VIEWPOINT 5

DEBILITATING DEMORALISATION

Allow me to make two points to start: the title is a distillation of what I see happening around me and what I am told by good friends in many countries, especially in the western world. Secondly, I would like this to be read and FULLY understood by those to whom we have given the authority and responsibility of caring for our mutual welfare. Not only read and understood but more importantly, acted upon.

The time is very rapidly approaching when the average individual will say ‘enough’; the line in the sand is being drawn and he who oversteps that line will face the wrath and anger of a multitude whose voices will drown everything. Those with responsibility, authority and ‘power’ (politicians of all ‘colours’, bankers, officials and bureaucrats) have, for too long ignored the voices of the ‘small people’ – they have taxed them, tied them up in red tape and generally screwed them so that now the concepts of democracy and capitalism have been hijacked and bastardised to suit the needs of the few rather than the betterment of all. And, even worse, they (the few) have disregarded the effects of what they have done (to the many) and the result is a hemispherical feeling of unbearable devastation, a mental recession that has led to a population (or should I say many populations) demoralised to the point of either a) giving up as in the case of, for example, Greece or b) promoting an angry backlash which may well shows its face through revolution (and that will not be a pretty sight). 

The answer? Possibly by bloody revolution, but I would like to think that cool heads and open minds will prevail. And as a start point that means developing a system not based on any –ism since these have all been tried and found unworkable over time. We, jointly, must take the status out of the status quo and understand and change what we have now ‘an unequal economic structure under which eventually all suffer’ to one that is not debilitating of our strengths and capacities leading to a demoralised population, but which ‘is an economic system based upon fairness, honesty and accountability in which ALL prosper’.

It will take time, energy and patience and it is a fair bet I will not see the end result. Nevertheless, it will not stop me at least beginning the journey – and I sincerely hope as many as possible can join with me. It is not a ‘crusade’ in the normal meaning of the word but an honest attempt to better what is currently in place.

To all politicians, bureaucrats, bankers and those with (perceived) power I ask the following:

Stop for a moment and consider the impact of your actions;

Take notice of those over whom you (think) you have power;

Move out of your houses in the clouds and see the real world;

They who sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

Until next time (and with a journey ahead),

Peripatetic Scribe