Previous blogs gave examples of why our current economic system favors the intelligent thief. If you have the morality of stealing from others, you will become rich and get public recognition of being a great member of society. This was mentioned to show what we tolerate as a society and also how much money is available to pay for our precious and failing education and health care. If a government is forced to use $100 as a budget and that health care alone requires $80 and education requires $90.... well we can see that harsh sacrifices must be made when the total budget we give our governments is mere peanuts compared to the riches we know exist out there.
We seem to think that we can not make major changes in the rules of the game and that we can only administer budgets under the existing rules. After all, the debates of the elections have so far been about how to administer the public purse and creating rules to make its administration easier. Yet the irony is this, and I don't know how many people have noticed it but.... when the richest members of society have had their small hiccup with the economy, the governments of the entire world moved as one mind to help solve this crisis that touches the richest of society. The poorer you are in the system, the less this crisis affects your pocket book worth.
Now we can debate to see if these measures are but a band-aid on the problem or not, my point is that an unusual compliance of world governments have come together to protect the interests of the very rich. If the world governments can do this in such a short time in the interest of serving a small minority, how much more could be done if they were serving the interests of the majority?
Lets look at my argument from the previous blogs and put it all together:
-We have a problem dealing with issues because we move too quickly and do not take the time to think.
-We have the technology to take the time to do things properly.
-Current budgets have no money to solve the real problems so we stagnate and try to keep afloat.
-There is an overabundance of money available and thieves have control of the purse.
-There is a lack of will to solve the problems as we should because we would prefer to serve the rich with the belief that one of us poor suckers may become rich ourselves one day and we want to be served in the same way.
In brief, we have an economic system that rewards the intelligent thief and we do nothing about it. I would also suggest that we have a political system that rewards the intelligent liar but finding examples of that is much more difficult. I don't want to use blanket expressions that all politicians are the same or that one party is better than another at X or Y. The current politicians are playing a game, and they must play it well to get some things done, and the nature of that system requires rhetoric (fancy word for lying).
My next blogs will critique our current system of governance and how again we are responsible for allowing it to get that way. We know that money can be acquired by the snap of the fingers for society's sake, deficits can be written to be non-existant by a simple law that says so.... The current crisis shows an attempt at rewriting the rules to benefit the rich who have lost out (imagine if they would have the same motivation to serve the poor in the same zeal.... when the poor loses out, tough luck for them).
So in brief we are in an economic system that supports the thief and a political system that supports the liar. To change one system we must change the other at the same time. Democracy introduces Capitalism like a child, when the child takes over and treats Democracy like a child, we lose out the better elements of both. We must transform Capitalism and Democracy and bring them back into the proper level of balance (assuming that those systems are the ones we want). Democracy must become the leader of Capitalism. The political must command the economic. Our main problem is that we have allowed the Economic to subtly become the Leader over the Political. An alternate argument which follows in the same idea as the economic/political relationship, we have allowed Laws to dictate what is Justice when Justice should determine its Laws.
Again, this is something we have tolerated. Shall we continue to tolerate this foolishness? Shall we smash down the idols we have created and now worship? Lets take the time to think and then implement prudent actions. I have shown that our economic system is a runaway train and we are all passengers on this train, lets take back the control as we should before we run out of railway. As for the political system..... future blogs will explore that one.
2 comments:
In forums, we do stop and think...
Do you know it takes 21 days to learn a new habit? If the government changes little things at the time, every 21 days...
Replying to the comment:
The quality of thinking found in forums is not the quality of thinking I had in mind. In one of my previous blogs I mentioned that thinking is a skill like running and although we can all run or think, there is something to be said for the one who has learned it as a skill and practices it.
As for the 21 days theory, sounds suspiciously like pop psychology and if so, the legitimacy of that statement becomes even less credible... Must look into it. And even if it is true, the government already changes small things on a regular basis, the critique is that is it the right change in the right place in the right amount?
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