Urgently Addressing Immorality - Part P

How do you account for the pollution you directly and indirectly cause and/or encourage?

How do you account for the lapses in accurate accounting you directly and indirectly cause and/or encourage?

How much international shipping and air transport and road transport and rail transport have you directly and indirectly encouraged over your lifetime, and why?

What have been the sources of energy you have used over your lifetime, and why, and with what consequences?

How have you encouraged bad governments and greedy businesses and wasteful organisations of all varieties to flourish over your lifetime, and why?

Obviously, your priority should be to address your own immorality with absolute urgency.

Who is financing bad habits, and why?

Financing bad habits is the worst of habits and utterly immoral.

Who is truly qualified to be an independent financial advisor, in your view?

What do you know about your own preferences as an investor, and as a consumer?

How have you been investing money over your lifetime, and why?

The Revolutionary Climatological Needlepoint Committee assessing needs, rights, duties and disasters very well indeed, as you may have already noticed.

The world certainly does not require immorality in any way whatsoever.

But what do you need?

Perhaps you need to overcome the fear of needles.

Perhaps you need to overcome the fear of responsibilities.

The following concepts may or may not reflect your leadership responsibilities:

 

  1. urgency
  2. patronage
  3. journalism
  4. insights
  5. news
  6. projects
  7. politics
  8. ethics
  9. reform
  10. pleasantness
  11. enlightened kindness
  12. political philanthropy

 

You may be aware that non-profit organisations, like individuals and households, can only acquire money from:

a) customers of their own business-related activities, 

b) purported benefactors, and 

c) government support.

There is often nothing to stop an incorporated, non-profit organisation from owning and/or running businesses, as long as the profits of those businesses are used for the same purposes as those outlined in the non-profit organisation's constitution.

Sometimes, purported benefactors are members of the organisation.  Sometimes they are outsiders.  Sometimes they are both.

But who are the real beneficiaries?

Perhaps you measure productivity in terms of benefits to beneficiaries.

From whom do you acquire money, and why?

Perhaps you are unaware that investing in anti-establishmentarian necessities requires a proper sense of purpose with a proper sense of priorities and a proper sense of place, with the most appropriate people. 

Revolutions are always anti-establishmentarian, and so are reforms.

What do you know about investing in enlightened productivity?

When people relax, they are more likely to gain creative insights.

When people try to be creative, they often fail to produce anything of quality.

True creativity always arises of its own accord.

Perhaps you associate creativity with the following expressions of productivity:

 

 

Perhaps you enjoy making comparisons between one idea and another and another and another and another and another and another and another.

Do you usually associate productivity with marketing rather than with creativity and/or reality?

Perhaps you are mostly involved in menial tasks, technical tasks and repetitive tasks rather than creative ones.

Perhaps you mainly associate productivity with meeting your own needs and/or getting things done and/or making money and/or impressing people.

But your main duty is to get rid of hideously corrupt governments as peacefully and pleasantly as possible.

Perhaps you have no idea how to assess productivity in relation to vulnerability.

Perhaps you do not usually associate usefulness with productivity.

Perhaps you mainly associate productivity gains with excuses to indulge overpaid persons with even more money and perks than they are morally entitled to receive.

Perhaps you have received a productivity bonus from time to time, even when you have achieved nothing out of the ordinary.

In community situations, sometimes, businesses are privately owned by individuals.

Sometimes, businesses are privately owned by groups of individuals.

Sometimes, they are owned by incorporated groups.

Sometimes, they are owned by whoever owns a share of them at any given moment.

Sometimes, they are owned, partly or wholly, by the state.

What is your acquaintance with ownership in terms of morality and immorality?

How do you prefer to assess structural issues in relation to productivity and morality, and why?

Many people make the mistake of confusing tradition with good faith.
 
Yet tradition is merely an obsession with particular ways of doing things.  It ignores the necessity of finding the best ways to approach important tasks.

If you are relatively enlightened, you will know that stories are not reality, even when they contain no fictional elements.

Every story is the end product of editing, whether it is well edited or not.

The purpose of editing is to maintain attention.  It has no purpose other than to prevent distractions from the edited work.

If you live in Australia as an Australian citizen or foreign resident, regardless of your ethnic background, you are likely to be considered important to and/or by most Australian politicians only if you are involved in digging up large chunks of Australia for export purposes.  You are likely to be considered of no value whatsoever to those politicians if you prefer not to do so, especially if you actively oppose the export of large chunks of Australia.
 
If you are a wealthy actor, singer, footballer, cricketer, tennis player or media mogul, or anyone else with considerable wealth, regardless of your citizenship status, you are likely to be highly valued by most Australian politicians if your activities in Australia are associated with making more money for yourself and a few other people. 

