Brave new world
The NOLA Timebank is up and running and today the NYT posted an article about a bartering system that is starting up in Greece. It all goes to show you that when the world is going to hell in a handbasket, people get pretty damn resourceful pretty damn quick. Good to know.
Remember the saying that when a butterfly flaps its wings in Argentina, China gets a cold, well that is the world we are living in – we are all globally realizing that our economic systems are stressed, our governments are lame, we’ve mortgaged our tomorrows, and a big WTF is crossing the mind of everyone who thought they had a plan for the future.
It almost makes our parents seem like they knew better than us – you know the parents, like mine, who didn’t plan for the future, who didn’t do all the right things, who instead just lived their lives day to day for enjoyment or for whatever was in their heads at the moment. We looked on them as baby boomer children with pity – tut tut – what did they know?
Seems like they knew.