Reply #94: i do agree with your basic premise, and many of your [View All]

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points, but, how and why do you think that thinking became unfashionable? Who taught us that being involved is a social taboo, that the Stock Market is the arbiter of how we are doing? Who is doing this to us? I tend to believe in smoke filled rooms myself, but It would seem from your final paragraph that you take a mechanistic approach. If we have become so mechanised, then how do we break out of the trap? Will the systems, even if designed to ensure their own survival, break of their own accord, when they are forced to undertake too many conflicting tasks at the same time?