Proper perspective about world's dire problems

I continue to personally suffer as a result of the many errors committed by many secretive and powerful people who embrace cultist beliefs. I suffer both in what is cruelly done personally to me, but also, as I have throughout my life, I suffer at seeing millions of humans self destruct their own souls, and truncate the lives and salvation of just about everyone around them that they touch, and through their influence, they touch just about everyone. It is not necessary for them to intend evil; in fact, most of them view themselves as some sort of secretive “reincarnated” karma heroes, “saving humanity.” In fact, they have done the opposite and despite my good natured and loving explaining amidst the most unbearable suffering, they continue to do their damage. As an example of how they do harm even if they do not direct their plotting and dark thoughts toward a person, but instead think of themselves as “charitable and good warriors,” look at where the “powers that be” make their investments. They would rather dole out crisis aid than actually build the infrastructure properly, providing both jobs and raising standards of living.

I'll start with an easy example. I never heard a good reason why a tsunami warning system was not in place before the great tsunami in Indonesia, even though the technology was well known and in place elsewhere. Cultists would rather dole out aid that is misused and disappears rather than invest in the infrastructure prior to the emergency. That is part of their fantasy. They like to view themselves as “riding in” after the disaster (who cares how many died; they call it an “act of God,” which is apparently the only time they believe in the one monotheistic true God) dispensing their largesse, rather than anticipate the disaster through common sense, not sorcery.

The next example is more complicated and egregious. I’ve mentioned many times that India maintains the cruelest caste system that ever existed in human history, as a result of cultist beliefs that everyone is born to their station in life (and of course, the stations must extend from the great enlightened “down” to people who are viewed as little better than dog crap). In the natural scheme of things this type of belief would have been erased, especially with the rise of Christianity and Islam, both of whom correct this error and affirm total equality of body and soul of all people. But modern cultists through their “investments” and “good deeds” keep the caste system thriving and violent, by neglecting the rungs of the ladder that would raise the lower castes and erase the artificial oppressive boundaries. Children, understand that India is like a country that gives you the two sides of a ladder but without the rungs in between them, and then tells you to climb. They pass laws and mouth good words that the caste system is outlawed, but they leave the people at the bottom holding two poles with no rungs, and telling them they have given them a ladder. The crude example I have often cited is that India still requires the lowest caste to work as night soil carriers. This is because India would rather invest in other things than toilets for one billion people. So people defecate in the street and the lowest caste, including children, remove and carry the fecal matter in their bare hands to take it to open dumping areas.

Western investment priorities and attitudes have long infested India, prolonging rather than curtailing the natural selection process that would have eliminated the caste system. So when you combine an ancient cultist belief with modern “remedies” that are misdirected (in large part because they are driven by hidden false “hero” Western cultist beliefs) the situation becomes more dire rather than evolving toward true enlightenment and charity. Extreme Hindus kill Christians because the Christians know in their heart that all are equal and loved under God and exercise that belief in trying to raise the standards of the “lower castes.” Instead, the Hindus ought to have been building dams and infrastructure to handle flooding, as with what happened recently, if you know what I mean. Neglect has a way of coming back and biting people in the ass (though it is almost always the innocent on both “sides” who are displaced and suffer). If Hindus were really interested in eliminating the caste system they would have done so. And the same extends to protecting and promoting the living conditions of the poorest among even their own “true believers.”

Westerners could have easily made investment in India conditional and targeted toward certain standards. For example, if I had been investing in a factory in India, I would have required that part of my investment be used to provide housing and sanitation facilities in the surrounding area. Westerners have had decades to do this, and they certainly should know better based on supposed morals and values, but they have not, and have in fact, colluded with those who continue to oppress, neglect and dehumanize millions of people based on fallacious, greedy and self serving cultural cultist “beliefs.”

Look everywhere around you in the world and see the suffering that is due to lack of traditional, rather than cultist based, Western teaching and investment in charitable infrastructure. Haiti is ruined due to deforestation and I sit here in my bottom floor apartment ignored while I could have architected recovery of that country any time in the past thirty years, and I wouldn’t do it by waving a magic wand. China is now suffering as ignorant and greedy contractors built substandard schools that are collapsing and killing their children. In a way, China is the most understandable of all the case studies because of their huge shortcuts they have had to take to support their large human population, but again, Westerners could have warned them of the dangers of such construction (although plenty of American buildings were at the same time also being built that would be also prone to earthquakes) and of course during the so called Cultural Revolution, they would never have sought Western advice and engineering anyway. But it is too valuable a case study to ignore. More schools fall with each earthquake and aftershock. And that brings us to New Orleans. Maybe if people cared less about vampires and more about infrastructure, there would be levees and other infrastructure that not only protects the city but allowed it to thrive. Even this week I spotted an error in design just by watching routine TV coverage, one that is not at all realized by humans.

But because the Western business investment AND its “charity” is increasingly, both knowingly and unwittingly, “cultist belief” based, people are continuing to make bad investments that will reap sad and bad consequences. Mostly the cultists don’t mind because it is the “little people,” who are not astrologically or “spiritually” consequential who suffer. Like I said, then they rush to say those are “acts of God.” But not providing basic advanced infrastructure capabilities and safeties before the disaster rather than after is both material and spiritual negligence of the highest order.

