeasance to fake Democrat death orgies; we are confronted on all sides by encroaching waves of experience that are both frightening and confusing. People all around us have despaired of that burden. They have chosen the easy path: giving up on the idea that people are worthy to govern themselves and choosing the nearest bombastic strong-man to guide them. Such people loudly proclaim that their goal is “freedom” and “liberty” when they are actually demanding their sovereign right to do what they are told.
Not just a few outliers but whole rioting mobs have made this choice, a choice that openly denies the life-affirming state of truly being human. That equivalence: life-affirming…
