The Big Slowdown
Updated: Aug 23, 2021

What would the world look like if no one had an assigned job?
What would it look like if there were no money?
What would the world look like if there were no major super markets, no cars, no planes or trains?
What would that say about life - what it always was and what it should be?
Where does the real value lie?
It lies in having the skills to cooperate and collaborate with your neighbours
It lies in having the skills to grow and cultivate your own food
In being able to work with your hands to build and fix things
It lies in managing local resources to good effect and in being efficient
It lies in being able to lead and take responsibility
It lies in being a healing presence, working with nature and not against it
It lies in learning and growing.
It lies in being virtuous and working for the common good, because in the end, we not only need each other, but it’s in the uniqueness of human relationships when we actualise our whole being (as humans).
There’s no inherent value in the financial markets
Or in buying a new tennis racquet or a Gucci handbag