Lifestyle > Train of Thought

Globalisation

<< < (2/3) > >>

Elevz:
^^ Indeed, there's so much to be said about globalisation... I like your view on how outsourcing leads to international dependance. It basically means the global economy can't go anywhere but downhill in case of a big war, because that would make trading impossible.

What's interesting though, is the stuff I heard about the functioning of England's economy. I'm currently reading this book called "Life At The Bottom", which is an account on the essays Theodore Dalrymple has written for the Manhattan Institute's City Journal throughout the years. In it, I found this essay called "We Don't Want No Education", which basically describes how the majority of the English youth consider high grades and education as something un-cool. I've noticed a similar trend in Holland, but the way it's described in this book is certainly worrying.

With England being one of the most expensive countries in the world, yet the people refuse to educate themselves, that's bound to cause trouble because of the possibilities of oursourcing. There's plenty of factory workers available in England, but their loan costs are too high. The English corporations outsource their factory work to Asia, leaving the English unemployed.
That's a serious problem in the English mentality, ending in a vicious cycle of glorifying the lower class mentality... That's more depressions, poverty, crime and violence...

virtuoso:

Yeah unfortunately there is a lot of truth to that, there is a deep underlying feeling of apathy in this country and selfishness, interestingly though in a new set of documentaries being aired on the BBC, they have said that this level of apathy and selfishness was deliberately created through a system called game theory. Which basically follows the premise that if everyone is completely selfish and self interested then an equilibrium could be created which would lead to society being balanced. In this country the typical response you hear to such issues is "i don't do politics" and therefore even when these changes affect them directly, again there is complete apathy with the response being, well we live in a small world now. Everything that happens is either forgotten about, doesn't matter or is simply compartmentalised. The book is spot on it's assertion that people are not interested in being educated, they really don't want to know, their lives are driven by the need for more material posessions and more disposable income to purchase those material posessions. There is nothing wrong with materialism but yeah.....i would say there is an almost obessionate need for materialism in most young people here and even older people to be honest and absolutely no interest in understanding, or even attempting to understand how things work, even to have a semblance of understanding.

Elevz:
That seems so accurate to me - I talk with a lot of English people on the internet, and it seems as if their problems are one.
Around the time when Christmas is nearing, they all start feeling depressed about the pressure of massively having to buy expensive gifts for family and friends (they probably just want to keep the money for themselves). They feel the need to be drunk for three days non stop during Christmas, as if it's a culturally determined attitude. And they keep ensuring me how much fun they're having while they're drunk, behaving like savages, consuming women. A minor I know through the internet actually got a 34 year old lady pregnant this way... The problem is, these people don't want the responsibility for their actions, yet they will continue their lifestyle at all costs.

I'm pretty curious about the BBC documentaries you're talking about, I gotta see if I can find them somewhere on the internet.

Props :)

virtuoso:

Good news for ya http://video.google.co.uk/videosearch?q=what+happened+to+freedom&num=10&so=0&start=20
it's broken down into 7 parts so that's the only bitch but you should find the complete first instalment of the documentary in the first 2 pages  :)

Elevz:
Wow. Now I just gotta find part 2 somewhere, and not forget to tune in on Sunday for the 3rd part... But damn, that sure is a thought-provoking series. Props :)

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page