As the incompetent and corrupt governments of the US and the UK (and the many other nations who follow their appalling example), systematically destroy our economies and political systems by tipping shed-loads of new and unserviceable debt into the cratered wreckage of the biggest bad debt bubble in history, we beleaguered citizens can only watch on in disbelief and dismay.
We are just at the beginning of the housing collapse, and already we are entering full scale economic depression. Commercial property will collapse in similar spectacular style, as credit card debts turn rotten on an unprecedented scale. The stockmarkets are already heading downhill like racing toboggans. Credit crunch? We ain't seen nothin' yet. Already we are hearing estimates that our apparent economic wealth has almost halved in this debacle so for.. and we are only at the beginning of this destruction of imaginary wealth!
The banking system is already beyond rescue, as zombie banks hide behind the imaginary asset valuations on their balance sheets, and grasp wildly at whatever welfare bailouts they can scare and scam from the zombie politicians.
So, we have financial systems dominated by zombie banks, and political systems dominated by zombie politicians, and their corrupt puppeteers. Our economic systems have advanced and terminal debt cancer. Our culture is rotten to the core, to the extent that vices have long been considered virtues, and virtues are derided as only fit for "suckers". Nobody can trust anyone else, and the last remnants of confidence are rapidly dispersing in the smog.
But hang on folks, there is a consensus that we will pull out of this "downturn" next year, and even sooner if the doom mongers are properly muzzled - it is only negative thinking and irrational fear that has gotten us into this mess.. right? Wrong, of course. The statistics and mathematics say clearly and emphatically that this paradigm is now plummeting headlong into an abyss. Psychics say likewise - those of us who listen to our intuition know that the old ways are finished, and we no longer even have to trust our intuition, as the physical evidence of terminal collapse abounds for anyone who is willing to see it.
Even if it were possible financially and economically to resume our old way of life, the oil would still run out, and climate change would still drown or starve most of us. The land and the oceans that we continually rape and poison would still poison us back through the food chain. And the people would continue to become ever more miserable and disconnected from nature, as they fiddle with their smart phones and pop their anti-depressants.
We are encouraged by our leaders and our TV pundits, to remain in a state of denial, and most people do cling on stubbornly to this - reality is too scary, compared to the sugary valium world of role model celebrities, where we take our advice from the advertisers. But no matter how firmly or persistently the heads of the multitude remain stuck in the sand, the days of the old ways are numbered, and the numbers are rapidly approaching zero. It really does look like the old paradigm is going to go out with a bang and not just with a whimper.
For those of us brave enough to look beyond the impending carnage, what do we see, through the dust of the wreckage? The new paradigm is not about growth, it is about sustainability. It is not about large scale formal systems of government, economy, and control of the people, but about local community and the willing collaboration of liberated individuals. The new paradigm is holistic - it is not about separation, selfishness, or conflict. It is about communion not competition. It is about living in harmony with nature, and not about abusing our fellow creatures and life forms: it is about a symbiotic relationship with Mother Earth, and not a parasitical one. It is about love and not fear. It is about intuition and not rationality. It is about achieving balance between the material and the spiritual, balance between earth and heaven: it is about becoming our true selves. The new paradigm is a higher level of existence for humanity.
The many that remain unable to see or understand this new paradigm will perish with the old paradigm. This may seem harsh but it is nature's way. Whenever a species expands to the point of suffocating its environment, nature will engineer a cull of the weak. To survive into the new world we must become open to our intuition, able to listen to our inner selves, and we will then be guided to safety, and ultimately to a new prosperity where wealth means contentment rather than possession.
The crossover from the old to the new - the confluence that we are now in - is a scary place of rapid and immense change. When the going gets tough the tough get going. In the new paradigm, non-attachment is the new toughness. This is no place for fear. We must fill ourselves with inner light and the strength that comes from understanding our true nature: we are immortal spiritual beings who simply play out dramatic roles in these crude bodies of skin and bone. We must be compassionate to those who will perish, without allowing ourselves to be pulled into their world view. We must have strong wills, and with focused determination must set about creating a new way of living with and on planet Earth that is fit for our children and their children. And we must do this even as the old ways die a horrible death in front of our eyes.
It will be tough, but it will also be wonderous.
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