When You Give People Efficient Solutions…
My old rule remains valid even when among supposedly like-minded people. If one of my ideas gathers any noticeable support from others I really need to review it, because no truly effective idea is going to gather any significant support from people. Which, of course, doesn’t mean that if everybody opposes an idea it must be good, just that it’s obviously bad if they don’t vehemently oppose it.
Humans will be humans; even the large majority of the small minority who appear intelligent and interested in what’s really going on only appear so. Or at least they’re only interested in feeling good about themselves by having nice little chats about the “pretty” potential solutions, ignoring anything that’d actually be effective if it wouldn’t look particularly nice and especially if it’d require them to no longer look like the dazzling knights in shining armor who save the day and make sure that every single person will live happily ever after.
So I take what I can from these discussions, improve my ideas as much as I can while overestimating my opponents and patching up loopholes they never seem to notice anyway, and get back to work on my own. I may be just an armchair activist, but at least I’m one who wants to get things done efficiently, not look like a hero. So I’ll let them praise each other over the beautiful but ineffective solutions they come up with and get back to coming up with the efficient, albeit harsh and ugly, solutions that’ll get humankind from the current point A to the necessary point B within a reasonable estimate of the amount of time we still have available to make the trip.
In this particular case, I’m certain my solution will achieve the necessary results within the relatively little amount of time we have left while theirs won’t even come close and have numbers to prove this claim. I’m obviously not saying there couldn’t be another, better, solution that’d achieve the same results as mine, and in fact I kept asking for one, but none was provided. They were content to just argue against my efficient proposals because they’d violate their sense of ethics, morality and personal freedom. Which means history will be left to judge which viewpoint was the correct one… If anyone will be left in order to make this judgment, that is.
Sure, it’d be lovely if my diagnosis of the situation would be wrong, but I don’t see how that’d be possible. In fact, those who are interested in the issue generally agree with the diagnosis itself, but then their brains appear to refuse to accept the resulting numbers in order to allow them to keep on believing that harsh and ugly measures aren’t necessary in order to solve the problem. So I can say I tried to work with others and the results only served to once again prove me right when I say there’s absolutely no point in doing so, especially since even the two who initially agreed with me went completely quiet after that first message, running away the moment the challengers rushed forward and leaving me to hold the line all by myself through days of debate. Not that I mind arguing a point alone, quite the contrary, but there’s little point in joining groups if you won’t get any support!
Who knows, maybe these things will eventually get me to seriously start working on something else that’s been on my mind for quite some time. Perhaps I could even finish it… Some 30 years from now… If I’ll somehow live that long and human society wouldn’t be completely turned into a battlefield for every individual’s survival. And since both of these conditions are unlikely to be true… Still, it’s not like I have anything else to do. Just that I lack the skills to accomplish something of such magnitude properly, or even passably…
