the bania brain . homo economicus
It is not as a Brahmin of the priestly or elite class that I speak, I am not or was ever one of them. Thankfully. I speak as someone who sees the danger of running the world with the Bania Brain. The homo economicus spoken of below.
A world where "Wants" of a few supersede and supresses the Needs of the majority many is not a happy world. It is a world going the where our modern world, ruled and run by the bania brain as it is, is going.Up in flames - with a many a bang.
This is the conception of homo economicus, the man reduced to its producer and consumer functions, whose only interest in life is continuously seeking to maximize his best material interest. Finally, beyond this very critique of liberalism, I also offer an economic criticism, that is, the way in which economic activity, which was once built - "embedded", said Karl Polanyi - in the social body, gradually emancipated from all constraint to become hegemonic in the life of human societies.
When all values are solely focused on market value, the symbolic imagery is colonized by the axiomatics of interest. The economy becomes one's destiny, and the consumer replaces the citizen. Under these conditions, to talk about democracy hasn't much sense. Democracy is a political system based on the sovereignty of the people. To function normally it requires that politics has a sovereign rule over the economy, that is to say the exact opposite of what we see today. It is not a coincidence that, thanks to the crisis, financiers and bankers have already seized power in several countries. Qui judicabit, who decides?
The historical subject today is the peoples - not the peoples in the sense of ethnos or even the demos, but the peoples considered in terms of their cultural diversity, now threatened in their political and social dimension as well.
The current wars are mostly ideological wars, as such reminiscent of the old religious wars. Presented as "humanitarian interventions" or international police operations, undertaken in the name of the defense of "human rights", they are also wars that are essentially intended as "moral" wars when in fact their only purpose is to defend certain interests, expand areas of influence, control territories or energy resources.
Tragically the new world order they are establishing is not peaceful in any way. We can see it today in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and maybe tomorrow in Syria or Iran. These wars merely lead to civil war and chaos. It is not a more human world, the one they announce, but a truly inhuman world, from the very image of inhumanity inherent to wars which criminalize the enemy opening the way to all kinds of violence against him.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/NJ18Aa02.html
A world where "Wants" of a few supersede and supresses the Needs of the majority many is not a happy world. It is a world going the where our modern world, ruled and run by the bania brain as it is, is going.Up in flames - with a many a bang.
This is the conception of homo economicus, the man reduced to its producer and consumer functions, whose only interest in life is continuously seeking to maximize his best material interest. Finally, beyond this very critique of liberalism, I also offer an economic criticism, that is, the way in which economic activity, which was once built - "embedded", said Karl Polanyi - in the social body, gradually emancipated from all constraint to become hegemonic in the life of human societies.
When all values are solely focused on market value, the symbolic imagery is colonized by the axiomatics of interest. The economy becomes one's destiny, and the consumer replaces the citizen. Under these conditions, to talk about democracy hasn't much sense. Democracy is a political system based on the sovereignty of the people. To function normally it requires that politics has a sovereign rule over the economy, that is to say the exact opposite of what we see today. It is not a coincidence that, thanks to the crisis, financiers and bankers have already seized power in several countries. Qui judicabit, who decides?
The historical subject today is the peoples - not the peoples in the sense of ethnos or even the demos, but the peoples considered in terms of their cultural diversity, now threatened in their political and social dimension as well.
The current wars are mostly ideological wars, as such reminiscent of the old religious wars. Presented as "humanitarian interventions" or international police operations, undertaken in the name of the defense of "human rights", they are also wars that are essentially intended as "moral" wars when in fact their only purpose is to defend certain interests, expand areas of influence, control territories or energy resources.
Tragically the new world order they are establishing is not peaceful in any way. We can see it today in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and maybe tomorrow in Syria or Iran. These wars merely lead to civil war and chaos. It is not a more human world, the one they announce, but a truly inhuman world, from the very image of inhumanity inherent to wars which criminalize the enemy opening the way to all kinds of violence against him.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/NJ18Aa02.html
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