The Wrong Risks

“As our governments and cultures become ever-more severely disoriented, they become incapable of responding intelligently to risk assessment and response. More clearly; they hyperbolize and ‘respond’ to the wrong ‘risks’ or invent risks that are negligible or do not even exist.

For example, over the past 18 years the military-industrial complex in the US failed to properly note or respond to the looming and lethal risks of cyberwarefare (attacks on our information energy infrastructure) until it was far too late; as a result, many of our modern military ‘advantages’ were transformed instantly into weakenesses. At the same time, our industrial and energy infrastructures were rendered extremely vulnerable to foreign actors.

Similarly, the present administration is incapable of responding to lethal health and environmental problems that are bound to affect millions of citizens adversely, and will certainly present a ‘standing curse’ to local and world populations in the future.

While absolutely distracted by nonsensical or modest concerns, our present supercultures are prone to ignore the incredibly profound consequences of environmental and food toxicity, other deadly health and social risks, epidemics, and the myriad sequelae that emerge both from these threats and from the problems endemic to a poorly-educated populous governed by disoriented idiots.

We live now in a world whose governments have become, essentially, the symptoms of diseases. Our modern media has largely enhanced this problem by ‘priming’ our populations for disorientation by feeding them media with the primary motivation of distributing fear, outrage, and poorly qualified information. So we, too, are ‘primed’ by our common cultural experience to pay too much attention to wrong risks; as participants in a disoriented context, we, too, become disoriented.

This is a grim reality; but it is not irreversible. It is still possible to forge cultures and media outlets ourselves, with the power to overcome the bizarre and often explicitly insane orientations that pervade our modern lives. We can use the technologies now present to invent entirely new forms of collective humanity; forms with the insight, intelligence and agency necessary to both reverse and give answer to the modern situation. And we must. Immediately.”

— an anonymous informant