There are monumental shifts happening everywhere, from politics to religion.
There are very few people really able to understand and analyze two things that happen at the same time:
- The trend lines in culture, society, economics, and religion are moving in a certain direction.
- The trend lines in technology, jobs, and employment are moving in a certain direction.
Trend lines tend to overlap, but the overwhelmingly human tendency in reaction to the feeling of overlapping, is to hunker down and protect, rather than to be open and collaborate, when the obvious end point of the direction of the trend lines becomes…well…obvious.
Emotionality confines us in our reactions and responses, and our human tendency is to react in the short term to maintain the status quo and to not worry about the future. The hard work is getting humans to shift from short-term thinking to practicing long-term empathy.
However, trend lines are not inevitable.
Neither are the goals that trend lines seem to lead to.
But they can become inevitable through our own macro inaction.
