Even from the school bench it becomes known that a human being by the criterion of animal existence is a biologically insufficient being, unspecialized and unfinished, with weakly expressed instincts.
The impact of money on human beings and culture
It is from the fact of imperfection of biological nature that many scientists such as M. Scheller, A. Gehlen, G. Plesner, E. Cassier derive the phenomenon of culture.
Within the framework of their biology, man is doomed to extinction, the only way out is to search for extreme ways to survive. The duality of objective nature - biological and social - is supplemented by another subjective and objective reality - culture, a special program of the individual's life activity.
While animals react to external stimuli immediately, a human being should subject this fact to mental processing. As a product of not only biological and social, but also cultural evolution, he lives not so much in the physical world as in the symbolic world. And, observing the genesis of mankind - from generation to generation, it is necessary to state that the degree of separation between real and virtual worlds is only increasing.
People are creating more and more idols for themselves, worshiping them and completely forgetting where and for what they live.
How dangerous is this? What is the fraught with the complete virtualization of being?
Without falling into fantasies, such as the Wachowski brothers' film "The Matrix", although we have to admit that the society described in the film is not so impossible, and looking at today's wide open eyes, we can already see how simple and trivial things, created by people to simplify and improve the quality of life, begin to govern us, making the existence sometimes unbearable.
One of such sensual super sensible things, which has its own existence, is money, an integral attribute, a part of human life, without which it is difficult to imagine yourself in this world.
From the object, inanimate element, money things turn into something alive, like a genie that escaped from the bottle, having fulfilled our desires and gained freedom, begins to play with our destinies. Money subjugates a person, in the world of their domination their own qualities and abilities of a person as a creator of history turns into a world of external, foreign, alien, beyond the control of a person and unknown to him social forces. Money fetishism as a social force appropriates human qualities, turning a human creator into a function or a slave. Money civilization is a "kingdom of necessity", a world of crooked mirrors, where an individual perceives his or her own human life as a reflection of the outside world.
On the direct depends on how much money you have, not only your standard of living, how you dress, eat, where you live and learn, but also often your very existence.
Money manages the processes of labor and production of material products, it affects sexuality, human relationships up to individual fantasies and impulses.
Money radically influences the state of material and spiritual culture. It is no secret that it is the money, or rather the amount of money invested in a particular mass media product, that ensures its success, the love of the audience. It is not without reason that money influences the symbolic evaluation of works of art, for example, that the quality of modern films is determined by the size of the box office they have collected at the box office.
Commercialization penetrates the stage, cinema, fiction and many other types of art, determining not only the state of everyday mentality, but also, and most importantly, forming the spiritual foundations of modern culture. All the cynicism of what is happening is reflected in the phrase we often use: "Whoever pays, he orders music.
Money from the tool of evaluation of goods and services turns into economic value, on the altar of which many people put their lives, forgetting that the receipt and growth of money is not an end in itself, they are needed only as an intermediary in meeting the needs, and if there is a possibility to meet the needs, bypassing the intermediary, it should be done, and not to stay in a constant process of earning money units, telling yourself that once in the future you will be able to get everything you dream of. Although you will have to admit that you should or shouldn't give advice in an attempt to reach an understanding of the role of money in a person's life, at this stage a special type of human behavior oriented towards financial transactions as the main way of life has already been formed. In the economic literature, there is even a specialized term that defines this type of personality - "homo finances".
It is also necessary to take into account the fact that the growing money demand is mainly based not on real money, but on debt obligations. Living on credit is promoted as a certain norm, a standard. We are taught how to take credit without getting into a debt hole, and the financial guru does not even think to tell people how to live within the means without any debts in modern conditions.
Continued in the next article!
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