I was actually just listening to the "Debt: the first 5000 years" audiobook, specifically the chapter discussing the theory of 'Primordial Debt', and it really made me think about social contracts and how they need to be constructed in a radically different way post-globalization. No longer is the world comprised of nation-states that are neatly separated and self-sufficient. For westerners, the vast majority of commodities are produced on the other side of the world. We owe our capacity to sustain ourselves to the global supply chain (as shitty as it is)- shouldn't that debt we owe to the producing countries be manifest in our social contract? Instead, the people baring the majority of the consequences of industrial production are dehumanized and viewed as enemies to our material wellbeing.
In order to advance to a higher form of human civilization, we need a higher form of social contract. A holistic, global social contract- that frames the whole biosphere as the creditor to which we owe our social obligations.
I was actually just listening to the "Debt: the first 5000 years" audiobook, specifically the chapter discussing the theory of 'Primordial Debt', and it really made me think about social contracts and how they need to be constructed in a radically different way post-globalization. No longer is the world comprised of nation-states that are neatly separated and self-sufficient. For westerners, the vast majority of commodities are produced on the other side of the world. We owe our capacity to sustain ourselves to the global supply chain (as shitty as it is)- shouldn't that debt we owe to the producing countries be manifest in our social contract? Instead, the people baring the majority of the consequences of industrial production are dehumanized and viewed as enemies to our material wellbeing.
In order to advance to a higher form of human civilization, we need a higher form of social contract. A holistic, global social contract- that frames the whole biosphere as the creditor to which we owe our social obligations.
....And the West is in precipitous decline until we get better leadership and a new contract.
As long as MONEY is king...nothing will be sacred.
That first map looks like pure propaganda.
And social contracts in the west? Broken all the time, it seems.
I hope we get to a better world soon, and that the crisis we're experiencing isn't too brutal.
It seems like a great to to implement a guaranteed annual income.
Thanks for posting, Robert.