Comments on: The Do-It-Yourself Future http://blog.competitivefutures.com/2009/08/27/the-do-it-yourself-future/ Trends, forecasts, scenarios, opinions on the future Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:20:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: ericgarland http://blog.competitivefutures.com/2009/08/27/the-do-it-yourself-future/comment-page-1/#comment-353 ericgarland Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:04:52 +0000 http://www.competitivefutures.com/blog/?p=1047#comment-353 I am waxing a bit conspiratorial on the creation of this narrative. The media, as well as the heads of many institutions tried to make it seem like the collapse of our banking system was somehow our fault and our problem. I mean, how many of your neighbors actually bought up a credit default swap? How many of your family members are allowed to borrow 35 times their own income? Lots of people bought houses with big kitchens they couldn't afford, but they didn't wreck the currency per se.<br><br>In many ways, last fall's freak out was created by the banks and the banks alone. And now it's been fixed, miraculously, by Bernanke and the banks alone. What do we have to do with it?<br><br>My point: Humanity is as kind and clever and tragic as it ever was. We have real problems: aging populations, water shortage, climate/ecological change - but the global banking sector is largely a fictitious problem, governed by the rules of fiction. So I think people should literally mind their own gardens. It's real and tangible. This will keep us thinking and inventing. I am waxing a bit conspiratorial on the creation of this narrative. The media, as well as the heads of many institutions tried to make it seem like the collapse of our banking system was somehow our fault and our problem. I mean, how many of your neighbors actually bought up a credit default swap? How many of your family members are allowed to borrow 35 times their own income? Lots of people bought houses with big kitchens they couldn't afford, but they didn't wreck the currency per se.

In many ways, last fall's freak out was created by the banks and the banks alone. And now it's been fixed, miraculously, by Bernanke and the banks alone. What do we have to do with it?

My point: Humanity is as kind and clever and tragic as it ever was. We have real problems: aging populations, water shortage, climate/ecological change – but the global banking sector is largely a fictitious problem, governed by the rules of fiction. So I think people should literally mind their own gardens. It's real and tangible. This will keep us thinking and inventing.

]]> By: Will http://blog.competitivefutures.com/2009/08/27/the-do-it-yourself-future/comment-page-1/#comment-352 Will Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:45:21 +0000 http://www.competitivefutures.com/blog/?p=1047#comment-352 Favorite bit from this, "This is good news, the sign of a civilization that may not crumble over some fruity derivatives sold by financial companies that didn’t understand them either" Favorite bit from this, “This is good news, the sign of a civilization that may not crumble over some fruity derivatives sold by financial companies that didn’t understand them either”

]]> By: ericgarland http://blog.competitivefutures.com/2009/08/27/the-do-it-yourself-future/comment-page-1/#comment-326 ericgarland Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:04:52 +0000 http://www.competitivefutures.com/blog/?p=1047#comment-326 I am waxing a bit conspiratorial on the creation of this narrative. The media, as well as the heads of many institutions tried to make it seem like the collapse of our banking system was somehow our fault and our problem. I mean, how many of your neighbors actually bought up a credit default swap? How many of your family members are allowed to borrow 35 times their own income? Lots of people bought houses with big kitchens they couldn't afford, but they didn't wreck the currency per se.<br><br>In many ways, last fall's freak out was created by the banks and the banks alone. And now it's been fixed, miraculously, by Bernanke and the banks alone. What do we have to do with it?<br><br>My point: Humanity is as kind and clever and tragic as it ever was. We have real problems: aging populations, water shortage, climate/ecological change - but the global banking sector is largely a fictitious problem, governed by the rules of fiction. So I think people should literally mind their own gardens. It's real and tangible. This will keep us thinking and inventing. I am waxing a bit conspiratorial on the creation of this narrative. The media, as well as the heads of many institutions tried to make it seem like the collapse of our banking system was somehow our fault and our problem. I mean, how many of your neighbors actually bought up a credit default swap? How many of your family members are allowed to borrow 35 times their own income? Lots of people bought houses with big kitchens they couldn't afford, but they didn't wreck the currency per se.

In many ways, last fall's freak out was created by the banks and the banks alone. And now it's been fixed, miraculously, by Bernanke and the banks alone. What do we have to do with it?

My point: Humanity is as kind and clever and tragic as it ever was. We have real problems: aging populations, water shortage, climate/ecological change – but the global banking sector is largely a fictitious problem, governed by the rules of fiction. So I think people should literally mind their own gardens. It's real and tangible. This will keep us thinking and inventing.

]]> By: Will http://blog.competitivefutures.com/2009/08/27/the-do-it-yourself-future/comment-page-1/#comment-325 Will Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:45:21 +0000 http://www.competitivefutures.com/blog/?p=1047#comment-325 Favorite bit from this, "This is good news, the sign of a civilization that may not crumble over some fruity derivatives sold by financial companies that didn’t understand them either" Favorite bit from this, “This is good news, the sign of a civilization that may not crumble over some fruity derivatives sold by financial companies that didn’t understand them either”

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