And the death toll is increasing over time into the hundreds of millions globally and annually.
Yet we hear lots of shrieking about teeny weeny genocides curiously. People doing this shrieking must be deliberately hiding something much more shameful.
I'm proposing it is society itself which is behind all the great social problems, particularly those behind the excess death toll at scale.
You need look no further than here:
And more horrifically, here:
Allow me to make myself abundantly clear: I'm not saying that society - killing hundreds of million of its own people, every year, no matter which nation it is, no matter if that is a democracy or tyranny - is a good or a bad thing, per se.
I am saying it is absolutely happening and almost all people are refusing to accept its happening. A collective psychopathy. Because this huge death toll is indirectly caused rather than directly, the people deem it merely a statistic. But woe betide anyone who kills a single person directly with a gun.
It seems like only society itself is allowed to kill. For individuals it is made a crime.
Let's step back a bit and observe something we all feel is relatively harmless - unemployment, bankruptcy, and its ultimate effect: low income related death. So long as the state does not stand in "ANY" employees way(which it always does often killing them), and there is nothing illegal going on(which there is at scale and is never reported by the Ministry of Love("we don't keep statistics on that")), most reports on harmful system level socially organised institutions - such as society, look like a good thing.
Theres a single simple measure to prove this out - if everything is running fine there will be increasing productivity. Thus rents and house prices rise. A great thing. Yes, there's still a problem with the distribution but at least we know for sure there is no shortage of anything in the world anywhere, any more. So we are on the way.
But rents and house prices are not rising at the usual rate of ~5% year on year. So things do not look good in general.
Rent is the foundation measure for the health of an economy. How come? Because you cannot produce any wealth without first having secure access to a piece of valuable land to produce anything on...anywhere, in this universe. Even in space the 'land' volume in curved cubes will command a rent when Elon finally gets us the hell up there.
So there IS a measure to use to tell us quickly and confidently if a shortage of food is causing starvation. Or if a shortage of housing is causing poor lifestyle. And so on and so on.
All of these things are downstream fear programs to help the people at scale escape from the fact that society itself, selected wilfully by every single person within it, is root cause of a hundred million excess deaths around the world annually - not wealth and power. (who to be fair are mostly pieces of shit too)
When I look in the mirror I see it immediately. And spend the rest of the day looking for one of these fear programs, often written by my favourite influencer... to help me escape from my own complicity in the staggering excess death toll.
I call this condition of society 'The Agentic State'. Hopefully I'm minimising my own part in it all though clearly I know I'm responsible and am constantly trying to escape from that. But I do confess that I can see it happening.
The key to personal transformation is to confess to it as a first step. And to stop blaming those it most easily sticks to because that reinforces the poor leadership upholding it all by implication. Then all will follow.
