Obsessed as we are with the money-focused world, even the most intelligent of our economists and academics will not accept that the world is able to function in any other way.
Even though many have already or will quietly admit that they cannot see where the growing crisis will end, the establishment still refuses to question the belief that whatever happens next or whatever the world may look like in the future, it will continue to be money-centric.
The alternative truth that even the greenest, socialist, new-worldish of our communities cannot reconcile is that an economy doesn’t have to be all about money or even based on money for that economy to be successful, or even to exist.
Money is the lifeblood of the system we have today. Because the value of money is the only way that anything is now valued and is therefore accepted as being relevant to everything.
This is how our belief system has been encouraged to work by people who benefit from us all thinking that way.
Our beliefs shape our priorities and form the basis upon which all our assumptions and our entire value set is constructed.
Changing that value set all begins very close to home.
Firstly, it’s about the way that we think and thinking the right way.
Secondly it is then about doing everything the right way in the world outside of ourselves that we can see and interact with, without digital or remote contact.
Meaningful change will therefore be about locality and community.
It’s just not all that easy to see, today.
Adam Tugwell 