The Birds and the Bee’s.

Posted by admin in Dating and Relationships on February 22, 2012

Why do we make such hard work of finding a partner? We of all the animal kingdom seem to have managed to turn one of natures strongest, natural and most basic acts into an emotional mine field. Why should that be?

I suspect that one thousand years ago it was not so and that this most natural of  evolutionary activity was far simpler. Could it be we now have to much choice? Our ability to travel the globe coupled with the Internet has presented us with almost mind boggling choice.

In many ways the popularity of online dating is a two edge sword, we can now draw up a shopping list of what we seek in a partner. Whilst this is perhaps an  extension of reality it is not exactly very romantic, is it?

My own dating site is full of beautiful women, many from Russia and the Ukraine and they are searching for their prince, their  Knight in shining armour. Conversely the men are looking for the drop dead gorgeous girl of their dreams. Very high expectation from both sides!

Only one hundred years ago the dating game was so much simpler and the chances are that relationships were formed on a basis of proximity, yes even the girl, or boy next door.

Compatibility, once we are over the hurdle of mutual physical attraction compatibility must be way near the top of the list for a relationship to work well. Luckily it is something that becomes apparent relatively rapidly and its crucial. Without it irrespective of physical desire, or sexual attraction it will be very hard, without one or the other partner subordinating to the other.

Another hitch is the sometimes held belief that we are all destined to meet our one and special true love. The one and only that awaits us somewhere, somehow. Now with a global population of some eight billion people that now enjoy the technology to communicate Worldwide this seems improbable.

Perhaps our main failure is that we think to much! Perhaps we have lost the art of simply being and allowing what will be, to be. Try it, online dating is a little like the fisherman that casts his rod into the water, why, because he likes to fish, his enjoyment is the act of fishing. Sometimes he will catch his fish and sometimes he will not, but either way he will return home from an enjoyable experience.

If we stop trying so hard and try to enjoy the moments that make up our lives then perhaps we will be more open to the possibility of love coming our way. Terrence Aubrey

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To become as an Orchestra.

Posted by admin in Inspiration on February 21, 2012

The World is a noisy place, more so than ever right now, so many differing opinions each one whether right or wrong important. Everyone seems clear of what they don’t want, but are they so clear on what they do want? The World right now is full, full to capacity of indignation, discontent and anger, but……

Are we so sure of what it is we want, sure, we want more equality, greater fairness and particularly in our own individual corner of the universe, but is that really it?

What are the great divisions between the people’s of “Planet Earth” right now? Are they political? Religious? Territorial? Nope, no and no the divisions are within each and every one of us and together? Well we are completely in a mess, right?

So much is happening both all across planet earth and to planet earth right now and all of this activity stems from the same core source, us. We have become individually and collectively discordant, out of harmony, both with each other and with ourselves and we are collectively making a terrible noise.

The beauty of an orchestra is the collective harmony created by so many individual players. It does not matter how gifted, talented and capable is each individual player they must simply play their own part, no more and no less and in doing so can create  magic.

The orchestra is lucky, they have a conductor, our conductor is more tricky, though just as real and important. That inner voice that tells you when you have been a complete shit, makes you feel good when you have acted selflessly, that’s the one.

What is very clear right now and just about right across the Planet is that we are increasingly clear and increasingly indignant about what we don’t want. We don’t want dictators, we don’t want greedy bankers, we don’t want unfairness,or selfishness, but do you know what? All of those negative human traits exist within each of us! It’s true isn’t it.

Ok, maybe the scale is different, but we can all sometimes be dictatorial, greedy and selfish. The only difference is that not many of us have climbed the pole of ambition to become rulers of countries, big bad bankers, or multi millionaires. If you can imagine your ego running wild, or on a bad hair day, it could have been you up there being pelted by bad press or machine guns.

The World is seething in torment and discontent right now. From East to West and North to South and for what and why? Something better than exists right now, can it be achieved?

If we content ourselves with very small evolutionary steps forward then yes, but whether we have time for very small evolutionary steps right now is very debatable.

Those negative aspects that we are collectively rebelling against right now have driven all of us, each in its own small and disharmonious way to upset the balance.  So now we have to add to the equation of our indignation the very way we are each individually living, here…….oh shucks.

