Natural communism...

Looks like the world is heading for economic meltdown if the newsmen and politicians are to be believed. Well, it’s hardly surprising is it? Not that I believe the newsmen or politicians any more than I believe the bankers and businessmen or the ancient Mayans come to that… although thinking about it the Mayans are probably closer to the truth than the rest.

Yes, the world is in turmoil and those of us who are used to having so much are beginning to understand what it is like not to have quite as much as before – just like most of the world always has.

The Western rich are no longer getting richer, or so it seems. The western rich seem to be getting poorer - tut-tut.

Yes, poverty is a great leveller. Not that the West is in poverty yet, but the rest of the world, the ones that have always known poverty, just might be getting a teeny bit wealthier - tut-tut, how awful.

Perhaps there is a balancing beginning where even the poorest nations might have a little more. It’s certainly happening in China and India, even in some parts of Africa. For the first time these people can afford meat and grain, expect to travel, maybe even own a car or a mobile phone, be educated, even pay for medicine to stay alive. My God (you know the bible one), just what is the world coming to?

Well, looks like the world is coming to the end of its tether.

Look’s like the world just doesn’t have enough to go around any more.

Looks like the world’s resources don’t only belong to the West as the West had always assumed.

Looks like the world’s resources belong to the world – and there really (yes really, not just a documentary) isn’t enough to go around.

I like to think of it as natural communism. A sharing of the world’s resources simply because those that couldn’t now can. Not that I like it, because I don’t - it's not what I am used to and it's scary. I think it’s going to be a big change for all of us who have been so comfortable for so long - but you can’t keep the world from turning (unless you are Michael Rennie and have a big silver robot called Gort).

As more and more people can the world’s resources need to stretch further and further, meaning less for those that have had and more for those who have had not – if you get my italicised drift.

Perhaps it’s the start of a new golden age where everyone has pretty much the same and we all live in almost-enough harmony.

Yeah right. It’s more likely to be like living in the middle ages - war, famine, pestilence and candles (if you can afford the tallow to make them), or maybe even worse (Kaboom!).

Yes, I wonder what the USA will make of things when democracy is dead and natural communism rules… and I wonder how they’ll deal with it?