I just involuntarily bought an imagination that entered my mind. I don’t like it because it’s so challenging. I feel like I’m a crazy rich that just bought expensive simulated world. Not using money, but using cognitive resources.
In this simulated world, let’s visit each problems.
The Oil Economy
Energy has always created conflict between humans, environment, capital and politics. Look at what oil economy has done to our world. We enjoyed a comfortable living over the dark side it created.
This world heavily relies on oil. They have green energy but is expensive and in limited scales.
The war for oil has create instability for its supply and price. The ugliest big bad boys try to secure the oils for themselves.
In a part of the world where my attention is focused on, the people try to break free from dependency of the oil but in much higher price.
Breaking free from oil economy requires them to be ruthlessly cruel. Biofuel promised something that I can’t measure its effectivity and Efficiency. But for some people, they see it as last resort. Because of course they can’t fight with ugliest bad boy.
They could always take a different approach in rejuvenating the oil production facilities, but this part of the World is lack in technological advancement. Politic, bureaucracy, capital, technology, corruption, and other bottlenecks have hindered their capability to produce oil.
What about green energy? It’s a daydream for them.
Their hopelessness in energy is looming (but not only them).
The Technology Economy
The biggest economy are racing in technology to achieve or to maintain the hegemony of the future.
This part of the World? Not so much. Low education level of their population has been a big problem for this part of the World.
They don’t know how to make technology coexist with environment. They can’t think of how to internalize the externalities efficiently. If data center consumes so much clean water, then think about acquire the technology to clean the water efficiently. Calculate the cost then put it into cost of goods sold.
But this principle is not common in this part of the world. Internalizing the externalities efficiently. Resources and cost to generate the goods are never included within the calculation. That’s why human cost, economic cost, environmental cost, even political cost is always apparent and nothing can absorb it.
Expensive Political Cost
I can’t measure people correctly including the leader of this part of the World. If I take a look into myself, I could find a possibility. In my inventory of persona, I have a want to prove that I’m capable. I want to do biggest service for my nation. But I also don’t touch the reality of majority. I also like it if people give me compliment. This 4 persona perhaps could be projected to this person. Don’t get me wrong, I also have the contrary of this persona within me. I tend to have conflicting persona within my inventory.
I also try to project common persona that I find in people.
- Don’t want to get into very detail
- Missing the step of weighing pros and cons of alternatives
- Judging on how we minimize the cons of decisions we make
- Having counsel that agree all the time
- Doesn’t want to hear bad news
So I project these persona too to this person. I’m not best judger of character so everything is assumptions.
All of these persona and a very expensive political cost to pay. To guarantee the stability of the reign. But the effect is cash flow hangover.
Corruption
It’s the spirit of the public service in this part of the World. The build personal asset out of their status to serve public obligations.
This is the rule of the game. Once people don’t facilitate this, they out of the game.
They has to maintain their status as the chosen people that can claim public’s goods as their belonging.
Disoriented Spirit of Risk Taking
There are those who don’t want to risk their life because they fear what other will talk about them. But they take risk in their stagnant life. They don’t do the necessary work to earn living.
The other who doesn’t care what other people saying did unserving activities in their life: unproductive pinjol, judol, and other self-sabotaging activities.
Sacrificing What They Don’t Have
When I sacrifice, I sacrifice my resources. I have budget for my resources. I won’t sacrifice others people’s belongings.
But this part of the World loves to sacrifice others’. Others’ hardwork, time, resources, even life.
Lack of Discipline, Integrity, and Accountability
This is very clear. Nobody won’t do what it takes to achieve and maintain power and influence fairly.
They scheme, lie, cheat, don’t own their problem, and keep being mediocre or complacent.
My Verdict
Through the 7 I’ve mentioned, the silver Linings is character of the people. Allah has been generous in physical and knowledge blessing to this country, but they to failed to appreciate it for years.
They don’t make themselves useful in realistic sense.
In bunch of “kufur nikmat” people, I hesitate to even try to solve their problem. I think to myself, they chose to be broken. The situation is somehow irredeemable and can’t be salvaged.
In The Darkness, Is There A Light?
There is still light when,
- We recognize what Allah has given us. Look at what we’ve done by choosing disaster. Look at what we’ve done by choosing ignorance rather than self-sacrifice.
- Make ourself useful. Give our best to our works.
- Gain freedom to have free speech that contribute positively for the progress. Be an entrepreneur that is self-sustained so we can voice anything we consider it’s positive for the progress.