Can we, will we share, turn the other cheek, agree to differ and respect cultural and religious differences, even if our very lives depend upon it? Can we learn to satisfy ourselves by taking only that which we need, rather than what we want. Can we respect each other for what we are, rather than what we have?

Will we, can we, shall we content ourselves with whatever small, or major part we play in the great scheme of things?  If we can then maybe we could begin to begin to create the harmony of the orchestra and if and when we do then we will truly see the full majesty of nature and being alive. Terrence Aubrey.

 

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How to fix the Economic Crisis.

Posted by admin in News and Events on January 28, 2012

Bold title, now tell us. Let’s flash back to two thousand and six. how were you doing then and how did you feel about life, the World and everything? Many would say, “pretty good”, things are looking good the future looks bright. How are things looking today in two thousand and twelve? A little uncertain, wobbly, worrying might well be the general reply.

What’s changed, now before you say “The Economy stupid”, let’s just try to step back a little and try to be a little objective. The World is still turning, right, the Sun rises and sets just as it always has, agreed? The seasons change, each with its own beauty, people fall in and out of love, babies are born and people die. So the fundamentals of being alive right now have not really changed at all, so what has?

Our perception, that is what has changed, we have in effect suffered mass depression. What once seemed attainable, now seems out of reach, the dreams we once had for a bright and fulfilling future now seem unrealistic. We are suffering from a deluge of mass doom and gloom and why?

Because we blinked. If you can imagine the dare devil high wire walker suddenly losing his confidence halfway across the Grand Canyon the chances are he will fall. Collectively, almost as lemmings we have lost our nerve, our confidence and we have put ourselves in danger.

The truth is nothing has changed other than our collective perception of our own capabilities almost as if we have collectively hit a wall of negativity.

Ok, we could look at the fundamentals of the economic crisis, we could analyse the component parts of the fundamentals of national and personal debt. Our individual and realistic capabilities and the realistic capabilities of what ever country we happen to live in and what are they? They are as limited, or unlimited as we perceive them to be.

Ok credit, buy now pay later is widely thought to be the at the heart of the problems facing the World right now, so is credit, borrowing a bad thing and if so why?

If you are fortunate to have a living grand parent ask them their views on credit. The chances are it was not an option during their lives and as they raised families so how did they survive? Fine, just fine, you are their living testimony to that fact. During their day a popular phrase was “Never a borrower or a lender be”. Clearly a phrase ignored by those that chose banking as a profession, but times change.

For the past forty or more years credit has been the oil that has formed the development of much of the World and has certainly allowed us to collectively develop much faster than would otherwise been possible. Many people would agree, whilst others have reservations about the wisdom of our need for speed and I count myself amongst them.

So right here and now in the depth of this huge crisis what is happening? Nobody has the confidence to lend anything to anyone! Banks will not even trust to lodge their overnight funds with each other, a previously common practise and this fear is actually at the heart of the economic crisis, a complete and almost total breakdown of confidence and it is this breakdown of confidence that lies at the heart of the economic crisis.

How can we break out of this self perpetuating fear that feeds upon itself and break out of it we must. We are collectively as that high wire walker halfway across the Grand Canyon. He can do it, he has done it before and has the skill and capability to do it, but his self doubt could hurl him to his death on the canyon floor far below him.

Clearly we have to collectively break out of our self doubt, stop dwelling upon our mistakes and move, the alternative is to fall.

Now their are a mountain of economists out there each with their own highly developed individual field of speciality and there are numerous ideological variations in terms of how they view the problems and how they see the solutions, but someone somewhere needs to see the big picture, not simply an isolated snippet of it.

The problem that we collectively share right now is that the positivity of yes we can has been drowned in an almost lemming like cry of no we can’t and if we want to reach the safety of the other side of that canyon we must either shout them down, or ignore them.

The truth is that the only change that has happened during the past six years is our perception and confidence that we can make it to the other side. As has always been the case it comes down to us individually to make that choice, but I have a mountain of debt’s, my mortgage is huge……..Silly rabbit, deal with it, you have been a silly boy so now work your butt off and chip away at that mountain. It is going to take you a while, but as you and your neighbours chip away at your individual mountains your self esteem and confidence in your own potential will grow. Eventually the “Big Economic Crisis” will be yet another blip in the history of a Human race that desperately needs to stop dwelling upon what it wants and can begin to truly appreciate what it has. Terrence Aubrey.

