So It Is Real After All

I didn't even think the 'credit crunch' was real when they first started talking about. Maybe it wasn't back then but after months of them (the media) banging on about it, it definitely seems to be real now and not just affecting over-paid city types.

My simple financial needs haven't been affected so I feel slightly removed from whats actually happening. What I can see though resembles the final epic moments of the last Indiana Jones movie where a massive temple becomes a swirling cloud of debris before disappearing into another dimension. The obvious difference is that the swirling cloud in my mind is not made of an ancient temple, but of major high street stores going bust, friends losing jobs, furniture stores endlessly slashing prices making their products even more worthless, and people on the street window shopping with cold, detached looks in their eyes.

The 'credit crunch' or 'recession' doesn't just have a financial effect on people. Even those who's bank balances have remained stable are being sucked into this swirling vortex of doom because we don't feel relaxed, were not happy with the balance of the country and were simply waiting for everything to go completely wrong.

And when it does, well then we will all be in trouble.

What can I do as an artist? I've come to realise that the country relies on its massively over powerful banks and businesses in order for everything to work. I can't really try and fight that. All I can do is what artists have been doing for centuries and that is to be as vocal as I can about the issues I see. Maybe when enough people are doing it and in the right way, the right people will hear.