charleshughsmith | Our status quo is not only failing to solve humanity’s six core problems-- it has become the problem.
To explain why this is so, I wrote Why Our Status Quo Failed and Is Beyond Reform, a new book that's focused (90 pages) and affordable, i.e. the cost of a latte ($3.95 Kindle ebook, $8.95 print edition).
Why can’t our status quo be reformed? There are two primary reasons:
1) Those benefiting from the current arrangement will resist any reforms
that threaten their share of the pie--and meaningful reforms will
necessarily threaten everyone’s slice of the pie.
2) Reforms that actually address the structural flaws will bring the
system down, as the status quo can only continue if its engine
(permanent expansion of debt and consumption) is running at full speed.
Once the engine stalls or even slows, the system collapses.
This is unwelcome news not just to privileged insiders--and the harsh reality is that our status quo exists to protect the privileges of the few at the expense of the many--but to everyone who hopes to benefit in some way from our status quo's cornucopia of promises.
So
we cling to the dangerous hope that all the promises can be met by some
future magic, and cocoon ourselves in an equally dangerous denial that
collapse is inevitable. We don't just want to avoid the decay and
collapse of all the happy promises--we want to avoid the responsibility
of taking part in shaping the replacement system.