 

 

 

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Time to revisit our definition of Sanity?

Posted by admin in News and Events on December 12, 2011

The guy shuffling down the street with a “The end of the World is nigh hoarding hanging across is shoulders is crazy, right? The followers of Jesus Christ awaiting his return (with donkey?) are a little detached, maybe? The youngsters that would rather get high than get real are a wasted space?

Maybe it’s time we revisited our concept of normality, or the sane way to live and be. How is your imagination? Fair to middling will do nicely, now let’s imagine that this very big universe is actually a tree, OK, a very big tree for the nit pickers amongst you, but a tree, none the less.

Now we, the human race occupy one branch of that tree, yes sorry, but only the one. Struggling to imagine that? OK, it’s a really big tree and a really big branch! Feel better now?

Now let’s call civilisation two thousand years old, I know, I know, but for the purpose of this article two thousand years will do nicely. If you really have a problem with my reckless disregard to our evolutionary history here is a blank space_____. You can fill it with whatever number will make you feel better, but this article is not about numbers, it is about our definition of sanity!

So here we all are, sitting on this branch and what have we been doing for the past two thousand years? Slowly, but surely cutting through it and worse, cutting through between us and the main trunk of the tree. Is that not a difficult to believe state of affairs!

Actually the reality is even more scary, do you know who is doing the cutting? No not the village idiot, not the intellectually taxed and not even the “little people trying to make their way through life”. No incredible as it may sound it is the people we regard as sane, no, super sane. The leaders of men, commerce, business have been cutting through this branch as if there is no tomorrow and if they continue unimpeded there may not be.

So these people fit our definition of sanity? Are you completely crazy? We are seriously f***ed up! Would you willingly enter the taxi of a taxi driver that is blind? Of course not and yet we willingly submit ourselves to accept the leadership of people whose motives are worse than suspect, they are blinded by their own ambition.

So that crazy guy shuffling down the street with the “end of the World is nigh” hoarding, yes he might well be crazy, but he is in fact harmless. The people that have climbed to the top of whatever greased pole they have chosen to ascend are another story. Be they World leaders, or leaders of commerce, banking and business, their take on sanity affects us all and they are not leading us anywhere that we should be going. You think I exaggerate?

Which ever way you look right now it seems clear that the very people that we relied upon to define our definition of sanity are out to lunch. Pick a subject, any subject, go on, it’s a lucky dip. Those still stuck in the political back catalogue of East versus West can and do still exchange slingbacks. “My system is better than yours. The religions? Not much better I’m afraid, “My religion is better than your religion.

Business, commerce and banking? They have arguably been the most enthusiastic in cutting through the branch of our very survival, how do they rate on the sanity scale? Hopeless, completely hopeless, they seem to have become blinded by the power of their wealth and fail to realise that when the branch is weakened beyond endurance it will be irrelevant. They will fall just as hard as that man shuffling the streets with “The end of the World is nigh”, hoarding will fall.

Perhaps now is the perfect moment in time to revisit our definition of sanity and for the sake of our very survival the sooner the better. Terrence Aubrey.

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Evolution? That would be nice.

Posted by admin in News and Events on December 6, 2011

Do you believe in evolution? Do you believe we are collectively becoming brighter, smarter, more intelligent? I do, but clearly something is not working out so well, something seems to have hijacked the process. Something has in fact gone terribly wrong, what?

First let’s go back to basics. Do you feel, or believe that as a race, as a species we have evolved and developed in a well rounded and balanced way? You do? Thanks for taking the time in reading my blog and I hope you have taken something of value, but I suggest you now leave. What I am about to suggest will not be for you.

How many senses have we been blessed with? Some would say five, some would say six, but which ever you choose I’m sure you will agree that we have been lavishly equipped.

How many senses of meaningful direction as a species have we inherited? This time we are noticeably lacking in enrichment and this limitation seems to be playing havoc with our evolutionary process.

Wherever we turn now we see “me ism” and strong individual desire to get on, do well and individually carve out our little pot of gold, or glory. Is this such a bad thing? It need not be unless it is all exclusive and sadly it has become so, at least within recent times.

