Planning Day

That last post was way too long but fun.

We had a planning day at work today. No plan emerged. My boss said she had been to three of them and she discerned no progress. At least the people are nice - and expert at what they do - I will miss them.

We went to a hotel and all the day basically confirmed, at least for me, is the that the world is becoming more chaotic and dangerous if that's possible. There was also an unstated consensus that government is not coping on too many levels to mention. There were no obvious solutions.

One point to emerge unchallenged was that the next generation is likely to be the first in Australia to be poorer than the current.

I think we may have had way too many offspring. Although it does increase the chances that one might emerge to carry the others. This was the attitude of the feudal peasant and urban poor before the welfare state, which is being rapidly dismantled or made ever more inaccessible.

My main comfort is that most predictions about the future are wrong, especially the most confident ones.