Alexander Ocasio-Cortez’s Shoes
Even their faked theft adds to the complexity
By Mike Meyer ~ Honolulu ~ January 17, 2021
Success can create as many problems as a failure. Such is the case with planetary-scale complexity, as we have been learning for the last forty years. Our failure in learning to respond to these problems is now as frightening as the problems themselves.
It seems we are unable to ‘grow into’ the job that we have given ourselves. That is not encouraging as America is desperately entangled in one instance of such a problem that is emblematic of the whole complex mess. While the Amerian Empire is in its final days, it still holds the banner of modern leadership and, having created the 20th-century modernity model, should have the best chance of fixing its own mess.
The growing horror at the Trump disaster's full scope has quickly overcome the positives of Biden's solid electoral win, now with full control of Congress. The celebration was certainly limited in the worst modern pandemic exacerbating a structural economic collapse. But what little relief remained was brutally crippled at the escalating exhibition of the social and psychological damage done to a substantial population segment.
That the only institutional route to hope for a viable future in the planetary…
