Are we blessed or cursed?
Are we blessed or cursed?
The old Chinese curse says ‘may you live in interesting times‘…
and we certainly do.
However, ‘interesting times’ in China usually involved drastic changes and change usually meant a lot of pain for a lot of people.
It is difficult to say whether the Chinese would see the present as ‘interesting times’ as although it has involved a lot of change and probably a fair amount of pain it does appear that a lot of Chinese are finally benefiting.
The same cannot be said for most of the rest of the planet although you could argue that the other BRIC are doing quite well too - but it’s an argument you would probably lose.
So, why is China doing well while almost everyone else is struggling?
Because it is making it up as it goes along and doesn’t rely on experts -
and so it can think out of the box.
The world has changed... is changing.
Everything is less predictable and tends to extremes.
The problem for most of those countries which are doing badly is that they have deeply entrenched bureaucracies.
Bureaucracies always seem to suffer from chronic inertia because the bureaucrats always seem to manage to carve out nice, safe, niches for themselves and any change would be likely to put them out of their comfort zones… hence they are almost always cautious reactionaries.
Now the best friend of the bureaucrat is the expert who will find some way to twist the facts to back up the bureaucrats and frighten their opponents with statistic which predict dire consequences should their ‘findings’ (opinion) be ignored.
So it is that Greece is being burned as an offering to the EC bureaucracy
Instead of trying to think out of the box it is the old tried and tested austerity cure. It doesn’t help the economy but it does teach the people a lesson for ever trusting their leaders in the first place.
It’s time to get rid of the ex-experts because they are less than useless.
It may well be they were useful when things continuously followed predictable patterns but that was yesterday and yesterday won’t be back soon!
We don’t need a bunch of people whose only talent is in passing exams we need people who can drive by the seat of their pants.
People with courage and imagination who are not afraid to take chances. Now is not a time to hang on to yesterday but a time to envision a new tomorrow!
It should not be the 99% against the 1% but a union of the people to push for a new paradigm… since the 1% have much more to lose then they will be harder to convince but a worldwide banking failure is not in anyone’s interest unless they want to see the planet burn.
Money is only paper when there are no banks.
This is not a time to whip each other or wear sackcloth and ashes because we let greed poison the system - it’s a time to reinvent the system so that it will take the greedy a long time to learn to exploit it again!