How Real Progress Occurs
No Freedom, No Progress
This is how people progress:
Someone makes a decision. It works well, or it doesn’t. If it doesn’t, the person re-makes the decision, improving upon it. Practically, many people do sometimes make the same mistake over and over before they finally give up and make the change. But, eventually or immediately that change will be made. AND THE PERSON’S LIFE IMPROVES!
We all know no one but the person can make the change. We all have been in the situation where someone we love is making a mistake. You can tell them one hundred times how and why it is a mistake, but it is the person who has to decide ‘this is not working for me, I need to find a better way’. When they do, THEIR LIFE IMPROVES!
This is progress. The only real progress. It is the growth of the individual.
Society does not improve, per se. The individuals in society make healthy changes. Then, we say society improves.
The only way this can happen is to give people freedom to make their own choices. And, be open to healthy and vibrant dialogues as to what is working, and what doesn’t work.
A small odd example. When the COVID (poisons) vaccines first came out our street population, which had been surprisingly resilient to COVID, as in NO ONE was getting sick on the streets, (I conjectured the real COVID medicine must be Crystal Meth), was being asked by a TV news crew cruising the homeless area of my City if each person would be getting the shot. There was one great and telling interview. Think of a pretty young woman newsperson doing an interview with a Tweaker version of Chong from Cheech and Chong. This smirking foolish female news person could hardly contain her mirth when an interviewee said he wouldn’t be getting jabbed. ‘Why?’ She asked. He said ‘I don’t put anything in my body I don’t know what it is, and where it came from. I have lost so many friends that way, and I’ve been lucky myself. No vaccine for me. I don’t know what’s in them.’ She was nearly giggling at his stupidity.
In other words his ‘mistakes’ which he wilfully made caused him to and learn and progress, and he chose not to be poisoned by Pfizer/Moderna. She is likely four times jabbed now, or more, and struggling in more than a few ways. But….she won’t now fall for Bird Flu shots, will she?
We grow usually through mistakes. Sometimes through successes. But, the term ‘trial and error’ is because that is often the way forward. (Observant people too often progress through watching others making mistakes. They are the lucky ones.)
Obama said he would form a committee of the ‘best and brightest’ that would make health decisions for all the people. How brilliant! (NOT). How insanely stupid to think that is possible. No committee can make decisions for other people any more than we can make the right decisions for our family members. And, we know our family members reasonably well. Life is far too complicated for that.
Our society progresses through individual liberty. Let people make their own decisions, and pay the price for their ‘trials and errors’. From that each person improves the quality of their lives. (That second part, to ‘pay the price’, is equally important.)
Seven Billion people given maximum freedom would change the world 1000x faster than what we have now. And, many many mistakes would be made. With free and open discussion though those mistakes would be made fewer and fewer times and genuine growth in health and happiness would occur.
This is the way forward. There is no other way.