Great Depression

The United States of America, along with the rest of the world, has just begun the long
journey through the Second Great Depression. The first Great Depression began with the
stock market crash in 1929. The following depression lasted through The Great War, World
War 2, before crawling out from under it in the late 1940s. The World Economies, with the
exception of a few recessions along the way, were generally on the upside until the economic
collapse which began in 2008. During this generally prosperous time the United States
participated in three futile wars, the Korean, Vietnamese, and Iraqi wars. This was not wise.
But it was before the era in which the world’s nations recognized that their economies were
all intertwined, and that, therefore, they were also interconnected in a social sense, and
came the dawning, also in a political sense.
The nations had participated in a lackluster effort at international cooperation, and even
unity, in the post World War II environment. Instead of a self regulating unity, they found
themselves in a world of disunity, fractured by nationalism, some just emerging, some
centuries old, and a myriad of other beliefs that fostered ethnic cleansing, racial and genetic
intolerance, and tribal and clan animosities, that trumped the, in a relative sense, efforts of
nations and their world body, the United Nations, to foster peaceful coexistence. Upon
reflection, one would become aware of the fact that not in all – and this is for emphasis –
“not in all” of human history had there been a time that war was not being waged, or the
preparation for war was not being conducted, or reconstruction after a war was not being
engaged. Why?
Why? For the fundamental reason that the people of the world did not have a common
belief system that they could feel secure in, that they could with all faith trust, that they
could rely on in their everyday decisions as they engaged in their everyday activities, and
that they could appeal to in moments of duress and stress to resolve any disagreements,
disputes, misunderstandings, and failures to perform up to agreed upon standards and
expectations.
What the world did have, was a willingness to trade, to engage in what should have been in
their mutual interests. But in spite of having, in their trade, what they called their
“economics”, a shared belief system, they could not find peaceful common ground. The
only standards they had to appeal to were the tenets of the dated, and now useless,
philosophy of Capitalism.
That in the face of the continuing arms race, the ever present threat of nuclear hostilities,
the consequences of global warming, the need for clean energy, the need to feed billions, the
need to medicate billions, the need to educate and share knowledge with billions, the need to
plan and provide for our population growth – to mention just a few of the things that we
must get done, and done quickly - we take the only step that can give us a chance.

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