The reality is that most of us are not ready for the truth. We want reassurance. We cling to our comfort blankets because the idea that we live in a world in which our and our families\u2019 interests are not paramount is too disturbing.<\/p>\n
The idea that our fates are entirely dependent on a giant Ponzi scheme that might come crashing down at any moment from any one of multiple design flaws \u2013 an ecological crisis, a nuclear catastrophe, a pandemic or a hubristic mis-step with Artificial Intelligence \u2013 is simply too terrifying.<\/p>\n
So, even as we mock a figurehead like Donald Trump, Joe Biden or Boris Johnson, we remain deeply invested in the system that keeps producing them. We need<\/em> to believe \u2013 and just as desperately as a child refusing, a little longer, to give in to suspicions that Father Christmas might not exist. Despite all the evidence to the contrary, our societies, we insist, are on a continuous upwards trajectory named progress.<\/p>\n Few are willing to consider that we might actually be in a death spiral. So instead of doing something to change the world, we bury our heads. We ignore every sign, however blatant, of the system\u2019s inherent dysfunction and corruption.<\/p>\n