Davos 2012 – World Economic Forum
Posted on | January 25, 2012 by Benjamin Dovecar
Has anything changed since last year’s meeting? Of course it has! Everything only got drastically worse. The world is standing on the brink of a financial collapse.
That’s why I will just re-publish my last year’s article and once again point out the incompetence of the participants of this forum to solve the problems we’re facing.
Wasting money for nothing.
Even before this summit of the “most developed” nations kicks off, we can say it’s one big waste of money.
Why?
Because the world they imagine and create simply cannot function. Because it’s the kind of world that:
- creates new crises,
- keeps giving more to those who have everything while taking away from those who have nothing,
- wages wars out of appetite for power and wealth,
- spreads crime,
- encourages corruption,
- exploits people,
- deepens social injustice,
- destroys ecological wholeness of the planet,
- changes the climate,
- and even puts human existence in danger.
No matter how many times they meet — a hundred, a thousand — the outcome will be the same: one big nothing.
- Because they don’t get that the above mentioned issues can no longer be solved by money.
- Because the amount of money they would need doesn’t even exist.
- Because in the end all money will run out.
- Because the world will go bankrupt.
Yet they will keep trying and building a world that depends on money, uninsured credits, worthless securities, false business successes, stock market speculation, banking games, political intrigues and secret agreements.
A waste of time and money that goes into those summits. These kinds of meetings could be done through video conferences and the money could be instead given to charitable organizations, hospitals, social establishments, organizations for animal and environmental protection. To anybody, just don’t waste it on this and future fruitless meetings.
But then, if this money went for something useful, our “saviors of the world” wouldn’t be in the center of attention. Nobody would talk about them. Nobody would talk about how important and irreplaceable they are. They would be nothing, just as nothing will come out of their meeting. What will remain, however, is disunity, distrust and some non-obligatory declaration. And of course let’s not forget about the photoshoot at the end to wrap up the summit. That’s most important.
That’s why I write about ecohumanism. About the ecohumanist society that doesn’t solve global problems with money but courage, will, perseverance and a goal to create a world of a better today and the future.
Squandered Credit
Posted on | January 10, 2012 by Benjamin Dovecar
Greece is just the tip of the iceberg of recklessness and conceit of the rest of the world that floats in the ocean of indebtedness, carried by a current of irresponsibility while being pushed towards a massive waterfall of self-destruction.
But that is not the only reason why we are where we are — at the edge of the waterfall. It’s not because we over debted each other but because we misspent the credit that nature gave to us. That’s what pushed us to the edge. That’s the credit I am talking about. About credit that we squandered in order to “keep having more” instead of spending it to “become more”.
And even now, just before falling down, we don’t understand that our game is over and that soon we will fight solely for our own survival. This is not some fictional prophecy. There are solid facts behind my thoughts — the facts that we all knowingly ignore in hopes that nature will continue to credit us favorably and pardon the game we play. But it won’t because nature strives towards balance. By the way we behave we are an obstacle in nature’s way that it needs to get rid of. And that’s why it’s already acting now — by protecting itself while punishing us.
If we really are as intelligent as we think we are then let’s finally start looking for this rationality of ours. Maybe we will find it after all, somewhere deep inside of us, undiscovered. That’s all what we have left to do; otherwise we will fall into the abyss from where there will be no return. And that’s a fact, too.
Peace and freedom in Year 2012
Posted on | December 30, 2011 by Benjamin Dovecar
To all the people of the world I wish a peaceful and healthy new year 2012. Think and talk about the ecohumanist world. Start building this world and tell about it to people you know so that one day a different, better world can emerge. A world that John Lennon sung about back then and the world I write about today. This is a world of the future that is better for everybody — the ecohumanist world.
Year 2012 – Let us not be afraid of changes, let us be afraid that nothing will change.
Posted on | December 27, 2011 by Benjamin Dovecar
“When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.”
A thought by Thomas Jefferson that will next year and the year after flood the world of the poor and the wealthy and change it forever.
That’s why I write about a new global social order — ecohumanism. Seven billion people today, 15 billion tomorrow will eat this planet and then themselves if nothing will change. Let’s not seek solutions in the existing system because we won’t find them. We must demand and build a new, better world. Ecohumanist world. A world of humanity, social justice and ecological responsibility. A world of the future.
