I have been thinking about this subject a lot for the last few years. After the last few days debating the Tax Code with Dave of Tax Honesty it has become much clearer the days we are in are exponentially chaotic because ideas increase as fast as any growth in nature. It seems to me that human’s natural tendency is to suppress one another or beat one another before we feel able to let go.

Can Polarization of ideologies within a country be correlated to its demise? If we put them on a time line that can it give us a closer date of a countries demise?

Polarization can affect anything: Money, attitudes, relationships, race, sex, and on and on. America can think we are past culture differences as much as they want to try but we are not. We also can compare our current state of polarization to the war of everything. Ideologies seem to come to a point of polarization that one side ends up standing up and demanding protection.

The more I philosophize over History the more I have been pondering these questions above. I am just now catching up with History that I absolutely despised in school. It is sometimes good because then one can look at events with a better understanding of the ‘big’ picture. The best about studying History outside the context of the classroom is that you can find the facts of both sides of a topic rather than only the facts required to pass a test or the ones someone tells you are important. You can decide that for yourself when you are able to take your time and research more than just a few paragraphs in textbooks.

The ‘big’ picture is what is important to me in the end. Just our everyday life isn’t enough to stimulate my mind. I believe my profession has helped see the ‘big’ picture very clearly, especially with having to deal with so many industries and agencies. I would never try to be so arrogant and say that I know what the future holds for us.
However, as history has shown us there are many that think that that is their job is to change the future through certain actions they can take now. Do those people sound familiar? It should. Those people are the ones you vote for.

The people we on every election are the ones that choose our vary future with each and every law they pass. These are the people now and in history that have brought much of our polarization to the forefront of all of our headlines of the media, talk around the cooler, dinner tables, and the like. They have brought it through listening to each and every hurt sole that has been damaged by some sort of polarization. It may not be referred to as polarization when they are talking about the heart ache of protection. But don’t let any of those other emotional terms misdirect your attention to the issue as a whole. Instead, the media interviews the damaged goods and then the policy maker just elected to office about their discussion and what he promised to do about it. Which side of the issue is he going to protect!!

I think that our world would be better if people, especially those in leadership, thought about theories of power as circles not pyramids (also seen as drops in a pond). This statement may be unclear but I am sure some know what I am referring to. To try to explain this better it is important to understand the structure of all our organizations, government agencies, corporations, and so on. Some are trying to do a good job of that, i.e. Google, but no matter how hard you try to use the horizontal (circle) model, it seems to fall flat on its face as soon as the legal imposition begins.

Government doesn’t have a problem with screwing up or having legal implications, because no particular person truly has to take the blame because it’s harder to implicate the group mentality (the ‘can’t convict everyone or there won’t be anyone left to work’ kind of thinking) and for the simple fact that they are the law. The more our democracy fades into over-regulation, which is impossible to escape from in a democracy, the more people scream for the government to do something for them because they did it for that other polarized group. That is why so many worry about the ‘slippery slope’ to use government intervention to solve every outrage of polarized argument by seeing who can win the argument once and for all so the opposition will cease and desist. Thus, the government takes over everything, seems to end up being the norm because no one can argue with the collective (group, majority) by most ideologies.

The courts and legal system is where these polarizations are battled out and debated as to whose ideology is going to win for the day. This is ludicrous. This is not freedom. This is the new age civil war with different names for the generals and different stage. However, since we still have a pyramid mentality, we still have to go up the command.

Pyramid type of mentality stifles success of the individual by doing the individual in financially and forcing individuals to collaborate to fight against the collective to get ahead. The pyramid design of mentality is meant so no individual has enough to beat a collective ideology unless they have a resource to hold hostage against the collective. If everyone is in turmoil and fear of everything around us then each individual will less likely be able to change the events around us and except ‘reality’ as it is to just be able to live life.

When I begin talking about politics anymore, peoples’ eyes just gloss over. Anytime I ask about whether people are ready to throw away the old system and actually vote ‘outside’ the ‘two party system’, the same reaction. The same goes about anything that is only theoretical until in some way ‘physically’ (visibly) proven. So you get the ‘oh not enough people can make it happen’ bit. The reaction is hard for me to explain other than calling it ‘apathy’. Good thing I am in the right forum that I think most here on BTM know the ‘look’ I am talking about. Probably the same look DM Zuniga feels when he is spouting his Tax Honesty to people who know how to read legal-ease. But we are with you Dave we also want to see change and government not waste our money. That is all you are really complaining about like the rest of us. (Sorry couldn’t resist)

What does any of this have to do with the ‘big’ picture? Well as you can imagine if polarization is going to be our demise I would think that we would want people that make decisions in this very polarized world to understand that. This would mean that people that are not out to be a career politician. To me this means looking for those candidates that promise regardless of the interest or the law that they are patriots by only running for a term or two and passing the torch. Of course there is a lot more to it than this and to each individual. However, this country has become too polarized to continue down this ‘slippery slope’ path of over-regulation to handle this polarization that comes with growth. Our leaders get an F for how they have handled this polarization and you can find proof of this in BOTH POTUS and the Congress’ approval ratings.

This brings me back to the need for us to engage each and every candidate, both career & potential, as to what their views are on each and every polarized view and make sure it is just simply NO. This is a free country and you have your choice to liberty and the pursuit of happiness regardless of what other say as so long you do not harm any other person. Unless we hear this on every issue, and see them back that ideology up with their votes; our vote should be NO as well. This is the ideology of our founder’s that has been lost and although I only speak for myself with this statement, I think most of us here in BTM would attest to that. This concept should apply to any law put in front of us that takes away another persons liberty and fear harm to one another. Every person's valuable qualities should be looked upon as needed, encouraged and promoted for everyone's good. The suppression of any ideas in anyway should be thrown out as a whole and let true competition work for everyone. Until we find these freedoms as self evident and inalienable once again then maybe we all can love one another once again.

I find that hard to believe in this state of power consciousness but I sometimes certainly hope 2012 is true if it really is the beginning of the new age. We just hope it isn't going to be as difficult and devistating as some predict, which most find precedentially impossible. (Not me) If you ask me, humans are arrogant so they can feel comfortable with the unknown.

Here are some links on what the ‘big’ picture polarization creates in my mind and some others I know regardless of them using different terminology.

Money: just one example of many I could provide… Excuse the bad grammar.. Couldn’t find a better example from work already published in some form. This continues with Fed Res research and Free money books I have read. But this site seems to get at explaining my knowledge of the subject as well… Please explore the virtual money link and other links on the page.

http://www.geocities.com/historymech/3polarization.html#answers_on_riddl...

Iraq war
http://www.gallup.com/poll/106309/Iraq-War-Attitudes-Politically-Polariz...

Population/Exponential growth : Watch all of this video then watch all 8.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOBPNtupL_Q&feature=related

Legal Polarization:
http://www.publicagenda.org/articles/overcoming-polarization-new-social-...
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=199668

These are added to many of the videos in the Video section that most have watched like ‘The Century of Self’, ‘Power of Nightmare’, and the like. These videos run very close to the education I have obtained in psychology both inside and outside the classroom.