We’ve allowed ourselves as a spiecies to become polarized in our mindsets.
There are few people crossing the divide anymore.
Once an atheist - always an atheist?
The staunch believers still left at this late stage - will die with their beliefs intact.
Where are the “floor crossers” these days? New Converts? Or even high profile people announcing that they’ve “lost their faith”, rather than “rejected their gender” or other such tosh…
A rare creature indeed is the “Friendly Right-Winger” - that is, a once-believer who’s now embraced the Devil and his works, accepts that he can only vote against his own kind by voting for the polar opposite, rather than an entirely new middle ground party. If this were not so, then wouldn’t the Left have voted in a Green Majority by this point, or the Right voted in anything associated with UK, or even regional independence?
Even rarer still is the “Friendly Left-Winger” who finds God, but cannot bring themselves to stop being “Liberal”.
Even Solomon didn’t learn THAT lesson in time for his own downfall…
Better wise up though. When the last righteous person leaves town - the apocalypse cometh.
The fate of the “Cities of the Plain” - awaits those places who’ve not only rejected God, but then go out of their way to celebrate the fact…
The danger for most people on Earth is that “Once you realize that you need to get out of dodge - it’ll be too late to leave!”.
Towns in places like Brazil, California, Ukraine, India, Japan, and of course multple population centres in Europe - are all up for the chop, likely within our lifetimes, whatever is left of that.
The only way we could ALL have “Got out of this” - is to go forth and mutiply - in space.
Instead, we’re marooned on this planet, with only our own company to keep, and later destroy.
A thousand years from now, an alien species might visit this planet, and study it as a “significant archaeological interest” - having found a “lost, and long-gone civilization” on what for them using our designations might be the star system of “The brightest star in Cassiopea” as they have no such designations as in their own civilization.
We might call their system the Alpha Centauri system. They never knew we existed on the “next door system” until they got here, and found us already extinct.
A glimmer of hope - we might one day have a wealthy person who re-writes our warped logic into something more rewarding for all of humanity, rather than just the bits of humanity that happen to support you from the start.
The Right’s flaw - was that they couldn’t win over the Left with generosity, whilst the Left’s flaw - is that the price of following them - is just too much to bear upon those of us richer than an insect, but poorer than a millionaire, that being the 99% of us…
How these two sides represent 75% of the voting block that supports the 1% - I’ll suggest is the biggest CON that anyone has ever got away with, over the rest of humanity. The other “unaccounted for” 24% in this equation - are those people who “stay off the Grid”, because they either like their lives of obscurity as they are, OR don’t want the bother of being “disturbed” by others finding out just how successful in obscurity they really are.
“15 minutes of fame”? - Nope
The cushiest lifestyle to be had in this day and age - is to be filthy rich, and totally unknown for it.
You might have the next Elon Musk living right next door to you in Suberbia - and not know it!
There’s no rule that says you MUST have “Status Symbols” when you’re super-rich…
Why blatently advertize in a way that merely weaponizes the covet of others?
I doubt if this yet-to-come paragon IS Elon Musk though, as he’s done nothing so far to recruit from the 99% - has he?
“Come and work for me, and I’ll pay you £1000 a week for emptying the Trash - and that’s my minimum entry-level of employment. Interested?”
When was the last time anyone on HERE got cold-called, and offered a cushy job?
I’ve been called before, as I suspect many of us have with words like “They’ve asked for you by name!”
Wots the pay and hours like?
Well, it’s £10ph days, but a big £2ph uplift for nights - not just weekend nights! Hours-wise? 48 basic, with time and a half after 60 hours!
People with money could do sooo much for humanity - but instead, they spend it on “Renta-Mob” and little else.
There are rules about private indivuduals owning “Private Armies”, so the get-around is they merely bribe people to go out and perform criminal behaviour, or at least antisocial behaviour…
Imagine if every millionaire who wanted to employ someone - paid a minimum wage that was double the standard minimim wage?
You’d at very least have a lot of millionaire employers “pretending to be non-millionaires” by having more discrete, less lavish lifestyles…
Here we see the lesson learned from “Surviving a depression, and prospering during that downtime!”.
Discrete Wealth.
You’ll also always have the more boasty types, maybe including people like Trump and Musk - who’ll say
My… Shoe Shine Lad is on $30 per hour. NO one poaches my staff from ME!
We’ve already got people like Hairdressers who charge 3-figures per hour, to “celebrities” and others who can afford such “exclusivity”…
It’s not as far-fetched as you might think, and I reckon rather more likely as a “job of the future” than anything “Green and Nasty”…
Say, it’s a year from now, you’ve lost your current job, and you’re about to be re-possessed…
Your new Govenor, a complete stranger - offers to take over your mortgage, or simply pay you enough overtime to easily meet the repayments…
Are you going to say to that future-would-be Employer “Sorry Guy, I can’t work for yeu because I don’t agree with your politics!..” ?
I’d say Employers have a great opportunity to mop up entire workforces in the next year or so - and get them on board with their agenda, and take the politican permanent people OUT of this equation, for the problem they are to humanity.
Let’s say a particular employer makes a small town a company town… It’s not much to then ask of your staff “I’m standing for political office - will you support me, or do I close down this factory, and take my manufacturing to somewhere I am actually appreciated?”
Is there enough time to get this done, rinse and repeated enough times to create an entirely new block of MPs though?
Personally, I’d LOVE to see Parliament full of MPs that “Did vocational jobs” “Found success in Business” rather than “Went to University”, let alone “Read Law”…
, but .mainly because our characters and outlooks are poles apart,.in terms of him being a bit intense on stuff and me basically …wel not giving a [zb] tbh,.
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