Are You Ready for the Financial Crisis? Essay

There is a feeling of gloom and deja vu that falls over me during every financial crisis. I find that there are many proposals from government and large institutions to patch things up back to their original states, but few that explore alternatives.
I know that I am not alone on this most young people I know are growing quite despondent about the "way things work" in our political system. It feels like the prospects for authentic change gets smaller by the minute. There is a vibe that the writing is set in stone. That there's only one way, one process, to do things.
This may sound platitudinous, but for some reason it keeps getting overlooked. And why wouldn't it? It is easy to miss the point when we are huddled under the banner of one myopic political camp or another. And even more so when political conversation is prepackaged for us, spoon fed by the media. Few stop to ask exactly what it is they're fighting for.
If we ever nurtured the hope of building a new tomorrow, somehow we've been disabused of that ambition. We feel that "change" can now only mean a shifting around of trivial conditions, without a fundamental shift of the core concepts from which we define our government. We seem to dream of creating a perfect system of government that will itself do away with all the need for conscious and heuristic-driven participation in its making. This "ultimate system" ultimately entraps us in a dark corner, throwing out any notion of seeing the light of day. We experience this all the time. I like to call it the "it is what it is" virus.
[Comes from how we educate our people]
And it is dangerous indeed. It silently spreads and becomes the normal. We then inject this "normalcy" into our culture, where it lives for many years. But, as history shows, there are moments, or gaps, where the core concepts of our culture are up for grabs. Where bold men decide to poke holes and take a look at the cage in which our system lies. The catalyst for these moments (movements?) are usually financial crises.
In Puerto Rico, the burdensome cultural deadweight we've been carrying is now collapsing over our heads. And it is time to rethink. Rethink the system. Rethink the laws. Rethink the public jobs. Rethink the fundamental meanings from which we build our lives.
Intuition tells us to fix what is broken, but our intuition is a child of our culture, and our culture is infected with the virus. The truth is, we shouldn't aim to bring back the safety, we should aim to take more risks. To ask more questions. To wonder whether the conception of government as a robust, non malleable system and safety net establishment is something we should be fighting for, or is there something else.
During the past ten year, governments all over the world, including Japan, US, UK, and Europe, have all decided