We need to press the pause button, but we can’t, but we can’t! We must, in the name of sanity do so and take a look out of our windows, take a look around. What exactly is the rush and to what destination are we rushing towards with such health damaging desperation?

Self extinction! Perhaps you feel that I am being over dramatic, that I am exaggerating? I will continue and if you believe that I am missing some crucial information that leads me into making such a bold statement, please tell me.

Remember climate change? Come on, it wasn’t that many years ago that this issue was the headline grabber of dramatic proportions, remember? Well it kind of fell off the shelf, became downgraded and of less importance, why? The Worlds economies fell apart and suddenly our destruction of planet earth became a downgraded issue.

So, climate change is no longer a big issue? Nothing changed except our perception and the Worlds political leaders. Well number one, stop calling them leaders, they are in fact followers, followers of public opinions and public concerns, they want your vote, sad, or what?

Let’s return to the headline, evolution, what happened? It would seem that as we evolved into an ever more one dimensional mindset evolution in many ways followed us, not completely (thank God) but to a large extent. I must do well, must obtain a good qualification, a good job, a good income and for what?

Sadly and in many cases to repeat the mistakes of our fathers and our fathers fathers. Perhaps I am being presumptuous? How many of you that are reading this actually believe that we are heading off of the cliff of our very collective survival? That the evolutionary path that we have followed is unsustainable, insane and unless we make dramatic and drastic changes, ultimately self destructive?

Evolution? The futures market for armaggedon is flying, the possible returns  are out of this World. Evolution? It’s on holiday. Terrence Aubrey.

 

 

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Time to admit we are completely lost?

Posted by admin in News and Events on December 4, 2011

Is the acknowledgement of ignorance the key to opening the door to wisdom?  Well this might just be the perfect moment for us to collectively admit that we are maybe not as clever as we assumed.

How did we arrive at this point, what went wrong? In short, everything, we entrusted our well being to small minded people. Let me expound upon that sweeping statement. The people at the top, the decision makers, our leaders are in large highly educated, but…..

Do these people get it? Do they see the whole picture, or are they so engrossed in their particular field of expertise that the big picture, or our reality does not fit within their view frame?

Let me ellaborate further, we all share the same World, right? An obvious given, consequently whenever any of us harm our World it effects everyone, very simple, yes?

Equally, we now live within a global economy. Why, how that came about is another story, was it planned and if so by whom and if if was not, are we sure that it is a good idea? Well, irrespective of the answer to that question the reality is that if one or more countries have a defective calculator, or our simply mathematically inadequate, we are all effected.

Is all of this such a good idea? Let’s troll back through the ages to a simpler time. If you needed some potatoes, eggs, or whatever you would visit your local farmer to but them. Simple right? And that farmer knew that you would only continue to buy from him if he supplied you with the right quality at the right price. Very simple and very effective.

Do you know how many middle men now stand between you and your desire to replenish your stock of potatoes and eggs and the man actually producing the product?

Added to this a really smart (with a small S) bunch of people, highly educated (in a one dimensional way) realised that they could make some serious money through speculating on those eggs and potatoes…….do I need to continue?

Is that really the best we can do after so much care and effort has been expended to our evolution? How to cream off a nice percentage from the eggs and potatoes and with a real contribution of zero.

For some, this rational will seem both naive and unrealistic. I say no, our acceptance of this complete nonsense is what is naive and unrealistic. Right now the World is facing serious economic problems. What has changed? Is that farmer now neglecting his farm and producing bad eggs and potatoes? Nope, the chances are his eggs and potatoes are as good as they ever were, so what is the problem?

The only problem lies within a system that allowed the intermediaries to become so important, actually more important than the farmer that was producing the stuff, no really and they tripped over their own ego’s.

A simplistic explanation? Absolutely, as is the explanation of what is happening with the World economy right now. That farmer set a value on his Eggs and potatoes. A value that represented his effort, his costs and perhaps a little on top and that was the price you had to pay. Now if you were going through a difficult moment he might give you credit, or ask that you do this, or that for him as a form of payment if he valued your custom and had faith in you as a good person.

So we evolved, we choose to allow the clever people to stand between us and that farmer and maybe twenty deep. Do they know you? Did they give a damn about you as a person, or your righteousness? Nope they used a calculator, your sum value as a human being became your net worth and your earning potential.

