Right Said Fred – The New Left
COMMENT, USA, Australia, UK– I look forward to a culture of ideas, dreams, art and individual creativity.Well I can hope! Many of you have said to me you dream of the same thing.
But first we have to get over this industrialist mass-produced thinking.
Here’s how the current global model goes:
Produce goods in a large a quantity as possible.
Ensure all production and pollution is outsourced to a developing country.
Ship goods all over the world.
Repeat until planet chokes.
Follow this with:
If goods don’t sell, discount them.
If goods sell well, mark them up.
When goods expire or don’t sell, bury them in landfill.
In this process use all the Earth’s finite resources.
The sad thing is this seems to be the only model of production. It was taught to me in post-graduate business, and is the paradigm of thinking I have discovered in many businesses.
So what’s the alternative?
The innovation is in moving to a model of:
More localised small-scale quality production.
More regional branding.
International shipping using solar sail boats, not oil-based boats.
More efficient point-to-point distribution.
This thinking needs to get out there. I have been noting nascent trends in this area, but their acceleration is sadly waiting for major shock events such as recession, depression, plagues or major weather events.
But the existing free-market laissez-faire economic thinking where we leave everything to the market is hopelessly inadequate without government guidance.
The only problem is that it is a brave politician who does something.
And conservatives, are by nature, conservative.
It’s Up to a ‘Brave New Deal’?
There is a strategy for a New Left here, a new mission instead of capitulating like Tony Blair, and giving into blatant Thatcherism or Neo-Conservative thinking.
At 2thinknow, I have been analyzing global thinking for some time, and there are massive opportunities in the area of a Left based movement to focusing on redefining business and production.
Nationalization is also not a bad word any more.
Privatization merely transfers wealth to corporations from the public hands.
Debate over privatizing is ignorant and in most cases ill-informed and short-term economic balance sheet wizardry, Enron-style.
There are limited circumstances where competition over services can be better (as in Telecoms), but the infrastructure should be national.
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So New Left, do you want a mission?
Or do you want to slink off in the café, talk of the past, and pretend that being Conservative-Lite is good enough?
Let’s start a Brave New Deal, that’s what I think, and that’s the future 2thinknow see for the world. It’s a huge opportunity.
Take care,
Christopher
Speaker. Author. Editor-In-Chief. Executive Director of Innovation, 2thinknow.
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