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Sunday, September 19, 2010

The Financial Crisis

It is so strange that we let this happen.
We are clearly loosing sight of all that complex interaction of greedy bankers, greedy savers, greedy governments, and greed people - a greed that felt itself was right - the one that ruined our old world in the name of open ended greed for itself.
Well it was an uncomfortable thought that we all did it (as ever capitalism is saved by our very lack of imagination to think of anything else).
Far better to forget it - and do what we always do; firstly blame the past government (as if it were responsible for the system). We wrap then the tempest of greed, and it accompanying guilts, with the bland phrase 'finical situation'. It is as if it were merely a normal recession or a hiccup - and not (as it felt at the time) a collapse in the fundamental rules of the system. You know the ones- recessions were meant to be created by workers greed, not bankers...
and secondly, we are resorting to that tried and tested method of swinging cuts to teach those who were greedy a lesson. The lesson is itself rather interesting. The people that the current government hits are of course not the richest and the most greedy, but the greedy also rans - on then lies the burden. now there is nothing preventing poor people being greedy, of course they are when encouraged - but is odd that their greed is somehow to be got at, and the greed of bankers is rumbling on untouched.
Once again the problem of course is a failure of imagination.We cannot being to understand what it would e not blame the workers, and help the bankers. That is we simply seem to be utterly unable to understand actually what has happened- we can only cope with it by pretending it was something else.
And what is so strange is all of us seem seem to accept that fact. we do not like it, and yet have no where else to go. so why are we really that daft? or is it that or personal investment, our own greed i to invested in the current system that rich or poor does us rather well (in comparison to other nations)? If so how are we going to cope with what will be the eventual out come of all of this, that we are all poorer in relation to other nations? Or is that the problem we can nothing to system, we have to warily hit out poor and then get on with the dreadful greed stuff, because other nations have bought our capitalist myth, and want their time in the greedy sun; and who reasonably recent our talk of recessions changing the system or even ecology.
If so then we really shackled to our greed, and it no wonder we cannot think of anything new.

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