The War On Progress
Jim Murray
Helping businesses send the right messages in a consistent voice.
One of the things you learn from spending any time on social media, beside how cute those little pygmy goats are, is that there are literally thousands of ideas out there that will, when given the opportunity, become real game changers in the progress of the world.
But right now, I have a strange feeling that there are a lot of people out there whose brains are so supersaturated with and distracted by political bullshit that they are actually becoming numb to anything to do with progress and more consumed with ennui about their basic rights and freedoms.
These are not the idiots because they don’t process complex ideas like democracy and progress and freedom very well.
But the rest, and I do believe it’s the majority, are for the most part, walking around in a daze, wondering what the hell happened to a world that seemed to be moving forward and now appears to be being slowly and methodically jammed into reverse.
Uncomfortable Numbness & New Priorities
What I believe we are experiencing is bigger than politics.
What we are seeing is what my insightful sister calls the last dying gasp of the old white industrialists.
These people are clinging to destructive, invasive, and environmentally dangerous ways of doing things, especially here in North America. This resistance to real progress is loud and constant and it can wear on your spirit.
You watch so called democracies falling prey to the big industrial con game of deregulation, that allows these smokestack industries to keep on pumping carcinogens into the atmosphere: that allows companies to keep on stripping the land and polluting the water through hydraulic fracturing and uncontrolled waste dumping: that reduces emission control standards for the automotive industry, and these are just the most obvious ones.
With all this coming at you 24/7, it’s very easy to understand why so many of us have become uncomfortably numb.
It’s All About All Of Us
But understand this. These industries are dying and have been for years. There are new and better and more environmentally responsible ways out there that are just itching to replace them on a large scale. And, despite all the protestations and attacks on them, they are growing.
Progressive thinkers, and there are a few of those around, understand this. What we need to do is seek them out, ask them pointed questions and get behind the most progressive of them.
At this point in time in time progressive thinking especially as it pertains to the environment and human impact of it, is far and away the most important thing to be focused on. Because without real progress in this area it’s only a matter of time before very little else will matter.
And the way that happens all depends on our ability to accept and embrace these new ideas and not allow ourselves to be victimized by the greed of old white men and their smokestacks and vehement opposition to progress.
The world is at a crossroads right now. It’s confusing to most people. But some things are painfully obvious. And making greedy rich old men even richer at the expense of our environment is one of the most obvious of all.
Jim lives in St Catharines Ontario (AKA The Quiet Side Of The Lake) and is still working with companies in Toronto whence he came. He is also currently a partner at Bullet Proof Consulting. www.bulletproofconsulting.ca
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