So, that’s how we seemingly unnoticeably evolved, we somewhere along the way exchanged being a good, decent and hard working person into a credit rating! That credit rating right now is the measurement of our worthiness and righteousness, How does that grab you? It’s a complete nonsense and even worse, we have allowed economic perverts to measure the value of the individual. Why is that such a terrible backward step? Simply because these are really not the people that should be at the forefront of our collective development. Actually, in my opinion they should be well down the pecking order, maybe bringing up the rear?

So how has this stealthy change worked out? If you keep yourself updated with news you will know that it has not worked out at all well. Everyone owes everyone else money and that in turn has lead to a crisis of confidence.  Given that the whole smart funny money game was built upon misguided confidence this has turned into a global economic crisis, or meltdown. Where should the finger of blame be pointed? Towards ourselves. We allowed ourselves to become hypnotised by this shallow sub culture. The ad men, the money men and the perpertrators of the mirage. Now is the moment to shake off the dust of this nonsense and make our voices heard. It’s time to follow your heart and your inner voice of reason. It’s time to change the TV chanel and the sooner the better.

The clever money people? They are alright, they saw it coming, knew they were peddling illusion and invested in the eggs and potato farmer. Terrence Aubrey.

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Have you made a difference?

Posted by admin in Inspiration on November 25, 2011

There are now some seven billion of us living on planet earth, seven billion people, can you imagine that? No me neither. OK, try to imagine the effect of these seven billion people collectively pushing in the same direction, trying to achieve the same thing. Wouldn’t that be something!

It could actually be, but so often we individually become side tracked, maybe we watch to much television, or become sidetracked, or worse beguiled by the creative craftsmanship of the advertising industry. Buy this, buy that and transform your life. Buy this car, house, toothpaste, or underwear and turn your life around.

The people employed within this mirage enhancing industry, what exactly is their contribution to our general well being, our evolutionary  ? Not much at all and I,m being polite, they are trying to make it, Trying to accumulate their little pot of gold that will enable them to live the high life that they themselves are trying to sell to you.

Can we just take a pause to take a look at this reality that we seem to accept as normality? We are each of us born into this world this life with a chance, a chance to make a valuable contribution, or a chance to try to enrich ourselves. That is the choice we are all given and what a choice it is.

Can we help to make this World a better place, a fairer, kinder and more sharing and caring place? Yes, but equally we can devote our energies towards the dust to dust, the inconsequential, illusion-ary happiness. The latest car, house, mobile phone, career, or toothpaste.

At the moment the illusion seems to be winning hands down, but is there a change slowly happening? Are we beginning to see through the illusion of materialistic nirvana?

Does it matter? For you yes, for the World in general at this moment in time not so much, but only so far as the wealth of the few that have through whatever means hit the jackpot. The few that have amassed the wealth to follow the admen and acquire that dream house, car, or underwear and what will we remember of them? Given the passage of time, either nothing, or nothing of consequence.

We live in a spiritual and meaningful vacuum right now, or so it would seem. Who is is inspiration-ally leading us in the right direction, from where are we learning the value that we can add and the importance of the opportunity we each have to contribute and give something of value?

OK, try this for size. Name the wealthiest man, the top entertainer, or sportsperson in the year AD one, does anyone have the slightest clue? A little easier, but not much, same list of questions for the year one thousand AD, any better?

This is the reality and now, probably more than at any other time we desperately need people than can make a meaningful difference. A real difference in advancing our common humanity in a meaningful direction, why? Because we might just be running short of time in finding a sustainable way of living here!

Sustainable, as in not destroying through our way of life the very World that we have been gifted with and like it or not, share with seven billion other people!

You wear a watch that cost how much? Your car, house, is worth how much? No, for many, too many people these are very important issues and very possibly form the mantra of their very existence. The only way that this mentality will be turned around lies with us.

Poor man/woman, is that it, the sole value and justification of their existence, to be materially stronger than you are! Is it not a little sad? Each one of us, can make a difference, a huge and important difference, in moving our collective evolutionary in a positive way. What does it cost? It’s free, but it’s value can be priceless.

We each of us have the chance to make a difference, or we can devote our energy towards the inconsequential. It’s our choice. Terrence Aubrey.

