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Fences, especially those erected to prevent the intruder or to lock up the undesirables, are always a strategy humans rely on to deal with crisis. They are effective up to a point. Then history serves up a few counter moves and the fences cease to function as intended.
It’s of interest to me that the drug cartels of Northern Mexico have made their first violent incursions across the border approximately one year after we erected “de-fences” down there. While not directly a causal relationship, it none the less followed that historical pattern.
What concerns me about what I see happening with the entire economic debacle, is simply this: international response seems to be attempting to fence in the problem. The goal seems to be to restore things to the way they used to be.
What if we’ve gone past the point of return here? What if there is no going back? My sense is every bit of resource put into maintaining yesterday will make only make the transition that much harder. All I see is a desperate attempt to surround the problem and find a restore button.
What if history is in fact in the process of birthing its next offspring? Then, in the great amphitheater of history, we need someone to clamor up to the lectern and turn the page.
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