Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Society is becoming less and less transparent. People no longer know where decisions that substantially affect their lives are taken, nor by whom, nor how.
One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.
If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry.
Unfortunately, some of our poor choices are irreversible, but many are not. Often, we can change course and get back on the right track.
We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.
People aren't able to make decisions anymore because there's too many choices within that decision.
We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.
Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
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