This is a measure of how free resources are right now:
EUROPEAN Union (EU) bosses are spending £127MILLION of taxpayer cash on a bizarre statistics vanity project which uncovers ludicrous information such as how many Slovenians have a shower at home.
And fact-obsessed EU bosses are celebrating their extortionate “utterly pointless” project with an all-singing, all-dancing event today and tomorrow…
The Eurostat project is packed full of nuggets of vital information such as 0.7% of the population of Slovenia do not shower at home and 1.4 per cent of people in Greece “cannot afford a washing machine”…
The Eurostat project is packed full of nuggets of vital information such as 0.7% of the population of Slovenia do not shower at home and 1.4 per cent of people in Greece “cannot afford a washing machine”.
Indeed the gripping content, which has millions of data sets, explores all manner of concepts from cheese moisture content to the fact that 88.8 per cent of people in Belgium “watch TV or similar screen activities” for 2.58 hours and minutes each day.
According to the statistics the selling prices of chickens per 100kg live weight are three times more expensive in Luxembourg than they are in Slovenia.
While vaccination against influenza for over-65s is more popular in the UK than in any other member country who reported their figures – just five out of 28.
That’s over $150 million dollars, just thrown into the air. Notice how unnatural this is compared to the harsh world our brain evolved to confront in K-selection. This isn’t even really r-selection, which I presume involved running down some of the copious antelope that existed where humans had not yet settled. This is as if the antelope cooked themselves and dropped in your lap covered in barbeque sauce. It is completely unnatural, and we are not designed for it.
They actually spend this money to organize a singing and dancing event, just to celebrate their other useless spending of money on acquiring useless statistics that nobody will ever do anything with.
This is the r-strategy, on steroids. When placed in an environment which comports with their programming to this degree, the ecstasy is such that it requires a celebration with dancing and music.
All along the way, amygdalae are atrophying, rules and morals are degrading, planning for the future is diminishing, and the organisms are becoming ever less adapted to a world where resources are too short for everyone to survive. Brains are literally malforming.
And as it continues, their waste of borrowed money places them on a collision course with that K-selected environment of resource limitation which they are not designed for, and which will reset the entire balance.
ITZ coming, and there is a strange elegance about it all.
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“That’s over $150 million dollars, just thrown into the air. ”
I might wish it was thrown into the air, that way there would be a chance that some of it could have landed where it’s needed, like sowing seed. Don’t mean to be pedantic but I think a more accurate description is 150million dollars poured very carefully into the bank accounts of favoured tech companies.
And every time this crap shows up, us Ks feel the need to store some more food, buy another gun, fortify the house, stock some more first aid supplies, etc. The chasm between the two groups grows, and the tension with it.