When listening to news... don't.
For the past two years, a "fog of uncertainty" descended upon us. The news is more noise than real information, largely due to clickbait. Even the Lebanese civil war did not have as much "disinformation", to use a word coined by the purveyors of the same...
Recall that, "to every story, there are three sides: your side, their side, and... the truth". It takes time for the truth to trickle out, if it ever does. In the noisy environment, the only sound that matters are those relevant to immediate survival and long-term well being.
The more we progress, the greater the risk of a devolution into a #DimAge Already, our own #technology is growing too complex for us to understand or manage, and scales up faster than our own understanding can keep up.
In todays’ world, transport choke points are unavoidable, a feature of an unsustainable, #globalized world.
The #RedSea passage #BabElMandab is one of those, critical because of the #MiddleEast's central importance to the world's #EnergyEconomy
Agree to the rich world's desired outcome, before building the systems that made it rich? You get one form #CarbonColonialism
Then again, too much of a system focus, you get the excesses of the gilded age.
Better a #FailedState than a crazy kingdom.
A failed state is like a broken clock; it is broken, but may still be right twice day. On the other hand, a crazy kingdom is like an off clock; if it is off by 5%, it is only right once every 10 days.
...In addition, in a failed state, you and your community stand a chance to grow and succeed; the crazy king can't easily reach you, unlike in our modern anarcho-tyranny
