In today's news: more abuses of power

Today’s news reports include more prominent indications of abuse of power - including the incompetence of economists who ignore obscene profits made by Australian companies and evidence that high and fatal unemployment is not needed to manage inflation. These abuses of power are, in my opinion, often largely connected to our patriarchal society - which evidence suggests was dated back to the start of agriculture in Europe ... and which started because people were/allowed themselves to be duped, rather than saying “no, that’s not how we do things or wants things to be”, as was the case in, for example, Australian aboriginal nations. 

The costs of those abuses of power include: 

• avoidable disasters; 
• people not being able to afford cancer treatment - here, in Australia, not the USA ... and the situation is even worse elsewhere; 
• lazy and, frankly, extremist applications of ideas that are, in some circumstances, a good idea - not mention extremist abuses of power like this; 
• continued revelations of the deliberate, malicious cruelty of our offshore jails for refugees; 
• failure to address or even properly recognise intersectionality (I will, incidentally, now try to remember to use the acronym LGBTQIASB+); and 
• more allegations of long term denialism and cover ups regarding UAPs/UFOs/ETs (the claims are spectacular, and have been made in official circumstances, but what comes next is an open, transparent and objective investigation).
  

At least some people with power are standing up to the abuses. It is worth keeping that in mind, and be as ethical  as you can in all you do. 

 

Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider:

• there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”; 
  
• I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
  

 

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