Blindness

Poverty and violence walk hand in hand. Fear and social madness are one wall apart.  I recently watched the movie "Blindness", inspired by Jose Saramago's Ensayo sobre la ceguera... An interesting portrait of human condition under social and physical pressure. 

As our well-praised capitalist economy is crumbling and its evil daughter, the stock market, is plunging not only in the States but worldwide, some old communist must be celebrating... "it is the end of the empire as it's known", they may be saying... and perhaps, they aren't wrong. Things are changing and they ought to. It is time to revisit our view (and the needy-greedy rules) of the financial system, reconsider the vulnerability of the free markets and the wonders of a corporate world, not as safe and sound as once portrayed. Blinded by easy cash flow while exploiting non-renewable resources has led us to a crisis that Western governments are trying to bail-out. Would the expenditure of the hardly earned tax-payer money do the trick? I think our actions, as civil society, should go beyond this desperate measure... we have a chance to review the books and think this over. The market, as well as "the empire", are no longer safe... nor are we and our environment. Before this whole crisis unravels and the heart of recession awakens more violence, we should continue to listen to alternative voices that have been setting off the alarms of  "danger!" for quite some time now.  Sadly but true, the only "triggering passives" that seem to be affecting the political spectrum of this world are the purse string and our empty pockets... the rest is ignored green rhetoric. I'd hope that green means yet to ripen.   

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