Thread: What caused the recession?

Originally Posted by pinklather

HN, the question is too big to prompt anything but heat and very little light.

Has history been altered? Of course - by the same forces that shaped the events that happened, and then received the window dressing of choice.

To point to individual events can be instructive, it can also miss the forest for the trees. The economic cycles, and the lifecycles of hundreds of civilizations have repeated for millennia. We launch discussion along areas of interest, but whether that's the economics, the politics, or environmental cycles - the same plays work themselves out. Each country/civilization frames the plays according to their unique history. In the U.S., we repeat the Hamilton/Jefferson perspectives - in politics, economics, and social policy. 'Progressive' vs Individualism. But the same results happen. Power centralizes, over extends itself, screws with the currency to finance it's projection of power, decimates its youth in constant Orwellian warfare/welfare plays, and collapses from it's appetites over-reaching it's resources. 'Makes me grieve - watching the freedoms disappear so quickly. We seem to be rather frail creatures - unable to step outside the plays and actually change our (leopard) spots.

Well said.

"We seem to be rather frail creatures - unable to step outside the plays and actually change our (leopard) spots." And, I agree human history has proven this to be true. Our delusion in regard to our "abilities" perpetuate the myth that humanity can overcome its limitations and inherent flaws if we just find the right humanist key to unlock the mystery.

Chris L