Thread by @SteB777

I would like to thank everyone, who has responded positively to this thread.

It was written hurriedly this morning to someone who sent me an email, on some of these subjects. I turned my response into this thread.
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https://twitter.com/SteB777/status/1951559704729079998

It was rough and ready, but distilled what I had been thinking for some time. I had meant to write it out a few times, but it seemed so massive, so many aspects, so how would I cover it all?

Just how did we sleepwalk, into this mess?
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I am not an ideologue, in fact I reject the whole concept of ideology. It seems a good idea at first, but all ideologies are seriously imperfect, and they get misused.

I identify and explain problems, and faults in the system.
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My position is that this mess can only be solved, by many minds coming together, focused on understanding what is wrong with the current system, and how to do it better.
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I do not believe anyone is capable of formulating a better system at the moment, only to start trying to build it, by aiming to avoid making the mistakes we made with this system. That it starts from there.
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I know this sounds too woolly headed for some, but this is always the best way to go about things. To build it up as we go along. Try various approaches, and if they don't work, then back to the drawing board.
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This is my main issue with ideologies, but not the only one. That is ideologies, pre-suppose that both the problems and the solutions are well understood. Which results in the same mistakes, being dogmatically followed and repeated.
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To effectively solve a problem, we need to remain open-minded. To be aware, that just because something seemed a good idea at first, doesn't mean it will work like that in practise. So we mustn't be hidebound by fixed ideas.
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Overall, I believe we can be certain a system is broken, and not working, without first coming up with a grand plan about what to replace it with. First, we just need to work on changing what is clearly wrong with the system, not exactly, with what to replace it.
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This is how successful solutions work, by replacing what is clearly broken, piece by piece. Constantly re-evaluating, if our solutions are working. Not jumping in feet first, with a grand plan. Just start on the obvious problems, and see how it goes.
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