The World Economic Crisis and Its Effects on The Culture

At the moment i think most Western culture is a representation from the mass media. The Mass media sets the culture picture which sets out our lifestyles to be materialistic and consume of course that's what the government wants. But with the looming economic impact on the world the bourgeois or middle class population of the western world won't be able to live in the materialistic lifestyle which has been common and lets not forget the last time there was the depression sure it was bad but the people didn't feel the full effects of it because the second world war pulled them out. Will this open our eyes from the cultural illusion and maybe strike a change in consciousness or a second cultural revolution or something even bigger because it all comes down to the money folks, anyway my point is i think materialism is a distraction from inner reflection and spiritual growth will this change something with the way people think? because people won't be able to live as they did before, they are saying this is like nothing we have ever seen.

 

You are right about materialism being a distraction. However, the middle class is far from what would be called the "bourgeois." Most people think the person in their town, who lives in the mansion and owns a yacht, to be rich. A person could be a multi-millionaire and they would still be nowhere near as wealthy as some of the ultra-wealthy at the top, who are multi-billionaires and sit at the top of the world's biggest financial institutions. So the working and middle class has been trained to see people who are only modestly weathy as being "elite," when they too are really only at the bottom of the proverbial pyramid. This serves to further divide and conquer, and it distracts people from looking at the real enemy.

As much as I would like to see good things come from this engineered crisis, I know that won't happen because this was all set up with the intention of enslaving the population. It's happened thoughout history. If you want to take total control over a country and its people, you first bankrupt it to then bring in the military under the guise of "restoring order."

What we're seeing with the economy was done on purpose, for a reason. Back in the 30s, many people were still self-sufficient and were able to live off the land. Today, most people are completely dependent on the system for just about everything. When enough people begin to lose everything they've ever had, there is going to be people going off the deep end.

 

^ true story. A economist friend of mine told me recently much to my suprise that by 2012 the only things worth any value in america would be guns, bullets, and canned food...
Take it as you will but hyper inflation is coming

 

People are slowly becoming de humanized as the money squeeze continues, and I hate to see it happen. I still get my kicks, and feel good daily, love is never going to vanish totally, hang in there.

 

i really think this is getting it backwards. the more people equate money with reality the deeper the hole we are digging for ourselves. ain't no unseen thing got anything to do with it. its the cultural back headedness, from the most dominant cultures on down, that's driving the monkey fiddles with the little geen pieces of paper.

 

I do not think the crisis consernes the world. It most mostly the West that is losing its wealth while Asia and the rest of the non-Western countries are getting wealthier.

It is just hard to imagine countries like the ones in Asia being so powerful, since a lot of us do not speak an Asian language or know that much about their culture.

The world will be a very strange place for most of us.