Topic: Have we lost the power to control our futures? (Read 704 times)

For some extend yes we cannot control our future but most of it we can because the future is created according to what we do today

I'm sorry that you feel that way. I think your perspective on this issue must depend on what country you're from. I know that people will always find something to complain about, no matter how good things are, but I think there are some countries where people feel that they have control over their future. I find it an awfully pessimistic thing to say that nothing is in the interest of the people. Violence should not be the answer. There is power in numbers. If you feel like the people have lost control in your country, you need to start talking. You need to start organizing people to band together, rise up, and make a change. Violence should be avoided as much as possible, even if the government uses violence against you.

Ancient wisdom says that you need to have the power to influence what you can change, to understand that there are things that you can not influence and it is necessary to have the wisdom to distinguish these things.
Our future is in our hands. I mean that we have the opportunity to study, change the profession, the sphere of activity, to earn money etc.
But we have very little influence on the future of mankind. But this is not news. It was like that at all times.

I agree, because we are the one that will make our future and don't rely on other people with your future. We are the one who makes our dreams possible. We can do everything we want but we must also know our limit and knows the good and the bad, so that in the future, your life will be comfortable and not going to be misserable.

you never had the power to controll your future in the first place actually, you were only able to do decisions based on limited information over the span of your live, like a fish swiming in a thank deciding left right top bottom?

Can't lose something you never had.     

Man has freedom to build his future. we haven't lost power of control of our future .
    You can do anything
     Just get up and do it
     follow your dream.
 

Most of the power to control our future are in the hands of the politicians because we gave it to them and when they come into power, they don't seem to care about anyone else at all. But people have made their own future through sheer force and determination at all.

I agree, if we work harder today and do your best what you can at this moment, for sure you will enjoy your fruit in the future, and what's the result of your hard work after all. I don't think that we have lost our power to control our future. After all, we are still the one who will make our future better.

You are not a victim of your past and you are not a prisoner of your present circumstances, however challenging they are. Perhaps you feel trapped inside your own body, you feel like a foreigner has invaded your mind and it’s pure torture. Your mind is a wonderful, powerful organ, but you must take control and understand that it reaps exactly what you plant, and can work for you or against you.

I know a lot of people who complain that yesterday everythimg was better, that poverty rises, fear of migration, foreign influence etc.
But when I ask those people what they are planning to do about it they all say they can‘t do anything.
Bit it would be so easy to do little things that in the end would some up.
It‘s not that we lost our power to shape our future, itös that we lost our will it seems.

Complaining and hoping that someone else will fix our problems is just way more conveinient.
And without making your own hands dirty you even get to complain if someone fails trying.

Great question and I often think about this. I dont even wish to consider violence, there SHOULD be many other means towards change. I really do hope we can without recurring to violent methods. Thing is, the state we are in right now is so serious it may have to come to that for the power to be in peoples hands again, unless theres a radical change up top, we express, then they listen and act accordingly (which i doubt ). Best thing we could hope for would be an alternative the economic system weve known forever, to have a choice between centralised or decentralised, fiat or crypto. Theres never been a choice before, just a "this is the world you are in. Deal with it"

I believe that still, we do have control on our future. It is cliché term that our future is in our hands, but it is indeed that we can do something for our future. Yes, we do experience violence and problems we experienced, it doesn't lost our control in our future. I believe that a good mindset in the present would bring you to a better future. If we focus on those things that can be beneficial to you and to others, we can make ourselves capable of achieving that kind of future. We should consider those for I believe that we have the most powerful toll to control our future, and that is ourselves.

All power belong to God but they say in the bible that heaven help those who help them self for the future to bright work towards it by planning of how to make in future now

Yes. If 1% of the population were to stop paying taxes and seize control of the means of production through peaceful labor movements, then it would quickly spread to the majority of the workforce and overturn the current economic system.

Bolivia had a worker-based revolution, and this empowered their democratically-elected leader to do anything. Because the strongest, most powerful force in any nation is its workforce.

Instead, we are encouraged to blame each other for the systemic corruption in the power structure, which incentivizes exploitation. Polarization of the workforce allows the political, economic, military and intel elite to 'divide and conquer' the people.

Revolutions are easy to nip in the bud:

1) The risk of labor movements can be culled through right-to-work laws and firing anyone who attempts to unionize.
2) Tax evasion and blockades can be punished with jailtime and tear gas.
3) Violent revolutions can usually be subverted by the military elite, who reap the benefits (e.g. Leninism). This is most effective when the media and academia are under economic control of the military.
4) Grassroots movements can be marginalized by taking control of television and social media to censor and slander activists.
5) The risk of democratic revolution can be subverted by assassination, crosscheck, redistricting, voter machine fractionalization, voter purging (not allowing certain demographics to vote).
6) Any political movement will collapse under heavy polarization. Humans are tribalistic and will often value identity politics and shortcuts over cooperation and common ground. The trick is to offer something different to each demographic, and have them fight over it. Polarization becomes EXTREMELY effective when one corrupt party offers some human rights while an opposing corrupt party offers different human rights, so you have to choose between gay rights, minimum wage, or healthcare, but you don't get to vote on gun laws or net neutrality or overseas wars or economic equality. Heck - congress doesn't get to vote on overseas wars! Incrementalism combined with polarization and media smearing of activists is an effective protection of the status quo. With incrementalism, you force people to choose which rights they want at the expense of other rights.
7) Anyone who might potentially overcome these obstacles can easily be preemptively culled (e.g. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, the homeless).

Violent revolutions led by the proletariat only occur when the proletariat is desperate. Elites can offer hope in the form of incrementalism, promises, the American Dream, consumer products, religion, entertainment, and - most effectively - actually fixing shit! But elites won't be able to fix the collapse of agriculture, industry, and transportation if they don't transition the economy, power grid, food production, consumer goods and transportation away from 100% reliance on petroleum. So the #1 way to prevent a violent revolution is to prevent blowback in the first place by offering:
A) Democracy
and
B) Means of survival

A lot of people are now being scared of speaking up even when they should. And that's how we gradually allow other people make policies that do not favor us.

 It is very crucial to answer the question that whether we lost power to control our future. If we look at present days then we will find that people are not so happy as they were in previous days. Day by day people are hankering after money, crazy for fame and other craving for fake parts of gorgeous life that actually has no importance in the case of bringing happiness. So, if such situations continue then it will be hard to control our future. If we want to control our valuable life and time in future we should care for others. We must live together. We should avoid wars and must not make ourselves busy at fake works. If we follow such ways then there is a hope of getting chance to control our future.

Well, there are circumstances and hindrances to consider other than what we can do to control our future, as people say that the power to change our future is in our own hands. Indeed, the power is within us, and that power is our ability to act in the present. And I do believe that we haven't lost that power. Despite challenges and violence, we are still capable of doing things in today's world. We are at our greatest power to act in a good and powerful manner that will surely make a difference someday. It is not only what we can do that will determine our future but it is what we think we can do. A proper mindset will bring us the power to control our future.

We can modify our future to some extent. But we can't control it at all. And even the way we modify it is not clear, because everything works through cause and effect.

I watched an interesting film on this topic. And I liked the idea that our future is already defined but we can still change it by the things that we do.