LAZY BASTARDS OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!

The collapse of the economy brings with it a rising tide of poverty, which could all too easily escalate to a point where the underclass are the majority.

Progressively financially disincentivised by the increasing worthlessness of our currency we are witnessing a steep decline in the living standards, health and well-being of the population.

Forget second gear - the once Wild West could be at risk of lurching head first into 'The Third World'. You understand what The Third World means?

ALL THE WORLD IS IN COMPETITION AND YOU HAVE COME THIRD!

Yes, it's true - money is ACTUALLY the root of all evil - simply a reminder of a broken promise to pay the water-bearer his dues.

The Beast could be about to get a taste of his own medicine.

HEY, BULLY-BOY! WHAT YOU LOOKIN' AT?
IT'S TIME TO WAKE UP AND SNIFF YOUR OWN ARMPITS!

Some of us will still toil for paper and metal spoils - the old oil reign rules, we'll be working longer hours, cracking harder and harder to stay afloat - only to find our money worth less and less.

Those without jobs will see fewer and fewer reasons for getting one. We'll watch TV, inbetween filling in endless forms to get our paws on those elusive pounds that'll benefit us less and less and less.

Advances in technlogy mean that the temptation to escape into passive escapist entertainment will be huge - it is our responsibility not to allow ourselves to surrender ourselves absolutely into a collective technological or narcotic stupor, or our physicality will be lost and our spirits will not flourish.

We have a choice.

On the one hand - we could become a more and more fractured society, increasingly riven and paranoid, distrustful, unloving, uncaring and alienated, racial and cultural tensions deepening as we all turn our backs on the world in horror and escape into fantasy worlds that add nothing to the sum total of our human stock.

What is the alternative? Ask yourself this question - 'what is the best possible way we could be?'. Join in the conversation.

What is increasingly clear to me is that many of us are relatively united about the kind of world that we want to live in. However, those of us who have yanked themselves away from their precious television screens (at least as far as our beloved computer screens!) seem to spend too much time arguing about conspiracies, the end of the world, floods, flares, meteors, aliens and 2012 - I myself have been guilty of this - but what does any of this matter?

The secular man and the mystic alike agree that radical change is on the cards, and whether the shocks that precipitate this are economic, environmental - or a plague of fu*king super-intelligent mutant prawns - is hardly the point.

Okay, we can all do our bit in preventing the spread of the next crazy super-virus by using a hanky - and we can prevent the plague of prawns by recycling plastic and wearing solar-panel hats - this is a given, this is how we can play our individual roles in 'saving-the-world-and-all-that'.

But there has to be a way of getting our COLLECTIVE voice heard, a way of uniting our fractured online community to create a truly global voice. I believe we will see the emergence of a global online hub, uniting people who want to see positive change achieved in a peaceful manner. This collectively owned co-operative hub will give US a world voice - a voice for those who are committed to discussing and developing sustainable alternatives to consumerist capitalism, striving to entirely transcend the spiritual/secular and left/right divides, focussing instead on developing practical and ingenious solutions for the future. Being a co-operatively owned international organisation petitions made en-masse by its members could be of significant political influence.

‘Countries are shocked – by wars, terror attacks, coup d’états and natural disasters. And then .. they are shocked again – by corporations and politicians who exploit the fear and disorientation of this first shock to push through economic shock therapy. People who dare to resist [these] shock politics are shocked for a third time – by police, soldiers and prison interrogators.’ Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine

The world is experiencing wave after wave of global 'shocks' - it is time for collective positive engagement in the global meta-conversation - if we do not get our voices heard the super-rich and powerful minority will use their influence to utilise these shocks, slipping in emergency measures and systems that perpetuate global inequity, continuing to set each man against each other for their personal gain in the much heralded and feared 'New World Order' - there is an alternative, a co-operative global community. We need to work closely together, inter-promoting activities and resources and developing channels for the cross-fertilisation of ideas.