Replacing the Faltering, Out-of-Date Global Economy

We give primary attention on this website to contributing to the new economic model that makes the current one obsolete—just like the quote from Buckminster Fuller that we display prominently urges us. The pain inflicted by the obsolence of the current economy mounts in the rising use of carbon even though our atmosphere, oceans, and permafrost are overloaded and species from polar bears to forests are victimized by loss of habitat and disease. Increasing food prices and energy prices worldwide are not coming down as people use more of their incomes for both. The litany is extended in the news every day.

So back to the new economic model! Here’s a quotation I love. It comes from Lynn McTaggart’s recent book, The Bond: Connecting Through the Space Between Us (see thebond.net).  

We urgently need to find a new story by which to live. Much of scientific theory, and consequently our model of the way things work, is going up in smoke. With every scientific finding, yet another cherished notion is overturned. A new scientific story is emerging that challenges our assumptions, including our most basic premise: the sense of things as separate entities in competition for survival.

The latest evidence from quantum physics offers the extraordinary possibility that all of life exists in a dynamic relationship of cooperation. Quantum physicists now recognize that the universe is not a collection of separate things jostling around in empty space. All matter exists in a vast quantum web of connection, and a living thing at its most elemental is an energy system involved in a constant transfer of information with its environment. Rather than a cluster of individual, self-contained atoms and molecules, objects and living beings are now more properly understood as dynamic and protean processes, in which parts of one thing and parts of another continuously trade places.”

—Quoted in Ode magazine, July-August 2011

The global economy is not structured with this kind of interdependence. It still advocates individualism in the marketplace, privatization of public services, getting bigger through competition rather than cooperation, and tax policies that create hierarchies of separation into wealth and poverty rather than foster circles of interrelationship.

Though the global economy imposed by the global corporations and financial institutions are out-of-step and out-of-date with the evolution in physics, many entrepreneurs and economists are very much in-step. The Organic Valley business model given brief attention a couple of days ago on this blog is a shining example.  

The challenges to live today under the powers of prevailing economics are tough, let alone creating a one-Earth business that can succeed within such a harsh environment. Still, seeking to mimic the interconnectedness of the universe assures us that we are living the REAL story, not some model fabricated for egos and control. We are respectfully expressing our desire to be in step with the universe and on the calendar with her, up-to-date economically with what she is doing. Much healthier for Earth and ourselves that to do what we are being told by the global economic powers we must do, even when that goes against the essential story of reality.