Economy Collapse Cure Delusion
Economy Collapse Cure Delusion
We are Deluding Ourselves Re The Required Economy Collapse Cure.
It’s Not Just The Economy, It’s The Culture That Collapsed.
A. Notes re the apparent major aspects of the collapse
(1) About “Scientific Progress”
“Implications Of Science And Technology Evolution”
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-P81pQcU1dLBbHgtjQjxG_Q–?cq=1&p=419
What and whereto progresses in “Scientific Progress”?
Answering this requires meticulous pondering. This subject is not one quaint aspect within our present 21st century technology culture. This subject is THE essence and foundation of the course and goal of our existence, of our life as individuals and members of our phenosociety and of Earth’s genohuman group.
Science-based Enlightenment started in the 18th century and was the basis-foundation of Western culture-civilization. It came to a grinding slowdown in the 20th century, and systematic basic study of life ceased by the 21st century. It ceased because the quest for enlightenment has been gradually replaced during the 20th century by the pursuit of technology-capital-greed values-attitudes-morals-ethics of the 21st century technology culture.
“Scientific Progress” is the continuous promotion of the pursuit by science, of convincing, ever closer approaching, approximate models of the real world including life and ourselves. This is furthering Enlightenment’s inherent philosophy and attitudes in regards to individualism, universal human progress and, most important to humanity, the applications of reason.
So What Is Needed To Advance Science?
Again and again, as long as Science and Technologhy are considered and handled, conceptually and administratively, as one realm and one faculty the disregard of science in favor of technology cannot and will not be overcome. This conception and attitude is THE CORRUPTION OF SCIENCE BY THE 21st CENTURY TECHNOLOGY CULTURE. I reckon that most, if not all, readers of this article associate science and technology conceptually, demonstrating the tight hold of the 21st century technology culture on their mentality-concepts-attitudes.
(2) For the 2008 Sciencenews Of The Year, YOK the world-wide economy collapse
http://www.sciencenews.org/index/feature/activity/view/id/39395/title/2008_Science_news_of_the_year
Science News editors and writers survey the top news from the world of science in 2008. The selected stories are featured in this year-end issue, with 13 subjects’-links to the original stories. The subject of one link is “science and society”, and - unbelievable - the 2008 world-wide economy collapse YOK, it does not even exist there…no mention and no reflection or pondering on its nature, symptoms and cause. This subject does not belong in “science and society”…
The world-wide economy can be saved ONLY by conceptual and factual harrowing of the personal, social and societal values of the 1920s technology culture. Science and technology must be conceptually and administratively divorced from each other in order to renovate the old science-oriented culture, with its humanity-oriented values.
(3) “Money Printing Will NOT Cure The Technology Culture Greed Cancer”
http://www.physforum.com/index.php?showtopic=14988&st=390&#entry390280
The Technology Culture Greed is neither a lofty nor an essential societal cultural ideal that should be maintained and upheld at all costs, even if now, March 2009, we still see crowds of pitiful obstinate Pavlov’ed clinging greed-devotees doing their stock-markets activities all over the world. They just would’nt accept reality…
Money printing will NOT cure the technology culture greed disease. Money printing in the present state of affairs, like a blood transfusion in a terminal situation, will only enable temporary precarious respite, not cure. It would take a steadfast dedicated campaign of cultural inovation to save ourselves from collapse and proceed on a course of rational science culture.
(4) “Real And Virtual Energy, And Keynesian Salvation Prospects”
http://www.physforum.com/index.php?showtopic=14988&st=345&#entry384952
There are no short-cuts for effecting a cure of the malignant world economy greed cancer.
The present tone of the world’s culture, and even ethics, including the banners of a variety of types and shades of greed, has been set by the 20th century Technology Culture. Its essence is the legitimacy and admiration of gaining capital via absurd virtual activities, activities without or beyond production of real essential welfare assets for humans.
The prospects of salvation of the collapsed economy via a Keynesian scheme are, in the long run, proportional to the odds that the culture of Earth’s humanity will evolve towards more rational societal values and self-organization…which is - how unsurprisingly rational - the odds of every group of organism to survive…
There are no short-cuts for effecting a cure of the malignant world economy greed cancer. The cure and recovery from this cancer entails a steady resolute cultural modification of 20th century personal and societal capitalistic greed values-ethics-morals. It entails public education to value and promote legitimacy and respect only of shares-stocks of products, services and processes that contribute to public health, security, basic comfort, education and science, and to reject and shun offers of capital gain via matters non strictly-directly welfare-contributive.
And it entails a steady resolute continuous promotion of rational respect to non-luxurious life style, to a wide civic public social security network, and to continuous pursuit of further scientific comprehension of ever closer approaching approximate models of the real world including life and ourselves. This would be a return to and furthering of Enlightenment’s inherent philosophy and attitudes in regards to individualism, universal human progress and - most important to humanity - embarkment on a road to societal application of rationalism.
Dov Henis
(Comments From The 22nd Century)
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