Marc Legare is a philosopher and motorcycle adventurist.
He has travelled extensively, worked and lived in Australia, US, and across Canada.
He has a varied working career including: Firefighter, Lawyer, Navy, Motorcycle Importer, plus others.
He chose to return to southern Saskatchewan because of his family's deep roots here.
There is a collective and pervasive sense among us that we are heading for a worldwide collapse of catastrophic proportions. More significant is that many, secretly or openly, look forward to such a societal shakeup coming sooner than later. Haruki Murakami stated, “Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.” Why do we wish this?
Take a moment to ask yourself a simple question; "Do I, on some level, secretly look forward to our society breaking apart?" If the answer is yes, we must acknowledge just how far down the rabbit hole we are. At a minimum, we need to acknowledge something is terribly wrong.
There is an ocean of reasons to believe we are past the breaking point and our society is heading for disaster; none so telling and fact based as our global debt crisis which proves beyond doubt we are living a false life. In spending so much money, we have sold our children's future in order to keep up our standard of living and our personal longevity. That debt has been pushed to such a limit it is an over-tight piano string that has to snap.
Our global overspending is currently far in excess of 250 trillion dollars and climbing like a rocket-ship. That number is so unfathomable and so confusing it is enough to scare the hell out of us. As it should. Worse still, it is not the aging who will pay the ultimate price-tag, even though we created the monster. It is the younger generations who will be required to pick up the pieces when it all comes crashing down.
It is already well established and accepted that our children will not live as high a life as we have. The massive debt, along with all the other resources we mismanaged and squandered, makes their future bleak.
We are collectively culpable for eating up riches and being willing to pay any price to delay short term hardships. The real reason we are guilty is that we will not repay what we borrowed for our comfort, safety, and security. That is the main reason why we all want it to come apart soon, because on some level we know it ought to come down on our selfish heads, not the innocent heads of those who come after us.
How in the world do you repay over 250 trillion dollars? It was not so long ago we held the belief that with "a little elbow grease," we could pay off our debts. Not this time, the debt is too immense.
If you are one of the many people who wish a massive correction would occur sooner than later, you are not alone. For our children's sake, at least some of the suffering should fall on our shoulders instead of the entirety of it falling on theirs.
In the words of Thomas Paine, "I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace."
The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the position of this publication.
