Multinational corporations are gearing up the way to a certified 'global village' reality. The world, in all its aspects, does follow up a path towards global integration. It is inevitable as the transactions between individuals or groups of individuals, in disparate locations around the globe, grow exponentially as time goes by. Multinational corporations have the organisation to achieve that.
Lots of thoughts which are needed to be channeled appropriately. Questions in seek for answers.
Their expansion a result of a multitude of all the wrong reasons, paramount being the maximisation of profits, but at the same time, they only have the know-how and possess the necessary organisational structures to bring the world closer together.
Someone can argue that the profits drive tends to leave places in their path bone dry, lunar landscapes. Using up remorselessly all resources a place can offer. Human and natural resources alike.
But on the other hand they push the world nearer to its attractors. Amidst conflicting forces they spread the means for development and bring the world communities together.
Whereas I find this necessary, a major concern is the extent of the damage to environment and to human lives. Would they manage to bring the world in an unrepairable state beyond recovery? If they are left on their own they would certainly do.
Their course unstoppable. Supported to the hilt by the multitude of legislation and the more effective underlying web of power in governments and states, what spawned them in the first place, spring out of their home countries, to spread all over the world. Assisted by the dominant, in most individuals, ego-centred facet of the human persona, to look after dear self blind of others, driving its insatiable hunger for profiting at all costs.
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Wednesday 27 February 2008
Saturday 9 February 2008
Scope of individuality
Makes me feel like throwing up, it boaks me. Profits? A feeling of revulsion. As in the Atlas shrugged at 50, proclaim
" .. who held to his own ideas and ideals, in stark contrast to those who surrender their dreams simply for the empty approval of others."
that is true and is everywhere, in all societies and it applies for the capitalists and for the "postmodernists", and in short for any individual.
" ... are needed even more today to provide the philosophical basis for a much-needed culture of principled individualism."
I am getting confused or the message is a product of a confused mind. If the American culture is not purely or largely individualistic, why would be in need for individualism or is it the 'principled' what is in question here? I can not think any other society on earth to be more individualistic than the American society.
Individuality? It makes me think that the only individuality you talk and care about is your very own individuality, your cherished ego. Individuality thrives when it considers the individuality of all individuals, and in a society like yours the individuality that is nurtured is the individuality of a handful, hand-picked individuals ignoring all other.
And a misguided individual which at some point in her life guided by her own simplified mind, produced the work you so proclaim that proves your style, a few self-cherished concepts by the likes of you, out of the richness of concepts about. And by virtue of these few partial concepts built a worldview totally defined by her choices.
Any individuality will grow only when all individualities are let free to grow, in the farthest out freedom-to-grow version, as it can be imagined.
It is vile to mingle genuine human traits with false, empty messages. To admit that there were and are
"... pseudo-businessmen, looters who were more interested in appearance than products; who used government to extort wealth from others; and who were guilty and ashamed of their prosperity."
is not enough to exonerate the pursuit of profits for what it actually is, a scourge to humanity.
Profits? Profits? What on earth would profits give you apart from indulging your ego and spoiling your body.
" ... and who took pride in their profits and achievements."
Does humanity live for that? Profits! Is it its ultimate goal? Profits! Is what it is longing for? Profits! And what kind of achievements are these? As they are so proclaimed. Measured in hard currency?
We are but simplified minds. Our mental capacities does not allow us to be any better. Unable to include in our daily thinking everything that exists and takes place around us. And that is what we are. And fair enough.
But this is something we should always bear in mind when we take a stance, look around and address the world.
Everyone in the world that has been born and died or is born and still alive or even (may be, it depends) has not been born yet and not lived, is, or is going to be an individual with a simplified mind.
Me, you, everybody should drive that deep into mind before even think to actually do pass judgment against another person or persons.
Everybody has the potential to thrive if a chance is there to have.
" .. who held to his own ideas and ideals, in stark contrast to those who surrender their dreams simply for the empty approval of others."
that is true and is everywhere, in all societies and it applies for the capitalists and for the "postmodernists", and in short for any individual.
" ... are needed even more today to provide the philosophical basis for a much-needed culture of principled individualism."
I am getting confused or the message is a product of a confused mind. If the American culture is not purely or largely individualistic, why would be in need for individualism or is it the 'principled' what is in question here? I can not think any other society on earth to be more individualistic than the American society.
Individuality? It makes me think that the only individuality you talk and care about is your very own individuality, your cherished ego. Individuality thrives when it considers the individuality of all individuals, and in a society like yours the individuality that is nurtured is the individuality of a handful, hand-picked individuals ignoring all other.
And a misguided individual which at some point in her life guided by her own simplified mind, produced the work you so proclaim that proves your style, a few self-cherished concepts by the likes of you, out of the richness of concepts about. And by virtue of these few partial concepts built a worldview totally defined by her choices.
