What is “Growth”?

What is “Growth”?
…………………………………………Leechard
(Quest No.8253e 　　　　2011/10/14)


It depends.

In the fields of economics or politics, “growth” is not something happening in a tree. It is only a numeric increase rate.

Economists were working feverishly to find out the possible reason of the EU problems recently. Shawn Tully wrote in the Fortune Magazine in September 5, 2011: ”…Growth in Europe is already slowing sharply and will probably keep weakening. The reason: Interest rates will be far higher then predicted….”

What is “growth”? It is a number shown in computers. When the figures increase, things are growing.

People are trying to solve the life and death problems of the globe in a mathematical way. Increase some figures here, decrease some figures there. If the interest rates are low enough, then people will have money to buy, to spend, to invest, and problems solved.

But growth itself is more than a figure.

Financial manipulation can not help the growth. Extra-effort is essential.

What extra-effort?

The extra-effort must be so powerful that it could have the power and authority to re-format the old thinking system, to change the way humans think.

We are not talking about re-formatting the economic system or social system or class system. Because, All the external structures are the reflection of the internal thinking system.

When humans have a clear insight to see into the present situation, real growth will emerge.

A real growth is not making more i-phones or selling more Fords. We have been making the same thing and selling the same thing for too long a time.

What is growth?

Growth is the total development of mankind. We are growing from Stone Age to electronic age. We are growing from a tree-shape national economy to a globalize economy. And the globalize economy is not balanced, is shattered.

Hopefully, we are growing from unbalance to balance.

And it is idealistic. It is against pragmatism. If we do need a change, this is the real change.

In the future, we need a very good cooperation of idealism and pragmatism. Pragmatism without ideal is just like a diligent worker, he never reads, but works and works. And he will never change.

And the question is how. Where do we start? How can we humans have a better thinking system and re-format our minds? