Taking Cartwheel Perspectives on Global Economics
by Edwin L. Young, PhD
October 23, 2010

What do you get when you cross a corporate CEO with a saint?  Well, maybe not nothing, but certainly a whole lot less.

  Is your own vantage point for evaluation bounded from inside the fabled, early twentieth century ‘white picket fence?’  Actually today it would be more of a gray, rotting, rickety fence, would it not? 

What if it were from your own personal jet at 5 miles high?  (Assuming you are one of the 1 percent who hold 43 percent of the world’s wealth.)

Take cartwheel perspectives and imagine what just the US GNP alone, under various scenarios, might be, if you will. 

From each perspective, at which point of longitude by latitude are you looking?  Spin the globe with eyes closed and stop with a finger on a spot.  How differently might you regard your own and the rest of the world’s economic conditions as your are encircling the globe?

What if you were a futuristic trends analyst?  What, then, do you see from various perspectives?  What, if you could, would you do about it?

Taxing to your mental energy, is it not?

From my own safe, powerless, little vantage point as a modern-day, secularized, version of Simeon Stylites¹,

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¹ Sitting atop his renowned 5^th century pillar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_Stylites

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