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Civilisation evolution meeting the challenges of globalization Developing the Global Strategy New vision regarding the article the “5 misunderstandings about culture evolution” by Joseph Henrich & Robert Boyd & Peter J. Richerson http://www.sscnet.ucla. in the
summary of that article the 5 cultural evolution problems questions
are posed. They are regarded. As a result new strategy of Global
development under the modern social and communication conditions
is being worked out http://www.sscnet.ucla. This
problem is regarded here as well and some solution is offered 1.
Introduction This essay was written
with the following goals. So the species H.
sapiens is the social animal too. That means that that species is to
have some intrinsic mechanisms of population density
autoregulations. The residual effects of the Hive psychology are
the religion in their most basic and mass commonly accepted ritual
part as well as many other superstitions and market-forming
technologies are regarded as the main obstacle to the Hive
Psychology overcoming.
2. The crisis as a part of evolution. the crisis lessons
are to contribute to further human evolution and to the Open
Society goals achieving. The nature of the
current crisis is regarded. Together with analyzing the author'
experience of common living in several "torn civilizations",
that analise gives the observer the understanding of the crisis
nature and the human evolution trends. Transdisciplinary
approach is applied. The globalisation leads to decreasing of any unique nation interests. The role of social evolution for H. sapiens has been increased significantly. Currently as the evolutionary unit not just single specimen, but social pattern is considered. The reasons of it would be discussed further on. That causes the contradiction between this species individualisation evolution trend and the hive psychology. Transfer of selection subjects to new levels. The interrelation of market economy and democracy is due to the marketing laisser-faire principle. However at the current
stage it gets contradicting the democracy due to the public got too
affected by sophisticated market-forming technologies. Though
there is strong correlation between steady, long-term democracy and
people life-quality. The correlation of democracy and life quality
is proven by statistic datas from the Prof Rosling report
http://www.gapminder.org/ The traditional mass
ideology is reflected in the traditional society hierarchy
structure. Hence the autocratic power organization tend
sustaining itself through ideological agitating the subdue
peoples masses. Influencing each other and meeting the
development difficulties both parts – as the power bodies so
common masses,- cause numerous conflicts all over the word as
inside this autocratic societies, so at the edges of there
crashing with the democratic branch. These conflicts are not
obligatory military ones. However the deepest effects they have
on public psychology. This rapture increasing
causes definitive isolation of two main evolutionary branches
and increase the competition struggle between them. However till now the
difference between them is determined by “mind organisation” of the
majority of the peoples belonging to certain social systems. Traditional understanding
of social Darwinism was based on the DNA biochemical genes. The
phenotype features, which are determined by them, are very evident
and caused many racism theories appearing. However this mechanism
was proved to be invalid in human evolution The main difference
between these two branches is till now in human minds organization,
ie in socialising patterns. This organization comes up as a result
of interaction of many cultural-historical factors, everyday life
conditions and memes. Hence the culture heredity is the main type of
heredity that works for H.sapiens now. That cultural heredity is
more flexible and it is strongly affected by surrounding social
conditions and the influence of Second Signal System through memes
producing. Hence the memes are playing the main role in it. To
ensure the secure transfer to the next evolution step the role of
reasonable use of the memes and social-cultural environment are to
be increased. However nowadays
globalisation meet severe resistance. Partly it happens due to the strong indigenisation trend among the Developing Countries The international
economical development makes life stile in those societies
somewhat better anyway. Especially that improvement affect the
upper socium level. Then the out-of-date social structure of
those countries resists the possible social changes – as it was
described above. Those changes may threaten these structures
very existing. This resistance increases when being facing
economical difficulties. That causes the strong and
aggressive indigenization process, as a the most vivid example
- that causes the World-wide ideological anti-American moods
increase. these data of means
that it grew up only due to the oil price raise. - like it was
in Russia
Due to these changes
the life longevity in the developed counties increased
significanly. It is reflected on the charts of the American
researher Si Frumkin
http://www.sifrumkin.com/pdf/ So the firsts question
would be does the social being limit individualised consciousness? Like any other animal species H. Sapiens is consumer. Hence that forever eternal dispute what determine what, either social being determine consciousness or otherwise, may be solved by its consumer nature. After all that nature is primal. In fact the interactions between social being and consciousness are very complicated and unequivocal. Some brilliant examples may be drawn to prove each of the statements. They strongly influence each other. However due to the consumer nature of all animals, it is determined by the productive forces development. Like any other animal
human beings are looking for some ways of optimizing its “body
existing”, ie getting more various benefits while spending less
efforts. These instincts would be called further on “behavioristic,
self-preservation , or egoistic instincts”. They are common for any
biological species. This feature have been
causing the following environment transformation. Then the
transformed environment affects back human behavior and hence its
cognitive activity . This is the crucial
loop, usually missed by all the Book-smart western intellectuals.
Finally this feature
had changed the very nature of evolution and that would be
discussed further. Many researches show
that the level of intelligence and related with it the level
of education, decrease the influence of Hive Psychology effect
on the individual. Among these researches those of Dr Haidt and
Kanasowa
http://ibcsr.org/index.php? So does it not means that the popular religiosity, that one that provide outmoded social systems resistance may be worked through in order to prevent the inner civilizations confrontation? Now that goal seems to be the most urgent. However the Authors of Ethical realism drive the concept of Ethic right from Testament and the Christian religion authors such as St Augustin . Well, it sounds reasonable as long as we stay within the scope of the Protestant Ethics effect. The term Protestant Ethics was introduced by Max Weber in his work The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism . Its influence
contributed a lot into the modern West World development.
