The simplest solution

To our social and economic illness

Mike Meyer
4 min readFeb 24, 2019
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by Mike Meyer

I think I’ve finally figured it out. All by myself.

No, we don’t ever figure things out all by ourselves. That is so ‘modern’ and linear. None of us are linear anymore and we are at the end of the pretense.

Well, we are still linear but we live in a complex world that is no longer willing to give any slack to sentient beings that don’t have their shit into exponential change.

We all know that the capitalist thing has destroyed us. Not just America but the planet. Yes, there are two or three groups of extreme people, who refuse to understand that and also, incidentally, refuse to realize that everything has changed. They are a problem.

They are also so completely linear that they cannot be both positive and negative at the same time. The rise of open market style economics stemming from capitalism as a process and methodology has brought the entire planet to the point that positive change can happen. Thank you.

The four hundred year process has run its course. Very much as pumping iron, partying, and sleeping three hours a night when you are young can make you stronger. The early warning indicators mean you have to stop and rest even when young. But if you are older you only get…

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Mike Meyer

Writer, Educator, Campus CIO (retired) . Essays on our changing reality here, news and more at https://rlandok.substack.com/