She’s Alive
Posted on | December 11, 2011 by Benjamin Dovecar
She really lives. If we don’t feel her, comprehend her, understand, respect and don’t see her beauty, are not aware of her uniqueness, don’t breathe with her, don’t live with her, then for her we are but strangers, along with our world that we have built.
That’s also the reason why all previous climate change conferences have been unsuccessful. Just like this latest one or any future ones won’t bring any results.
And why we won’t succeed?
Because we evaluate her with money and not with our heart. Because we don’t beat with her heart.
That’s why I write about ecohumanism. If you have been following my reasons why we need ecohumanism, you will remember my 89th article out of 101 where I wrote this:
Reason #89: Because ecohumanist society thinks completely differently than today’s society.
We Must Accept the Earth as Our Home and Mankind as One Family.
Without rational understanding and full comprehension of this notion, all attempts to solve the problems of our civilization are bound for failure.
It is urgent that we find effective solutions that will demonstrate clear vision and goals acceptable for all. We cannot aim for what we want right now, but for what we really need in a long-term: a lasting socially stable, humane and ecologically conscious global society, the only one that will be able to bring solutions and lead us safely and peacefully into the 22nd century.
Corruption 2011
Posted on | December 6, 2011 by Benjamin Dovecar
The 15th reason out of 101 why we need a new world order. Ecohumanism.
Reason #15: Because corruption breeds nothing but poverty, ruin and death.
Because the ecohumanist society doesn’t work for money but for itself, for an individual, for the community and for preservation of the environment, the corruption cannot develop.
The more we evaluate everything with money, the less we are worth
Posted on | November 28, 2011 by Benjamin Dovecar
Not only have we already evaluated everything in nature with money, the entire planet, then the human, now we are also evaluating individual countries and even the time that we would need to solve all the problems that are linked to money.
We evaluate things that cannot be evaluated. It’s abnormal. It’s sick. We are sick, addicted to money; a drug that is running short. Where this is all going, we can see on TV day after day. And it’s going to get worse.
Governments will be declaring state of emergencies, dictatorships will again begin to rise. With the help of military and police, the empire of capital will take over the world. The 1% will rule while the 99% will work and kill each other. And all of this will happen sooner than the bill that nature has yet to issue. The bill that we won’t be able to pay with money because nature doesn’t know money. Nature will not bargain and debate — it will act.
That’s why I write about ecohumanism. So that our agony with money comes to an end. So that we could avoid violence and misery. So that we begin to work for ourselves and no longer for money. So that all of us would live in peace and prosperity.
That’s why need to demand a new social order, a new world. We need to build an ecohumanist world. We owe this to our children and grandchildren. It is on us to build a world of content people who respect themselves, others and nature.
And it happened
Posted on | November 15, 2011 by Benjamin Dovecar
I wrote this a year ago (November 13, 2010) when I was forming the basics of ecohumanism. And it’s what happened.
The World on the Brink of Bankruptcy
The fact that there really is no money has clearly been shown by the real estate crisis, followed by the financial crisis, the approaching economic crisis and the recession which will soon take over countries that will simply go bankrupt because of their debt. Riots will break out, gradually growing into a global social crisis that will flood the world.
After a year or two, the entire global financial market will collapse. And It will happen.
The World on the Brink of Breakdown
If we add to all this the climate threat, almost entirely robbed out planet and destroyed environment, then we can get ready for a catastrophe of proportions we can’t even imagine. A scenario like this is possible. We have built the world with the means of money and credit and this is what wil bring us down.
The World of Illusions
Our whole world of prosperity is delusive, overblown and extremely fragile. It is based on perception that we can use money to create a world that serves only us. We are living in a world of illusions, thinking that we are untouchable and safe. These are dangerous dreams from which we have to wake up as soon as possible.
7.000.000.000 + 1 more
Posted on | November 9, 2011 by Benjamin Dovecar
2011 – Today’s world
7.000.000.000 + 1 more who was born,
7.000.000.000 + 1 more who needs a place to live,
7.000.000.000 + 1 more who needs fresh water,
7.000.000.000 + 1 more who needs food,
7.000.000.000 + 1 more who needs a job,
7.000.000.000 + 1 more who needs healthcare,
7.000.000.000 + 1 more who needs a pension,
7.000.000.000 + 1 more who pollutes the environment,
7.000.000.000 + 1 more who breathes polluted air,
7.000.000.000 + 1 more who already feels the impact of the climate change,
7.000.000.000 + 1 more who wants to go to school,
7.000.000.000 + 1 more who lives in poverty,
7.000.000.000 + 1 more who wants a decent life,
7.000.000.000 + 1 more who wants to live in peace,
and
7.000.000.000 + 1 more whose life depends on money.
