Three Questions:
Are the transformations which are taking place in the world today because of economy?
Is there still a bottom billion and is anything being done to improve their conditions? Is the condition of bottom billion the same everywhere regardless of which country they belong to?
In The Public and its Problems, John Dewey describes the necessary development of symbol systems that allow a community to connect through elevated communication. Do Film and photography introduce a whole new symbol system?
It is still prohibitively expensive to truly create knowledge for an individual. Knowledge assets are still copyrightable and patentable, their customization is only at the level of presentation. For example, I customize my google homepage to get news from CNN mixed in with analysis of the events from my favorite blogger and videos from youtube all filtered to my interests. That homepage is unique to me, yes, but it is composed of knowledge assets that are owned by different sources. Copyright and patent laws still apply. How and to what extent the existing laws need to be modifed for the third wave?
Three Useful Ideas:
1) According to John Dewey there are two important factors which can help the public to get rid of the eclipse and to attain a Great Community. One factor is that each individual should have the basic intelligence to engage in political affairs and the second factor is the idea of the individual who knows all situations which require political action.
2) In The Public and its Problems, John Dewey describes the neccesary development of symbol systems that allow a community to be connected through elevated communication.
3) Benjamin Franklin states that there are two important factors which can help the public to get rid of the eclipse and to attain a Great Community. One factor is that each individual should have the basic intelligence to engage in political affairs and the second factor is the idea of the individual who knows all situations which require political action. Do these factors apply to the world situation today?
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
The Elite and Moral Values
One of things which is described is that the elite is not moral and educated anymore. There may be corrupt men in good and sound institutions but now the institutions are corrupting as many of the men who live and work in them are corrupted. When it is said that the public is morally confused it means that there is a generalized lack of commitment. The institutions are not found on the ancient faith which nourished them. There is no moral order of belief and hence all men are open to manipulation and distraction of the world of the celebrities. Money and the things it can buy is considered to be the criterion of success and since money is the commanding value the influence of other values has declined so men become morally ruthless in the pursuit of easy money.
The heads of the big hierarchies are the wielders of the patronage of success. The elite justifies himself by superior merit and hard work but he is founded on other grounds so he has to persuade others and himself that he is the opposite of what he actually is. The higher cirlces in America claim that they are self made but what does self made mean. In the world of corporate hierarchies men are selected by those above them and they use their own criterion. There is n such thing as a self made man altough there are self used men.
Sicne wealth is considered as success so wealth and knowledge are interrelated. Status follows big money and status follows power. The men in the higher circles are not representative men, as their high position is not the result of moral virtue. They are however selected and formed by the means of power, they are not selected and formed by the civil service or by nationally responsible parties. They are "Commanders of power unequaled in human history".
The heads of the big hierarchies are the wielders of the patronage of success. The elite justifies himself by superior merit and hard work but he is founded on other grounds so he has to persuade others and himself that he is the opposite of what he actually is. The higher cirlces in America claim that they are self made but what does self made mean. In the world of corporate hierarchies men are selected by those above them and they use their own criterion. There is n such thing as a self made man altough there are self used men.
Sicne wealth is considered as success so wealth and knowledge are interrelated. Status follows big money and status follows power. The men in the higher circles are not representative men, as their high position is not the result of moral virtue. They are however selected and formed by the means of power, they are not selected and formed by the civil service or by nationally responsible parties. They are "Commanders of power unequaled in human history".
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
The Great Transformation
The Great Transformation
The Transformation in the modern state happened because of the changes in market economy. There were tensions in the classes of the society at the time of the expansion of the market.
While the economy was becoming liberal the rights of the citizens also had to be protected. The economic liberals contended that no regulations are needed for the protection of the citizens as they believed that the market would have resolved it’s difficulties. Polanyi thinks that the idea of self regulating market is utopian and will not last.
He believes that changes in society did not happen just because of class as liberal and Marxist explained it. He thinks that the situation of the work poor in England is the same as Kaffir in South Africa and the Indian masses. Are these people the bottom billion whose condition is the same everywhere? Is their condition parallel even now or are the bottom billion in economically sound countries much better than those in poor countries? Is there any parallel between the situation of the poor in England, Kaffir in South Africa and the Indian masses? It depends on how their situations is viewed if compared with the others in their own country then their situation would seem to parallel each other but their situation cannot be seen as parallel to each other.
The Transformation in the modern state happened because of the changes in market economy. There were tensions in the classes of the society at the time of the expansion of the market.
While the economy was becoming liberal the rights of the citizens also had to be protected. The economic liberals contended that no regulations are needed for the protection of the citizens as they believed that the market would have resolved it’s difficulties. Polanyi thinks that the idea of self regulating market is utopian and will not last.
He believes that changes in society did not happen just because of class as liberal and Marxist explained it. He thinks that the situation of the work poor in England is the same as Kaffir in South Africa and the Indian masses. Are these people the bottom billion whose condition is the same everywhere? Is their condition parallel even now or are the bottom billion in economically sound countries much better than those in poor countries? Is there any parallel between the situation of the poor in England, Kaffir in South Africa and the Indian masses? It depends on how their situations is viewed if compared with the others in their own country then their situation would seem to parallel each other but their situation cannot be seen as parallel to each other.
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