The elites are made clueless by a learned disease. A nurtured disease. Antonio Gramsci , for me, he is, together with the postmodernist (e.i. philosophical postmodernism) Jacques Derrida , one of the big forces who have deliberately derailed the permanent process of the determination of the real meaning of words. With the permanent uncertainty about meaning, they are heavenly influenced university education toward a meaningless power game of thought schools. The goal of Gramsci was to undermine society so that the ‘end game’ before the real communist society could be established (as described by Marx) would happen sooner. What he, I think, really undermined with it, was the trust of the public in the new elite created this way. More important, Gramsci in my view, has underestimated the willingness of the capital-class (Wall Street) to adopt his game with the meaning of words for their benefit and with this he (via the universities) laid the foundation for irresponsible capitalism. With...
Europe management is failing in a lot of areas in my view. And one of them is the real cost of Europe's laws. Trade for example. For open and honest trade, a level playing field and real humanity cost are fundamental and rarely taken into account because politics is too much a tug of war over personal or group interests. Today, the issue is what to do with the changed car manufacturing landscape. EV's changed the whole landscape. Investments from the resent passed are getting lost fast, and new investments are needed. In the same time, the demographic developments change the investment landscape. And in Europe again the tribes are starting a tug of war. Germany and Spain are the biggest car producers and want their business interest protected. But what is the real cost for humanity? We (humanity wide) should establish trade rules that ensure the lowest cost possible long term. I would like to introduce the full life cycle real cost model [FuLiCyReCoMo] for that. A kind of kick ...