2100 – The world the way it will be if we continue living the same way.
15.000.000.000 + 1 too many who was born,
15.000.000.000 + 1 too many who doesn’t have a place to live,
15.000.000.000 + 1 too many who is fighting for fresh water,
15.000.000.000 + 1 too many who is starving,
15.000.000.000 + 1 too many who has no job,
15.000.000.000 + 1 too many who has no healthcare,
15.000.000.000 + 1 too many who has no pension,
12.000.000.000 + 1 too many who destroys the environment,
15.000.000.000 + 1 too many who breathes toxic air,
15.000.000.000 + 1 too many who is a victim of the climate change,
15.000.000.000 + 1 too many who has no education,
15.000.000.000 + 1 too many who has nothing,
15.000.000.000 + 1 too many who lives in misery,
15.000.000.000 + 1 too many who dies in war,
and
15.000.000.000 + 1 too many who has no money because he is a slave.
2100 – Ecohumanist world, if we change and rebuild our world the way it should be. If we start living more modest in needs and richer in life.
12.000.000.000 + 1 more who was born,
12.000.000.000 + 1 more who has a guaranteed place to live,
12.000.000.000 + 1 more who always has fresh water,
12.000.000.000 + 1 more who is satiated,
12.000.000.000 + 1 more who has a job,
12.000.000.000 + 1 more who has healthcare,
12.000.000.000 + 1 more who is looking forward to retirement,
12.000.000.000 + 1 more who cares for the environment,
12.000.000.000 + 1 more who breathes clean air,
12.000.000.000 + 1 more who works and lives to reduce his impact in the climate change,
12.000.000.000 + 1 more who goes to school,
12.000.000.000 + 1 more who lives a decent and content life,
12.000.000.000 + 1 more who lives in peace,
and
12.000.000.000 + 1 more who is relieved of money. Because he works for himself, for the community and not for money.
Donkey Market
Posted on | November 3, 2011 by Benjamin Dovecar
A well-dressed stranger arrived one day to a peaceful, quiet and content village. Standing in the middle of the village, he announced that he was buying donkeys, $100 a head. Of course, the villagers needed their donkeys. They helped them cultivate the soil, produce food and live a modest, yet decent life. Nonetheless, to some, the price seemed attractive. The amount of $100 was a lot for them. And so, they sold their donkeys.
The next day the stranger came back. This time, he was offering $150 per donkey. Once again, some villages were tempted and sold their animals.
The good stranger returned to the village for the third day and offered $200. The story repeated even the next day when the very last villagers sold their donkeys for $250 each.
A few days later, the good man showed up again — this time offering $500 per donkey! You can imagine the people’s disappointment when nobody had any donkeys left to sell.
But the story is not over yet! A new stranger arrived the very next day, selling donkeys for $400 a piece! The villagers saw an opportunity for great profit. They thought they would buy his donkeys at a cost of $400 each and then sell each one for $500, making a profit of $100 every time. But nobody had this kind of money. They rushed to the bank and asked for loans. Now, everybody had their own donkey again, except that this time a donkey was worth five times more!
But sadly, there were no buyers who would buy these expensive donkeys. The villagers could not repay their loans and the banker was on the brink of bankruptcy. In order to avoid it, he seized all the donkeys from the villagers. Still, by doing so, he got back only part of the loans and his collapse was imminent. He turned for help to the village mayor. After all, his bank managed important business for the township and the banker was also the town councilor.
The mayor lent the banker the money from the town’s treasury. But the debt kept growing. The mayor then raised the taxes which the villagers could not pay.
When the budget ran out, the mayor turned to friends in other townships. To his surprise, all of them were in the same situation! The exact same story took place everywhere!
So all the mayors agreed to make some radical reforms. They began to save in all areas, cutting budgets for schools, kindergartens, pensions, healthcare… When even this was not enough, it was necessary to raise the taxes.
Through public media, the mayors quickly started to condemn this immoral story and the fraudsters who were already peacefully enjoying their hard-earned holidays. But the fraudsters showed a great deal of understanding for the crisis. From their luxurious villas on the Bahamas, they informed the mayors that they will support their election campaigns!
The lesson of this story? There is none, because in the donkey market, there will always be plenty of fools, well-dressed gentlemen and greed for everybody.