Most polls say we are on the wrong track, but do you know why?

How many of those polls ask why?

Why are we on the wrong track?

I'd bet less than 1 in a million will know the true reason why we are on the wrong track.

If I'd guess about the zeitgeist, the majority might say that the rich is getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.  This is misleading.  The truth is that everybody is getting poorer, but the rich suffer the least.  So, the resentment focuses in on the rich.  Taxing the rich more isn't the answer anymore than killing the goose that lays the golden egg will produce more golden eggs.

I think that we are on the wrong track because the zeitgeist has drunk the kool aid of the Limits to Growth crowd.  So, we end up with politicians who want to spread the wealth as opposed to creating new wealth.  What we get is less wealth and more equality, but that equality comes at a fearful price.  That price will get more and more fearful as the Limits to Growth philosophy becomes hard wired and institutionalized.  We are almost there now.

This Limits to Growth zeitgeist has all but rejected nuclear power.  But the rejection of nuclear power all but guarantees that future growth will become impossible.  Read the link above to see my reasoning upon this subject.  Boiled down to its most salient point is this:  an advanced society requires kinetic energy, which can only be supplied by nuclear energy.  The physics of this cannot be willed out of existence.  It cannot be bargained with or reasoned with.  It cannot be fudged.  There is no other way to continue growth but by embracing nuclear energy.  It's all in the physics.

So, we have to make a choice.  Go backwards into chaos and self-destruction, or forward into a new golden age of growth and prosperity.  The way towards that is nuclear energy.  It is against the paradigm at the moment, but that can change.  The only way to change that paradigm is to get the message out.  You can be sure that the Limits to Growth crowd do not want this message to get out.