The power to normalise our surroundings is a characteristic of mankind. We adapt to our collective delusions and it becomes normal.
Very few of us realise with conviction the intensely temporary, unreliable, unsustainable, unusual, nature of the economic organisation by which the West has lived for the past 70 years.
We assume some of the most temporary and accidental of our advantages as naturally permanent, and we lay our expectations and plans accordingly.
We engage only in surface level debate between right and left parties with the pilot, while the engine stutters.
Moved by insane delusion and reckless self understanding, we run the risk of complete ruin by flying ever higher.
The outward aspect of life does not teach us to feel or realise that an age is over, and a new one is beginning, and that we need a mechanic, and a new vehicle.
We can not spend ever increasing amounts, produce ever less, and expect ever more, with nothing to show for it, only for us to stay the same, and expect no consequence
We somehow expect an ever continual broadening and intensification of our comforts, just for being.
It is only in the west that we can be so unconscious. We have been so separated from the true nature of market forces. It is only in some, less fortunate countries that the earth heaves and they are ever aware of its rumblings. It is not just a matter of extravagance, or labour troubles, but of survival, and the fearful convulsions of a sick civilisation.
