(just a heads up, nothing to be posted on Turkey Day. BTW: America would probably be a better place if the pilgrims and their religious fanaticism would have went elsewhere)
It's really one of the two core questions. Is the world a zero-sum game as I believe, or is it a expanding pot of possibilities where more is to be had today than yesterday.
I was subtly chided over at Colonel Lang's place the other day, it was announced that my thinking was that of a person who viewed the world as a zero sum game, with the unspoken, yet quite obvious assertion is that one who believes in the zero-sum game is somehow less than one who doesn't.
But in this world of Archdruids and Astronauts, I suppose that I tend to come down on the side of the perception of those of us deemed less superior. Because a finite world, with finite resources and finite intelligence, zero sum is the only game that is real.
Now, this is going to come as an uncomfortable assertion for those on the side of the growth model. Because usually, the better off a person is, the more they need to believe in the infinite growth model. This is a societal thing here in the West, where the core belief in the equality of all butts head-first into the reality of not enough.
Our society has always believed fervently in the idea that there will always be more available tomorrow than is available today. In truth, that core belief is almost the political and psychic definition of what it is to be an American.
I can't imagine that there are many out there who are willing, or even capable of changing their point of view on this subject. There are myriads of reasons, all safe and comfortable, which argue against such a rash decision.
All I am asking people is the socially awkward and decidedly unwelcome question, what do you do when you have been wrong?
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