Maybe we shouldn't feel so sorry for the horribly impoverished Thai folks. Who's going to survive if or when we're challenged for our very survival? It isn't going to be us softy westerners, brought up in world of privilege and plenty. We who live in a castle of cards, victims of financial meltdown because of worthless financial instruments and lax securities laws and co-operative regulators.
Yes, maybe all those companies employing millions of people around the world give everyone a way to earn money and a way to survive. You'll notice though it's a pretty rickety platform. So what happens when the platform collapses? What can you do to survive? Few people have any worthwhile life skills such as carpentry, farming or animal husbandry. The Thai people do though and maybe they're suffering a little bit more in the economic downturn but they will survive.
This post should tickles the fear centre of the brain but you probably you won't buy the message. But do you want to face the most basic difficulties, such as growing food and making a shelter, without any knowledge? I think some of those "crazies" in Canada who are growing their own vegetables and raising their own animals might not be quite so crazy and, if you pin them down, they might admit just a little bit of that fear of the possibility that things might get worse.
Up to you. And me.
Source: Behind the Noodle Curtain
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