Greetings,
A cyberfriend in Russia comments on recent Futurework discussion. Please
excuse the sometimes confusing English; the meaning might better get
through if you read the piece twice - it's not long.
Steve
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Hi Steve and all, --
Sciencefictionally written qouted posting -- in its both parts...:-)))
The flashes of facts do not have appropriate interpretation in Arbatov's
case. He, as it seems to me, excludes from the game the hypnoidal
factor,
in accordance with which the west and Russian "partners" play using
different theoretical cards, when pondering about some economical goals.
Majority of the former soviets (I mind people, not administration)
transferred to new epoch many if not all
of their previous views and mental habits. The most noxious of them is
rather than somewhat else the habit to hope for automatically achievable
common well-being. Russia has may be the most idle laws in the
world.They don't have in too much occasions any desirable support.
They does not work. Even their content is often assuming, or
as-if-assuming, confutation of their actual sense, when for instance in
their
beginning they "provide" the development of single-farmstead but in
their end allows
to local administration openly and "in accordance with the given laws"
to
hinder every normal progress...
Thusly -- if to continue pondering the way like this -- is very likely
that deteriorating of all kind have, rather than "outer", very deep
subconscious
roots. The economists don't want to look at humans 'in full'... :)
By the way, under-information chooses the most secret paths. One of the
most important, if not the main, is an undervaluation of the notions
connotation. The chinese well-being is very different from the american,
or argentinean. The today's economist, if he wants to become adequate to
his time, e.i. to our informational age (and it will be soon, I am sure,
super-informational and this is the special interesting point...), is
obliged to harmonize, for instance, the processes-of-inflation-melody
with the "acutely" modern, contemporary accords of evolution of a given
country and, of course, of the whole world. Economics is to be
"denotated".
In Russia after the august-september 1998 natural end of unrealistic
manipulation
with the totality of mechanisms taken for its needy
only-economical-part, the attentive observer could look and the
paradoxically positive things. Such as, say, active and very fast grow
of production of Russian food and other ware, which is accompanied
partitive... but deflation.The blighty industries are in days of crisis
maybe even onto good thing. Prices are near to the level of the period
before August 17th. May be it's the uniquely correct "decision" that
was not made -- it has happened by itself.
There is a landscape of economical life. It is an important but,-- and
surely it sounds flaky enough, -- far not the absolutely and
individually PRIOR.Its value may be define rightly only after
our-general-aimings-assessment.
As to the Russia, we may add that she rarely had the fulldeveloped
society during normal periods of her existence. Her peculiarity consists
in having of highly organized and extraordinarily spiritual society for
extremal years. Maybe, that is the phenomenon which instinctively have
used her rulers in the past and the contemporary are trying to do that
by now , proposing to her people the always present at hand possibility
of going on the brink of abyss. I am not afraid to appear on the eyes of
my compatriots as a cynic saying that for Russia such a state of things
is in some way normal. And the peoples vitality here is evidently
trained in such way that is not easy to explain to him who does not know
the genuine historic and mental background of physical existence,
economy and culture. The inner logic of hyper-emergent behavior of
Russians like,evidently, of each other people all around the world is to
uncover, be it said incidentally, by the cautious and attentive integral
analyst. The Corn Law in England in its time. e.g., has a similar
effect as "surplus appropriation system" in Russia closely after
October, but their "social work" seemingly has meaningful peculiarity.
Special surprise in me is produced by the "data" about tributes
supposedly taken from the "soviet colonies", because I too good know
that it were as like as opposite -- communist party robed his own
country and his "beloved people" in name of "the world revolution" by
means of super-donations for support of different "people liberation
movements" and "young people democracies". And the sums are
astronomic... But, I agree, that "socialist integration" as an important
part of Politburo politics had its mysteries.
My little chaotic comment is rather in somewhat sense consistent to the
notion "crisis":-), that, apropos, often has here in Russia calm and a
little sarcastic face. Popular saying now in broad use may be
approximately translated as following:
"We have come through that incomparable chores and asperities, so such
new one means just nothing". The quantity of smiles, a regrettable
thing, is not for an economist, be he Keynesian or Friedmanian, a
serious parameter :-).
For Homo Globalis instead of Homo Sapiens!
Best regards.
Val
Valery Kourinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
