Four fundamental principles (AI generated from my notes) 3 min.

 

AI generated presentation https://ai.invideo.io/watch/K8m_Q5jVe2v of the information below. 

Below are four fundamental principles (self-evident truths) that I’m convinced 

will determine the future of humanity.  Followed by a solution to our Truth decay and 

declining trust in institutions (and each other) as a first step off this escalator to accelerating

 down into chaos.

 The three most complex and complicated systems in the known universe are nature (the environment), any living Immune system, and the Human mind!  To the degree human concepts fail to protect nature and living immune systems is the degree to which our own species is endangered!

 Humanities trilemma:  We cannot have freedom, security, and independence all at the same time. Independence is an illusion.  A delusional mental concept that exists nowhere in the known universe. It only exists as a word in our minds and communications.   And it was fatally engineered into our US Constitution and humanities global governance systems.  And enforcing this delusion will cost us our freedoms, security, prosperity, and posterity if we persist in ignoring our global interdependence - and humanities universal desires for both freedom and security to survive and thrive.

“Everything is connected, everything is interdependent, so everything is vulnerable.... And that’s why this has to be a more than whole of government, a more than whole of nation [effort]. It really has to be a global effort....” Jen Easterly. CISA director.  Oct. 29, 2021. [the Cyber and Infrastructure Security Agency is our nation’s newest federal agency established by the Trump Administration in 2018].   “A huge gamma-ray burst erupted 2 billion years ago.  It hit Earth’s upper atmosphere last year”... “showing how even faraway events can influence Earth.”  Washington Post, Science section Nov. 21, 2023.

 "There can be no health without mental health." Rawle Andrews Jr., Esq. Executive Director American Psychiatric Association Foundation.

The best solution to our era of increasing Truth decay and loss of trust in our institutions is understanding Neil deGrasse Tyson’s assertion there are 3 types of Truth:

These can explain the growing polarization and stiff resistance to the urgent changes needed.

The 1st is our personal truth.  The God we believe in, or not.  Nearly everyone has a different personal truth.

The 2nd is our political truth.  The concepts and ideas have we’ve grown up with, learned, or heard so many times from people we trust, love, and admire, that they must be true.  Groups of people usually have conflicting political truths.

The last is objective truths.  These truths are backed by empirical evidence -acquired by direct observation, experimentation, or experience – based on real world data (observed, measured, and verified by one’s senses or scientific tools/method.

Tyson asserted when two clearly objective minds disagree …there is only possible three outcomes.  1. I’m right. You’re wrong.    2.  Your right and I’m wrong.   3.  We are both wrong.  Let’s find the answer! 

Recently he suggested if an argument lasts more than 5 minutes... both people are wrong. 😉

And I’m certain that if two groups are warring for nearly a 1000 years... both are wrong.