Recovery is 6 months away...

I'm getting sick of reading quotes like these:

'Despite the negative [economic] numbers, "the worst of the hemorrhaging is behind us" and a modest recovery is likely to take shape next year, said Bernard Baumohl, managing director of the Economic Outlook Group.'


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This is the fiction we are sold, that recovery is looming on the horizon even as more and more signs point to unsustainable exploitation of natural resources, to declining energy supplies and ultimately to a period of sustained economic decline.

The problem of course is that stories like these lull us into a trance of thinking that recovery, like so many times in the past, is just over the horizon.

Its time to face the music. Its time to stop kidding ourselves and accept that economic decline rather than growth will indelibly mark the 21rst century, but that 'growth' and 'decline' are relative terms. If we keep our head about us, we can redefine growth. Growth means having more time in our lives instead of less. Growth means physical strength rather than obesity. Growth means re-discovering a spiritual connection. Growth means accepting natural limits of ecology, of nature and of human ingenuity instead of denying those things.

But growth requires humility in the face of limits, and articles like the one that appeared at www.msnbc.com do not guide us towards humility rather they lead us down the dangerous path of illusion and delusion.

Let's accept whats coming and stop accepting without comment those viewpoints who would try and pacify our will to change.