...doing the wrong things.

In 100 years, historians will look back on the early 21st century and tell us how we could have avoided the world economic collapse. Rather simple. Rather easy. Unfortunately, we’re too dumb, too stupid, too blind to see it. Yes, we can’t see the forest for the trees. Another way of saying we’re too close to the problem to see the solution. Unfortunately, that’s the dilemma of humankind. We’re quite an ignorant bunch. If only we had hindsight when we were in the midst of a problem. We could have averted World War II. And World War I, too. And even our bloody Civil War. If only we could think like god. We’d be brilliant. Omnipotent. All-knowing. But I suggest we could try harder. We could learn to think more like god. By thinking rationally instead of like idiots. We know now how we could have averted the Civil War. By negotiating the end of slavery. Even if it took 40 years to accomplish. So that by 1900 every slave would have been emancipated. Given complete freedom. And educated in a way that allowed blending into society. Given full civil and human rights. Yes, it would have been the right thing. And avoided the grievous civil war. Saved so many lives. I can think of scenarios, too, that would have averted the world wars. So many ways. But we humans refuse to think like god. Instead, we insist on being frail humans that keep doing the wrong things. –Jim Broede