Thursday, February 24, 2005
Is there a life after the markets retreat?
Basically after the decline of the Soviet Union there has been unleashed and perhaps plummeted unpropel forces that has eroded a lot, included the forms and structures of state institutions, the intensity and probability of wars and above all culture and how that will affect the world we live in today. It is important to note that with each declining of each structure or form out there there still exist perhaps some underlying values that has to be understood as always being pre existent. What I mean by that even if there are declining states that would not rule out the need for governments but the conceptual aspect of government of course would have to take into consideration of ongoing factors. A good way of looking at this in its advance form is the rapid and steady decline of the post-industrial age. That was an age in which industrialism and the remains of the industrial revolution era and New Deal system have come to declining a halt. It was precipetated by the the advancement of the information age but the also the outsourcing of large industries to other countries. Yet one would ask what would make such an era declined was that the ongoing information age and the outsourcing itself though would be thought as two different things were actually not. In fact with the rise and increase for the needs of more computers and the sudden growth of the internet, outsourcing itself has taken on strange shapes and forms. That wouldn't mean that it ceased but its politics has grown just darker. With computers I must add is the ever increasing need for faster and quicker processor thus the need for better microchips and components. That would explain why every 18 months that computers that are constantly being put out on the market are twice as fast the the previous one. Thus the need for giant processing company to build vast plants in the middle of some desert requiring the process of sand as its basic computer for the silicon chip. Yet sooner or later along with other ongoing factors something must breakthrough. So exactly what are these other factors and what is the next breakthrough.
Just like there are really ongoing factors that are quickly shaping the underlying value of the market institution it may as well be argued that the market institutions is serving as an ongoing factor for other things. Namely the basic decline of the Soviet Union has produced what I would like to call a warped historical preconception. What I mean by this is that what must be taken into consideration that any project that has survived as an empire and idealogical force has for the better or worse has left its stamp on history and trying to unravel things is indeed an unwanting failure. Thus the decline of the Soviet Union as mistakenly believed as emulating the triumph of democracy and free markets over communism and centralized society is no more than just a collapse of an empire that cannot go any longer believing like it did. It can be further argued a collapse of an historical ideal that like many other historical ideals would likely to fall.
Thus we are often believe it or not dealing with a post-Soviet individual. This is an individual who is hungry for re asserting his or her identity through products that are no longer sustainable by any maket or market framework or simply put there is no market framework for such thing as the world of spices, textiles and exotic things would like to continue to grow and thrive which is not surprising that such things as slavery is becoming more popular and its opposition to it taken more for granted. One could also argue that rise of industrial sweat shop to levels we see today is itself over the past ten years a recent reaction to the type of economic world we live
Now with this we have so much pressures on states and political system about us. As we see with the increased demand due to a post-post industrial age and the ever unquenchable post-Soviet individual arises that are building are in themselves creating new scenarios and shaping political events.