Is it just because I am getting old, or do things seem to change more frequently and with more intensity than they once did? Things seem less predictable and more chaotic with each passing day. Almost nothing surprises me anymore. The recent economic mess is just one aspect of this tremendous rate of change that seems to be occurring all over the world. Well, enough of my foolish esoteric ramblings. Do any of you have this feeling of some un-named force of rapid change in all areas of human endeavor?
Its the combination of globalization (nothing new really) plus real time data. Fact is that nation states are becoming less and less relevant, frankly the banks see them as the ones that pick up the bill once they've earned billions and destroyed whole economies.
If you consider that the US is printing money to stimulate the economy makes you think whats going on. Is it really that bad because this is a desperate measure which will feed inflation the moment the economy starts to grow, our neighbour Bob Mugabe can tell everything how to do it. Scary. We've been sheltered so far, but I fear we are going to get whipped at a later stage.
