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The Reset might not be as great as you think (Stating the Obvious)

If you need advice with your PC, you often will be told to reset your system. Which means, your computer will shut down all running processes and restart the operating system. The bug which caused the non-functioning in the first place will probably not be affected at all by this. You are only making your Computer "think" that nothing has happened. Maybe this simplistic measure will work, at least for some time. As long as the complex interaction between your hardware, operating system and application software is not fixed, it will be very likely to happen again. Sadly, typical fixes are more often superficial workarounds than really working fundamental solutions and the fix or update will quite probably cause other undesired and often unforeseen things to happen.

So, what I am getting at is what I would call the shortsightedness hidden in the use of the grand metaphor of the System Reset. 

"System" here representing "The world", implying, for instance, the state of the planet, the climate, the economy, the interplay between states and corporations, and/or the affairs of humanity as a whole.
You may already have noticed the hubris of such an enterprise.
How and by which measures do you reset the whole world? And, of course: to what end?

It has been said that the complexity of the brain and its workings surpass the means available to even start to know, how, why and in which way it is working. It is just, well, too complex. The same could be said of the planetary, the global economical, the climatic or the body-mind system of individuals. In all such systems there are multiple layers interacting with each other as well as with the whole.

This could turn into an essay, but it will not. Instead I will say this: Dealing with complexity seems to require a set of mind and soul that is rare in politicians and, mind you, I do not expect the likes of Klaus Schwab or Bill Gates to come up with a sufficient understanding of complex emerging systems. The bugs those utopian megalomanics want fixed and their attempt to fix them may lead to unforeseen, and, I'm afraid, dire outcomes.

 

 

  

Nil sapientiae odiosius acumine nimio.

Seneca

Der Staat muß untergehn, früh oder spät,
Wo Mehrheit siegt und Unverstand entscheidet.

Friedrich Schiller