At Davos, Debating Capitalism’s Future - NYTimes.com "Indeed, in Davos this week, I will look around the room and ask myself who pays taxes at a higher rate — those eating the soup or those serving it?
In my country, I believe that changing the rules of capitalism will mean a change of government. But more generally, it will require a change in what citizens expect and ask of politics. The question is not so much whether 20th-century capitalism is failing 21st-century society but whether politics can rise to the challenge of changing a flawed economic model."
I've been thinking some about the Winter Solstice, the Mayan end of the 30,000-year-cycle on 12/21/12.
What if in fact the world did end? Even though this probably will not happen, to live consciously it is honest for us to take a bit of an inventory.
Am I happy with how I've lived my life? (Yesterday, I thought mostly yes, with some areas for improvement, as below.) Are there changes I would make?
Would I have tried to forgive those that were hostile or disappointing to me?
Would I spend more time with those I loved the most, telling them that, feeling that more?
Would I be happier, grateful for what I have, what I've experienced, the joy, the beauty in this world?
Maybe the answer is yes to all of the above.
So this time can serve as a point of rebirth for all of us. If we think about it.
Because somewhere along the line I realized I think maybe mankind deserves it. !
The way we are killing each other, killing the planet.
How selfish we are, and snotty to those around us. Petty, competitive. Why is this? Do we have to behave this way? (I say no, it greatly detracts and misdirects energy from the full-time celebration in which we could engage, the great multi-cultural, multi-rhythmic dance we can sustain here.)
Maybe God or the Great Universe is fed up, and will pull the rug out from under us.
Don't think I can say we could blame Him/Her/It.
But it probably won't happen. (Probably not! This time.)
Still we are finite on this ride.
It is a time to think, am I happy with how I've lived my life?
Hopefully most of us can say yes.
For the part of us that have a little worry, a little sadness....
This is the time to be present.
This is the time to be the person you want to be, that can die at peace, that can hope to every day be able to look yourself and the Universe in the eye and say, how beautiful, smiling, and thank you. Let's do that.
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1 comment:
To Whom It May Concern:
It doesn't matter what is going on in Davos, or what the Kenyan usurper says in his illegal state of the union address about taxes. Capitalism is not flawed. The problem with the gross current disparity in wealth in the world is quite simply socialist central bankers and their minions.
The disparity, like the booms and busts in the economy are by design. Again, the designers of these problems are the central bankers - and their minions - through fiat currency, inflation, and corruption. They are aided by such groups as the Fabian Socialists advocating for complete government control of everything and the Round Table in England doing much the same thing. The Asiatic world is following suit.
The article only pays lip service to those who say that the government should just get out of the way. One sentence does not make for objective reporting and is only symptomatic of the aptly labeled "lamestream media." Students should be taught the other side to the argument in high school and universities, i.e. the so-called conservative view. But having people ignorant is what makes those in power able to enact their schemes for increasing wealth disparity and continually saying it can be solved not necessarily by more government intervention, but by better government intervention. This is bollocks.
No government intervention is the only way to right the ship and let the beauty of Capitalism, Free Enterprise, and the Free Market make the economic decisions. Or simply put, let the people make the economic decisions and not bought-off goverment officials.
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