Enough Already! The Mass Attraction of Doom.

I guess I am feeling a bit torn.  I am not a guru or a prophet but I was telling people four years ago that the world’s economy and particular the United States was heading for a fall.  Well here we are in 2009 and I cannot escape the parade of economic ‘experts’ telling me how bad things are.  These experts probably went to the same esteemed university institutions that trained the Wall Street greed barons that could not get enough wealth generated in unrestrained capitalism.  Hindsight is easy stuff.  There are a lot of very deep implications of this economic collapse- some are  bad and some are potentially very good.  I am sure I will feel inspired to write about the positive side but at this time I find it difficult.  Those ‘brains’ that played with other people’s livelihoods with no sense of social responisibility and on a deeper level have no sense of the interconnectedness of all things.  I question so much about a society that worships  business to the extent of making commerce so much more complex than what it needs to be.  The warning signs should have been evident when universities began throwing so many resources to business education and God Help Us- the MBA.  Well here we are suffering thanks to an elite created from the loins of a society too numb to see the risks.  A societywith its head too deep in the trough to see the approaching storm.   It is the first bad downturn in the new media society and have a look at the climate out there.  The incessant messages of doom and catastrophe are self fulfilling and they are coming from everywhere and in every medium.  Do you think we could engineer a turnaround based on The Secret?  More on the positive stuff soon.

Currently reading Transcending the Levels of Consciousness by David R Hawkins.  I am really enjoying this book after reading Power vs Force last week.  This is great brain food for the train journeys to and from work.  Recently I have also devoured Content Rich and Presentation Zen- both of which I highly recommend.