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Do We Have The Wisdom To Replace A Failed System?
Considering the problems that face us, we have to open up to the idea that humans are still in the process of innovation, and things can, and will, evolve from the myopic view that global capitalism is the best we can do. Now that we have made it through the Agrarian, Agricultural, Industrial, and Information Revolutions, it’s about time we open up to the Revolution of Wisdom. We can continue to open up to lives of abundance and growth, but we cannot continue to confuse abundance and growth with wastefulness and greed.
As Noam Chomsky stated in an interview with David Barsamian, “There is tons of work to be done, and lots of people who would like to do the work. It’s just that the economic system is such a grotesque catastrophe that it can’t even put together idle hands and needed work, which would be satisfying to the people and which would be beneficial to all of us. That’s just the mark of a failed system. The most dramatic mark of it.”
While many people have been very well trained to acknowledge that the system we have is the best system ever (and some even follow those boasts with high fives), the truth is that our system is incredibly fallible, right down to its roots. And we are going to have to give some serious thought to how we would like to move forward from here.
