New World Order coming soon?

By Chris O on July 26, 2011 in 2020BC, News/General

I find myself writing this blog post after a very interesting and stimulating day. This afternoon I was presenting to a group of potential SME7 Practitioners revealing the huge SME7 Project to assist a forgotten sector of the British economy, the SME. It was very interesting to listen to the questions being asked – you can understand much about an individual from the questions they ask.

Then later on I was talking with a business partner and great friend (@Claire Raikes) about collaboration, joint venture and indeed leveraging… and we steered ever closer to an issue which is behind all the torment that we are enduring in the world today: that of Money, Power, Corruption, Greed and Capitalism.

In the West there are precious few who have not been brought up in the grip of Capitalism. We are taught that ownership is everything and that the more we have, the more powerful, the more influential and indeed, the more successful we are. Our worth as humans with few exceptions is based on the possessions we have. We can’t help ourselves, we evaluate people like this as a default, so engrained is it in our culture; and when you think about this, it is very frightening.

But it doesn’t stop in our private lives either, it transcends into ideas, inventions and business too. Everyone is out to protect what they have – the scarcity mentality – but guess what, no one really owns anything do they? You might be a guardian for a time, as we are all guardians of our bodies only while we are privileged to live in it.

But was it ever our role to hoard possessions or amass great wealth to the detriment of others? That would be a pretty stark outlook for the human race wouldn’t it? Perhaps the greater purpose might have been to live our lives to the betterment of the human race, to share ideas, information and help others to reach the same place… now wouldn’t that be something worth striving for?

Maybe we have come to the moment in time where the wheels are turning, where the endless chase for wealth and possession, power and money is coming to an end. It is and never was sustainable long term… it had a good run and worked for about 3% of the global population, but the clock is now ticking – fast!

We are but a small distance away potentially from a bankrupt America and a broken Europe. The money has headed East, but without rich countries to buy their products and services all the money in the world is without value. We are on the brink of a new world order, it could be next month or in 10 years… but it is no longer a question of if, only when!