The new model is in development
This is a surprisingly important article. It clearly summarizes the economic and political transformation in which we are caught. Politics in the era we are leaving behind was and still is entangled with economics. Stated simply it is driven by economic fears and hopes and fails with economic disillusionment. That disillusionment produces different reactions in different individuals producing groups prone to violent recriminations or depressed into hopelessness. Neither is productive and both lead to disaster.
The disaster results from polarization and true belief in aspects of the past that are no longer relevant but become mindless battle cries for lost honesty. As always when old paradigms fail the changes required are based on a fresh and new alignment of the old elements of society and economics. Old systems must be taken apart and looked at with new objectivity to save those systems and components that are valuable while sweeping aside those that have failed. The working pieces need to be reorganized into new systems. Simple enough. Wrong.
The polarization that comes from the struggle against disillusionment thrives on violent emotion that becomes, inevitably, self destructive. In the worst case this destroys the political units going through paradigm change creating space for new political units to make the necessary changes.
It appears that, as the most polarized, the US and, perhaps GB, may be torn down unless the extremes can be contained or removed. Just as the USSR collapsed with centralized attempt at planning and authoritarian control, the US is on the road to collapse with the inability to escape the failure of hypercapitalism. The future will be a new combination, already working in many post industrial states in one form or another, of market based economics balanced with strong public services and intellectual versus materialist value systems. This new model has been in development for many years but needs to be removed from corrupt, partial representative political systems.The result seems well suited to restoring confidence for individuals, families and diverse social groups.
We need to work on the new model and forget the old. The old are not wrong but are no longer right. The combination, when applied, will be the new right as the other left.
