And After The Crisis?

These are interesting times, indeed are decisives: the environment is showing the limits of the way the people use the world, the world economy is mad, poor and rich people are losing money, even when just in the former case that imply some risk to the life, the stability of the world in American terms is brokening, china’s rising and mujahideen figthers challenge in real terms some serious interests of the USA. A change is coming, and things won’t be like they used to be... but then how they will be? First let me state way i think major fundaments of our society will probably change. About the economy, myriads of experts have expressed their views, but just a few said what is the essence of the problem looking farter from the indexes; the thing i have undertand is this, the world-class ponci squeme is no longer sustainable; the pace of the consumption of the American people is beyond their capacity of debt, not of the money they earn, then here we are talking about a great, great debt; financed with the money earned by the chineses... sustainable, no, just as much of any other ponci scheme; the point is that a new world economic architecture is needed, but the USA is appearing so shy to take the lead in the building, maybe because wall street is not so sanguine about it, while other nations are eager to work about, China, India, Brazil, Continental europe. But these very same nations are willing to share, too, the political power in the planet; the chinese naval force are growing in size, technology and people in a remarkable way, in short time they expect to have a aircrafts carrier, and that is not a defense weapon at least you have to defend territories 8000 kilometers from home, they are offering loans to nations in latinamerica (the place that used to be the backyard of USA) and besides the other big developing nations are an important voice in the international effort to stops the crisis; that will mean political power in the international arena. But the political challenge to the American way came not just from ambitious nations, came as well from cultural rebellions, like the extremist of the muslim world, the mujahideen had already take control of a part of Pakistan, or the movie “slumdog millionaire” won the most of the oscar’s. The math is symple, the humanity is too complex as to be ruled by one political opinion and one cultural option. But things doesn’t stop there; the enviromental crisis is threatening the temperature of the planet, the rainfall conditions, the acidity of the oceans, and beyond any doubt, the amount of life of the planet, we already are responsable for a mass extintion, maybe this is the most perilious problem for live. But unhappily not for the dwellers of the USA, the survey shows their scepticisms about this. Among every one of the problems the conscience of the people is the one i bother more about. We had spoilled the planet for the sake of our selfishness, because we think the conform is the most important human rigth: we burn a complex and rich carbon composition as the oil (that’s like burn dollars), and destroy big spans of forest to cultivate food that make people sick in the shape of junk food, and invest tremendous amounts of money in weapons to kill people instead to feed the starving people in africa, in latin america, in the USA; and hardly we notice this! We spoiled the nature, the money, the politics, the culture (in case of doubt count the number of tonges lost in the XX century). This is a destrutive way of life. How would be the future of such a model?. People working the whole day, making a lot of money and buying anything unimaginable, paying to breath artificial air, and eating artificials proteins, everyone speaking a basic english, and relating with each other from a comercial point of view?, all that supported in the death bodies of the most of the today’s world population. That’s a nightmare, and assuming a conservative suicidal rate, the humans wouldn’t late more than a few

centuries more. That’s is a world i doesn’t want, and a world unsustainable for most of us. The crisis is necesary, the way will take the culture, the politics, the economy is so hard to figure out. Maybe will be a WWIII between China and the USA, where the allies of every side are imposible to guest if the history had something to say. Maybe the USA will transform it-self and lead again the world with something the most of us could believe; maybe the east will be the director of the humanity. How knows? But something can be said, this crisis can promp some good things in the people: the scarcity of money can make wonder about the value of consumism, at least show other way; the anarchy in the world ask for a creative world order, something more stable; the enviromental problems will make us aware that we are one with the planet, as well with the others.