The Good, the Bad and the Future

I am more than fascinated by this subject of good and bad. A subject, depending on your point of view could be the complete opposite of someone else. Take for instance a real saint of our time like Mother Teresa, her opinions on poverty will be very different to Charles Bronson (the convict). SO good and bad depending on where you stand gives you your opinion on a given subject, it also gives you a path to follow, again depending on whether you have a strong or weak moral code. I often have disagreements with people on this point rightly so. Not on the specific of a good and bad occurrence or person but the general fact that there must be shades of good and bad, it is just that our society cannot seen to tolerate controlling this immeasurable facet of our society. The closest we get to it is the various penalties in the criminal justice system. What I do find rather difficult to understand is when we can clearly see events going against the common good, (bad) and nothing be done about it (bad) instead of some objection (good).

Have you ever noticed that we have a negative view of being good? Odd that, we had it at school; we had little stars in our home work exercises, (well I had one or two but not for neatness) we were given badges for being good at putting things away after playtime. We were given rewards for achievement, for example academically and sport. We were given responsibility for being a model student or pupil. So you can begin to see why in our working world and social too how bad is doing better. Let’s face it being bad is more fun. We like to be bad it makes us feel good, rebellious in some small way, like our teens.

Let’s take this a little further. And this is the bit that could get interesting and a little complicated. If the rule makers i.e. politicians are bad or have selfish intentions then surely our rule or laws are too strict. Conversely the selfless will err towards lenience. Here lies the balance in our modern society. Now for the next point, if the politicians are trying to get us out of world recession how can they do that when the banks are the ones to blame (bad) and are not to be slapped on the wrist for it, in fact they are being rewarded for doing bad things (bad). Things are out of balance. What is probably worse is that we are sitting here and letting them do this. What is worse still is we are letting them make the same mistakes we have no control over despite what you might think, that this is how democracy works it is not? We do have to let them do their jobs. There is very little trust for banks at the moment and seldom has there been a time to trust politicians and yet they are governing and controlling themselves. Even in some cases being in bed together as a business. Democracy should not reward the failing and penalise the successful which is happening now; a recipe for dissent, corruption and ultimately difficult change. We never seem to learn these lessons. What makes matters a little worse is today the G20 summit is taking place in London and they want to fix the worlds banks so that this doesn’t happen again and work out a deal to sort the world economy, good on them, but the problem is the banks and the governments. They are in bed together and because they are in bed together they, like deceitful lovers cannot see what damage they are doing to themselves and the rest of the people around them. Instead of throwing money at an ever widening hole in the hope that it will work. Comment now if you think it is a good thing to throw money at banks I do not happen to think so, anyone I know thinks poorly of it. Look at what happened when banks threw money at us, the very reason why we are in the mess we are in. Does it not follow that the same will happen in reverse? I am no economist and I suspect very few readers of this will be(I can dream that they might) but I see these events as a very bad thing, yes it will paper over the cracks in the short term but what happens when too many people walk all over it. You know that this will happen at the most in opportune moment. What would be the government reaction to this? Print more money I suppose nothing else to do.