Hyper-objects have been described for quite some time.
Climate change is a hyper-object.
The global economy is a hyper-object.
Hyper-consumerism is a hyper-object.
These things are so big now and so complicated that nobody really understands them.
Some people understand bits and some people understand (at a lower level) more but there can be no Tsar of hyper-consumerism or climate change because they can’t understand it.
As the speed of the world increases exponentially on a day-by-day basis more and more things become a hyper-object which are basically unfixable because they’re un-understandable.
Dentistry in the UK is fast becoming a hyper-object (it’s almost certain that the NHS effectively already is).
Everybody has an opinion and if they don’t, they certainly have an agenda and if they don’t have that they’ve got a huge financial vested interest.
This makes clear decision-making processes almost impossible due to the biases that exist and so fixing the problem of how we provide dentistry for the people who need it most within the structure and framework of the contributions that society makes in order to provide that is almost unmanageable.
We know in dentistry that we’ve had pilots and trials and schemes and fixes and solutions and initiatives and an all manner of things yet still we end up with a system which is absolutely not serving the people who need it the most at the coal face.
Clearly, I have no business even mentioning this because 6 years ago I took myself out of the NHS because I was unable to continue providing the contract that I had with any sort of quality and was actually asked to provide twice as much work for half the money which was entirely untenable.
This is where the hyper-object bit comes in.
It’s not so long ago everybody was standing outside and clapping for the NHS on a Thursday night, but those same people are unlikely to vote for 2 pence on income tax to try and save the system.
Unless they see the system being saved.
Blog Post Number - 3072
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