Governments are often cruel, regardless of the ideological stance they claim to represent and the constitutional underpinnings of their purported legitimacy.  

How urgently are you addressing the immorality of politicians?

All members of corrupt governments, everywhere, including local governments, have behaved abusively.  They have primarily done so by not addressing horrible problems properly.

That has most usually been due to the fact that politicians with too much power tend to develop a god complex once they gain access to public funds.  They become indifferent, or remain indifferent, to suffering, in much the same way as the people paid to implement inappropriate public policies. 

Only reasonable people have the potential to be quality leaders.

Plutocrats are not interested in being reasonable.  They are interested in being rich.

Populists are not interested in being reasonable.  They are interested in being powerful.

Corrupted states allow dangerous organisational hierarchies to arise.  The people with too much power in those hierarchies gain and maintain unjust power.

How, then, should well-informed citizens respond?

How, if at all, are you investing in better governments?

Anyone remaining in a job in a government department when societal suffering is ignored by their colleagues is as immoral as those colleagues.

The systems are corrupt.

Incorporated, non-profit and for-profit organisations, whether directly associated with politics or not, will often have easier access to government grants and successful tender processes than individuals and non-incorporated groups.

Yet the potentially corrupting structure of an incorporated organisations is rarely taken into consideration when it is assessed for a government grant or government tender. 
 
The most aggressive, hierarchical organisations therefore compete unfairly against the most peaceful, non-hierarchical organisations.  
 
The most ego-driven organisations compete unfairly against the kindness-related ones.

Any sensible person will know that it is not a good idea for any government to provide public money to incompetent, greedy bullies and selfish propagandists, whether through a public tender process or otherwise. 

Perhaps you regard all governments as a joke.

 

 

Instead of investing in better governments, most members of the public, particularly in Australia and other parts of the Anglosphere, would rather indulge in junk food, and other debaucheries, whilst simultaneously acquiring huge personal, business and public debts, and corrupt governments, along the way.

Good economies, good societies and good environments are developed on the foundation of well-informed kindness, for the greater good. 

Unlike most industries, the kindness industry is not usually noticed as an industry as such. This particularly applies to the most well-informed parts of it.

Non-corrupt persons, groups, communities and organisations invest appropriately in enlightened conversational and conservation practices.

What do you do? 

Why do you do so little to support and encourage political systems firmly based on well-informed kindness instead of corruption?  

Although fun is important, at the right time and in the right place, please remember that this is an emergency situation and there are several crises yet to be resolved satisfactorily.

 

 

What do you already know about how to develop and maintain a successful state, of any sort?

What experience have you had in composing summaries, improving clarity and and assessing veracity? 

What do you regard as patronage obligations, whether you currently have a patronage relationship anywhere or not?

If you are an Australian citizen, how serious do you consider your priorities to be, and why, and what are those priorities?

If you are not an Australian citizen, what are your current priorities, and why?

How do you know when proposals for reform are not in the public interest? 

What do you believe it means to be a consistently good investor in that practice?

 

 


Perhaps you have too much political power.

Perhaps you abuse the authority in your possession.

Perhaps you are corrupt.

Perhaps you have, or have had, too much money.

A healthy imagination does not require much money.  It mainly requires time.

Knowing that governments and other large organisations, and many professions, are mainly filled with rudely indifferent and arrogant people is enough to make any good person feel despair.

Perhaps you are too engrossed in ambitions relating to the pseudo-profession of politics. 

Perhaps you would rather speak words written by someone else.

Perhaps you often claim words as your own when you have not written them or otherwise composed them.

There is rarely anyone in a government department willing, or possibly even able, to remedy problematic situations in a timely way, or to end cruelty with the required urgency.

Perhaps you work in a government department, or may do so quite soon.

The people working in government departments lazily spout platitudes and pretend they are practicing good public policy but they then either wonder why their actions cause so much societal suffering or they do not care to take notice of that suffering.

How do you identify evidence-based possibilities and assess probabilities?

What have been your experiences of real dangers?

How do you usually assess facts, opinions and emotions?

While government departments are often associated with incompetence even more than they are associated with corruption, governments themselves tend to be associated with corruption even more than they are associated with incompetence.

What do you know about police corruption, police brutality and the misuse of military tactics and military technology? 

How do you tell the difference between appropriate and inappropriate expressions of politeness and impoliteness?

Where and how have you sought advice on how to develop and maintain reasonable self-discipline, suitable personal boundaries and a healthy sense of humour?

How do you tell the difference between self-indulgence and self care?

How reasonable and well-informed is your environmental attitude?

How do you know you have a healthy imagination, a healthy sense of humour and a healthy approach to politics? 

 

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