My site was describe by my good friend, Chris Kindrick over at Monkeybulb, as a green conscious blog for an unconscious world! Even though I have definitely taken a conscious life-style shift to use best practices and maximize energy efficiency, my green thumb outlook on the world some how mixes or combines with my thoughts and worries about the state of our financial economy. Politics, Economics, Businesses, Consumers, Finances; how they are all so influential over one another. The direction that I feel we are heading in as a country has severely diminished my outlook on the future of civilization as we know it for some time to come.
My thinking is that we are being guided, by what or who I don’t know yet, or if I can even describe the thoughts accurately, might be better to say feeling, gut feeling. I’d like to think that this feeling is just humanity’s will at work and that we are guided by some higher power.
“Progress, man’s distinctive mark alone not God’s and not the Beast, God is, they are, man partly is and wholly hopes to be.” – From “A Death In The Desert” by Robert Browning
But then again, it could just be the foreign investors who control our federal reserve, and the fact that our government operates a financial system based solely on debt. George W. has really taken to heart the slogan “Owe the bank 3 million and the bank owns you, owe the bank 3 trillion and you own the bank.”
The longer I think about it, the more utopia and doomsday scenarios both race through my mind. A great many of Sci-fi movie scenes come up, and while most of the ideations are all well and good, happy scenes like the famous cartoon “The Jetsons”, and the world we live in is independent from oil, and national borders and governments cease to exist because of world peace. The trip in between is what I am most curious and sometimes worried about. My anxiety gets the best of me and then thoughts like the world population is going to have to collapse to reach the state of utopia in my dreams.
With talk of the Amero coming up more frequently, I can’t help but think that there is no denying now we are in a state of globalization. The path that the US seems to have gone down is one that resembles Freud’s instinctual state of Thanatos, or self destruction, but then as with all things as dynamic and diverse as the human race, Eros, the instinctual state of creation and life. Cyclical states of change vs inertia.
Business cycles seem no longer relevant in today’s business world. Today we live in bubble cycles, which is to bad because historically a bubble that had a globally devastating aftermath would only happen about once every one hundred years. A change every one hundred years, Eros was the norm, Thanatos only came around every now and again, just like wildlife fires.
Even though it is widely disputed the first bubble is credited to the Dutch Tulip Traders of the 1630s, but in the 21st century we have seen 2 bubbles burst, dot com and real estate. The real estate bubble in my eyes only occurred to offset losses of the dot com bubble. So the financial sectors are playing games with the political sectors, and while I am not a history buff, I would bet that if I researched long enough I could probably trace the reason for the all the historical bubbles back to some sort of change in legislation on a governmental level to benefit people in the financial sector or vice aversa.
Ultimately, I believe the Amero will be good for the US, and furthermore Canada and Mexico, but it is what we as Americans will have to endure for the majority to be willing to accept the change. President Bush has deliberately been driving down the value of the dollar for at least 2 years now. Is this to prepare us for the acceptance of the Amero? or is the Amero just part of the long agenda that progress and globalization will have for us?
I look at the European Union, while political borders are still present, the Euro has aligned the financial interests of all the nations with in the union. It has brought these people a little closer together by giving them a common bond with which to perform transactions with. I believe that with the development of a North American Union, our financial interests will be the same as Cananda’s and Mexico’s. Financial Borders will be the new rule of thumb. Destruction of the US dollar to create change and acceptance of the Amero. Eros and Thanatos always at work, always in tandem.
Much like when we see videos and pictures of a forest fires destruction in California we morn for the loss, instead we should celebrate the change and rejoice for the new life that comes in its place.
If Eros were to take place 100% of the time, nothing would change ever. Life would go on, nothing “bad” would ever happen. Death and destruction would be words that were forgotten. However, the same would be true if Thanatos were to be ever lasting. Death and destruction for everything, never any new creation, no new life. We would be inert, running pegged to one side of the spectrum or the other, light or dark, white or black, good or evil. But to have both means that we can at least continue towards change and progress. Inertia vs Change, i like to think it keeps us in the grey, with a balance of good and evil, and just enough light to see our hand in front of our face.