It demands trust and cooperation [with a dash of discipline] to build "a culture of one" [see photo]. This combination of trust, cooperation, and discipline is required because there is so much distrust, dissidence, and ill-discipline hanging about today.
Years ago... I worked inside a toxic cocoon of political spite, lies, entrigue, and animus. In my role as a policy advisor to a new government I was meant to be the long-term thinker. In fact my role was to stare down a collective of power brokers who collaborated to present a united view on our most pressing political issues. The collective was an awesome foe [I use to literally tremble in some committee meetings]. Then, one day, I began to realise that their united front was an affiliation plagued by mistrust.
Sure these folks could collaborate [think of the moronic policy actions being taken by the EU and the German government in 2022] because they shared a very similar ideology; but, they could never cooperate with each other as freestanding individuals. So I began to mess with their heads - a little. I began to stretch the boundaries of rational thought from today out to decades from now. This introduced uncertainty, ambiguity, and general messiness into our conversations. Whenever I did this their collaborative "group think" imploded and each member was left to fend for himself or herself. Because they did not trust each other they could not cooperate and so they had to resort to applying their bullying tactics based on conformity and "one think". And this is precisely what is happening around the world today. This why the West is fighting "a proxy war" against Russia using the moronic actor Zelensky [and the corrupt state of Ukraine] as their sledge hammer.
Please step aside from your mundane world for a moment. Just imagine what it will take to establish a colony on Mars. As you think about all the complexities of this venture I am guessing that you will understand why it is essential that humans relearn to art of building trust in each other and how to work as cooperatives. As you think about humans living on Mars you might also like to reflect back on the our mundane problems with high-cost energy, poverty, inflation, social unrest, totalitarian regimes, etc.
Richard.
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