Saturday, May 12, 2018
Chinese cats in the window of the curiosity shop
THE
END OF THE WEST COMES FROM THE EAST
or should I say THE MIDDLE EAST?
In our present time of crises
and contradictions we have to stop one moment and think as clearly as possible
upon this following question: “Will we
survive the present crisis, not as individuals, not as nations, but as
humanity?” They all tell us about the ecological dangers in the present
time: the warming up of our planet; the climate change on our planet; the
carbon cycle that comes to a peak that will cause the eradication of some 80 to
90% of all species on our planet soon, even if it takes ten thousand years to
be completed. And then you can add the various bubbles – debt, real estate,
overproduction, financial speculation, and even the social bubble of unrefrained and uncontrolled migration and the
explosion of refugees among these migrants – building up here and there in the
economy and the craziness of some of the
extremes of our political system who pretend that states do not have to mind
their debts and that more money to the poor will bring economic growth. States
can do what they want, provided they keep
their national currency autonomy.
This last idea is the proof
the world is sick and probably dying of insanity because there are so many
examples in history and particularly over the last four or five centuries of
crises in one country, in several countries, in many countries that prove a limited financial crisis can bring the
world down and Keynes has not changed that. He has at best given us the
illusion that we can live on credit, not as individuals who are always caught
up by their debts, but as nations who can always do what they want with their
currency, close their borders, introduce limitations on the circulation of
money, foreign currencies and many other things of the sort like imports and
exports.
Keynes could not know the
globalized world we are just entering. And in this globalized world goods,
money, currencies, everything is one and no country can survive alone, no
country can even live alone, and unluckily no country can die alone. What
happens in one country is at once propagated into the whole world like ripples
or waves on the ocean. And some want to see everything is so connected that it
is all some kind of predestination, some fate: all is in all and everything is everywhere at once. . .
Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU
# posted by Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU @ 12:27 PM 
