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By Nneka Okumazie
The biggest threat to collective national security is waste. What should be the second-largest employer to whatever the first is, is waste control. It is possible to connect all the conflicts and diseases of the first fifth of this century to the growth of wastes.
Energy gives off waste – that waste is not good for the environment.
Waste is the other end of productivity.
The indifference about wastes pressures high gear productivity that disregards its risks.
The problem of waste is so grievous that half of the budget in some places – at certain period should be dedicated to tens of methods for waste control.
The unimportance of waste control says something about the world – that without something becoming a catastrophe, it may never get attention, no matter the pre-indication.
This problem of waste is just one of the larger problems of imagination extinction.
The latter end of the last century and this century is a new, new world.
There are lots of agreed answers about how the world works that continue to be defied by the present time.
It may soon be realized that some of the top problems of the world have ties to one of the most famous phrases – survival of the fittest.
That phrase, as a competition drug, drove many extremities – across ideologies, groups, conflicts, places, etc.
Evolution, widely accepted, would probably have been better without that phrase.
Just like many blame many parts of religions for many problems, survival of the fittest is evolution’s evil.
Maybe survival of the fittest may have been necessary in a small population, or in a risky situation, but the survival of the fittest is the terrible side of great horror that continues to plague the world.
What would have been useful for the world is the survival of traits.
The fittest is subjective, while traits may likely immensely withstand.
After a while, the fittest surviving may be negative, even if certain hurdles are beaten.
The part of evolution that says people want to survive is questioned by religion and capitalism.
A company could be bought, people fired, assets sold, pressure for those left, then the company resold, only to go on for a few years and finding that the company itself can’t survive and then shutdown.
Those initially fired, those who worked under pressure and later gone maybe without compensation may have developed health problems in that time, or have it exacerbated, or lost on family or other problems that may be lasting – for a company that was going under.
Survival of the company – for the capital has exceeded the care for the survival of the staff. Some also work in horror conditions or travel far to work and back with stress, for survival to have capital.
Though some may say to survive is part of it, but oftentimes, to continue on certain rough roles says more capital than more personal.
The last score centuries saw lots of religious conflicts, as well as certain kinds of personal martyrdom for the faith.
But the last few decades – has seen more religious-themed ruin that defies the survival aspect of evolution.
Though it may be questioned that maybe some do it for the group, but who is the fittest or the weakest in the group that activates ruin for self to afflict others? No fittest for all ready to die in that case.
There’s continuous defiance of true survival with many ideologies, as well as the vulnerability of fittest think.
There is a problem of imagination rareness with anti-survival that continues to plague the world.
Imagination is not compatible with capitalism.
There are often intersections, but capitalism endangers imagination. Capitalism is not natural selection.
If the world is run by money, people would develop traits to make money, or have access to it, legally or otherwise, across class, and after a while, imagination would sink.
Useful if it makes money, useless if it doesn’t have compounded problems for the world making solutions sparse.
The talk of that industry or another as successful, are mostly capitalism compliant, those in the intersection have to have something for capitalism to go forward.
To solve major problems, the world needs – rare eclectic imagination. Not money.
Imagination that can see that something is there before it is checked and then found that it is, as what bears progress, while money comes after.
Imagination is the rare rate trait that should be obsessively sought across the world.
Things, towards progress, should be judged on the quality of their imagination – and higher multiples.
But imagination, as the world continues to show, have either disappeared or the availability of it has little chance, as a few got squeezed and left to dry – in what would have benefitted all.
Survival of the trait – imagination would have made the world a better place, not survival of the fittest – in capitalism. And with how a pandemic shattered capitalism, shows it’s itself, not the fittest, or that some country can optimize alone for capitalism, without expected values, and then really excel.
There are so many spots of global attention that bear no imagination.
Traits may make survival meaningful, but with survival just like that, many may be easily convinced of ruin – across ideologies, mild, trendy, extreme, etc.
How does the world solve waste?
One of the early civilizations of the world was Egypt. The children of Israel found themselves there, working unfairly. It is possible that they gleaned part of their imagination from them. They went on, built and developed. Then, again were in Babylon – another major civilization, they also learned.
It is possible that those Israel people, going by their history were able to have biological and cultural evolution with imagination for thousands of years.
It is also possible that for them, whatever they represent, they try to stand out with imagination across time and duty.
Evolution – that – may be more necessary in many cases to understand and study is cultural and biological of a people, and the traits they continue to show.
It is also important to find the survival of traits than to think of the fittest – already corrupted by much.
There are commonalities with humans that are not great traits.
The world will solve wastes and other major problems by propellant imagination.
Some nations with a lot of space but have nothing should see opportunity with waste control, but may depend on their imagination.
Whenever people see wastes, it should be recalled that it is due to a lack of human imagination – and that lack shows that humans can be helpless, personally or as a group.
And with helplessness shows that human limitation is way underrated.
Wastes may end the world faster than any projection.
Once orotund imagination evaporates, there is no fittest.
[2 Kings 3:26, And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords, to break through even unto the king of Edom: but they could not.]
