The debate is raging on. On newspapers, blogs and parliaments, nationally internationally. Nobody seems to be able to agree with anybody else. It is astonishing to observe how the good will, optimism, energy and social spirit flooding in the western societies after the WWII has evaporated in about 60 years. I will just mention three well known facts to highlight the dire straits our world is going through.
1) America's debt and lack of meaningful social cohesion. The US government cannot legislate or plan for the future due an archaic constitution (not fit for the 21st century) infested by big government lobbyists and thinktanks.
2) Similar outlook in Europe for different reasons. Week european leaders (including the UK) are dithering and cannot take any decisive action for anything. Even worse they do not want to give away the power of unelected elites to the ordinary european citizen by strengthening the european parliament. Last but not least
3) The moral argument that a person's wealth is due to the existence of a functioning society and that taxing this wealth is a natural and welcome fact of life has been lost. For some strange reason even middle or lower (incomewise) class people seem to be loosing faith to their governments and their leaders.
These three observation together with a host of other circumstaces (problems in Japan, China's political system, no lessons learned from the 2008 crisis etc) make another world crisis (lets hope it will be only of an economic nature) almost inevitable.
The key question is WHY?? How our democratic institutions in the west especially got corrupted so easily? What were the seeds of this downlhill trend?
1) America's debt and lack of meaningful social cohesion. The US government cannot legislate or plan for the future due an archaic constitution (not fit for the 21st century) infested by big government lobbyists and thinktanks.
2) Similar outlook in Europe for different reasons. Week european leaders (including the UK) are dithering and cannot take any decisive action for anything. Even worse they do not want to give away the power of unelected elites to the ordinary european citizen by strengthening the european parliament. Last but not least
3) The moral argument that a person's wealth is due to the existence of a functioning society and that taxing this wealth is a natural and welcome fact of life has been lost. For some strange reason even middle or lower (incomewise) class people seem to be loosing faith to their governments and their leaders.
These three observation together with a host of other circumstaces (problems in Japan, China's political system, no lessons learned from the 2008 crisis etc) make another world crisis (lets hope it will be only of an economic nature) almost inevitable.
The key question is WHY?? How our democratic institutions in the west especially got corrupted so easily? What were the seeds of this downlhill trend?
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