Missing something
So. You get up in the morning, you have a fast shower and off you go. You leave your house running and you miss the fact that the sky is actually blue and not cloudy (even if it’s cold). You rush passing by 56 people that, just like you, repeat the same hourly routine (they also missed the blue sky). It’s interesting what life makes of us.
running
please repeat after me: running around in circles, running around in circles, running around in circles, running around in circles, running around in circles, running around in circles, running around in circles, running around in circles, running around in circles, running around in circles, running around in circles, running around in circles, running around in circles, running around in circles, running around in circles, running around in circles, running around in circles, running around in circles, running around in circles, running around in circles…
The butterfly effect
Worldwide. Everybody is feeling the mess. Some more than others.
Now it’s Citigroup… 50 000 people to lose their jobs. In general this is the result of business being run without any concern for ethics or for a very simple and beautiful concept. Something that is a product of nature, that humankind should put in place. A concept that I like in particular. Sustainability
We think we have everything figured out. Well… we don’t. Nature is giving us all the signs. Even the principles in which we base our economies are starting to show us that something is terribly wrong. We are pushing the limits. Signs from nature couldn’t be more worrying. Polar bears eating polar bears due to hunger (something never seen before by scientists).
To this point the reader of this post should be asking: “What have polar bears to do with job cuts and worldwide recession?”. There’s something called the butterfly effect in which the flap of a seagull’s wings could change the course of the weather forever. An example that tries to show the very basic principle of the theory of chaos as described and shown by the mathematician Edward Lorenz.
Current worldwide economies are based on unsustainable principles. Commodities are scarse and will get more and more expensive while worldwide population keeps expanding. That is the reality. It is happening now. However, companies and economies are analysed on the basis of their growth, compared with the growth of the year before which was benchmarked against the growth of the previous year. That growth does not stand for itself. Not only one has to increase revenue and profit, but also grow more than the competition while commodities continue increasing price, while wealth gets more localised, while population continues to expand. Planet Earth is uno. We cannot drill the Moon for oil or grow vegetables on Mars. All we have is on this beautiful blue pearl called Earth. Our development as rational animals should take nature into consideration. Continuing this path risks our own existance and well being. The planet has shown geologists that nature is fully able of completely erasing specific species. I do believe we are earning that result if we keep ignoring the most basic principles of nature.
As a sign of hope, the world has a new American president. One that showed capability and capacity during the campaign trail. Inteligence and discerning judgement. The less positive aspect was the continuous discussion around race. I got tired of watching channels argue who were the hispanic voters choose, or maybe the white voters would change their mind once the moment would come and choose Mcain due to colour affiliation. The United States of America as shown once again how great a country can be. How great a people can be. Voters decided for change, independent of colour or religion. I wish all the best to President Obama. I hope he’ll be able to put change in motion. We need it all around the world and the USA is the best place to start it. The USA has now the best person to start it.
As a closing sentence to this long post, I would like to leave a native Indian saying that encloses on itself the very basic principle of Sustainability… A phrase I like particularly.
“Only when the last tree has died, the last river poisoned and the last fish caught, only then will Man realise he cannot eat his money.”
Stern
This is how the German magazine described the (still) president Bush…
I guess the cover is in line with the thought of most of Europeans.
aren’t we all made slaves…
on my post about modern slavery or… Aren’t we all made slaves…
For the first time in 2 years I have removed a post. It was obviously oriented to modern slavery, how marketing and general companies control us by controlling our moods and wills while providing us credit to ensure we are nailed and imprisoned, working around the clock to pay for needs we really didn’t have in the first place. The picture intent was not to be racist at all. I’m hoping Barack Obama wins the general election and I do feel outraged by the sense of judging someone by the colour of their skin.
So particularly to Quiesha and Ms.Hicks, let me tell you that nowadays, we are all slaves, independent of skin colour or religion and as proof of what I’m saying all you need is to look around, from the tragedy of foreclosures in the US to the crisis now hitting the entire globe (once again, without choosing colours or beliefs). So unfortunately, I have to say… Nowadays, independent of skin colour, nationality or religion… aren’t we all made slaves?
To end the constant river of misunderstanding towards the initial post I was called to remove it, with much pity from my side. It’s unfortunate that some of us still live with such strong misconceptions of times long gone while being unable to understand the message words truly bring. Regards
Chris Cunningham
I know… weird… tense… dark… scary…
Winter time
I’ve been feeling that winter time is back. The temperature here has been going up and down like crazy. I haven’t been writing that much lately. I was sick and out of action for a week and I actually had to stop which made me rethink my way of seeing life. I guess the constant quest for constant perfection in everything has an obvious impact in one’s health. In the end the truth is that we only live twice…
Resilience
I have resistance to adopt the mainstream. Or should I call it resilience?… However, and since I got a cool new toy, I’ve decided to subscribe to Flickr. I have quite an extensive collection of material which means quite a bit of time to choose what to choose. I will post some of them here as well. The most important ones, or the ones I like the most. I guess the most important ones are the ones I like the most anyway…
The beauty of globalization
One global economy, companies moving, people moving, a united world with the goal of creating business and added value. A few years gone by and the question should be: Is this concept for everybody? Was it designed for everybody? – Clearly not. If you’re a business man, you’re likely to be received with open arms in almost any country of the world.
While companies and capital can move pretty easily, people can’t. You’re stuck to a country not only socially but by taxes and by a general package of laws and regulations that are making it harder and harder for people to move around. Things like VISAS, work permits… Legal requirements that make it unbearable for a private, isolated individual with low economical status to move to wherever he feels like. This is particularly serious in non-developed countries with few legal agreements with the more developed nations. Countries that are now slowly improving their economies based on low salaries that call all sorts of companies looking for low operation costs – and improving their economies is not being reflected in terms of salary increases or labour rights… To me, this comes to show that all of this was designed from the start to make the big sharks even fatter. It was not designed to everybody. Ultimately, with the main economies of developed nations going worst and worst, people will realize that actually, everything was designed for a few.
By the way… With the latest drops in the price of oil… Did anyone see prices drop at gas stations?…
