by Recision
Storm Warning.
When I started writing this blog (Dec 2008) it seemed inevitable that within a fairly short space of time, the end of the (economic)world as we knew it would likely be upon us.
Our vast, corrupt and unsustainable political economy would just have to collapse from its own internal contradictions – and with instant world wide communications I expected it to happen quickly.
I should have know better perhaps.
I lived through the 1987 Crash, and saw something of how that happened. Also, living in New Zealand I lived through Rogernomics, and have seen how quickly an economic system can be turned upside down if all the right factors come together. So perhaps that misled me in some respects.
However, that is not how the world works is it. Actually the model to examine and compare with is the 1930′s Depression. And the reality of that situation was that it was actually a slow motion disaster that incrementally ground its way on into deeper and deeper depths.
So that’s what I am now anticipating in our current situation too.
Interestingly, examining the 1930′s example, the United States wallowed in the depression throughout that whole decade and only got lifted out of it eventually by the advent of the Second World War. By comparison Germany, for all its other faults, made radical economic changes and emerged quickly and strongly from the depression.
The lesson I see from that is that trying to “save” the status quo will doom us to a death by a thousand cuts. We need to make radical changes. We are in need of radical surgery to cut away the failed systems and start again with something new. Whatever the world needs – it is not any of the present solutions.
The status quo has got to go!
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Recision: (Re-ci-sion, [ri-sizh-uhn] Verb)
1. The act of rescinding; annulment, cancellation, or repeal of a law, order, or agreement. [Obsolete French, from Old French, annulment of a judgment] Origin: 1605–15;
2. From Latin recīsiōn- (s. of recīsiō) a pruning, reduction: from late Latin rescissio(n-), from resciss- ‘split again, from recsus, past participle of recdere, to cut back : re-,re- + caedere, to cut.
Related: Resection (medical/surgical) – to cut away, to cut out, to remove. (specifically diseased, damaged or malign tissue. e.g cancer)
WE LIVE IN INTERESTING TIMES.
Times of trouble are also times of opportunity, the opportunity to effect radical changes.
You can either play at the margins of the existing state of affairs…
Or you can go in with a scalpel and cut away and anull the old, diseased and corrupt accretions, to make way for new growth.
Our body politic and our body economic are at a tipping point – if we choose, and are brave enough, to push for a REVOLUTION.
It’s time put a knife in, cut out the cancer and corruption, and start afresh.
The Revolution I envisage involves a lot of recision and excising of institutions and bureaucracies, I don’t think there is any shortage of candidates for the scalpel.
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I hope you enjoy reading my Blog. I have included links to other Blogs and commentators I enjoy and respect. I have essays and links on politics, economics, and the odd random topic. And I hope to write regular commentaries that will inspire debate and maybe even Revolution.
( Dec 2008 – revised Aug 2010 )
