“The System is Crashing”

“The system is crashing.”, is a phrase I hear more and more lately. Especially since arriving back home in Germany. There is a lot of extremism happening in times of social media algorithms and big media.
There have always been two sides. If it is a good or a bad side, a rich or poor, a fortunate or unfortunate, a right or left and so on and so on. We are familiar with having two sides to choose from.
Especially in recent years, has there been a clear split and so much more that has been bubbling under the surface. I heard a lot of people talk about that the system is crashing or the system is failing and we have to prepare ourselves to go off grid and escape the system. Well, I want to share a couple of thoughts with you about the system and today’s way of living.

It often seems more like that the perspective of ‘the system is failing’ cares more about being the black sheep and not following, then trying to understand why people are following the rules. It seems that there is a lot of distrust with health and government advice, which stems from somewhere and should be validated. But it seems like they're not basing it on concrete facts or have logical ideas for change.

I myself question everything all the time, but you can only be suspicious to a certain degree.
As much as I love some of the key ideas of living off the grid or getting back together and closer to nature, being happier and more in touch with myself. I think' the program is failing' is not quite right.

Let's just think about imagination for a second.
Imagination. Our mental power allows us to create this world of laws, kingdoms, countries, institutions, banks, money and so much more. It surely isn't all good what politicians and big companies make with it and how they abuse their powers. But it has also allowed us humans to function in larger numbers.
We all agree that we want freedom. Freedom to travel, to experience, to do whatever we want. Fair enough. Well, the program that is failing us made a lot of those things possible. It enabled us to enrich our minds. To see the world as a whole. It allowed science to find out things we see today as general knowledge. This “program” is more us, is more you, than we think it is…

I think the biggest threat to us is not a program that is failing, global warming, a vaccination or anything else.
The biggest threat to us is our inability to agree!
We can’t agree on a program that works for a large number of people...

Well, maybe we should go back and live in our little local tribes.
Tribalism. An idea I actually quite like. I think people were happier and felt more connected. But in our desire for growth, we cannot fully live that idea. Imagine living in a little tribe, with a small number of people. To live local. Where your movement is within a radius of 10 kilometers all your life. No Internet, no technology, no traveling...
And you can't really trust anyone outside of your tribe, because anyone else could harm you or carry a disease. Lots of unpleasant points, but it also has a lot of benefits! Probably more pros than cons and yet we don't really want to give up the outside world and all the benefits we get from it, like cars, the internet or travel.

We all want change. We all want progress. But how does that change, how does that progress look like?

Maybe the program isn't bad as a whole.
Travel, technology, money, economics, science, psychology and even globalization (given we completely ignore what we did with indigenous people) is some great stuff we came up with.
So, I don't think necessarily that the program is failing us. Maybe the leaders do.
I totally agree that the system has some bugs and viruses that probably infiltrated it. It still doesn't make the whole bad...
Ask yourself how do you want to change it. How do you want to live and feel why you live?
I remember that I always got told: “Be the change you want to see in the world!”
BE!
Be it on your local, or tribal scale and maybe take a step back from politicizing everything. Without losing the eye of the bigger picture. Maybe take a step away from saying things like: “You are right!”, or “You are wrong!”, and try to shift more towards the desire of trying to understand and emphasize the other view.
We all want to feel a sense of connectedness.
We are tribal social animals! Maybe we should start behaving like some... Thank you