The Wile E Coyote moment

You know the one.

Wile E Coyote is chasing Roadrunner (again). Roadrunner runs to the edge of the cliff, with Wile E Coyote in full chase. The Roadrunner stops in a stride before the edge of the cliff but the Coyote's momentum carries him forward and for a moment it seems that he can run on nothing more than fresh air.

Then gravity takes over and down he falls.

This for me seems to sum up how things are at present. Financial markets, the Euro, even the EU are running like Wile E Coyote with nothing more than fresh air holding them up. While the Coyotes of the UK Government, the EU Commission and others are behaving as if gravity will never take hold; but it will.

All the while shops are closing, jobless numbers are rising, buildings are burning (in Greece, but look out here in the summer) as it becomes clear that something has gone horribly wrong.

There are too many people talking about what has gone wrong and too few putting things right. The truth is that instead of wonderful self actualized people, empowered by their own skill and abilities to create wealth and personal worth, we have raised a generation, maybe two generations of people who in some parts of society believe that they deserve what ever they want as a right.

Governments of all stripes have encouraged this as they sought power for their own ends by bribing certain sections of society with their own money or worse with money from other sections of society. Divide and rule conquered common sense and any notion of the common good.

Whether at local council, County Government, National Government or at EU level the song is the same, take more taxes and spend it where we will rather than letting people decide for themselves.

This will end, it is likely to be messy. Vested interests rarely cede power voluntarily so bloodshed and violence is always a possibility.

In my view it's time for more self reliance, less sucking at the teat of Government who have no money in any case. We have to return to making things, creating value, growing food and all making a contribution. No I am not advocating some communist ideal, simply working together with enlightened self interest. We can't all be self sufficient but we can trade our skills and our goods fairly without needing this lumbering oversight of a bloated state that takes ever higher proportions of the wealth that we do create.

How do we get from here to there? One person at a time I suspect. Doing a John Galt (Atlas Shrugged) or similar until at last we get back to decent core values, where life experience is more important than Nike trainers made in China and creating a good life for oneself is of higher value than material goods made in a factory where the staff work more hours than you do.

It's time for change and it starts with us. One person, one action at a time. Start now.