In the past, I’ve written extensively about distractions and diversions, wondering whether war and terrorism themselves are distractions or diversions from something else. Ever since I started writing about distractions and diversions, I seem to notice them everywhere. Some other phenomena I see as distractions or diversions are extensive news reporting, excessive immigration crackdown, excessive conflict, excessive controversy, and excessive chaos. excessive advertisements, excessive government functioning, excessive television, and the way the Internet is completely out of control with advertising. Is corporate globalization controlling domination, using governments and the rest of us as a distraction or diversion? It seems like politics itself is a distraction or a diversion from some other big-picture phenomenon. The current condition of investment and stock market strategy appears to be a major distraction or diversion from what’s really going on in our world. For example, fad investments seem to foster an environment in which those closer to controlling globalization and the market jump on the bandwagon, investing in the same types of instruments. Imagine the current condition of investment strategies in which people sit back and make huge sums of money without contributing to the desired future condition. In fact, investment often serves as a distraction or diversion for those who created the ideas, rendering them obsolete. Moreover, it appears that those closer to globalization, control, and money are favored over everyone else. In other words, it seems to make kings, castles, and kingdoms for those who make money from money only. Furthermore, law enforcement seems to be a distraction or diversion from what’s going on in corporations and governments. Does the constitution create means of functioning, distractions, and diversions for all of us? In other words, conflict with people appears to get the limelight rather than more substantial issues and higher places. The same is true of court cases and the sensationalism that accompanies them. For example, how often do we hear about globalization, controlling domination, and the exploitation of labor? How often do we hear about globalization controlling domination and excessive pollution in our environment and our controlling structures? How often do we contemplate the cumulative totality of all types of pollution in our society? Do we use more laws, rules, regulations, policies, and procedures for those who are marginalized or at the bottom of the hierarchy more than for those who are at the top? In this situation, we should all focus on the problem itself rather than the pollution, distractions, diversions, chaos, conflicts, and controversy. We need to solve the problem.

One thing I learned in school that was really important was that most problems are complex to identify (on purpose?), so determining the problem’s true nature is the main challenge. It seems like all the distractions and diversions in our society, and I only named a few, are diverting us from finding the true nature of our problems on planet Earth. Sometimes it takes a very long time to understand the true nature of a problem, such that it can be defined understandably. All the distractions and diversions contribute to people misunderstanding the true nature of the problem, thus creating more problems. This leads to more chaos, controversy, conflict, and complexity. Therefore, it makes it more challenging to identify the true nature of the problem. Consequently, we need a grassroots effort that involves everyone, everything, everywhere on Earth, to understand conditions past, present, and future, up to and including the desired future conditions, so we have something to strive for. Therefore, my recommendations are to identify the true nature of the problem on planet Earth and work together to understand the desired future conditions. This will allow us to understand the current condition and the desired future condition. Thus, this will enable us to understand the energy required to reach the desired future condition from our current condition. Being flooded with news pollution all the time in every possible way, from computers to emails to news articles to TV shows, distracts us from understanding those two vital concepts. We need to involve everyone in a census-like effort to understand the needs of people, communities, families, the natural environment, culture, society, and everything else that is important to us. Hearing all the negative news distracts us from focusing on positive energy values and benefits. However, I do think it’s important to understand what is happening to people on Earth, the natural environment, and our culture and society. Maybe we should report these things as patterns on a map rather than as information blurbs, which can be overwhelming. When we see things on a map, we can understand the patterns associated with them and make connections to those problems. Imagine turning negative-energy events on our planet into geographic coordinates so they can become a study of sorts for something else. We can also pay respect to those people who have died, whom I consider heroes. I am looking forward to the We-Me Explorers Cycle and the Unidiversity because we are all considered part of the solution to the problems on Earth, rather than contributors to those problems. With this perspective, people are not the source of the problems on Earth. They are the solution. Imagine being able to contribute to a census on planet Earth when we have planetary problems to understand. Likewise, imagine contributing to a local community problem solution that needs to be understood. In the future, we will all be involved for the benefit of everyone, everything, and everywhere on Earth, from local to global, past, present, and future.  I hypothesize that the distraction-diversion problem stems from the cumulative totality of pollution, confusion, conflict, chaos, and controversy, which acts like an out-of-control positive feedback loop, making it increasingly difficult to identify the problem over time. Is the economy out of control? I hypothesize that we are creating distractions and diversions because globalization is controlling the domination of the earth, the economy, and the excessive pollution created at every level within our societies, our governments, our natural environment, and on our planet.