Flowers not weeds

Having just watched Michael Moore pick flowers, not weeds, in Europe, I’ve been pondering the social conditions in a society that lead to effective breakdown, as the Americans have today. And that Australia is on the verge of having as well.

How does a minority aggregate into a self serving controlling unit, hypocritically moralising about preserving a long lost and better past era?

Having read Fukuyuma’s book, I suspect it’s the similar to the conditions that lead to political order and disorder. As in the the order of development of political and administrative systems.

Effectively, rule by law is the weapon of control managed through control of the political process, combined with control of the media. The motivation is fear and greed. Historically, the breakdown of local community and values in large immigrant cities must play a significant role in unshackling the guilty from any sense of shame.

I suspect it doesn’t matter. I doubt that there’s any answers in understanding the development of our current dilemma. It’s effectively an irreversible process.

Oddly, there are plenty of good people around, hoping to improve things. Like Michael Moore. But even these folk are negated since their good intentions are corralled into either whining at the moon, or into even more self serving rubbish, such as corporate charities. 

No one with any genuine ability is even allowed remotely near the steering wheel. 

It’s a bugger, all right. Nowt to be done about it though. Best to burrow down into a comfort zone and ignore the rabble.