However not just the West exists on our Earth, hence the
Protestant ethics would not work in Asia, or Africa, even in
Russia. Richard Dawkins in his God delusion had proved that
ethics – unlike the lifestyle and customs - could not be
deducted directly from any religion. That is confirmed by the
datas from the book of prof Jonatan Haidt
http://www.edge.org/3rd_ Then what would be
ethical not just for the Protestant-Catholic countries but for
all the mankind? We assume that ethical would be mechanisms that
ensure its surviving, would not they? That means that any stiffness would be otherwise immoral for it'd prevent the evolution. Fancy a society which has been existing under the conditions of severe limitation of access to some recourses - and these resources may be as goods, so communications,lifestyle and important status positions . In societies of that type such status positions are the key factors to more successful life there and “body” needs meeting. As a result the society gets strictly socially stratified with no "social lift" between the social levels. That is what happens now in Russia and so it happens in many other socially retarding societies- or so-called "feudal"ones. This “feudal-type”
stratification reflects the “traditional”, archaic Hive
structure. The recent article of sociopsichology researches show
the close relation of the Hive psychology and the nation
development rate.
http://www.epjournal.net/ In case that situation was existing for time of, let's say, couple of generations at least, it gets looking quite normal – ie traditional! - for the most of common peoples developed under those conditions. They got more or less adjusted to this situation. That is just due to human character nature. Hence any changes to that situation would be considered as a thread to that adjusted state
Having been affecting by some limitation society in course of long time,couple generations at least,that effect causes the social system stiffening, and makes the system autoreplication. In course of long time period peoples would get used and more-or-less adjusted to the system. That is so-called social inertia Thus peoples of those systems, especially those from the top levels, would resist to any changes to the habitual life-stile from aside to prevent the unavoidable stress of readjusting. Beside this stress, the present access limitation assures some privileges to the upper social levels, so they would go on caring for these limitations would still exist for as long as possible – and this is the most powerful root for indigenisation trends. Till their subdues know nothing else they would keep sustaining the system they are used to – due to psichological inertion.. Without this limitation would be still existing, the value of their position would get decreased a lot. That would threaten their very existence. So they do anything to prevent any contacts of peoples from inside with environment outside that certain country- while being enjoying them by them-selves. Apparently the overweening neglecting to this effect was the main mistake of the democratists of the Bush period Failing to meet the people “body” instincts the leading actors of the social pattern in order to shut down the social rebellion get appealing to some imaginary unique spiritual values of that certain people and it initialise the indogenisation process – as it was described above.. That happens currently as in the Russian Federation so in other socially retarding states. This problem is very actual for developing international image of the USA – you may be quite sure that those countries officials are permanently claiming “those wretched Americans”, using some worse slang words. As long as these powers stay “in authority” for common peoples they may strongly influence their ideology. The success of American state system made them falling into certain overweening position of the Big Brother that knows everything better. This Big Brother is always regarded as some menacing and bothering threat to other nations always, no matter how much reason was in it. So especially bothering it had got now under the crisis conditions. For the Americans got under the Market Autocracy destructing influence and the former Administration actions were just proving this threat. The Market Autocracy nature would be considered here later on. It consists of two parts – one is strictly economical and that's what's called “laisser-faire”. The second part on is that powerful sociopsychological effect, that had not been described yet. However neglecting this effect makes the most of Western intellectuals looking rather booksmart and helpless. Globalization, that
occurred together with communication means development since the
beginning of the 20th century, is that next
evolution step. It is ensuring improving life standards for
peoples, and in trend is irresistible as prove in his article
Economic Globalization: Trends, Risks and Risk Prevention by
Gao Shangquan, one of China's most prominent economists, a key
figure in thinking-thanking economic reforms in China, the
member of the China Communist Party.
http://www.un.org/esa/policy/ Later he notes that
theism presented as explaining adaptation "was worse than an open
admission of failure, for it created the impression that an ultimate
explanation had been reached."He later said: ”I still believe that
natural selection works in this way as a research” The same Darwin crane may be applied in many other fields to things under development process. This crane is used in linguistic studies, in culturology at al. This mechanism is perfectly shown in the “Darwin cathedral” by Wylson. Just the old-fashioned understanding of the term Social Darwinism based on DNA genes should be broadened to the memes and the life-stile habits-based cultural Social Darwinism understanding. The mechanism of evolution makes it clear what the evolutionary goal of socium – ie society, - are. There are many evidences that sane human beings are not able to carry out successful life with no interrelations with other society members. It is in its nature, human being a social animal so the society may be regarded as the main evolutionary unit. 7. What is so special in H. Sapiens species? Combination of them
with recognizing activity forms “ individual free will” or cognitive
activity that together with the environment transformation ability
distinguish H. sapiens from other Hive species, like bees, ants et
al. It makes it able to change voluntary both its environment and
its interrelations with that environment, significantly decreasing
its dependence on the environment conditions. 8 Interpretation of evolution mechanism in human society evolution. Since the World is changing the human society is to change correspondingly. The evolution mechanisms are still working in Human evolution as well. Their influence on the species interrelation with the environment would be considered. Simultaneously the nature of the current crisis would be regarded as a part of its evolution. Though the prof Richard Dawkins in his the “God delusion” doesn't agree with the theory of Group selection he comes as far as just half-step away from it. Advocating to Darwin he quotes his words “When two tribes of primeval man, living in the same country, came into the competition if one of the tribes includes ( other conditions are equal) a greater number of courageous, sympathetic and faithful members, who were always ready toward each other of danger,to aid and defend each other, this tribe with no doubts succeeded best and conquer the others...Selfish and contentious people would not cohere and without coheration nothing can be effected. A tribe processing the above qualities in high degree would spread and be victorious over other tribes; but in time it would, judging from all the past history, be overcome by some other socially-retarded and still highly individual-minds-endowed tribes. In his God delusion Dawkins says concerning the Darwin ideas: To satisfy any biological specialists who might be reading this, I should add that Darwin's idea was NOT strictly group selection, in the true sense