Before and after the debt. The year 2011 is the year for starting again from zero. The company based on debt is finished. The doped growth from non-existent financial resources is no longer possible, neither has it ever been in reality. It was an enchantment that we wanted to believe in. A mirage connected to unsustainable growth passed off as development, when instead it was only predation, pauperisation, and impoverishment of society.
The age of growth, of the GDP as a measure of nations belongs to the past. Up until now , the debt has been a really powerful weapon, more than any nuclear weapon, in the hands of the politicians. Debt and “circences”. Give me an unlimited debt and I will construct anything, I will produce every new manufactured product, I will build the Messina Bridge. A tool superior to the Archimedes’s lever that with one pivotal point made it possible to lift up the world. The ceiling for the debt doesn’t exist. We have lived for decades in a house without a ceiling. In fact it can be raised at will by Obama or ignored by Tremorti.
The politicians have made use of unlimited resources, but non-existent metaphysical ones, and on these they have constructed their power and modelled a society of consumption in which the citizens have mortgaged their future for unnecessary goods. All this has arrived at the end of the line. Growth for growth’s sake is blasphemy, a theft of energy, time and thought. Why grow? For what fucking reason is it necessary to work like slaves for forty or more years and then die? For the profits of the multinationals? For the election policies of the parties connected by hand and foot to the lobbies? For a planet with a percentage of super rich people with telephone prefixes and masses of billions of disinherited people? What’s the meaning of this growth? None. A collective inebriation. An infernal sabbat of eternal debt with resources peddled with open hands by irresponsible economists like a drug. Politics is nude. The debt was the life insurance. It no longer exists. Before and after the debt. Now we have to measure up to reality, look in the mirror and plan a better world. The excess of work, the reduction of one’s own time, the destruction of the environment are bastard offspring of growth and of the debt. Today I feel like an optimist. The year 2011 is the first year of a new world.