Thanks for the feedback.
Some of it, I will address briefly here, a lot of it I'm already working on in my future articles.
The upside is that you gave me some concrete points to work with.
Some of the downsides:
Due to being essentially a wage slave, my time is limited in pursuit of this. Making the difficulty even more than just that which you posit. Note, I primarily agree with your postulates.
Further, whether due to this sociopathy that you note or just plain stubborn resistance to change, a great many people BELOW the ruling minority will fight me and anyone else promoting a more egalitarian society. I am fully aware of this. I'm making a conscious effort to find what triggers them to think about what I say after their knees stop jerking.
That, my good man, is one hell of a challenge!
It is my firm belief that the things I speak of are doable, and that what is needed is to convince enough people of it to change attitudes.
There is one beauty in conservativism: They have short memories. Once a paradigm is established, they'll fight for it just as hard as they once fought against it. Finding that trigger is at least one path to making things change for the better.
It is easy to criticize, much harder to come up with solid solutions.
My background in most of life has been problem solving. I am not a terribly original thinker, but I am a good original organizer. I can take disparate ideas, distil out the parts that work, and make a coherent whole. That is what I'm attempting to do with my writing, particularly with regards to UBI, which I believe if implemented will make a plethora of other desirable and necessary changes possible.
One of the primary tools of the oppressor at all times has been the strategy of divide and conquer. It works best when you can convince a plurality of people that you are on their side. This is very hard to defend against when you see that all sides are being played, but none of them want to hear it.
The pandemic, for all the ills it brought, did one good thing:
It exposed the cracks in our societies for all to see. Whether the majority of us are able to see, that remains to be seen.
