Ten Things We Really Know
Posted on March 5, 2008
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1. The economic action is not here in the west any more. It is in China and India. The ideas we bring to economic life are outdated.
2. We are stuck with an ill conceived philosophy towards the economy and life in general. Innovation is perceived as good for its own sake which renders many other moral judgements superfluous.
3. We no longer discuss progress. We have gone beyond progress as a motivating factor and we’ve ditched all the paraphenalia that societies use to judge progress. Only two metrics matter. How old are we when we die; how long do we need to wait for an operation?
4. The chances are we’re on the runway for 50 years of economic growth globally but decline here. We still think in terms of boom and bust when in fact over 2.5 billion people are about to improve their lives. It will take a long time.
5. We now accept that politics has to be corrupt, and is inherently so; we no longer question whether or not it has to be.
6. We cannot see error in the fundamentals of how we organise society despite the damage we’ve done environmentally and socially.
7. Elites still rule, 50 years after C.Wright Mills told us it was wrong. Art and culture is still a response to elitism.
8. We can’t fool ourselves with language any longer. So many of us live in well educated societies there is a new truth forced on all of us. We have to create societies that provide creataive oportunities for the majority. This is the same as saying, user generated content will be the norm.
9. There is now a global culture that is not dictated by corporate culture. We’re rediscovering the local too.
10. We don’t want to participate in democracy. We want it delivered.
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