A Kaleidoscopic View of Societal Malfunctions...Part 1

Our entire 'society' is imperfect. That's what we all say, and we shrug and let it go at that all in agreement. Societies change in their own good time, and there isn't much that an individuals can do to cause change or direct it. Most people don't try. They have a living to make,and whatever energies are left over they know how to put to good use. They leave politics to the ever changing faces of the frauds, cheaters liars and crooks that masquerade as politicians.
But let's be honest, Our societies in general is not just imperfect,our societies are in unhappy shambles. Leaving politics to 'politicians' is ,as usual, proving to be a dangerous business as leaving science to public opinions, war to Generals, and profits to bankers and other profiteers.
I read, I watch. I listen. And I judge by my own experiences. The best of us are basically miserable. Most , it seems, take drugs...alcohol, tobacco, and pills by the handful. We do work in order to live and live to work like a cog. An endless unsatisfying round of self abuse. The jobs are no pleasure. Employers shunt us from one plastic paradise to another. Nearly one half of the country now moves each year. No roots, no stability; like the wind ...(ever see the film, The Wind and The Lion? )
We live out our lives in public, with less and less chances to ever know each other. To know anybody.
Farmers can't make a living. Small businesspeople can't make a living anymore. Combines and monoliths take them over then push them out or close them down. And because no-one questions the ways of a monolith and stays or rises in one, only the most ruthless survive, run by the narrowest and hungriest and self important among us.
The results: rivers stink of sewage, water is poisonous, industrial waste produce only dead fish. City air is the equivalent of smoking 2 or 3 packs a day; the 'countryside' is turned to decaying rubble. Chemical lagoons stain hillsides with their overflows. Fields of rusting vehicles litter once prosperous suburbs.
And all the while, the population continues to grow "Progress', new consumers to buy imported products. Institutions are less and less able to cope with the growth. Not enough houses or apartments. Not enough shelters. Not enough schools. Not enough doctors or teachers or jobs for entire countries. Not enough room at the beaches...not enough beaches; victims of rising oceans...
end of part 1