Another example is the flooding that has occurred throughout the United Kingdom over the past few years. I mean, how stupid is a governmental system that no matter who is in power that they cannot anticipate and construct to remedy or mediate such circumstances? And then the droughts in certain regions of the United States, where one must wonder, instead of blaming “global warming,” why have not decision makers instituted wise water policy in the first place? I taught a seminar back in the late 1970’s while I was a university student myself about environmental law, and I pointed out the hundreds of years of conflict over water policy and how it is a dire problem. And here we are with things only worse, not better.

Again, this is not magic. Just several generations ago humans had the knowledge they needed in their hands, and the charity was growing in their hearts. But the cultist age of greed took over and before you know it, many regions of the world are worse off than they were after World War II and that’s a fact. Look at the drought in Australia, as they watch their farmland disappear and act like that’s never happened in the history of humanity. They are hurt and outraged, and I feel deeply for them. But I wonder at the past two generations who are so certain that they are entitled and that the world runs on a thermostat that they personally operate. If I had farmlands I would have planned for times of both abundant (too much, even) water, and extreme drought. Again, that’s not magic, that is using both reasoning skills and faith. Reread how Joseph advised the people of Egypt how to prepare for a dire regional seven year famine, it is all there in the Bible, both spiritual and material wisdom. So it is not as if this is an ability that humans don’t have; they had it in abundance until they decided to be manipulated into a cultist and false sense of reality regarding their lifestyle, their investments, their faith, their very reasoning skills, and the areas of humanity and environment that they willfully neglect and allow to suffer.

For several painful decades now people have marginalized and tortured me because they are more worried about “'who' I am 'really reincarnated from'” rather than reality, even though anyone could have asked me at any time and I would have witnessed to them that there is no such thing as reincarnation at all. I’ve sat here being tortured and maligned, watching how humans have set themselves up for their own destruction. At any point I could have forgiven all that has been done to me, to the innocents who have suffered, rolled up my sleeves and shown people how to raise the standards of both material and spiritual living for everyone, with total inclusion. Yet the more I point this out the more that I have been injured. And this is hardly a secret.

Let me tell you a story from sometime between 1981-5. I was working for one of the major oil companies and as a manager had to attend one of their many education classes that focus on skills and teambuilding. One was an advanced problem solving class and actually, that was quite impressive, as they taught some very interesting human techniques at problem solving and team building. One day we had an exercise where a team of three or four people had to try to figure out from a list of three possible answers the solution to a problem that they had no expertise in, or access to resources. Our team’s problem was why bears attacked certain electrical power structures.

As luck would have it, since I was an environmental science major I actually knew about this problem and the cause. But not wanting to ruin the exercise for my engineering and managerial teammates, I kept my mouth shut, except to contribute normally and positively as to where they were headed. But when I tried to actually drop some hints (as they were going off in the wrong direction) I got ignored and somewhat slapped down. So the team actually came to an erroneous choice from the list of three. During the debriefing it came out that I knew the correct answer. The team’s instructor correctly explained that this is an example of a shy or low key team member being beaten down, and how bad engineering decisions are made as a result, and how one should never underestimate the capabilities of a team member (remember, this was during a time when women had difficulty being heard in corporate settings too).

By the way, five years later the space shuttle “Challenger” exploded because it was launched in too cold conditions, overriding the concerns of minority team members about the O-rings’ ability to perform correctly. Yet, incredibly, there are many who ought to know better who continue to ascribe cultist beliefs to events like the Challenger disaster.

Humans have had a rich history of both spiritual and material progress in wisdom, yet they have deliberately polluted their own knowledge base. The more they know about flooding, the less they do. The more they know about droughts, the less they plan. The more they know about tsunamis, the less they do for the disenfranchised. The more people have older, traditional and conservative wisdom, the more they are mocked and shouted down, and persecuted out of the decision making process based on “who they ‘really’ were during a ‘past life.’” The more we know about biology and medicine, the more risky behavior humans embrace. The more humans poop the less they pick it up the proper way. Have trouble allocating resources? Blame babies; teach that too many babies are the root of all evil and shortages. Low self esteem? Tell your kids they are reincarnated alien superhero fighters rather than have them comprehend the goodness and singularity of their real actual life and the urgent need for them to make wise and not demented cultist based decisions. Have a problem? Solve it by being passive aggressive on one extreme or violent on the other extreme.

I see one or two examples of the truth beginning to dawn on people. For example, much of Louisiana evacuated successfully during Hurricane Gustav (I went along with them). I thought that the local, state and federal governments actually acquitted themselves admirably, opening referring to the lessons learned from 2005 when they did everything that they possibly could wrong during Hurricane Katrina. I saw a real maturity and depth of understanding in both the continuing leaders and the ones that were new since then. I saw many more people “get it,” and have a sense of the larger picture, and be able to reduce it to logical imperatives and cautionary steps, both individually and collectively. And I hope that they have a process by which they will evaluate even this iteration and learn what was omitted and what needs to be included “next time.” But Lord, oh Lord, this is one example of one disaster where improvement has been made in preparation and response. That is one drop in the bucket of the dire infrastructure mistakes and flaws that are destroying humanity’s present and future, both materially and spiritually. People do not have time to “try out doing one thing right” and “see how that works.” I personally don’t have the time, and neither do all of you.