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Stephen Barlow Profile picture
@SteB777
Aug 7 • 13 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
Recently, I created a thread about how and why the world is in a complete and utter mess.

Essentially, modern politics, has just become the puppets of powerful and wealthy oligarchs, and corporations, dancing around on string, to their tune.

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Even if you totally forget about the climate and ecological emergency, social justice, the interests of ordinary people, fairness and corruption. Modern politicians are making a complete pig's ear of running our societies.
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Let's just look at things through the very narrow lens of what these politicians claim to want to achieve, economic growth. They are quite clearly failing very badly, just on their very narrow set of objectives.
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I will just take 2 countries, the UK, and the US, but this also applies to many, or most other countries.

According to UK PM Keir Starmer, he just wanted growth, growth, growth, and every other principle had to be sacrificed for that aim.

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How's that all going now?

Pretty terrible, actually. UK GDP is faltering badly.

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How's the much touted fiscal responsibility going?

That's even worse, the Starmer government has made a complete pig's ear of it all, and has a huge deficit to fill with tax rises.

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So after sacrificing the sick and disabled, pensioners, on the altar of economic growth, along with the natural environment, for this supposed slick goal of economic growth and efficiency, the whole of government, is in a complete and utter mess.

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How's Trump's agenda of Making America Great Again, going on the other side of the Atlantic. Trump's chaos, is a bit difficult to untangle as he's just unleashed his latest wave of tariff madness, and he's not been in office long. But an economic miracle, it ain't.
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Even on the very narrow set of goals these politicians have set themselves, they are failing very badly, despite trying to convince the public of short term pain, for long term gain. Neoliberalism is a complete failure, in terms of its own objectives.

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The only thing consistently "improving", is billionaire wealth, which is skyrocketing, whilst most other people get the shitty end of the stick.

The reason is very simple billionaires and corporations, are solely focused on increasing their wealth.

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Oligarchs, don't care about anything or anyone else. They have got their puppet politicians imposing horrible anti-human policy on the rest of society, just for short term gains of their wealth.
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They think they know best how to run the world, whereas the evidence says that they are terrible managers of the world, just spreading chaos, and environmental destruction of the Earth's natural systems that keep us alive.
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Aug 4
"The head of Google’s DeepMind says artificial intelligence could usher in an era of ‘incredible productivity’ and ‘radical abundance’."

This is dangerously delusional. How did someone so stupid, get such a position?

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Let's get this clear, being stupid i.e. extremely unwise, is nothing to do with IQ and cleverness. Lots of very clever people, were also monumentally stupid.

You can be stupid, and clever.

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This is virtually all the interview says about the climate crisis.

"future AI datacentres are predicted to require is astronomical, especially when the world is facing drought and a climate crisis."

It's not just a climate crisis, its a biodiversity and ecological crisis.
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Aug 4
I want to briefly explain this phenomenon, I've seen develop in the last 15 years, certainly within the last 20 years, because I never saw it before then, and I have been walking in the countryside for over 55 years.
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Those doing this, seem to have got the idea from commercial music festivals, which I am sure most have been to. Where supermarkets sell cheap tents etc, in the festival season, and where the tradition has developed, where you just leave the tent.
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I have encountered groups doing this, talked to them, so it is not pure guesswork. I think it is based on simple economics. None of the people who do this have any interest in camping, so they have no use for this after.
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Aug 4
I use harsh words for billionaire/oligarchs, politicians, corporations, and the media, which the oligarchs own and control, not out of hatred, but because they stubbornly refuse to moderate their behaviour, or see it as a problem.
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In fact, I have suggested outreach to billionaire/oligarchs, to get them to see that it is in their personal interest, to address the many problems they are inducing, which will ultimately impact them i.e. appealing to their self-interest. And I have been criticised for it.
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However, it has become very clear, that billionaires don't regulate themselves, and politicians and the media who are supposed to hold them to account, don't, because oligarchs have got politicians in their pockets, and own and control the media.
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Aug 3
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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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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Aug 2
The world is in a complete and utter mess, on every level, due to insane, incompetent, and just evil leadership, and the manipulation by billionaires/oligarchs, pulling the strings of politicians.

It's becoming increasingly difficult for me to say anything constructive.
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As most will know, I mainly commentate from the perspective of the climate and ecological crisis. Actually, ecological is every interaction. So when you see a genocide happening in plain sight, ruthless and uncaring politics, that is ecological.
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I am able to see the whole big picture, in my mind. This does not mean seeing everything, which is impossible. But seeing the connection between everything, it's possible for a reasonably well-informed person to see, and how it all joins up.
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Jul 31
This is merely a placeholder, because I don't want to forget this, and I have to go out. However, I need to put this down, so I don't forget it.

I can explain why people are not taking the climate and ecological crisis, with a simple observable phenomenon.
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People take their cues from those around them, especially their leaders. If they don't see other people, and especially their leaders, acting as if we are in a dire crisis, then they are going to find it very difficult to take the crisis seriously.
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Especially, when our governments and our leadership, push head with business as usual BaU, which presupposes that the crisis is not real, and promoting the lie that BaU will create a glorious future for us.
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