Disfunctional

My hearing aids were disfunctional, so too, as it turns out were my ears. That can all be sorted. The hoses to my water softener leaked onto my kitchen floor, disfunctional after 3 years. Obviously cheap plastic tat with built in obsolescence. That isn't what I am talking about. Life is full of things that go wrong & don't function properly. 

I just had a replacement Amazon Echo Show & discovered, having seen the excellent John Lewis tech advisor, because I'd already complained about the first one, it had the same software fault. The setup was not intuitive or even logical & there was a choice early on which disabled everything if you clicked on it. That was very time consuming & irritating & Amazon with all it's tech expertise should have sorted it by now. But even that isn't what I'm talking about. 

Individuals, countries, companies, all make mistakes. No one is perfect, we are all human & while humans run the world there will be mistakes. 

When I talk about disfuntion I basically mean systems. 80 years of life have shown me that there are ups & downs. There are errors & mistakes, inadvertant, careless or deliberate & self serving. I doubt we can change that. Utopia, Nirvana & Heaven actually don't exist. 

But what is happening now is caused by us. Our world is being devastated & decimated by man made climate change. We are creating mountains of rubbish & polluting our landscape, rivers & seas. Plant and animal life is going extinct at a rate never seen before because of us & the way we decimate habitats & landscape. We pollute even the air we breathe.

Our blind & heedless pursuit of profit proves the old adage "money is the root of all evil". 

Our vital societal systems, justice, education, health, food, water, housing....are all failing abysmally. We are overwhelmed with population imbalance & polpulation movements around the world caused by war, persecution & disaster. We are reaching a point where we may not be able to put all of this right. We may already be at the tipping point.

It's no good just blaming politicians, useless though some are. We live in a world where there is evidence based information accessible to all. Where we can fact check the accuracy of information to help us make good choices. 

The only way we will be able to solve the fundamental disfunctionality of the world we have created through greed & wilfully ignoring reality is for everyone to work together to find real solutions.

 

It won't be easy, but there really is no choice.