of successful spawning daughter groups whose frequencies might be counted in a metapopulation of groups. Rather, Darwin visualized tribes with altruistically cooperative members spreading and becoming more numerous in terms of mumblers of individuals. Darwin's model is... not true group selection” he says there. This main argument makes not valid if speaking of human society evolution. It's true only if relatively short-time tactic is regarded. In this case it's true indeed.” However in the long-term strategic prospect the situation is otherwise. It happens due to memes replacing of the genes in human social heredity. Memes do not require biological transmission, but have much more powerful mean for distribution – culture heredity. Hence the alive active gene medium is not needed. If some memes prove to be more advantageous, like the genes they are being multiplying and thus spreading wider. In the meanwhile the memes forming process may be perfectly managed - like that of genes in course of Artificial Selection of domestic animals. Simultaneously while the traditional genetic changes take several generations time to get accepted, the meme-caused changes are highly more flexibles. Hence they are better adjusted to modern conditions. The model of H.sapiens group evolution is in details considered in the “Darwin Cathedral” by Wylson. If this way of consideration is followed, it should be assumed that by now the human population have approached to the next stage of evolution. The
secure passage onto that stage would not be possible without the
based on evolution mechanisms science-based use of those memes
together with the relevant socialising. Despite that “traditional” individualised genetic variability takes place in H.sapiens society as well, its results play that limited role by now that they may be easily neglected in this case. At the current level of human evolution the “selection objects” got not individuals, but the social structures and hence the ideas of its social organisations. Two main rivals are now the rigid autocratic – ie traditional branch, and the democratic one. Autocratic societies may wary a lot but their common feature is the prevalence of any kind ideology over the human life. This gives them short-time tactic prevalences, that makes them stronger that the democratic branch in short term period Democracy occurrence became possible as a result of certain "individualization". This individualisation got possible due to the lessing human dependence from the environment conditions and hence – from the strict tight relations inside the society. The democracy makes possible the mobile society structure adjusting to the changed conditions not through mass society determination or the private will of one person – let it be some genius leader; that leader may get ill, insane or just die and being a human being it may be just wrong after all. This adjusting is possible through the coordination of the several points of views that provides “the 3D vision”.Thus despite its highly unnatural nature the democracy is the only way of providing human society with the sustainable long term existing. At the current state of our species biological evolution this democratia mechanism replace the “traditional” eliminating selection mechanism. The mechanism of genetic variability – that engine that moves the evolution, providing mutations flaw, may be considered equal to the free market economics. Like it happens in other species evolution it generates the constant flow of changes. And the most optimal ones of those changes get then fixed. The combination of these two innovative mechanisms ( but biological they are still anyway, so they are more adjusted for biological species like H. sapiens is) – so this combination is to ensure further humanity evolving, adjusting to the changing World, and hence - existing. Simultaneously many
works show that the modern developed economy of old-democratic
states is able to meet the “basic, body needs” the best. That is
reviving the species of H.sapiens from the limits of biotope
capacity. So do the articles of prof. Turchin from the Santa-Fe
institute, so does that article of growth theorists Oded Galor, the
Professor of Economics, Brown University On the same writes mr William Halal,PhD, scholar and consultant in his books the “Technologies' promises”, “21st century economics”, “New Capitalism” and others. The unavoidable
process of globalisation breaks down all the old World organization
pattern ideas,as Mr Rosling was presenting in his visual report on
the TED Conference in 2006
http://www.stumbleupon.com/ Several researches had
already proved that Economical Globalisation is irreversible and
welcomed trend
http://www.un.org/esa/policy/ In his book The Lexus
and the Olive Tree, Thomas Friedman wrote: However the civilization structure needs deep social restructing in order to ensure this evolving capacity and hence in order to ensure its further existing. This Word structure remaking would be unavoidable. In this article
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/ Kellner says that: “A critical theory of globalization is necessarily transdisciplinary”– may be he is right here, however not just critics need it, the globalization theory needs it as a whole! Further on he says a lot of sound words on the former alternative of previously existing Soviet System. That just shows that he never lived under the Soviet condition. He may have been visiting the SU – but being instant visitor like tourists usually are, he was not able to realise what is day-after-day life under those conditions. The Soviet Union way was that alternative to the USA' one like the death is alternative to live. Like all those highbrows Western intellectuals, that are getting exited by some exotic cultures they are visiting for couple of week. After leaving they get crying that these unique ancient cultures getting extincting in the changing world. However nobody could make them living forever under these unique special conditions. Then why other peoples should stand it? I was working a lot with foreign ecotourists in Russia. It is such a popular destination! Such a wilderness! That patriarchal society in wich one can live with no that boring money power and duties! Just for some reasons there are no crowds of migrants from the developed countries.... Exotic – yes, just as a day-after-day life – no, thanks However what can be done with common folks unable enjoying the happiness of their simple life? Those stupid folks, that are just not able to get their happiness, are always looking forward to living better life... What can be done with it? 10A – society to get able to change its self, ie to evolve, according the ongoing environmental changes. The time is running, men can't help changing the environment. Not all of these changes depend on human will, so not all of them could be fight against. In order to stay adjust to its environment the society is to change too according those external conditions, to get less rigid and get certain flexibility while preserving the intersocium connections, while stay keeping away from the anarchia that means nothing but the power of the strongest (or richest, the most powerful ones now) ie there is an urgent need to ensure the society sustainable development. That means how to get Open Society. 11. The Open Society Concept. So the paradigma change is required. Which paradigma it would be? The paradigma of social evolution. Since evolution is ensured by the methods described by Darwin first, at the new level that should be social Darwinism but via new up-to-date approach. One of the authors of
the Open Society Concept Karl Popper says on the paradigma change
"Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical
research program." In the same paper, he continued Kellner considers that Open Society may be constructed only on the basis of the scientific testable theories instead of some beliefs. So in order to facilitate the development of cognitive analytical acitivity and responsibility new ways of education and especially new methods of children socialising are required.
