Morons
The moronicness of governments is currently laid bare for the entire world to see in the failed policies which they have inflicted around the world in their fundamentalist insistence on implementing a system of economics which have nothing to do with people and everything to do with the GDP.
The GDP, as I have understood it, was always meant to be a means to an end. It was to be ONE indicator, amongst many others, about how well a country was doing. How it became the ONLY indicator is probably due to the way it favour the richest and the most powerful on the planet. Those of us who believed we lived in a democracy thought, ok, we will vote in the government we think knows what it is doing and we will just get on with life. You know REAL life, like cooking, and looking after babies, and tending our gardens, and meeting friends and doing meaningful things. Little did we know that we had opened our countries to a pit of vipers.
So, let us now think about what the last 40 or and more years of idiotically following the GDP has brought us.
A world which will almost certainly lose most of its biodiversity in the next 50 years. 1 million species thought to be extinct.
You may think, this is a very silly thing to cite. But let us see how did they get extinct?
Deforestation
Pollution
Overfishing
Poor land use - this includes flooding and landslides
Poisoning of the land
Poisoning of the air
Poisoning of the water
Climate change
If you think that only animals are affected by this, think again
Terrible war - terrorism by governments, militia supported governments and paramilitary organisations
Waste management
Poor health - not just environmentally induced ones, but lifestyle as well
Grossly unequal and obscene income distribution
Low literacy and education rates
Resource and food security issues brought about by a run away consumerist culture and just blatant exploitation, as well as poor development policies - which will open another front in war...
Slavery
These are the top line issues that need resolving. I don't even want to do into the other issues which cascade from these.
What have governments done in order to resolve them? What? Their solution is chase the GDP. Yes, why don't we flog the dead horse? Trust the bankers and chase the GDP. Are the stupid? Can they not see that the GDP is what caused all these problems in the first place? AND they have ignored advice over and over again. Now, was it people who wore sandals and ate beans out of tins giving this advice? No. They were experts, people with data which crunched the figures and said, if you continue doing this we will be heading for Lemmington, the EU, the UN, conservation groups, human rights groups - they were hardly your loony left brigade, and what have they decided to do instead of follow good advice, listen to self-interested lobbyists which only address the narrowest of interests at the cost of the greater good.
Their idea of competence must be completely different from mine because when I look at the state of the world now, I can tell you, it does not look good. Anyone can tell you, anyone who has any sense of what anything is about, that this is not a sustainable state of affairs. If this was a game of Jenga, there were be one block left at the bottom and a whole crazy mess piled on top of it. It will now only take very little for chaos to break out all over the place. Perhaps it should you know. Only then will Frances Fukuyama know what it really means to be at the end of history.
So why am I posting this? Because I really want the satisfaction of saying I Told You So when it all goes tits up. How can these people be so incompetent? Why are the financing a fake industry - banking - and not financing real life? How come we can find money for war and not money to state fund Steiner Schools and renewable emergy? How come we have to rely on banks so much and not on governments? We give them taxes and they give our taxes to the banks and then the banks give us our taxes back, and charge us interest. This is insane. Actually it is worse than that. Bank have a licence to print money and when we can't pay them back they come collecting.
There needs to arise a new breed of leaders. People who will take all these problems and solve them properly - not just do a nip and tuck here and there. Even the Earth has had enough of these useless morons. It is literally fighting back.
The old world is dying - we need to create a new one. Where can we begin?
The GDP, as I have understood it, was always meant to be a means to an end. It was to be ONE indicator, amongst many others, about how well a country was doing. How it became the ONLY indicator is probably due to the way it favour the richest and the most powerful on the planet. Those of us who believed we lived in a democracy thought, ok, we will vote in the government we think knows what it is doing and we will just get on with life. You know REAL life, like cooking, and looking after babies, and tending our gardens, and meeting friends and doing meaningful things. Little did we know that we had opened our countries to a pit of vipers.
So, let us now think about what the last 40 or and more years of idiotically following the GDP has brought us.
A world which will almost certainly lose most of its biodiversity in the next 50 years. 1 million species thought to be extinct.
You may think, this is a very silly thing to cite. But let us see how did they get extinct?
Deforestation
Pollution
Overfishing
Poor land use - this includes flooding and landslides
Poisoning of the land
Poisoning of the air
Poisoning of the water
Climate change
If you think that only animals are affected by this, think again
Terrible war - terrorism by governments, militia supported governments and paramilitary organisations
Waste management
Poor health - not just environmentally induced ones, but lifestyle as well
Grossly unequal and obscene income distribution
Low literacy and education rates
Resource and food security issues brought about by a run away consumerist culture and just blatant exploitation, as well as poor development policies - which will open another front in war...
Slavery
These are the top line issues that need resolving. I don't even want to do into the other issues which cascade from these.
What have governments done in order to resolve them? What? Their solution is chase the GDP. Yes, why don't we flog the dead horse? Trust the bankers and chase the GDP. Are the stupid? Can they not see that the GDP is what caused all these problems in the first place? AND they have ignored advice over and over again. Now, was it people who wore sandals and ate beans out of tins giving this advice? No. They were experts, people with data which crunched the figures and said, if you continue doing this we will be heading for Lemmington, the EU, the UN, conservation groups, human rights groups - they were hardly your loony left brigade, and what have they decided to do instead of follow good advice, listen to self-interested lobbyists which only address the narrowest of interests at the cost of the greater good.
Their idea of competence must be completely different from mine because when I look at the state of the world now, I can tell you, it does not look good. Anyone can tell you, anyone who has any sense of what anything is about, that this is not a sustainable state of affairs. If this was a game of Jenga, there were be one block left at the bottom and a whole crazy mess piled on top of it. It will now only take very little for chaos to break out all over the place. Perhaps it should you know. Only then will Frances Fukuyama know what it really means to be at the end of history.
So why am I posting this? Because I really want the satisfaction of saying I Told You So when it all goes tits up. How can these people be so incompetent? Why are the financing a fake industry - banking - and not financing real life? How come we can find money for war and not money to state fund Steiner Schools and renewable emergy? How come we have to rely on banks so much and not on governments? We give them taxes and they give our taxes to the banks and then the banks give us our taxes back, and charge us interest. This is insane. Actually it is worse than that. Bank have a licence to print money and when we can't pay them back they come collecting.
There needs to arise a new breed of leaders. People who will take all these problems and solve them properly - not just do a nip and tuck here and there. Even the Earth has had enough of these useless morons. It is literally fighting back.
The old world is dying - we need to create a new one. Where can we begin?
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