Decline? Really? Where?

Reading a Telegraph article about decline was to say the least, eye-opening. Obviously I have been thinking about decline in many different ways, you cannot escape it as the signs are all around us. It even comes to the point of thinking, ‘What is the use of humanity on this planet’? In the wider world most of us, as the Telegraph article pointed out, do not think about decline. Basically, we tend to accept it. Same for myself, I think about it, I wonder why, then go back to sleep. Yet it should really bother us. The problem becomes much worse when politicians do the same. They think about it, then accept it as a state of affairs. It happens, accept it. As such nothing much is really done, visualise the boats on the Channel with literally thousands of immigrants. Basically accepted, visualise the NHS and its inabilities to come to grips with waiting times and also the lack of beds. All basically accepted as the way it is. Bar the usual fuzzy TV debates as how they are going to attack the problems, in reality it is just hot air. It keeps people thinking something will be done, is going to be done but no, it is like I said, we think about it, we accept it, then go back to sleep.

Think about the problem of GROK, the X or Twitter AI bot and its propensity to produce sexualised images. We heard politicians proudly talking about criminalising such activity. Lovely, yes I heard it. To me it is yet another sign of talk when nothing in real terms will or can be done, simply because with VPNs you can access anything else in the world. If the US based company does nothing then let’s go back to sleep. As I also have mentioned before, anything that can be done, manufactured or practised by human beings, good or bad, will be done. So, to ban GROK will immediately set in motion production of other similar activities and products. Nice, aren’t we clever or perhaps in the way of Trump simply slap a 25% surcharge on it, Starmer will have nightmares, poor man.

So, decline is happening, not just locally, but world-wide. Local signs are easy to spot. I only have to look at the amount of rubbish all around. The plastics, the discarded paper packaging, the carelessness displayed with the environment. If you think just building houses is good and helps the housing problem, you’d be wrong, it doesn’t help. It only aggravates the environment, every house has a flow of actions happening. Nice stuff goes in, rubbish comes out, more services required. The way it is dealt with shows the decline in standards. Governments seem to think, worldwide, that money is all that matters. Just charge more and the problems will go away. The easy way. But it also is one of the indicators of decline. Higher taxes all around do not improve standards. Despite what the grinning public servants tell us.

Harking back to past glories does not help either. In fact the past had its own problems with standards as we are discovering from time to time. The Victorians virtually overran the world but in London half the population had syphilis or another sexual disease. We are not better off, the disease is still with us. In fact others have turned up as well like HIV and related stuff. It might well turn out with everything considered that humanity is the planet’s disease. I wonder what will happen when the planet finds its medicine.