Be Careful What You Wish For!

There’s preparedness and there’s tempting fate. We could reach such a level of anticipation that what we’re preparing for becomes inevitable. Economies, for instance, become dependent upon the production of ‘things’ for that eventuality which, ironically, we may have actually been trying to avoid all along! Economic momentum is a tricky beast to do business with as it tends to create powerful elements within our societies that strengthen their positions through exercising their raision d’être. These elements buy more and more power and influence resulting in development trajectories heading in one direction only with little chance of a u-turn. That is, until there’s a (often generational) sea change, a paradigm shift, especially leading societies away from self-destructive patterns of behaviour and towards those deemed more in-keeping with incoming ideologies. That begs the question of natural cycles generally observable throughout aspects of our realities. Those ‘things’ come and go in much the same way that forest fires cull older trees to allow the undergrowth to flourish. But, until (or in case ?) the fires begin to rage be careful what you wish for!