Are we going to go straight to hell? Well no, actually. If you think about it, philosophically speaking that is, we are already in the heart of hell.
Over the past thirty years, roughly speaking, the gap between rich and poor has grown exponentially, wealth has been concentrated in the hands of a very few while all social welfare benefits have been eroded to a greater and greater extent.
With the absolute horrors of the Second World War not really in living memory any more, and the total failure of the communist experiment, we have reverted to our bad old ways. Add to this the creation of the outlandish fictional wealth of what is known as finance capitalism, and we have landed ourselves in quite a hell spot already.
Do we really like the world we have allowed to materialize with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer? All attempts to put things ?right? from enhancing competitiveness to balancing budgets, translating exclusively into cutting the wages and benefits of the worse off while enriching and empowering the top few?
Now, you may say that all attempts to save the Euro and save the world economic system and so on, are ALL based on more of the same bad destructive policies, and surely that means going deeper and deeper into hell. Indeed.
But there is humour in this (if you can stomach it). All these attempts, and summits and panics and great ideas coming and going, and Merkel?s hegemonic posturing are not going to achieve anything at all. At least not what they are trying to achieve. Which is the perpetuation of the hell they are basking in.
The great Merkel Sarkozy Francogerman alliance may well be greatly enjoying itself going drunk with the power it perceives it has. However, any ?victory? they may be achieving with regard to their idiotic way of trying to deal with the crisis to their exclusive perceived benefit, is irrelevant. Totally irrelevant and has nothing at all to do with what is going to happen.
That is the joke. Everything and anything they do or say or machinate is irrelevant. Now the joke is sick because it is not just on them but on all of us, of course. This great shake up of the tectonic plates of the whole world system prevailing will be devastating.
But eventually, it will lead us finally out of this horrible hell we?ve made for ourselves. In ways not even imagined by all these irrelevant puppets strutting all over the stage under the illusion that they wield the power.