 

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What a mess!

Posted by admin in News and Events on November 16, 2011

A  very negative headline, so allow me to quantify it. We are a clever, evolved and smart bunch of people now, right? We have evolved in countless directions. We can travel the world at seriously fast speed, communicate with anyone, anywhere, well nearly and yet, and yet?

The world is in a mess right now, would you disagree? OK, maybe only half the World is in an economic mess, we used to call it the first World, but if the “First World” is in a mess who do the other countries sell there stuff too?

Maybe that is simplistic, but so is our evolutionary involvement. We used to be preoccupied with ism’s, different takes on how the wealth should be shared, were there big differences between the ism’s? Not that I can see, the powerful, or rich took the lions share and the crumbs were left for the little people to fight over.

To return to the core point, is this really the best we can do? If so it is pathetic. Forget whatever schooling you received and to what ever level, look out of your window, read the newspaper. It’s sad and it’s pathetic, no matter which path you choose to take, we are under achieving and that is being very polite.

What is your point of view? Let’s start at the top, you wish to pass on to your children and your children’s, children an evolutionary inheritance, so what would that logically consist of? A hope for a better tomorrow, a logical learning from our mistakes, right? So what in reality are we passing down the line? The fact that we have learnt nothing from nothing!

The planet is environmentally in crisis and why? Because the way we have chosen to live has made it so. So we chose this direction, this way of of life through economic reasoning? We chose to value to contributors to enhance our way of life? Really! We value people that can drive very fast, put a good show together, entertain us, lead us and lead us to where?

Dead end street, that is where we are right now, dead end street, come on, we can do better than this. There seems to be a chasm right now, a gap between the leaders of men and their peoples, but it is not insurmountable.

We need to change direction and we need to urgently do so. We need to applaud quality above quantity, sustainability above a fast buck and perhaps most importantly we need leaders that can lead rather than follow. Leaders that have at least some idea as to where they are leading us, another form of armageddon, or some hope for a fairer and more sharing tomorrow. A tomorrow where there is hope for everyone  and an environmental tomorrow.

Right now there is neither, surely we can do better than that, right? Terrence Aubrey.

 

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Let’s start again.

Posted by admin in Uncategorized on November 4, 2011

Or, another fine mess you’ve gotten me into.

Imagine if we could wage a magic wand and as a species could start all over again? If the prophets of doom and gloom are right it might actually happen, but I have a feeling that it would not be very nice.

No like the old fashioned teacher with the blackboard, chalk and erasure just imagine if we could wipe out all of the erroneous stepping stones that have slowly but surely brought us to where we are right now.

Do you have a strong imagination? OK let’s begin take two on the human race. The first thing we will need to do is draw up two separate lists, agreed? A list of all of our accomplishments that we can feel justly proud of and then another list of our accomplishments that have either backfired on us, or spored unforeseen side effects that are causing us some serious problems.

Let’s begin with with the positives, the stuff that we want to keep, the stuff we seem to have got right. We seemed to have realised that physical might is not the best way to convince someone of a differing opinion to our point of view, well kind of, or maybe it’s still a work in process? We understand the need to protect our children from the wicked World of adults, but just a moment, why should we need to, of more to the point why is the World of too many Adults wicked? OK we can come back to our successes later, I hope, maybe you can help me out here?

Now the list of stuff we are going to trash either completely, or seriously reappraise. Going to have to go back quite a long time in our history with this list I fear.

OK, Nº1. We seem to have developed a rather selfish and domineering attitude to the World that we were born into and a twofold misconception. One that anything and everything that we found here was exclusively at our disposal, be it growing, walking, flying, or swimming. Coupled with that we presumed that it was infinite, or at least unaffected by our careless disregard for its well being.

That takes us to Nº2. From this unwise presumption we devised a system of education for our children, we taught them if you like to go out there and conquer in what ever area of competence they were best suited for and that strain of thought dominated our evolution for hundreds of years, in fact is still does in essence.

Which leads us to Nº3. Due to this serious unbalance we then charged headlong into inventing all manner of stuff with not a care for the consequences. We needed speed, we needed to do everything and anything faster and we found it. We found that a primordial sludge that had accumulated over millions of years could be extracted and combined with another ambitious bunch of people the combustion engine was invented. Well things really began to hot up and machines were soon being created that could take us on land sea and air at ever increasing speed and the purpose? The purpose was essentially to speed up that process that began so, so long ago with the one dimensional education that was being dished out as gospel the World over.

