Psychoeconomics: globalization, markets, crisis - стр. 33
Therefore it is not impossible to divide the world’s countries into those that hold on to the culture and values of the US and those that are oriented to the values and culture of China and similar countries. That is, countries or nations choose in favor of an extroverted or an introverted culture.
In any case, a new system of contradictions becomes intensified: between the elite and the people of their country (when accepting the culture of the leading country, the US) or between different countries (when they accept the culture of a new, rapidly developing world economic center). Of course, these are processes that affect decades, the understanding of which causes protest and defensive reactions in people who think in smaller slices of time.
But if we think in decades, then the probable socio-political conclusions that derive from the acknowledging the tendencies described are unavoidable.
The quality of the population in the US and in the majority of European countries is becoming increasingly worse through successive peaks of solar activity. This thesis became more evident after the issuance of Thilo Sarrazin’s book Germany Is Doing Away With Itself.
If by the time of a definitive decline in the quality of the population it has been possible to create an effective economy that manufactures nutrition products and articles of daily necessity, the population of the prosperous countries of the West will be divided into two social aggregates. Some produce and thus have higher standards of consumption, while others just consume. But since they consume dependently, then they will be forced to comply with lower standards of consumption. With each passing year, those who consume will be penetrated by a dependent psychology. Their strength of character will fall, expectations of what the powers-that-be should do for them will grow. Classical democracy (the power of the majority) in this case leads this sort of country to decay, or else one way or another power will transfer not to the strong, but to the weak; not to the producers, but to the consumers …
Such a division is also possible by country or groups of countries. There will be some countries that are capable of effective production, and there will be others whose capacity is weakened. Incidentally, this division is already evident on the map of contemporary Europe.
Social conflicts will grow. Under pressure of the expectation of the majority, no power, whether on the right or left, will be able to reform the national economy. The power structure will totally cease to meet the objective need for firm control of the country given the updated demand for orientation toward the obtainment of distant goals (involving several periods of presidential rule) to avoid the catastrophic consequences of the development of socio-economic processes. This is the sociopsychological and political basis for a possible contraction in the domain of the development of democracy and the transition to another structure of state management, to other regimes.