Fractal government

Fears of a global caliphate or that you should be okay with their culture are overblown. If you don't like the culture you can use money and resources to go educate them. 

We should be held responsible for these things, responsibility is not blame. And not just our predecessors messed up. We messed up. I was here paying my taxes, going about life, and not protesting when the illegitimate Bush Administration decided to go make a mess of the whole region. Same thing with the Obama Administration. We are all complicit. Our only excuse is ignorance and powerlessness. but those are convincing excuses. We therefore have responsibility, not blame. No one truly has blame because their is no such thing as freewill. Blaming a human is ontologically equivalent to blaming a car. If your car messes up, you gotta fix it, not blame it. If it's way too messed up, you may have to destroy it, but we want to limit that when it comes to human being. Some of us want to limit that.

Even if none of it was our fault, we still have responsibility. If your house is burning down, it doesn't matter who or what caused it, you have responsibility to fix it. It's the same with climate change. The cause doesn't matter, we need to try to slow it down to give us time to adapt.

What can we do? Unfortunately, we are uneducated and powerless and have very little connection to our politicians. So first we have to regain our own power and freedom. We need advanced education to do that. We have to outcompete and oust corporatism, but they have all the money and all the resources. We have the people, and if we can also add the intelligence, we can win, change the system, and stop it from being a war-bucks scheme.

Many businesses, and a few individuals know, the easiest way to get guaranteed money is to get it from the government. In my city, the two largest employers are the military, and the school district. So what we have is a covert welfare state. But instead of just giving people a handout, we make them go to war and disperse impotent education for a paycheck. We do this because we have plenty of money but few jobs in our country. But the socialist corporate system has figured this out. Yet, that's not even the worst of it. When the banks went bust, they just went for the straight handout. No public works or charity work, just give us the money. And we went for it, which means, the next crash is coming. Imagine it, when these banks failed and the government bailed them out, people got fat checks for their failure. Imagine that. Most people are embarrassed when they have to get government checks for failing at their job, but corporations had been milking the government for a long time and they are smart enough not to despise a government check.

If the country is socialist, the better model may be straight democratic socialism rather than corporate socialism. Note, I'm not saying the country should be socialist, I'm saying, if it already is, we want democratic socialism rather than corporate socialism because corporate socialism is inherently fragile. It is building a complex structure with cheap materials.

Capitalism is ideally fractal, meaning each individual person is a capitalist, a business entity unto himself, and then people come together and make companies that are business entities. That makes it such that if one part fails, it doesn't take down the whole structure. Corporate socialism concentrates money and resources among the few and leaves everyone else vulnerable, uneducated, and dependent of their very next paycheck. That's a fragile system because if the people at the top fail, everyone fails because they were waiting on that next paycheck and with the banks failing, it may not come. So they have the gun to our head and we are insuring their failure, giving up some of our labor, working for free, to continue to inflate their pockets. And, setting them up to fail again, even worse.

The human body is fractal. It is made of cells wrapped in a membrane and the human being is full of cells and wrapped in a membrane. Cells have receptors, we have senses. We are fragile in that our powers of regeneration are not as good as say a starfish but we evolved where there were no guns that could poke a whole in you so easily.

So we have to regain local power. That may mean withdrawing from corporate work, finding local work for locally-owned companies, starting your own business and not selling it to corporations. But mostly it means getting educated and educating everyone else.