Revolution Time.

Remember the other revolutions, the French, Russian, the collapse of Communism, the Boston Tea Party etc? They all began when the people weren’t getting enough to reasonably live on. Time and time again a ‘system class’ has risen to take control and within their own concept of reason has considered themselves worth more and more. It’s a basic loophole in cognition that it is wholly comparative. Cognition doesn’t have absolute or objective measurement. I was going to say we have rulers to do that, which throws up an interesting double use of the word. The system class thus has no means of judging their needs other than in comparison with their equally wealthy neighbours, and just like the rest of us they’d just like a little bit more. Wealth becomes unbalanced simply because of the nature of cognition, and at some tipping point there is a revolution. It’s surely time we took account of this basic cognitive impairment and designed a system around it. The Greeks, God bless them, have reminded us of the philosophical struggle they went through millennia ago to create such a system. Democracy, though we cling to the word, has been much subverted since then by many different circumstances. It’s time we went back to its philosophical root. This time the system class is global and the whole planet is at stake. They are unaccountable to any populous, government or rule of law. The checks and balances on their cognition have been overcome and all that’s left is a decent into Caligula.