Simultaneously with all
those process the interest toward human rights throughout the
World was increasing significantly in course of the 20th
century – ie in course of the post-industrial civilisation
development– as it is proved by this chart
http://news.google.com/ So it may be assumed that the main feature that differs“Western-like” democratic socialization branch from the autocratic one is the primal role of any single person vs the Big Leader - or a state as a leader. That attitude of the specimens' conglomerate toward its Big Leader is the feature that is typical for hive mind Market Economy is aimed to any customer needs, so it seems that the Free Market is to promote individualisation. However the results of latest 50 years Free Market countries development shows that it is otherwise, the individualization gets decreasing. All these countries had fallen into Free Market Autocracy – or the combination of the laisser-faire market doctrine with certain social and individual psychology effects. That phenomena is regarded at further on. Since all we are social animals, so all of us are to some level affected bu Hive Psychology. It is the phenomena sin qua non, no social life were possible without it. So it can not be fought abainst. However the dangerous primitive religiosity effect is to be decreased via individual mind development. Currently the civilisation reached that level of development that makes it possible and unavoidable due to globalisation. Recently Dawkins wrote the
following piece quoted by the British Guardian newspaper "When you
think about how fantastically successful the Jewish lobby has been,
though, in fact, they are less numerous I am told - religious Jews
anyway - than atheists and (yet they) more or less monopolize
American foreign policy as far as many people can see. So if
atheists could achieve a small fraction of that influence, the world
would be a better place." The orthodox American Judaists, Ravvi Levy
Brackman and Rivka Lubitch and others had immediately got blaming
him in Judaphobia, but Judophob he is as far as he is
ANYreligion-phobe. One should not forget - that communism-socialism
that was in the USSR was just some special sort of religion as well.
That's why there is not so much a difference between opposing any
orthodox ideology and secular state organization opposing. The main
problem is that any religion - even Buddhism, ref the history! -
always tends falling into some kind of orthodoxy among common
middle-minded peoples. That proves the results of this work of New
School of Social Researches, wich proves that collective religious
rituals, but not the religion devotion, spur for suicide attacks
http://www.sciencedaily.com/ The paper by Akerlof describes how the interaction between quality heterogeneity and can lead to the disappearance of a market where guarantees are indefinite. Aiming to meeting any customer unique need the Market Autocracy significantly promote falling of people with poorly developed individuality under the the influence of Narcissistic syndrome wich is also called Narcissistic personal disorder. This is the official name that describe as serious decease, Narcissism personal disorder. This loud scientific name makes the Narcissus believing that it's a serious decease that need no patient efforts, but medicines are needed to cure it. It takes off from him any blame and it sounds even somewhat flattering – look, how special I AM! However the same thing used to be considered formerly just poor breeding or in other words just poor juvenile socializing - a thing that may perfectly been fixed through child' developing in course of the one's juvenile period. Unfortunately unlike the medicines treatment it needs some objects efforts too... 15. Reasons of the Suicidal policy of the West. The danger of the overqualified following the laissez-faire principle – hereandafter the Market Autocracy is the following: there is the statistical law, which shows that if the eliminating selection factors are absent, the maximum of that curve shifts toward the more frequent feature. That is why the market, which aims to the mass consumer needs meeting, and which simultaneously secures the surviving of the less intellectually developed individuals, causes the decrease of the general intellectual development of a society, its cognitive actively decrease. So like Autocracy of any kind. it tends bringing peoples back into easily-ruled herd state. It does do through cognitive activity weakening. The market-forming
technologies strongly favouring the Narcissism personal
disorder as well At the same time the individualization level, this is regarded here as just some kind of asocial behaviour on the contrary increases. It looks so unusual, exciting and interesting to the young people who never knew other living conditions! All that led to of a mass postmodernism arising and its flourishing in the pop cultures. (in its mass pop-forms; talents and unique persons may occur always and everywhere, however).The postmodernism paradigma of moral-relativism contradicts the “moral instincts”of human minds and thus it just deepening the rapture between the society's branches The postmodernists go
across any public opinion – whatever it is; these persons are
mainly those very non-conformists those go across the market
ideology. The problem is that the modern, present
“non-conformists” got the integral part of market ideology as
well, suffer the same Narcissistic personal disorder and thus
in fact they gave up being non-conformists. Now they form those
Leftists, united in Hate
http://www.nypost.com/seven/ So the Suicidal politicy of the West is caused not just by following the “laisser faire” marketing policy, but also by serious sociopsychological effects caused by market technologies development. These effects are Flynn effect – ie cognitive activity decrease, - and Narcissits personal disorder. Due to the habitual comfort the psychological reaction of a person change to that extent that sometimes it gets him hard even to fancy how person that developed without that comfort could react to this. These effects together with increased people gullibility cause mass public hysterics such as Bird-Swine Flu epidemia and Climategate , anti-trans genetic food products panic. They both were created by commercially interested instillations via public hysteric inspired by medias activity. Today medias play the same role the religion used to play before, so just like ritual religions, medias' influence may be considered as the serious thread to the Open Society development. Here, in media influence, memes and the information transfer via Second Signal System in general play the main part. Hence it may be managed too. all the public panics
