The whole of human history is testament to the fact that vast sections of mankind can seem to be progressing towards what looks like an established goal, only to get sidetracked into cul-de-sacs, sometimes for decades, occasionally for centuries.
So why do we still assume that an eventual return to any significant economic growth in the European Union is inevitable?
I found this while cleaning up my desktop. It is an essay I wrote for a university application in the spring of 2009. The title of the essay was what challenges the planet must overcome to be a better a place. It provides a good summary of the environmental and economic crisis that we find ourselves in today.
Jeef Koon’s two ball total equilibrium tank
“You can tell a clever person by the answers given; but you can tell a person is wise by the questions asked. We reveal our wisdom in our questions and confirm that wisdom by our willingness to keep seeing for the true, the good and the beautiful. When individuals and institutions embrace questions, especially difficult ones, the potential exists for mature, lasting and meaningful growth. Success and maturity increasingly depend on having the right questions, not necessarily the right answers.”—Naguib Mahfouz
When your happiness is dependent upon what is happening outside of you, constantly you live as a slave to the external situation. - Sadhguru
“Those jobs aren’t coming back”, Steve Jobs response to President Obama’s question asking “Why can’t that work (manufacturing iphones) come home?”
This is a very interesting article in the NYT about the collapse of US/Anglo saxon manufacturing.
