Saturday 22 November 2008

My own personal recession

"A recession is a contraction phase of the business cycle, or a period of reduced economic activity"

I myself find it hard to believe that we have a cyclical system in place, only because of mans constant struggle to tame nature that it seems to me that we have made ourselves a system resembling the struggles of our evolution. The main difference between the two is that during our evolution we worked together and the struggle was to tame the land and now we work against each other, in competition for resources , which is ironic because if you have money or wealth you can buy as much of anything regardless of distributing resources equally as the principal of economics defines itself as:
" balancing out unlimited demand for limited resources"
 The current monetary system does not satisfy this statement as the wealth of these resources is not distributed down, because if it did you would have no rich and no poor and a resource based economy, but also no money.

My own personal recession is getting up each morning , working 45 hours a week on a apprentice wage and struggling to pay for things and thinking why am i doing this? why should i do overtime when its only going to be counterbalanced by inflation and increase the average working hours of men and women whilst ultimately they end up on the same pay, when it only goes to pay for foreign investment and banking profits and enslaves more and more people into working to much, to push production and productivity , for people to sell their goods , and to keep on pushing it until it collapses and we end up were we are today. In recession. in the excuse to shuffle around which big companies own who and what.

i just don't want to compete for food or shelter or all the things i need in life with other human beings because i know for a fact that we are smarter than that and capable of anything.

Im lucky i have what i have as i have worked for it so hard but the irony of it all spits in my face most days.

i don't get down about it, i do get frustrated though when i know things could be so much better if we stopped competing against each other and shared allot more and realised  how manipulated we are by marketing.

In the midst my own personal recession i wish i could create from stone, architecture not governed by profit margins and expenses, to create for cultures sake and knowledge and art things that are wonderful and shed experience from every facet as experience is the food of life and perhaps meaning. I see the need to get rid of money in the coming future.............how? that is a combined effort and for some a sacrafice and we need to design it together which is what i would love to do , to help my father and many others create a sustainable civilisation rich in culture and knowledge.