and leftists behaviour made Samuel Hantington the author of the
"Clash of the civilizations and remaking World order" saying at
the- trilateral commission (USA-EU-Japan report) However the alternative to the “Westerns way” would be any single person interest neglecting in front of collective interests – ie the “classical” Autocracies. These states may be either secular or religious, but all of them suffer some united ideology pressure. That was the USSR and so is Russia now, so is the Northern Korea. And all thesecoybtries have been suffering serious supply problems. However the most severe problem is the huge gap the exists now between the economical development of those 2 branches. The democratic branch includes all the countries with developed Market economies and related with it Democratic state organisation. The second branch include many Muslim Middle East countries and ex-communist states, especially Russia. The states of the South West Asia combine rather autocratic power and ultraliberal economy. These states have many peculiarities. However some politeconomical expert expect them moving toward more democratic organisation due to intensive third class development It were possible if not the innate features are used to distinguish those branches. Several attempts of determining some Higher Race had already been done. All of them have been proved by history to be wrong and wretched. Applying to that problem new approach would be to facilitate it. The very character of human evolution gives that answer to that. However this answer goes across so many holy worshiped traditions, that iti s seen by almost nobody! It would mean to transfer for short-time tactic goals achieving to the strategic ones. It sounds logic, just how this could be done? Some hints are presented by the Economy of Norway. Currently it presents some modest growing unlike those of the rest of European countries.http://www.nytimes. Instead of spending its riches lavishly, it established legislation ensuring that oil revenue went straight into its sovereign wealth fund, state money that is used to make investments around the world. Now its sovereign wealth fund is close to being the largest in the world, despite losing 23 percent last year because of investments that declined.” So we may assume that Norway had escaped the trap of Market Autocracy, but not via unwise “get-it-and-shut up” social “left” method. They know perfectly well that “If you are given a lot, you have a responsibility. “. Unfortunately in the most of the other countries socialism traditionally means no responsibility at all, and life experience USSR makes scaring of the very word “socialism”. If it is not based on the market pattern(evolutionary advantageous), hence it always leads to the state bureaucracy autocracy of high level Evolution approach shows that any system that is rigid to changes is fatal to some limits. These limits depend on the limits of system flexibility. And that correlates well with the idea of the American power - “global but limited” by Friedman (see later) In his God delusion Dawkins presents data that “Meta-analysis is the technique whereby an investigator looks at all the research papers that have been published on the topic and counts up the number of papers that concluded one thing, versus the member that have concluded something else. On the subject of religion and IQ the only metaanaslysis known to me was published by Paul Bell in Menza Magazine I 2002 (Menza is the society of individuals with high IQ..) Bell conclude ” of 43 studies carried out since 1927 on the relationship between religions belief and one's intelligence and\or education level, all but four found an inverse connection. That is the higher one's intelligence and education level, the less one is likely to be religious and hold “beliefs” of any kind Frank Sullivan et al researches proved that religiosity is negatively correlated with education ( more highly educated people are less likely to be religious), with interest to science and political liberalism. There is positive correlation between religiosity and parents' religiosity, sociologists studying British children have found that only about one in twelve break away from their parents religious beliefs Religiosity is indeed negatively correlated with education (more higher educated people are less likely to be religious The most recent researches prove that religiosity is negatively correlated with the economical development as well http://www.epjournal.net/ “Even non-fundamentalist, “sensible” “modern”religion - or ideologies! - make the world safer for fundamentalism by teaching children, from their earliest years, that unquestioning faith is value” (Dawkins God delusion) They determine the babies socialising manner and thus their further behaviour. http://www.stumbleupon.com/s/# It seems there is the only way of avoiding the ideology predomination danger, though it is not panacea as well. This way would also decrease the influence of the Narcisstic personal disorder among the younger generation. It would partly release human beings from any psychological behaviour-forming influence from some socium authorities -. this way is the broadening of human interests outlooks through development of experimental knowledges-based juvenile education system together with information exchange and other communications means development. That would break group isolation, self-isolation, first of all, and make people less authority controlled and able to keep being self-responsible. This human “mind-psycho” adjustment is the prior goal to the global civilisation in order to smoothing down civilisation unbalance. Currently it has already caused many mass hysterics, panics and the current economical crisis as well The latest scandals and hysterics on bird-swine flu, Climategate, transgenic food products fears, as well as interreligions conflicts had proved its destructive social effect.