All of this lead us to evolutionary leap Nº4. The World had shrunk, well so far as Mankind’s perception was concerned, it never actually changed at all, well it did, it was increasingly struggling to accommodate Mankind’s demands upon it. Anyway the next great invention was the “Global Economy”. A wet dream for merchants the World over. Now they could make something in Jabbawockee land at next to nothing, OK some chickpeas, rice and lentils and ship it half way round the World! Economic Shang-rila! Big problem, Remember Nº2 on our list, there was a price to pay a huge price, the combustion engine pumps out some pretty nasty stuff and soon their were literally millions of sources of this poisonous gas being pumped into the atmosphere, but that was not so important, people were becoming rich, seriously rich.

That lead two development Nº5. A very complex and sophisticated banking system slowly evolved to deal with the ship loads of cash and this Banks became international and the amounts of money they each had in their care became huge, I mean really huge. Now these mega successful merchants were by now locked into, maybe imprisoned within a mindset, they were not content to have these fortunes in safe hands, they wanted them to grow! No problem, some smart whizz kid worked out that they could loan it to the entrepreneurially taxed and at huge rates of interest. The birth of the credit system and the end result? Suddenly everyone lived in each others pockets until one day the system sprang a leak……

Well that’s quite a list of stuff we are going to trash it seems and in terms of our evolution could set us back what five hundred years, or more? But is it not a sign of wisdom that we should learn from our mistakes? Terrence Aubrey.

 

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Do you understand the economic crisis?

Posted by admin in News and Events on November 3, 2011

No I don’t either, but in simplistic terms it seems that Peter loaned Paul shiploads of money because Paul was going to borrow even more from John.

Simplistic diagnosis? For sure, but maybe we are not as smart as we presume ourselves to be. You must have heard about chain letters right? A Rubik’s cube of financial impossibility, you sign up, maybe pay some money and eventually a dream load of money would begin to pour through your letter box.

Now this tantalizing offer appealed to the mathematically taxed and I must include myself amongst them, but whilst playing with numbers was not really my forte it does not mean I am stupid and I never signed up, as appealing as it seemed because I thought I might be the last to do so!

Is this related to the finanacial crisis? Unbelievably it would seem so. The super educated people earning lottery money incomes seem not to have taken the time to think anything through. A little strange, no? On what basis did they justify their inflated salaries? We all assumed that  they were smart and ahead of the game right?

A fictitious interview. So Mister Bumble Bee specialist, you wish to borrow $500,000 to buy a super duper house and you earn annually $50,000. Are sure you can afford it?

Why heck no, but next year it will be worth $1,000,000, he receives the money and in that microcosm  lies the nature, the foundation of the economic crisis. Lots of “little people”, thinking they could join the “big” people through a little risk taking and entrepreneurial spirit.

Well it worked well for quite a while, actually quite a long while, so what went wrong? Who knows, maybe someone sneezed at an unopertune moment? Some economic genius was having a bad hair day and decided to examine carefully one of the foundational card of the house of cards causing the edifice to collapse, who will ever know.

So now the greater part of the Western World is bankrupt! Hey, how could that happen so quickly? Yesterday we were sailing into the glorious sunset and today we are washed up on a desert island, what happened, what changed?

Do you know what changed? Absolutely nothing other than confidence and perception, but that change of confidence cannot be underestimated. Suddenly that brave and astute investment became a very risky gamble. Suddenly the thought dawned that maybe the expensive residence you just borrowed excessively against might not be worth twice as much next year! Financial armageddon!

What is important for you? The well being of your nearest and dearest, right? Closely followed by family, friends and loved one’s. We can learn something from this. The people that have demanded telephone number incomes on the basis of their acute and crucial economic skills have been caught with their pants down and are probably worth less than your gardner at least he gets rid of the weeds yes?

So, what happens now? With luck a serious reapraisal, without luck the cracks are papered over and we carry on as we did before. Is that what you really want? Occuping sanity and some semblance of wisdom might not be such a bad idea, maybe? Terrence Aubrey.

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