Time for Change?

  If I was to look around the normal everyday household, a family home; you would see that the dad will be quietly sat on his comfortable armchair reading the text on the TV, the mother reading away on her ebook reader, their son on the sofa playing a portable games console, and their daughter also on the sofa but browsing the web on her laptop. Is this what was envisioned when electricity was invented? Is the process of developed technology, something that steals away the personal side of humanity?

Think about it, we make friends and talk to friends through online social networks, we can arrange dates by dating websites, we can do online banking to pay bills. However amazingly fancy these developments seem, we cannot ignore that there are consequences. For example, in my local bank they have removed the customer services desk and replaced it with machines. Another example would be self-service tills in the shops. Now I don’t want to sound like some backwards person thinking some old way of life is more idealistic, but there are so many ways that the modern life removes social interactions from our every day moments.

Its not that I am saying that all these changes are wrong, but what I am saying is that all these changes are taking place without us all debating as a society if this is what we want in our lives and in our children’s lives. Everything we do as a society will have consequences. For example the invention of paper eventually led to the destruction of forests around the world, which in turn has reduced the amount of leaves turning carbon dioxide into oxygen. I am sure that hasn’t had any effect on global warming at all? Or maybe it has.

Another great example of doing something without considering consequences would be the global market expansion, we thought this as being a good thing, something to increase business, to increase the interest in bonds and investments. But look at the sheer disaster of it all now. The ‘market’ can now put so much pressure onto countries that it can force a change in a president or even a government. Let me ask you, where in the description of democracy does it say that people can vote in whoever they want, until the markets become unhappy with their choice and then someone else has to be chosen. World markets now have too much power, and the more you think about it, the more scary it gets. The rating agencies guide investors to downgrade and upgrade bonds. So in a sense, the rating agencies control the market, and therefore the rating agencies can force control onto governments! Has anyone asked who owns these companies? For all we know it’s the people who lend out all the money to countries, that way, now they are getting a higher percentage for all that money they lend out. Now I am not a conspiracy kind of person, all I am saying that it is wrong not to be asking these questions. I want to know who these people are, I want to know who my country owes all that money to, I want to know who my government is giving money to.

If I was a communist right now I would be laughing in the face of democracy. Not to say that communism is perfect, maybe no system can ever be right. As soon as positions of power are created, there is always the chance that someone may come along and abuse it. It only takes seconds to think of many examples of this, and you can’t really blame anyone for it, as humans we are all flawed. But we must recognise that any system we create will also be flawed. Computer systems get viruses. Markets crash. Cars break down. Planes crash. Asset markets will cause bubbles that burst. In some ways I wish there was no system, that there was no government, that there was no debt crisis, but that is not being realistic.

But maybe the fault is not of the creation of electricity, okay there are things we could have done better with the development of electricity, like maybe invented wind power or solar panels before the mass roll-out to the public. No maybe the problem is not electricity, maybe the problem goes back a lot further, maybe the real problem is actually money. Yes I said money. Imagine for a moment a world without it, we used to have a world without it. Money when originally invented had a value to it, gold and silver coins, a value that could be measured. Nowadays money is made from worthless metals and paper, the value of it is imagined. Imagined things just like asset markets can make bubbles that can burst. If the value of the euro suddenly dropped, it is suddenly worth less dollars, and vice versa. Money created the worldwide market, money created the everyday items that remove our social interactions. However, money is actually not the root cause, the root cause to all of this is us.

Well think about it, we invented all these things, we were unhappy with a simple life of living in a straw hut, with a fire and a wife and kids, we chose to invent ways to improve ourselves and our greed has taken us to many low points. The countless wars over land, the devastation during two World Wars, the almost destruction of the world during the missile crisis in the 60’s, the global warming crisis that engulfs us now. These are all things that have originated from our ancestors greed. But is there even any point in saying these things? People may read this and think ‘Hmm some interesting points Mr’, but they won‘t go on to make changes in their life. Can we as a society change? At least to make the changes that we need to? This will ever more grow as a topic, especially in 2012, a year in which many people and ancient civilisations pointed out as an important year for humanity. Will we as humans choose to change and avoid destruction?

Cesar is author of the upcoming 'Book of Prophecies' which will be released 13^th January 2012, if you would like to find out more please visit http://www.cesarprophecies.com for more information.