Later on the Reconquista of the Spain caused the burst of Spanish Christian religiosity. The Reconquista success required strict society consolidation around its leaders. So Spain got badly theocratic state that times. Very rigid it got then. The huge incomes from the new Word helped it to sustain that rigidity for rather long time, till the 19th century. However the 20th century long the Spain and the Portugal were the poorest countries of Europe. So we may see from
here that the Hive Psychology, while making possible some
tactic victories causes strategic loss. That term means the social development retarding due to some non labour-cost resources-based huge income. Historically those resources were agricultural territories and some minerals from that territories -the main source of incomes. And in the 20th century the oil demand occurred. This demand facilitated the archaic society structure preservation for longer. Thus, for instance , that so called Dutch disease causes retarding in the Russia' state model reforming. In this case not just natural resources may be regarded as a main reason for this retarding. Before the industry and technical development this retarding was caused by the very territory spreading. Nowadays some international funding sources, wich may be regarded sometimes as those natural income sources. That happens if these funding ensure further system functioning without relevant changes in the society pattern. If speaking of
Arab countries the closer analysis of statistical data
presented in recent report of Prof. Rosling proves that even
those extrahuge incomes did not affected much the general
population well-being. nowadays when the oil price is
falling their position would get significantly worse. This
would in its turn make the tension inside these countries
rising due to the increasing number of peoples looking for
meeting their “egoistic self-preservation instincts”. That
threaten the very out-of date state system existing. To
avoid conflicting within the fideles on the various Qur'an
interpretation (wich strongly depend on the current
political situation) the following politics are followed: Here it should be
added that the history had already proved that the theocratic state
is never economically successful. The Chronic Dependence of Popular
Religiosity upon Dysfunctional Psychology Psychosociological
Conditions was confirmed by the article by Gregory Paul, published in Evolutionary
http://www.epjournal.net/ 16A Unfortunately, by today that retarding got supported by enormous oil incomes of the upper elites. In outmoded societies the income and social position of that peoples would exist as long as the very social system of certain state exist. So they would not be interested in any innovations – that would destroy the existing system they are fit to. So they would use ritual religion – the essential part of hive psychology – to get public support for further state isolation. The Report of Freedom House further proves that it always cause retarding and even reverse in Democratic institutions development. But not just oil and gas incomes cause it. Te recent history proves that various International funding, that is just granting without relevant social changes, may have the same effect. That's why it has been reinforcing and now causes instability all over the World An Suazian dictator
calls a press conference and by the way roasts the leg of one of the
prominent country dissidents for the barbeque. Of course it's just a joke, but it is too resembling the real situation, is not it? This report of Freedom
Hose shows show the increase of free, non-labour-cost income, such
as oil and gas revenues, destroy the social systems
http://www.freedomhouse.org/ 17A. True liberal Position – or neoliberalism However the liberal
position from above is not that of true liberal . Sensibel liberal
position has nothing common with that of those spoilt babies of
the Western World, united in hate
http://www.nypost.com/seven/ “By the way, I'm being asked many times if it is true that after my words the market would correct everything itself. Nothing like that. I have never said anything of that kind. The thing is that the huge crucial part of society life is based on economy, and that area is to be built on the market laws for they are the most effective. But it is to be limited by certain State regulations. For there are certain functions of the State, that can not be done it by anybody else. Besides after the words of Michael Porter, author highly respected by me, the entrepreneur should be put under such institutional conditions that he could figure out just one possibility of earning through increasing productivity and innovation. If it is possible to find other means for getting benefits, - the institutional system is imperfect. Now many discussion are going on around China's special way. China state looks show its own way of getting NOT westernized while simultaneously getting great economy success. Chinese situation is very special due to its special starting conditions. However soon that system would meet some intrinsic problems as well. Here Yasin, the Head of Higher Economic School describes some of them: “Now everybody says that the Chinese peoples are inborn innovators. Indeed, they had created almost all the achievements of the ancient world, such as gun powder, paper, printing, the compass. Do you think that they were not capable? Sure, they were. All people are equally capable, then comes up the question of implementing these achievements ito everyday life environment. And that is a question of culture. In his book “Dolgoye vremya”(= the “long period”)? Egor Gaidar was quoting the work of one great Russian scientist Vasily Bartold, in wich he compared China with Western Europe. This comparing clearly shows that the success of technology by itself does not cause the progress of social life. The example of China shows that you may know the powder and do not create a strong army, know compass and do not establish a compass navigation, know typography, and do not create public opinion.” Conclusion may be done that that SOCIAL SYSTEM is more fitted that is able to ensure the interrelation between Technology and social life progress. The same conclusions can be come to if regarding the evolution Muslim civilization. Before the Rconquista they were great innovators – but what of those innovations were introduced into everday folk life, except for algebra and calendar? However the Islam ideology of that time was quite far from the agitated Muslim Fundamentalism of today. The author hope that all the written above had already proved that the purely biochemical heredity does not play the decisive role in human sociums evolution. The transfer to the new understanding of the evolution mechanism is badly required now. It may be assumed that in order to avoid the destiny of all the Hive species – those species like lemmings, bees termites et al, - certain level of individualisation should be ensured but it should be combined with cooperation inside the socium parts, individuals. 