Rules, policies, laws, regulations, procedures, irrational privilege, and complexity are destroying society and our natural environment. Written and Copyrighted by Rick Simmons. Published on Aug 30, 2014, at 9:33 GMT.

Excessive anthropocentric behavior in the form of rules, policies, laws, regulations, and procedures is driving people crazy in our society today. Every day, there is more and more to think about. Imagine knowing all the laws, regulations, policies, and procedures for every organization you work with, deal with, and do business with, not to mention all criminal law, business law, employment law, tax law, etc. It is ridiculous, and it is contributing to our insanity as well as itinerant over-topping behavior by the elite, privileged, and those who have the power to control others with attorneys, laws, regulations, etc. It is interesting, but one of the main problems is when someone comes along who has the desire to help transform our planet in a sustainable striving way, there are an infinite number of ways to throw curve balls into progress because of all this manufactured anthropocentric complexity (Later I call this infinite variabilization). Imagine the people that love and care in this world and what they are going through. On top of all the manufactured processes to remember, people are trying to work, deal with excessive bureaucracy, contribute to society, bring up their families, be responsible, and contribute to our functioning in the best way they know how. Does anyone wonder where mental illness comes from? Only those who can try to stay on top of all the considered important procedures and processes can survive in this world where those who can contribute the most to saving our planet are being over-topped by those hell-bent on controlling nature as we are a part of nature. It is weird. In our society, those who have a lot to offer our world are being over-topped by the consequences of our reactively complex society. People have learned how to compete with the complexity. This behavior has resulted in stagnation, complacency, and status-quo static behavior, leading to horrific behavior by some executives, managers, administrators, attorneys, investigators, criminal justice managers and their employees, regulators, and anyone who cares more about process and procedure than working together to save our planet and everything about it. “Yes, men” or over-topped people with a desire to advance themselves and their wallet or have the desire to get ahead are subservientized soldiers for those in control, acting as the ones that “hit” people who have been blocklisted or fired by the controllers. Many of these people get raises, promotions, benefits, job opportunities, buyouts, advancement, transfers to better jobs, retire, and voluntarily get fired to take credit for another person’s leadership, courage, and work. We have what I call a bunch of stackers. Stackers interpret real change leaders or people who are creative, inventive, innovative, or imaginative as a threat to their livelihood and will do anything to get control over people who have a lot to offer. Many non-well-intentioned people use the existing complexity to create ways to fire or exclude people from society. There are several ways, including creating rumors about people, expanding rumors with more rumors, investigating people, destroying people’s character, invading private sanctuaries, loading your work files with “bad” stuff or interpreted policy deficiencies, polluting the environment, toxic work environments, firing people, destroying peoples will to live, bankruptcy processes, and overall abhorrent behavior on the part of those that are looked up to in our society. Why? Because we have all become subservient to this out-of-control anthropocentric society where people are more concerned with laws, regulations, following procedures, covering their asses, ultra-competing, and protecting their livelihoods and their complacency, creating cushy dream jobs. Those over-topped struggling to survive have little chance of survival, no matter how much you have to offer our planet. Many get impacted by mental illness, poverty, unemployment, suicide, homelessness, resorting to “crime” to live, and isolation. Many are lonely and become divorced, outcasts, disassociated with their peers, have their confidence impacted, become depressed, lose faith in humanity, lose faith in God, and have become disrespected to such a degree that they have difficulty getting any traction to move forward with their lives. Many have been put on a treadmill as slaves of one sort or another. Wouldn’t it be great to stop these detrimental behaviors by starting to plan and work together to benefit everything, including humanity, Earth, the natural environment, life support systems, and communities? We must start respecting more the people who can help us transform a way for things to be sustainable and strive for our planet instead of the reactive system of complexity and the system of the privileged created for those who consider themselves as being more important or matter more than the rest of us. It is time for those who use our system to their advantage to transform themselves toward a more sustainable, striving ecological niche role in society. We must forgive eventually because it is not all their fault. Many were conditioned in our out-of-control capitalist, ultra-materialist, ultra-competitive, ultra-greedy, and ultra-selfish environment. The time to transform is now. Imagine how many lives would be saved and how well our functioning on Earth would improve.