It feels as though everyone, or at least everyone who has any decision making input, is in complete denial. As the main Eurozone leaders prepare to meet, inconclusively, later in June, as The Markets go up and down without any rhyme or reason, as everyone has the jitters over a tiny little country in the south eastern Mediterranean preparing for yet another election which we all know will hardly be the last, can no one see that the horse is already dead?
Why keep whipping it so mercilessly? Lets face it. All of us and all of Them! In 2008 the finance phase of capitalism self destructed. Horribly. Fatally. The bubble burst releasing terribly toxic gases that covered the whole world, the so called first world perhaps above all. But rather than face what has really happened, those in charge are just whistling in the wind, kicking the can down the road and immersing themselves in their own unlimited perks.
And for all their pontificating and finger wagging at everybody else, they don’t even think about what really should be done, they don’t even think about carrying out a radical restructuring of the world’s institutions or anything else that really needs to be done now. At once. And not some time later after we’ve all enjoyed our lunch.
That is once ‘they‘ have enjoyed ‘their’ lunch at the expense of the peoples they are supposed to be stewarding in one way or another. But they have no incentive to do anything about this devastation that has been wreaked upon the planet. They are not answerable to anyone, they have their exorbitant tax free perks and salaries.
(I refer here to the Director of the IMF who has an enormous salary which is not taxed under diplomatic immunity. What did you say? Yes, that’s right. the lady who complains about others not paying their taxes and whose heart bleeds for the kids in the Niger. Does she donate anything to them out of her own enormous pocket? I don’t really know, but I very much doubt it.)
The world we know has blown up in our face and the toxic gases are poisoning us completely. Could all those good for nothings, enjoying their perks and relishing the power to wag their fingers and sadistically inflict pain on the weakest and least responsible for the destruction, at least acknowledge the truth of what has happened?
It may not be much but it would be a good place to start. Anyway it is the only thing they can do. The only thing that might help the world out of the quagmire of their creation. For once they have acknowledged the truth then there would only be one thing left for them to do. Step aside, gracefully or not, and let the great reconstruction begin.
So they better do it quick, otherwise there will never be a way to save and restore civilization. At least not a peaceful way.