18A The correlation between the society productive forces development and it's social pattern was considered by many various economists. the correlation between Kondratiev waves and Great social perturbations and Biggest Wars gets evident from that table First Industrial Revolution - Circa 1800 – 1850 Cotton based technology; 1810 –end of Napoleonic Wars Second Industrial Revolution Circa 1850 – 1900 railways, shipping, heavy industry, iron and steel etc. 1870s - First World War and The Great Russian Revolution of 1917 Third Industrial revolution 1908 – 1947 Petrol chemicals, internal combustion engine, electrification. Inter-war slump 1920s and 30s - Second World War 1939-1945 Post-war Boom 1947 – 1991 Consumer goods, electronics, etc 1973 Contemporary Era 1991 – present The Internet, mobile technologies, bio-technologies etc 2010s – what would expect the humanity at the current stage? Unfortunately Kondratieff could not worked out his theory further than the 19th century, because in 30es he got to Soviet Gulag and there he was condemned to death in 1938. However these ideas were further developed by many economists. In his Business Cycles (1939), Josef Schumpeter suggested naming the cycles, "Kondratieff waves", in honor of the economist who first noticed them. The historian Eric Hobsbawn wrote of this theory: "That good predictions have proved possible on the basis of Kondratiev Long Waves—this is not very common in economics—has convinced many historians and even some economists that there is something in them, even if we don't know what." Till now there is no officially accepted explanation of these cycles waving, and to the Winter – depressive - period of these cycles. However one of these period reasons may be the social pattern retarding as long as the new productive forces development have developed. In the meanwhile these cycles – or waves – may be regarded as some cause that drives cliodynamic. The cliodinamic is a new discipline recently proposed by prof. Turchin http://www.eeb.uconn.edu/ So currently the technology and communication means development make the globalization unavoidable and this crisis proves that classical capitalism pattern – so called “laisser-faire”, - is retarding. So to cure it the social pattern should get adjusted. However due to its flexible nature it is still more adjusted than any out-of-date “traditional” states organizations. Though it seems that the current crisis affects mostly the Countries of “Golden Billion” - the most developed after following market strategy they are. However these countries influence on the rest of the World countries makes evident many powerful interrelations inside humanity. (I just wonder why none expert of those I had come over, have been saying nothing on the very serious demography problem, wich was created by Mao rough demography politics of fertility control. Only one child per family was allowed, the violators had to pay the fee about 10 thousand dollars – which was impossible for the most of the population. Due to some religious traditions that only child was to be male, the female embrios were just aborted – until the Ultra-Sound got prohibited. Those politics created two main problems:1- the generation of more individualised “little Emperors”, highly individualized and spoilt by parents generation, that is changing the state-oriented sociopsychology. Another problem is “ gender imbalance”, the reproductive ages females shortage. The “little Emperors generation” is highly individualised. So peoples of that generation is now slowly destroying the state-orientated ideology. Together with the current crisis it causes many recent changes in the China State organization. The inside demand for those changes is slightly increasing step by step. It would further cause some additional individualization. So Huntington's views, though considered “classic” now were quite out-of-date.... Overpopulated are only the seashore regions. The North is rather deserted and poorly developed and that means that they are still have certain limits to reach....) If the difference between those branches is just mind organisation, so it may be managed This difference till
mow is ensured not by some genes, some biochemical structures,which
are hard to change after some will efforts, but by cultural changes
those could be managed via children socialising. The recent
researches proved that culture, not just genes, drive the evolution
of Human beings
http://news.discovery.com/ Kellner says that: “A critical theory of globalization is necessarily transdisciplinary”– may be he is right here, however not just critics need it, the globalization theory needs it as a whole! Further on he says a lot of sound words on the former alternative of previously existing Soviet System. That just shows that he never lived under the Soviet condition. He may have been visiting the SU – but being instant visitor like tourists usually are, he was not able to realise what is day-after-day life under those conditions. The Soviet Union way was that alternative to the Western more-or-less USA' ones like the death is alternative to live. Like all those highbrows Western intellectuals, that are getting exited by some exotic cultures they are visiting for couple of week. After leaving they get crying that these unique ancient cultures getting extincting in the changing world. However nobody could make them living forever under these unique special conditions. Then why other peoples should stand it? I was working a lot with foreign ecotourists in Russia. It is such a popular destination! Such a wilderness! That patriarchal society in wich one can live with no that boring money power and duties! Just for some reasons there are no crowds of migrants from the developed countries.... Exotic – yes, just as a day-after-day life – no, thanks However what can be done with common folks unable enjoying the happiness of their primitive lifestyle? Those stupid folks, that are just not able to get their happiness, are always looking forward to living better life... in fact later on Kellner agrees that: This global culture, however, operates precisely through the multiplication of different products, services, and spectacles, targeted at specific audiences. Consumer and media industries are becoming more differentiated and are segmenting their customers and audiences into more categories. In many cases, this involves the simulation of minor differences of fashion and style as significant, but it also involves a proliferation of a more highly differentiated culture and society in terms of an ever expanding variety and diversity of cultural artifacts, products, and services. - hence to the following he also quotes the work of Auxmann, who also suggests that global citizenship and thus the effects of globalization per se could promote a greater acceptance of diversity, heterogeneity, and otherness rather than globalization just promoting homogeneity and sameness (1997) - so he is not that hopeless. I repeat – certainly the globalisation should be MANAGED, managed on the ground of sociology and sociopsychology sciences, those would take into account as cognitive psychology, so behaviorism, ethology and ecology, but not to fight against. that would be that stupid as fighting against any natural phenomena. The next question us
HOW to do it? Which principles are to be applied too it? - The
previous wretched attempts to do it –as by the SU, so by the Nazy
Germany - dismissed to very term "social darvinism". But how to deal
without it - at the new level? Not on the DNA-based one, or just on
any innate natural privilege it should be done. So that actual
social engineering is to be somewhat close to the strategy is
offered by the gen Kilcullen in his New Strategy for the 21st
century
http://smallwarsjournal.com/ That supposes that
military actions should take about 20% of all the efforts. Despite
they are unavoidable, they should stay limited and combined with
efforts of such agencies as USAID and Peace of Corp et al to help
people in social condition improving and local capacities building
andnew staff education
http://smallwarsjournal.com/ The panic reaction toward their activity of the Russian government structures proves their efficiency. My own working experience proves that USAID contributed a lot to local capacity building. Hence it was somewhat destroying the existing stratified social pattern indeed. Simultaneously it was not increasing the Anti-American moods among common peoples. Is it not that goal to stream to? That strategy may be successful to some limits indeed. Just to win over it completely that would take too much instinct society changes. The methods of the
leading role restoring would not be limited just by methods of
economical restoration as David Brooks offers in his article the
Next culture war
