I had a carefully crafted rebuttal all-typed out in the “reply box” and made a fatal “mouse click” not realising it had not been saved as a draft. Gone forever, all that stuff about evolution and consciousness -well, no, if I sat here all night I could probably put it all back together like a jig-saw puzzle -and I only have 30 minutes to finish this, so I will try a different approach…

To have you call me cynic, I must have implied that something virtuous with disinterested motives, like the “free market”, was in fact, not -in a sneering manner. (Oh dear, I will do my best to lose the sneer).

Humanity’s collective world views have changed more in the last few hundred years (I don’t want any arguments on that so I’ve been non-specific) than ever before in our history. And the speed of change aint showing any signs of slowing down.

We have changed the way that we operate as societies in many ways over that time -experimented with political ideologies and economic theories, even new sciences and religions. By now we really have a pretty good understanding about lots of things in our physical world, and, now perhaps, we can be as objective about our human condition and start to make some conscious collective decisions about how we want to operate our human society. (You may say, I’m a dreamer…)

If we are dissatisfied with the present way of doing things, (and perhaps most people are not and I am a lone voice crying in a wilderness that no-one else inhabits) we need to understand “things as they are” before we can change them and we have to have an idea of “things as they might be” to move towards. That creates a “motivating gap” or desire for change.

Evolution of society and individuals happens (often in response to crisis) when a solution, to a dissatisfying situation, is perceived as achievable. There need to be strategies devised for creating positive change -to get us from here to there -that don’t generate too much of a reality-gap in the public mind.

How do we decide what “things as they might be looks like?” We talk about it.

So, “tell me what you want, what you really, really, want…” And don’t say more money to buy more toys. Please.