Last week, Facebook lost a lot of money. Yet, none of us has lost any friend. Well, except here and there a friend from high school passed away. Yet while alive, we seek scapegoat: if only they hadn’t been here, we would have had more jobs, better paying jobs etc… Baby boomers experimented with collectivism, Millennial with collaboration. From We to Me and back to We, this time with platforms like Facebook and Twitter, not the VW van and “flowers in their hair”.
Back to the land, back to billions for farmers to solve short-term problems – avoidable ones. The fireman/arsonist with black shadow – per Carl Jung.
We are easily fooled: from being a fast-food nation to becoming fast-judging country. Deport them all, cut the chain (migration), re-shoring the in-shoring technologists etc.. Well, we are globally connected, and the dictator will face his own dilemma. Egypt tried it. Many countries have experimented with strong-handedness only to wear themselves out with policies’ unintended consequences. Not when facebook is still free, not when Amazon still delivers and not when Microsoft still operates (this last company has earned high marks on my book when employees signed petition to challenge ICE’s contracts).
The Genie is out of the bottle. No turning back. New world demands new ways. Don’t renege on providing spare parts (exporting cars , for instance, and then high-ball the maintenance afterwards). Bad for the brand, bad blood all around.
We have to pay the bills that come due. As far as social contract goes, we can get away only for so long. Infrastructure crumbled, human resources depleted while Moore’s Law keeps up. What happened to that six-degrees of separation? Are we all just six acquaintances away from Donald Trump and Putin? All things must pass. Up to you and I to make our marks, our decisions and our legacy. What would be engraved on that last stone, underneath our names. Loving father? Unsung hero? Taker and joker? Narcissist? Chief Blaming Officer – CBO? Our collective shadow stretches real long and wide. Don’t be surprised that it takes fewer than 6 degrees of separation once we headed down the road of blame.
Thang Nguyen 555 