ILKI: DON'T GET COMFORTABLE!
I chanced upon this Youtube video today, called Comfort Will Ruin Your Life, at youtube.com/watch?v=F5-qkgfBeuU
It says stuff like:
- staying in our comfort zone prevents our growth and success and the comfort zone keeps shrinking as time goes "Bye";
- going too far out of our comfort zone too fast puts us in the danger zone and produces quick failure;
- going just a little way out of the comfort zone takes us to the growth zone;
- but we can't just stay in the growth zone either;
- we have to commute back and forth between the comfort zone and the growth zone;
- in this way our comfort zone itself grows, instead of shrinking, and so does the growth zone;
- so that's how to live happily ever after (I kid you).
OH CONTRARE. After watching the vid, I came across some contrary notions. THE RULING CLASS LIVES IN THE COMFORT ZONE. They get to live their lives in utter comfort constantly. If their comfort zone starts to shrink, they can buy anything to make it feel like it's expanding.
In 2001 there was a person, pseudonym Svali, who claimed to be a female trainer of ruling class families who used torture on them (without leaving marks) to make them remain faithful to their leadership. So maybe the ruling class isn't the comfort zone that it's cracked up to be.
I occasionally think that the tyrannical ruling class might be good for humanity (assuming Svali fibbed), kind of like how predators are good for the animal kingdom. Without predators, animals would not "evolve" to be fast, smart, maternal/paternal, and maybe etcetera. Would they? Or could they get that way if God constantly whispers in their ears: "Go fast, now get smart, now be a caring parent." Since God doesn't do that, it proves that God doesn't exist. I can say that if I have all-knowledge, which would make me God. Okay, what's wrong with a little irony?
I do think there's a ruling class, which does very selfish things and often terrorizes the common people using puppets to make us think the puppets keep doing those things to us, instead of us realizing it's the ruling class doing those bad things. But it seems that humanity progressed a lot as the ruling class "benefited" the most, i.e. financially etc. Maybe the Black Death got the rulers to thinking they needed to find ways to keep the population up. I think it was actually Cardinal Nicolas of Cusa, Italy, in the 1400s who helped invent science and republican government, based on Biblical inspiration, that most benefited humanity. But the ruling class helped to increase population for its selfish reasons of wanting to exploit us. So their exploitation of us resulted in a great increase in our numbers through the 1900s especially. A large percentage of people had large families, close to 10 each. Usually, a few of the children died in early childhood, but they still averaged 6 to 8 or more kids per family.
Now the rulers are trying to put the brakes on population growth. I root for them to fail. They claim that we're jeopardizing the entire biosphere with our population increases (which aren't increases now, though, thanks to Covid vaxes), but Paul Stitt said in his book, Fighting the Food Giants, that the Earth could easily sustain 20 billion humans. I think he meant common people, not ruling class people. It can only sustain a few million rulers IMO. There's a lot of room on the Earth. Desertification is starting to be reversed, which will make much more room in desert regions. People can live on floating islands in the oceans and can build shelters in the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Eventually, we can perhaps go to other planets, after we expand our comfort zones there.
Below is an image of S. Korea's floating islands. Or it was, until I replaced it with a better image. Actually, there was a guy who built a floating island out of bags of empty plastic bottles covered with plywood. It got pretty big and he was able to get a bunch of trees growing on it. I think he covered the plywood with sand and he had a little paradise there, till a hurricane beached it. So in the following image, imagine the submerged part being a lot of plastic bottles in big net-like bags.