Humanity cannot be steered - it unfolds
A MURMURATION of starlings is a wonder of nature, managed beyond the comprehension of human organisation.
A computer can replicate the spontaneous beauty in cold mimicry, but it will never grasp the motivation that has compelled the starling for eons.
We may understand the many varied micro-adjustments taking place and how they are transmitted throughout the flock; but it cannot be choreographed by a board of directors. Top-down organisation weakens the initiative of the individual and creates dependency.
A dependent population is at the whim of the organiser and devoid of instinctive life.
Progress is the result of natural processes. It occurs as a result of human requirement; it grows from need, informed by necessity. What is not required fails. What arrives too early is cautiously tested. What comes too late is useless. If we override this self-regulating, natural process - forcing the unnatural, it is we who must adapt to the want of progress. The human now secondary to product and commerce - business. Those businesses directed by private interest.
In his books, Klaus Schwab displays a desperate need to steer the world rather than let it unfold.
An astute observer can recognise complex business contracts, lobbying and outright racketeering provide the thrust behind many of the developments on the World Economic Forum wish list. Yet Klaus presents the Fourth Industrial Revolution as if it were both organic and inevitable. That we must change ourselves to make way for it.
It is madness to assume that any committee can administrate all of humanity's needs, interactions and growth. To monitor and judge its evolution like a business plan. A pompous coalition of Big Business and Big Government cannot hijack a thing so nuanced and complex as progress.
No amount of paperwork, planning or statistics can reproduce the effortless grace of natural order.
People cannot be streamlined to fit a mathematical description of success. Any group attempting to seize control of the natural impetus of life will ultimately fail.
Schwab is so out of touch with the warmth of human cooperation that his open commitment to commandeer the 21st century displays nothing short of contempt for the people he shares the Earth with.
What is at stake is theunfathomable brilliance of our achievements being lost to a small gang of criminals. A cartel of maniacs with a grotesque belief in their own self-importance and a profoundly impaired world view. But corruption destroys from within. Not only joined in battle with the splendour of the universe, but forced to partner with a similar class of predatory human; each one bent on serving themselves above each other.
Defeat is rarely due to external forces over which we have no control, but to our own selfishness, ignorance and cowardice. These failings are enduring characteristics of the deviant class.
From such disadvantage, how can they suppress people who possess morality and rectitude? With an instinct for survival and resourcefulness and camaraderie and hope... is it not in fact we who are the elite?
