Rising from the ashes

Iain Macwhirter is a columnist for the Sunday Herald and is the best commentator out there by far. This week he suggests how we can develop a new economic system that actually learns from the events of the last few weeks. And builds a better place in the process. It reflects what I've felt for a long time. It is a long piece but well worth reading.

Could it happen? Somehow I doubt it.

And a more radical stretch of thinking is that the real root of our problems is democracy. Democracy builds mediocrity by design. It is an experiment that has lasted a few hundred years and just aint cutting it. It creates policy and action that appeal to the short term self interest of voters, and sometimes self interest isn't what's needed - like now with the whole climate change thing. But what the heck do we replace it with?