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/ That would promote the globalized network Word organisation, on which the Head of The Higher Economy School, Russia, Evgeny Yasin says that “there should be certain rules. These rules are to be followed by anybody (to ensure this system working) However without competition, there is no demand for innovations. Private property needs an open free market and this market is the environment, which can rise and science and innovation and all countries. One may be leader in some certain branch of producing but loose its leadership in other branches. It would be possible to live in World that have not a single leader with the only best economy. Each county may have its-own advantages depending on its specifics. China may have advantages in that, America – in that, India – in this, Brazil in this, and Russia as well. And it may well turn out that the living standards of different economies, in fact, more or less equal. After the conclusion we made together with my graduate student and published in the journal Problems of Economics, in the second half of the 21 st century the trend emerged that to a great extent the living standards in different countries would get more equalizes, instead of all the apocalyptic notions. However till now this gap is very large. If we regard the productivity, the efficiency, America continues to increase productivity, and it is faster than others, for example, European countries, and it relies mainly or only to new industries and innovations.” - ie on the further evolution unlike the recourses-dependants. So the described above Global Culture revolution would promote the “primus into pares” World organisation, that is considered now the most effective model of the development process organisation and management. The goal is actually to find how to decrease the Hive psychology effect while staying within socium? Would it be possible to resolve that intrinsic conflict of human nature? The social changes in many modern countries show the World the direction to follow.... 19 . Global development is required to smoothen those development gaps The first attempt of
global regulation development was the first Earth Summit held by the
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
(UNCED), whch resulted in several crucial international documents,
including the Rio Declaration on Environment and development. This
summit is periodical. There Sergei
Kapiza presented the Global Marchal Plan
http://files. . Currently development of this Plan seems the only way for further Human civilisation development. That would also facilitate the realisation of the prognosis,made in the article written by Yasin, the Head of Higher Economic School together with his graduate student and issued in the journal Problems of Economics,, . In that article they discuss that in the second half of the 21 st century the trend emerged that to a great extent the living standards in different countries would get more equalizes, instead of all the apocalyptic notions. But till now this gap in living standards and development among various countries is still too wide. To realise that prognosis it would be necessary to fill the gap of the states development. TheGlobal Marshal plan of Kapitza may do it. However that Global Marchall Plan should be very expensive one – expensive not just by funding sources, but by management effects as well. This question bother many well-known peoples. Mr Freidman in his article “Paging uncle Sam” http://www.nytimes.com/2009/ Further Mr Friedman goes on by saying:”Never more inward-looking, never more in demand: that’s America today. This moment recalls a point raised by the Johns Hopkins University foreign policy expert Michael Mandelbaum in his book, “The Case for Goliath.” “When it comes to the way other countries view America’s pre-eminent role in the world”, he wrote, “whatever its life span, three things can be safely predicted: they will not pay for it; they will continue to criticize it; and they will miss it when it is gone.” Coming back to biological principles of economy evolution through using innovative methods of society changes via memes using would make the dreams of the New York Times columnist and best-selling author Thomas Friedman coming true, the expectation that the America that would lead the world again - this time by example. It’s time to honor rather than avoid and outsource physical labor. Our children are healthy enough to cut our own lawns and pick our fruit. Let’s also hope they want to hear a lot more about Gen. David Petraeus’ success, and a lot less of Madonna’s latest psychodramas. » http://www.washingtontimes. However the methods of the leading role restoring would not be limited just by methods of economical restoration . They are to be wider , David Brooks write on these changes in his article the Next culture war http://www.nytimes.com/2009/ The USA accepting of such a responsibility would make mr. Friedman dreams come true – but are the United States ready for it? May be these are the changes Barak Obama was talking about? Some hints of such strategy of “destruction from inside” were offered by Max Boot, the USSR-emigrant politologist:” The US government should do more to publicize and denounce such abuse. We need to champion Chinese dissidents, intellectuals and political prisoners and make them as famous as Andrey Sakharov, Vaclav Havel and Lech Valensa”. The anti-American moods that the Ethical realism authors worry about, would arise anyway, but not the policy of “Ethical realism” may smooth them down. Instead it would just increase them, like the Chamberlain policy toward the Nazy Germany did it. However that strategy offered by Max Boot may change the attitude toward the USA among the common peoples, which are usually apart from the elite in power in these coultures. That strategy worked rather well assisting the Soviet Union power decreasing, though the current situation is much more complicated and dangerous. So the steady leading position of the USA, the position that would simultaneously stabilise the whole World, would mean that state accepting the heavy but very promising role in this process of world globalisation. There is some general answer which is broadening common people minds horizons through global system of the teenagers science-based education, going together with communication means development and anti-isolation measures, as the economical, so – the more crucial kind of it – the culture one. However this goal may be achieved only by the USA leading economy – that is the price of World leadership, for it means the responsibility too. Lack of this responsibility had already lead to he current crisis, so taking this responsibility back would benefit solving both Mondial and the USA problems, that partly was described in this article of prof Peter Turchin in his article of the educated elite overproducing http://www.expert.ru/ The vivid and obvious example of new American generation of Latino - and AfroAmerican political leaders – and even the very USA President Obama proves both the memes theory significance. It also proves that the the USA state pattern ability to deal with conversion of this evolution paradigma. Its social pattern has been developed on the basis of incorporating the innovations into business and social life. The load of social inertia was got off in course of the war between the South and the North. No its further development, evolving and hence - existing were possible without these innovations however by the end of the 20th century they got another social inertia load, that described above Market Autocracy So all the written
above make reader able to come to the following conclusion: The Global Marshal
plan ides was first pot forward at the Rio Summit in 2006 by
the Russian scientist demograph Sergei Kapitza.
http://files. That time that project drew almost no wide public attention. However much wider attention together with Nobel Prize drew the Global Marshall plan Project initiated in 2007 by Al Gore. That project is being developeing now However the very name of Al Gore sounds now somewhat suspicious because of the Climategate affair . However the proper public control is to be established to avoid its failing, like Climate change affair/. A good article on the
Copenhagen Meeting appeared in Guardian “This is bigger than
climate change. It is a battle to redefine humanity” by George
Monbiot, the scholar-philosopher and the author of many
bestselling bookshttp://www.guardian.co. 21.A. Climategate and politicians' role - and on related social changes. the climate change is
too complected question no special single cause could be
determined. Either these are greenhouse gases, or the
interglacial age period finish, or it may be increased
disproportion of the albedo distribution.... Btw, the latest
Chili earthquake shifted the terrastrial axis to 8 sm and that
may cause serious climate changes too. But is it sense to
fight against earthquakes?
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