Changing Times

Watching what is happening with the world right now is a weird spectator sport. I can't help but feel like I don't know the whole picture and I'm being fed some interesting FUD that is supposed to make me act a certain way.

Here's my take on it: The world doesn't have a lot of resources. America has been using more than its fair share of these resources for a long time. We've developed some nasty addictions (oil, gadgets, fashion, etc.). We know we need to quit. We can't. Meanwhile, parts of the world are picking up the same addictions while we flounder around about if we want to kick the habit or not. The rest of the world is consuming more than before. We're consuming more of their things than our own. Some of us are being coerced to create artificial demand. We still want everything as cheap as possible, and driving everything into the ground as a result. We are telling ourselves that we ought to innovate differently, and we're starting to learn. But we're still trying to make the kind of money at it that we used to under the unsustainable model. Parts of the world learned our innovation secrets and is running (quite profitably) with them. We're left in the dust.

A little disjointed, but you get the point.

Gregsta'