Why is this relevant? Why are we content to let the status quo erode into nothingness when it is obviously irreparably antiquated and sputtering uncontrollably into obsolescence.
It’s akin to attaching a scooby-do band-aid to a leak on the Hoover Dam. I do not claim to know anything of economics, but I do know that it is far past time for humanity to posit something more worthwhile in terms of societal structure. To perpetuate based on historical success is asinine and though it may take some time, we as a species must devise a different way to thrive.
If we do not, then our endless prophecies of self-destruction will manifest in Saran Wrapped perfection. This economic downturn is merely symptomatic of a systemic failure in societal structure. We cannot sustain this, nor should we. If we do not continually better ourselves and those around us, then what is the point of anything at all?
Economies, societies and civilizations will and have inexorably risen and fallen. The crux of each of these epochal cries is whether or not we, as a species, are able to garner enough wisdom to progress beyond our predecessors’ transgressions.
News flash: the United States, Europe, and Asia will all fall in their current forms. Some sooner than others, and the fixation on their superficial structure will do nothing but exacerbate our evolution. All of this is ultimately irrelevant, for it’s our survival that’s at stake. Anyone who gives a fuck about futures, hanging chads, or growth is missing the point entirely.
It is not economic growth that we should be striving for, but personal growth in the basest sense. What we need is growth of the kind that will expand our knowledge, understanding, and joy, not an exorbitant accumulation of representations of nothingness that will merely satiate, but ultimately distract us from existence.