Synthesis
by Donna Schoenkopf
I was having a chat the other day over drinks at Knuckles when the subject of the economy came up.
It was agreed by all that we (the United States) had left the manufacturing world and become the service world.
It was also agreed by all that being a worker in the service world meant shit wages.
Poor service world.
That is where the agreeing ended.
Most said we (the United States) needed to make stuff again.
(My little sustainable heart skipped a beat. And not in a good way.)
At that point I pushed my way into the conversation (as is my wont) and offered the idea that we (the United States) were, rather, a Consumer Nation. We didn't really even provide much in the world of global service. (India and the Phillipines had pretty much cornered that market, with inmates in our federal prisons running a close third.)
So, in my mind at least, being a Consumer Nation, we, (the United States) were in the most danger of going bust of any other nation. We, (the United States) were hanging out over the edge of the economic cliff.
What a perfect time to hybridize our economic system.
The old Hegelian/Marxist theory of the dialectic (you know the one) that states that history is a spiral of a commonly held thesis meeting an antithesis and resulting in a new thesis, which is a synthesis formed from the DNA of the thesis and antithesis. JUST LIKE HUMAN REPRODUCTION!
Isn't that fabulous?
I predict (and DO take this lightly, because I am ALWAYS predicting) that we are on the edge of the turning of the tide, the melding of the thesis and the antithesis and are in a process of synthesizing into the new thesis.
Dang. And we were here to witness it.
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