If it's any consolation, it's not just Danes. We panic on our couches, too. And sometimes I understand it. It's not only the myriad problems you mentioned. It's the individual or family problems we are all carrying. There's only so much a person can take. I didn't know the situation was that dire for you guys, though.
Well, I tend to drag forward one aspect of the people I talk about, and of course there is more to it. However, you may be up to something when indicating the information (or problem) overload as a reason for being passive.
It is rather stressful to feel that you must solve all problems you know about, and perhaps it is a necessary mechanism in us that then makes us decide to leave some of them to others?
Anyway, it means that some serious problems of the world tend to be ignored by everybody.
I don't think our brains are even capable of processing that much information and acting on it. For millennia, we were designed to care about our families, our little communities, not the entire world.
And now, it looks like we have outsourced the brainpower for handling it – that, which could otherwise have become a further development of humans – to various automata. So, we will never learn.
Thank you. People are typically not seeing the connections between cybercrime and software monopoly, but it is there.
Plus, finally, an understanding is emerging that we shouldn't trust one country to run all of our life for us, in principle, but must diversify the use of software to several systems and vendors.
The funny thing is that we have been there before: around 25–30 years ago, there was a wave of moving to "open standards", as the buzzword was called then. It effectively just led to database software being replaced from IBM to Oracle – but some politicians felt that they had done something.
I guess that something similar will happen this time, meaning clapping hands, jumping on the spot, and that's that. Nothing really to be changed. Most people don't want to change anything unless it is very urgent – it is easier to just do as they have always done.
If it's any consolation, it's not just Danes. We panic on our couches, too. And sometimes I understand it. It's not only the myriad problems you mentioned. It's the individual or family problems we are all carrying. There's only so much a person can take. I didn't know the situation was that dire for you guys, though.
Well, I tend to drag forward one aspect of the people I talk about, and of course there is more to it. However, you may be up to something when indicating the information (or problem) overload as a reason for being passive.
It is rather stressful to feel that you must solve all problems you know about, and perhaps it is a necessary mechanism in us that then makes us decide to leave some of them to others?
Anyway, it means that some serious problems of the world tend to be ignored by everybody.
I don't think our brains are even capable of processing that much information and acting on it. For millennia, we were designed to care about our families, our little communities, not the entire world.
And now, it looks like we have outsourced the brainpower for handling it – that, which could otherwise have become a further development of humans – to various automata. So, we will never learn.
This complements your previous post perfectly.
Thank you. People are typically not seeing the connections between cybercrime and software monopoly, but it is there.
Plus, finally, an understanding is emerging that we shouldn't trust one country to run all of our life for us, in principle, but must diversify the use of software to several systems and vendors.
The funny thing is that we have been there before: around 25–30 years ago, there was a wave of moving to "open standards", as the buzzword was called then. It effectively just led to database software being replaced from IBM to Oracle – but some politicians felt that they had done something.
I guess that something similar will happen this time, meaning clapping hands, jumping on the spot, and that's that. Nothing really to be changed. Most people don't want to change anything unless it is very urgent – it is easier to just do as they have always done.
Often, the recognition that change is needed comes when it's already too late ☹️
That's true. The past is much easier to read than the present, mostly because we read the past selectively, making it fit our understanding of life.