There is no difference between an EU Summit and a Maya ritual

If EU leaders feel out of touch, it is not because you don't understand finance. It is because you are watching a religious ritual disguised as politics

Imagine for a moment the ancient leaders of the Mayan civilisation: when the crops failed and the rain didn't come, they didn't stop to think if their belief system was wrong. Instead they thought the gods were angry and needed bigger sacrifices. They would pierce their skin and give their blood, waiting for a miracle. What we see today at the EU summits is exactly the same

Our leaders are not managers, they are priests of an invisible religion called "The Economy." When the system doesn’t work and people cant make ends meet, they don’t question the rules that brought us here. They simply ask us to bleed a little more: more healthcare cuts, lower wages to stay competitive, or accepting that the price of our homes is decided by an algorithm

The great lie is that these economic rules are laws of nature, like gravity. In reality, they are an instruction manual written by a few men 200 years ago to make money move faster

We made the mistake of making the market our master instead of our tool. In the past, the economy was simply how neighbors organized so everyone had food and a roof. Today, we have flipped it around: now humans must adapt to the economy. If a computer graph says a hospital isn't profitable, it closes, even if people die. If a forest doesn't make money fast, it is cut down, even if we run out of air

We have started treating people and nature as spare parts for a machine, forgetting that the economy only makes sense if it helps us live better, not just to make a number on a screen grow forever

That is why, when you see ministers looking surprised by a crisis, their shock is real. They are genuinely confused because they blindly believe in the manual. They were taught that if you follow the book, the sun always rises and everyone prospers. When the manual fails and the real world hits them with wars, housing shortages, or angry people, they freeze.

They aren’t villains plotting our ruin, they are people trapped in an old idea, repeating economic prayers that no longer work while they wait for the market to save them. They don’t know what else to do except ask us for patience and more sacrifices to save a system that no longer protects us

Real change won’t come from choosing a new priest to read the manual louder. It will come the day we stop looking at the altar where they perform sacrifices and start looking each other in the eye. We need to regain the common sense to understand that basics, like having a place to sleep or food on the table, cannot depend on whether an investor woke up in a good mood

We have to stop being followers of a faith that treats us like numbers and start building a society where the economy fits back into human reality 

In the end it’s about realising we can design new rules that put life at the center and money in its place: below us, not above us