It was interesting listening to the speech today from our prime minister Mr Cameron. Put aside the dateline, and the current context and listen to the rhetoric and you begin to hear the same, familiar sounds of our industrial solution. If only Mr Cameron.
Unfortunately the reality is so very different now. Whereas in the past governments could imagine with the people the prospect of greener days ahead, we know now that the chances are for many people across the world their prospects are decidedly grim. To me this points towards one set of obvious but perhaps not earth shatteringly exciting political messages -
- growing vegetables
- walking for transportation
- reading old books
- spinning and knitting
- chatting as a form of entertainment
- writing snail mail letters
- fixing and making things by hand
It becomes interesting the more we look at progress, the more indigenous ideas seem to loom in front of us as solutions. If the convergence of the perfect storm of energy, water, population and food shortages really come together in the coming decades, then doing things within our communities for ourselves will begin to be seen as progress, simply because they will point us towards self-reliance, the way we can help ourselves. The important message for me coming from our political leaders is that they haven't got a clue how to proceed, and are terrified of the likelihood of people becoming more resilient and self managing because in so doing they won't buy the story that there is only one story to buy. Keep saying it Mr Cameron, its a nice line, economic growth and prosperity to come once we have all faced the stark reality of the cuts, the thing is, we might not all come around to wanting to play your game if the good times do return, because the good times you tell us about are in fact more troublesome than those we are already living through. Time to think again.
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