The Economy of Mind

It can be said that today’s economic crises are rooted in our minds. Abundance itself generates several mental problems, which is the very moral hazards such as laziness, envy, waste, levity, diabolism, etc.

The rapid advance of science and technology demands the humans’ surrender to the tools and methods. Modern youngsters seem totally dependent upon the mobile phone or tablet. The economic development ironically enlarges the rift between the wealth and the rest rather than before.

Media also aggravate the situation. Media provide the people with consumerism and sensationalism. Some says extremely that the media in fact control our organization, institutions, and individual lives.

Despite these circumstances, diverse social and economic policies by governments have been busted mostly. Small northern European countries seem to only maintain the government’s faces.

Let’s look at this in detail. The richer we are, the more we spend on the expensive commodities and going at luxuriant restaurants. This incites the price level to increase highly. Then news media make fuss why the government does not stabilize the high prices. The pressed government goes down the prices, importing overseas by using emergent budgets, which increase government’s debts. Politicians having their terms prefer short-term popular policies to long-term strict ones. As a result, the governmental public debts have been amassed. We see now eurozone crises and Japan’s credit degradation.

We should first of all heal and correct our minds. We need mind’s policies urgently. We should not expect that comprehensive school education can do its role, or news media carry out such a function. No! Secularization, management-centralism, and competition drive the so called public organizations out of the normal tracks.

Government’s interference in the people’s minds might remind us of the past totalitarian governments. The relation between morality-ethics and politics has its long, bloody history. It is because religious factions have thought their monopolistic authority on morality-ethics. The Religion removed, instead Nazism and militarism had the position for a while. There come the democratic societies where the despotism was expelled after the World War 2. The democratic societies were not ‘the end of history’.

In democratic advanced societies, postmodernism and vulgar mass cultural commercialism occupied the place of religion, philosophy, and totalitarianism. The depravation of the morality-ethics have gradually made the economic achievements a great empty shell. At last the ‘old-fashioned’ national capitalism is threatening the democratic economic system now. If the national capitalism prevails over the free economic regime, it is a retreat of our mankind history. For this, the economy of mind is needed imminently. (The end)