Enough is enough

An utterly beautiful morning and a lovely lochside run.

The narrative regarding the global distribution of resources often divides the world into two realms – developing and developed. The subtext is that the developed world is ripe & mature, and the developing world aspires to get there too, which is only fair. Another taxonomy would be wealthy world and wanting world – terms used by Peter Tertzakian in his The End of Energy Obesity.

Unfortunately, as Tertzakian points out, this neat division doesn’t match the reality.  Not only do many developed societies include grotesque disparities between rich and poor, but even the wealthy are, in Maslow’s words, ”perpetually wanting” (ref).
Psycho-analysing the entire human race is probably too ambitious a project for a single blog entry, but this perpetual want could explain why the world waited with bated breath whilst Obama was compelled to increase the US national debt by yet more trillions of dollars in order to keep the economy growing, like addicts needing anther fix.