On the Sinking of the Costa Concordia

The captain abandons his ship and claims he fell overboard. This is a metaphor for more than the Italian political scene. All current leadership in the Western World -- Britain, Europe, USA, Canada, Australia -- all are sleep walking to disaster with the same attitude as the Captain of the Costa Concordia who ordered dinner after the ship struck a rock over which he had driven his 3000 passengers, a rock which eviscerated his boat.

The political leaders of all major nations are driving by disastrous shallow waters in the Middle East, Afghanistan, Iraq, and beyond, to waive to the lobby in their domestic political scene. They preen and perform their ritual dances at elections, while enormous unfunded liabilities are increased and they build up burdens on people and powers of oppression in their governments. soon, they will strike a rock.

When they do, you can expect them, like the Italian captain, to blame their circumstances on others and leave no one in charge to handle the disaster they created. They will Schettino us all and scuttle the ship. The collapse of Rome was followed by almost 1,000 years of retrogressive disaster. For example, the bridge over the Danube the Romans had built and abandoned after 450 AD was not replaced until 1840.

The real progress of the last 500 years is in jeopardy from the world's shallow leadership, who dress like a captain but don't really know how to drive the boat or why.