July 30 2020
Those who subsist in the financial market bubble are so desperately glued to their screens that they are incapable of seeing the wider picture and grasp only at those straws that might keep their dream alive for the next five minutes. Do they ever take a step back and wonder if their jagged projections of the next 24 hours or even months are really providing them with the picture of the world they, and more importantly, we need?
Can they be so blind as to not predict the trajectory of the planet if they insist on being allowed to continue to play their dangerously pointless little financial games at the expense of the rest of us?
We really need to reassess the place of financial markets, banks and big business in our societies. They have assumed far too central a position in our politics, social structure and even culture, to the point where our governments are simply powerless to act when it comes to dealing with anything outside a very narrow range of 'normal' conditions.
Climate heating, Covid-19 and Donald Trump are symptoms of humanity's malaise, all are avoidable but in our complacency we have drunk the neoliberal Kool Aid and just seem to be waiting for the lights to go out?
What a tragic and depressing end to the human journey this will be if we cannot wrest control of our destiny as species from these financial pirates who have plundered not only the lion's share of global wealth but stolen our future as well and we'd barely got started.