Any individuality will grow only when all individualities are let free to grow, in the farthest out freedom-to-grow version, as it can be imagined.
It is vile to mingle genuine human traits with false, empty messages. To admit that there were and are
"... pseudo-businessmen, looters who were more interested in appearance than products; who used government to extort wealth from others; and who were guilty and ashamed of their prosperity."
is not enough to exonerate the pursuit of profits for what it actually is, a scourge to humanity.
Profits? Profits? What on earth would profits give you apart from indulging your ego and spoiling your body.
" ... and who took pride in their profits and achievements."
Does humanity live for that? Profits! Is it its ultimate goal? Profits! Is what it is longing for? Profits! And what kind of achievements are these? As they are so proclaimed. Measured in hard currency?
We are but simplified minds. Our mental capacities does not allow us to be any better. Unable to include in our daily thinking everything that exists and takes place around us. And that is what we are. And fair enough.
But this is something we should always bear in mind when we take a stance, look around and address the world.
Everyone in the world that has been born and died or is born and still alive or even (may be, it depends) has not been born yet and not lived, is, or is going to be an individual with a simplified mind.
Me, you, everybody should drive that deep into mind before even think to actually do pass judgment against another person or persons.
Everybody has the potential to thrive if a chance is there to have.
Thursday 7 February 2008
Mr John McCain voted as the next President of the United States. The white man wins.
This website reports on a study which shows that culture influences brain function, following up the trail left by research in psychology.
"Psychological research has established that American culture, which values the individual, emphasizes the independence of objects from their contexts, while East Asian societies emphasize the collective and the contextual interdependence of objects. Behavioral studies have shown that these cultural differences can influence memory and even perception. But are they reflected in brain activity patterns?"
Is there anything here that can be connected with the current presidential primaries in USA? Yes there is, as the values adhered by the American people define the simple rules followed by individuals in the American society, and by that, its complexity and the emergent states which will come out of the process of the presidential primaries. Emergent state being the next administration that would follow up Bush.
As the American culture values the individual, it is obvious that their vote is judged on issues that emphasize the independence of the objects from their context(s). The objects being, the candidates and the context(s) being, the current local and global political situation. The candidates will be picked according to their individual merits, regardless of the policies they profess, their approach to the context.
The New York Times report after the decisive Super Tuesday primaries that
"Black voters overwhelmingly supported Mr. Obama ..."
and
"Women went, by large margins, to Mrs. Clinton."
and certainly on the day after the Presidential election they will announce
"Mr John McCain voted overwhelmingly as President of the United States."
As the overblown and misguided American individuality will certainly choose along gender and racial lines and the choice between a white man and a black man or a white woman, is not hard to guess.
The white man wins. So there it is again, four more years of McCain health care
"For free-market, consumer-based system; has pledged affordable health care for every American without a mandate; says universal health care is possible without a tax increase."
war in Iraq,
"Voted in 2002 to authorize invasion, still supportive; in favor of troop increase; against a timetable for troop withdrawal."
economy,
"Short-term plan is long-term plan: make the Bush tax cuts permanent; eliminate alternative minimum tax."
and so on.
"Psychological research has established that American culture, which values the individual, emphasizes the independence of objects from their contexts, while East Asian societies emphasize the collective and the contextual interdependence of objects. Behavioral studies have shown that these cultural differences can influence memory and even perception. But are they reflected in brain activity patterns?"
Is there anything here that can be connected with the current presidential primaries in USA? Yes there is, as the values adhered by the American people define the simple rules followed by individuals in the American society, and by that, its complexity and the emergent states which will come out of the process of the presidential primaries. Emergent state being the next administration that would follow up Bush.
As the American culture values the individual, it is obvious that their vote is judged on issues that emphasize the independence of the objects from their context(s). The objects being, the candidates and the context(s) being, the current local and global political situation. The candidates will be picked according to their individual merits, regardless of the policies they profess, their approach to the context.
The New York Times report after the decisive Super Tuesday primaries that
"Black voters overwhelmingly supported Mr. Obama ..."
and
"Women went, by large margins, to Mrs. Clinton."
and certainly on the day after the Presidential election they will announce
"Mr John McCain voted overwhelmingly as President of the United States."
As the overblown and misguided American individuality will certainly choose along gender and racial lines and the choice between a white man and a black man or a white woman, is not hard to guess.
The white man wins. So there it is again, four more years of McCain health care
"For free-market, consumer-based system; has pledged affordable health care for every American without a mandate; says universal health care is possible without a tax increase."
war in Iraq,
"Voted in 2002 to authorize invasion, still supportive; in favor of troop increase; against a timetable for troop withdrawal."
economy,
"Short-term plan is long-term plan: make the Bush tax cuts permanent; eliminate alternative minimum tax."
and so on.
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