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Many Years from Now

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fool_on_the_Hill or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fool_on_the_Hill ;The song's lyrics describe the titular "fool", a solitary figure who is not understood by others, but is actually wise-
In his authorised biography, Many Years from Now, Paul McCartney says he first got the idea for the premise from the Dutch design collective the Fool, who were the Beatles' favourite designers in 1967 and told him that they had derived their name from the Tarot card of the same name
and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fool_(design_collective) or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fool_(design_collective) ;The Fool were a Dutch design collective and band in the psychedelic style of art in British popular music in the late 1960s.^[1] They worked closely with The Beatles in London, painting George Harrison's Mini car, John Lennon's piano and a three story high psychedelic mural on the outside of the Apple Boutique on Baker Street (since painted over).^[2] The group was named in reference to the Fool tarot card.
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The Fool is titled Le Mat in the Tarot of Marseilles, and Il Matto in most Italian language tarot decks. These archaic words mean "the madman" or "the beggar".

DJ, NL has a long history of going its own way..A certain level of tolerance, respecting different opinions...Accepting the idea no one knows it all, is perfect...
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I am -still- the only one/most active one on this forum...What does that mean? 

Room for different opinions-basic to democracy- seems to be very limited..."Social media pressure", "reacting without reading"...lack of decent info may have resulted in a "society in tunnelvision"...

trump, AfD, macron/le pen are the OUTCOME of a process...NOT the start...
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To get OUT of a crisis it may-sometimes-help to understand what did get us into the crisis...Even if that story is very complex and we may not be able to -ever- understand/find proof of "the 100%" ...Accepting imperfection may be a step forward...

Another "way out" is to set goals. 

Bernie Sanders in the US claiming "public health care is a human right" in that way is trying to find a way out...
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The BIG problem however may be that if clever people look around-make up their mind, they may get the feeling as if "we" are sinking into a swamp with water/mud already in our neck...

It may be one of the motives behind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_Rebellion or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_Rebellion ...

YES, I think we are in a very major climate/pandemic crisis and more wars are very unwelcome and avoidable...

I also do think that "getting a basic idea" of the crises may help us to find a way out...
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Is "society in a tunnelvision" to avoid massive panic ? 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population ;
In world demographics, the world population is the total number of humans currently alive. It was estimated by the United Nations to have exceeded eight billion in mid-November 2022. It took around 300,000 years of human prehistory and history for the human population to reach a billion and only 218 more years to reach 8 billion.

DJ, the number of humans itself is a -very understandable- reason for panic...If we end up in self destruction because of this panic we can not even any longer blame ourselves...

If we do NOT want to end "humans" we have to get wiser...Is there one fool on a hill or over 8 billion ? 