Gold of our faith in love

Our concepts for the future are unclear, and this stands as a profound understatement. Capitalism as a global economic landscape is having truly hard times. This hardship is accelerating at a higher pace, year on year. It’s symptoms are becoming acute.

Today’s $115+ trillion global economy is defined by a fragmented, multipolar landscape where geopolitical conflicts dictate commercial logic. The growth is present, but modest. It could be significantly higher if we’re not following domestic political priorities, trade restrictions and geopolitical alliances. The inflation is stubborn, mostly driven by severe energy and supply chain shocks, a consequence of the spiking energy and commodity prices. The constant rise of inflation goes even further than this, starting from COVID and consecutively by the Cost of Living crises. The wealth distribution isn’t equal, the gap is only widening. The US commands more than half of the global stock market capitalization. On the other hand there’s a multipolar power shift ever so present, fundamentally shifting historical Western manufacturing dominance. Through transitioning into renewable energies, alongside an explosive surge in AI, domestic economies are actively reshaping and requiring massive infrastructure investments. AI boost is creating massive wealth and elevating stock market valuations into tremendous historic heights.

On the other hand modern society is deeply entrenched in debt, when it comes to governments it’s a widely used tool for economic growth, when it comes to people and households it’s becoming a systemic way of life. Total world debt now stands at $353 trillion exceeding world GDP by 305%. The consequences are dire. Debt is linked to high mental and emotional toll arising from stress, sleep deprivation and poor mental health. The poverty trap is threatening budgets of low-income households which is preventing them to prevent or escape poverty. There is an obvious worldwide delayed milestones in life, such as: studying university, living on its own, starting a family, purchasing a home; which has become ever so harder after the Cost of living crises.

Are there any colors in this gray landscape? We need to live green, be respectful of the environment, other species and ourselves. We need to be realistic and our consumerism should be based on our needs, this way there will be plenty of resources for everyone. And we should never forget that kindness is the basic human virtue entrenched dearly into the core of humanity. The consolation is in each other, not in our possessions.

The only gold we require is the gold of our faith in love.

Love more?

It’s inevitable that we strive for improvement, growth of virtues, adaptation to changes in the environment, positive impact in our immediate surrounding and by acting positively all around us we better our society in general and ultimately the civilization. Deep within our psyche we balance all virtues and faults trying to achieve some sort of an equilibrium, and what emerges at the surface is kindness, empathy, tolerance and understanding; all of them together underlying fundamentals of the niche that is us. And only then we can stand tall and proudly craft a promising future. It’s as simple as that, this is written in our genetic code.

Our tomorrows are intertwined with many challenges. Our egos are a big part of this, they need to be removed from the equation. There are so many of us, we must think in plural. Our growth in numbers, our different cultures and religions, they’re a marvelous blessing an enrichment of our values, not a curse or a reason to drive ourselves into mists of oblivion. Ego is not only lack of knowledge, is also lack of understanding. All voices are present in this symphony of mankind, we need to learn to listen, not just speak. Each and everyone of is a part of everyone else, we’re never alone… so, why ego?

The building block of capitalism is our nature of consumerism, bit by bit influencing every aspect of our lives, and gradually transforming into greed, envy, intolerance, aggression, emphasizing an expanding division and volatility. Utilization of economic goods creates false pretenses of happiness, satisfaction, fulfillment and joy. This is a mechanism which exploits our need for more, greed as an input, and more greed as an output; a marketing ploy abusing the positive cybernetic feedback. The need to consume, just to consume. It’s not only an apparent destruction of our core values, but it’s destructive on the environment, degrading ecological systems, hurting the planet.

And this stands as a sacrilege to our senses, an offense to our build, it’s opposite to our nature. With modesty, moderate consumerism based on necessity, peaceful acceptance of outcomes, achievement of inner tranquility, we understand our soul better, thus creating a path based not only on ambition, but also on improvement, evolution and growth. Our society is democracy, not capitalism.

We say that if life is a deep sleep, then love is the dream. So, love more?

Sixth Mass Extinction

Across endless odds we are in this point in time with the reality we perceive at this very moment, a chance out of nearly infinite, chosen by the theory of bifurcations and the concept of causality, based on our actions and choices. We are here, because we wanted to be here.

All our individual growth and civilization gains have presented us with this present reality, an event determining the future. This future is not only ours, since we are the dominant species on our homeworld, we are responsible of all life on Earth, even the planet itself. We stand here as an inevitable consequence of ourselves.

And at the moment we don’t have a clue what comes next, our plans aren’t delicate anymore, it seems we don’t have any. We lack responsibilities, even though we’ve established ourselves firmly as the most widespread species on the planet. With our actions we influence on the rapid change of the living environment. As a dominant species we’re directly hindering the evolutionary development of all other species.

Above all, with our activities we’ve marked ourselves into the geology of the planet, and henceforth starting a new epoch in its history, conveniently called Anthropocene. The fossil record is shifting rapidly to reflect human-led globalization, including: prevalence of domesticated animals over wild species and evolutionary changes seen in domesticated crops. With our self-centric behavior in the last 60 years we’ve skyrocketed extinction rates of species reaching 1000 times the rate of preindustrial periods. The evidence how we’re impacting Earth’s ecosystem are devastating: acceleration of the global warming, chemical perturbations, technofossils, radioactive fallout, ocean acidification.

And how this impacts planet’s biota? Entire families of species are threatened to become extinct this century. This will bring massive fluctuations in the food chain and pull with it other species into oblivion, triggering a mass dying event on a planetary scale.

Dear me, welcome to the Sixth Mass Extinction!