Tuesday 27 January 2009

Oh No! The credit crunch....

Everyone is acing like the credit crunch is the end of the world. It is a financial disaster, admittedly, but it is also a wake-up call. Opportunities have suddenly arisen to look at the fundamentals of our system of social organisation and investigate and test every facet. It seems increasingly likely that the problems that  have manifested within the current model are prolonged and structural, and will require a considered dissection of current patterns of human interaction.
However, this necessary introspection will result in an openness to innovation that will, in turn, usher in an entirely alternative mode of living, as strange to future historians as ancient monarchies are to constitutional democrats today.
Now is the time for this project, then.....