New thinking about the causes of the global economic downturn

All these so-called experts on television, who wax on about the reasons for unemployment (or any issue, for that matter). If they are Republican, they are largely hypocrites. Democrats like Pilosi and Reid are damn fools letting all that pork into the proposed stimulus package, which many experts are saying is not big enough (heck, a trillion dollars doesn't go as far as it used to...).. These people are all thinking one-dimensionally. All of these things are inter-connected: The Economy, Corruption, Energy, Climate Change, War and Cultural Ideology. It's a big network of factors that depend on one another.

People need to start embracing systems theory, which is to understand that we are connected to the planet - the mother of humanity - and to each other. Instead, we fight one another, one-up one another, "dis"(respect) one another. That's our animal nature, the part that fights to survive (only now, since for some wealthy cultures like the U.S., we don't have survival pressures and conflict, so we make them up with our sporting events, and bring the fight to pay-per-view). We started holistic thinking in the 60's, but then the Republicans or greed-mongers (who know who they are, like the Bilderberger) largely killed it off in the 80's. The media sold us that Jimmy Carter was a bad president, the hippies were stoned out, lazy and unwashed, and that "Greed is Good." Greed is not good.

We need to evolve our consciousness, to re-awaken the hippie, the environmentalist, the idealist. I don't want to let John Lennon's death be the end of idealism. The time has come to change our thinking before we kill ourselves. So while we have to enact laws that limit a person's wealth, we also have to penalize the cheaters. Sure, everyone did it (i.e., the "shameful bonuses" of Wall Street), but that doesn't excuse it. If you could do it, would you have the entire Congress fired? How do we maintain civility and fight stupidity and greed? If evolution is true, then evolve, damn it humanity, evolve!

The television media that I am hopelessly addicted to, forces every issue into a 3 minute sound byte. The public will never understand the reason for unemployment when limited in these terms. Because if you take the "Mind Walk" and truly know and feel our interconnectedness, then you stop thinking of 'me', and start thinking of 'we,' because we are a large family. We are the children of the Sun and the Earth, and like the native Americans knew, we are the brother of the wolf and the sister of the eagle. What a loss when the Europeans committed patricide against the native Americans. That goes beyond shameful.

We need more than the usual talking heads of media personalities and politicians. How about professors and plumbers, New Age gurus with the politicians - now that would be television! Perhaps that is my mission, so if you read this, and later see it, then you can say "you read it when you were unemployed," because who has time for anything if you are working these days? We've put so much pressure on ourselves that we are doing two jobs, which creates a schism of employed versus unemployed. Will we end up fighting each other for a job? If we over-simplify, then one can say "greed has caused the unemployment," and in a large part, that's true. But the truth is, it's our system that's broken, and we'd better understand that before we try to fix it, else we'll spend trillion after trillion while unethical, illegal, corrupt and criminal people will take our money. And that unethical, illegal, corrupt and criminal entity is the US Government.

Alas, the politicians are lemmings, following the money that buys the votes. They should all be required to attend US History and review the Declaration and the Constitution - on a weekly basis, because very few seem to "get it." The entire roster of government employees should be term-limited. Everyone should be required to serve in government, because we're supposed to have a government, to quote Lincoln "by the people, for the people."

Let us hope that Barack Obama is a Lincoln. He seems to "get it"; to be able to think multi-dimensionally, to be smart enough to understand the system, and a willingness to evolve. If he fails in this task, I entertain so many fears (which was Bush and Cheney's domain). Their policies brought on this new century depression, and they should be forced to reconcile. The system needs balance, which means if you commit the crime, you have to do the time. Otherwise, the Middle Class will fall into poverty, or worse - history will repeat itself, and Rome will burn. I could go on, but I have to find a real job.

Peace