The news around the world is making it clear that the current central banking/fractional reserve/crony capitalist system where wealth gets sucked to the top of the pyramid, is slowly breaking down.

Unfortunately, there is no hot replacement system waiting in the wings. Barter anyone? Yawn. Communes anyone? Scary. A return to gold-backed money? Possibly. Holographic power structures. Say what?

In any case, to start creating a NEW, sustainable economic system, we each need to hold a vision for the future that we desire to live in. Just sit down, close your eyes and make a wish; an intention for how you want to live in relation to people and the Earth. Then, with help from the universe, we can start to fill in the growing economic void and throw out the current system.

Source: Carl Johan Calleman

What we are witnessing is thus not another recession, but the end of the world capitalist system and the protests in the US against “Wall Street” may be an indication as good as any of this. One however gets the impression that as long as the old system survives there is no real opening to create a new world to replace it. To do so would be too much in conflict with the legality of the current dualist power structure and only after some kind of full collapse has occurred would people in general be compelled and inspired to create a new way of living and relating in the realms of politics and economics. To prevent such a new world from being born we can also be certain that when the collapse comes this will be presented by the powers that be as nothing but a temporary downturn.

Source: ChrisMartenson.com

A growing number of individuals believe our economic and societal status quo is defined by unsustainable addiction to cheap oil and ever increasing debt. With that viewpoint, it’s hard not to see a hard takedown of our national standard of living in the future. Even harder to answer is: what do you do about it?

Charles Hugh Smith, proprietor of the esteemed weblog OfTwoMinds.com, sees the path to future prosperity in removing capital from the Wall Street machine and investing it into local enterprise within the community in which you live. 

“Enterprise is completely possible in an era of declining resource consumption. In other words, just because we have to use less, doesn’t mean that there is no opportunity for investing in enterprise. I think enterprise and investing in fact, are the solution. And if we withdraw our money from Wall Street and put it to use in our own communities, to the benefit of our own income streams, then I think that things happen.”