Thursday 23 October 2008

The Financial Panic of October '08

I can't seem to go anywhere now without hearing intense discussions about the state of the financial markets and the general Economy.

When will it get better? What should I do? Is my money safe? How will I ever manage?

And of course, I DON"T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY!!!

Well, I guess there could be a simple answer to the above...... want LESS.

Do you really need to continually upgrade your car, stereo, plasma screen, holiday, whatever? It's like mice on a treadmill, after a while they accept even a circular, strange reality as being normal.

And so have we. Except our treadmill is advertising and the banking mentality. Great for a few....sucks for the rest of us.

And how come we keep bailing these institutions out? The banks are happy to lend an umbrella to us when it's sunny - and the first to take it back from us when it's raining.

But this blog is not about whingeing, or crying in our beer.

It's about putting alternatives out there.

Buckminster Fuller once said
“In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.”

THAT'S what this blog is about.
You can only plug a rusty water tank so many times before you need to go out and get a new one. (Thanks for the analogy, Barbara!)

Well, our Economy is broken. The capitalist system no longer serves us all....just a very, very few. Shoving fingers in an ever-expanding debt dyke to stop leaks is not a solution. It's just denial.

So we need an alternative in place before the entire system collapses. Instead of adding to the fear, suffering and panic.....let's do something positive to get us towards that brighter future.

If you are interested in what I am proposing, then we could always use another pair of willing hands!


In the next post I will put out a possible alternative.....please feel free to jump in anytime.