Some of my amateur thoughts on problems of globalization and the financial crisis.
(An extract from article. )
As for today there is already quite a mere understanding of globalization and global society. We all know, we are bonded with one global net. Through this net we form advantages not only for our countries, companies, homes and ourselves but also we have learned to face dependence of each others’ actions through invading a global territory. To whom does it belong? Some of us may say global territory is a general realm, a big tribune for the ones who wish to talk, others claim it is owned and ruled by the ones who are trying to establish a greater hegemony. The truth is always between the lines for those who are looking for and actually foresight applied and complex advancement of events.
Whatever the reality promises, the horns have been warning us about problems long time ago, recalling the previous crisis in the past. But whichever globalization attempt we take, the one of Alexander the Great, the Communism building of Lenin, or capitalist globalization, we should understand, that the world have always been in evolution towards changes and the changes have never been about blockade existence.
More over, in any globalization urge there has always some ideology. Because people simply need to have some reasoning, in fact usually just a formal one, for uniting. Ideology is what can awake a desire to form a coalition, because it promises a “better option”.
Better option is a basic need so it works depending on what is the current demand. Let’s take the famous pyramid of Maslow. According to latest we are growing in our needs as we find the basic security and food. So, if the majority needs security, the ideology of unity needs to secure borders, and if majority wants to be rich, then ideology goes straight into your house trying to make you need consumer products and luxury goods, drawing glossy picture of a posh life. “Buy yourself happiness in credit!..”
The risks are here on surface right away. Too much of security urge will cause a hegemony of nuclear arms and bombs, too much of wealth and welfare talk will cause too much greed and fast money-making systems and schemes. But we can’t just ask to stop a demand and run back to caves and find food hunting in the woods…
Right. we have created globalization and we have to make a use of it somehow. Globalization talks about being big, united but as we grow and adjust this world to our growing needs we become more and more dependent on each other. Here comes the question. Why to globalize if it leads to dependence and new forms of slavery? The answer I think lies in finding the independence within the system; not by disconnecting, but by identifying ourselves with our real needs and by working hard to reach the a human development, so needed today. This is not another moralist call for social responsibility; this is a call for a self- development and mental clearness. Too many people are using others, who are busy with fulfilling the goals that are put in their heads by global demands and manias.
If we want to feel ourselves free and stay confident in this big ball room of modern society, we should understand, that too many of us are trying to “go big” by propaganda of what they try “to sell” to us, be it a hot-dog or a terrorism.
Here I try to state about some of the icons of present economically globalized world, making my point that current global crisis has its role in being an explosion of many ideological bubbles that didn’t have any assurance and real value. The ideological re-congestion of a permanent reorientation causes people want everything and right away, as they are too messed up about their real desires.
Such systems with people working “hard” for your imaginary “one-click” happiness under certain propaganda of global welfare are very dangerous as too much “kindness” of “giving” can eventually bring to a lack of willingness of those people who own, to share with the ones who don’t. And then the “givers” are gone in heartbeat, leaving the world in chaos to deal with its problems. Who are those givers? The top managers, brokers, private bankers, stock players, re-investors, different business dealers, the list goes on with all the money jugglers. When there is no money to juggle, they juggle with let’s say apples trying to “sell” them to us as a value…
This is the underflow of the latest financial storm, which blew away not only the American stock and real estate markets, but economical stability of all the Globalized World.
Nothing comes and goes easily . Everything takes time… (Even the Crisis).
V. A.
01.2010.
Yerevan, Armenia
