Has Fat-Pig Style Consumption Eaten Your Future Away?

Fat Pig goes to market...

Unfortunately for current western society, present consumption and expansion is an impossible dream. There has to be an adjustment. So far, by manipulation of many factors, the power possessing individuals have been able to keep most plates spinning, albeit irregularly. It is, as you realise, an attempt to provide an acceptable panacea. Yet, as with all plasters applied before washing out the wound, the wound itself only festers.

People want an earthquake to occur but few want to deal with the shock or subsequent aftershocks…it’s the magic bullet syndrome our society seems to seek as the only acceptable solution. It always has to be painless as possible and will never be effective. Because the would is sealed with the dirt still inside.

Perhaps societies that have missed so called progress and most innovations, who still feed the family on farm vegetables, the chickens and the fattened pig are better off after all? – In the ensuing earthquake, it is likely that they are the only ones that will be relatively unaffected. I say ‘relatively’.

The current situation is simply based on pyramid selling. One day the bottom of the pyramid will be reacted, resourced gone and the whole thing will collapse.

Our modern prophets (we call them economists and futurists) have been warning us for many years about the collapse of the system of capitalism that we cherish. I am not a card-carrying socialist yet realise that one major event is all it takes to bring the whole sack down.

However, wouldn’t it be nice if we hearkened to our heralds. For people, organisations and nations to change their ways instead to a more sustainable model? I stand in hope of the hopeless.

Can the world change to a more sustainable order and if so – to what?