Towards a Second Renaissance

The current financial crisis has showed us that we all live in a closely interconnected economic world and yet that governments, bent on ignoring that undeniable truth, do all their little tinkering unilaterally. Whether we like it or not, we’re now all working together on that blue planet and narrow nationalism as well as a lack of an effective supranational governing body is creating a dangerous gap in what’s needed to harmonize this unprecedented interaction between nations. Our egomaniac political leaders will soon have to recognize that their governments alone aren’t able to control something that’s much bigger than them and that requires unfettered coordination and oversight far above their own abilities and mandates. That’s what will be known as humanity’s Second Renaissance…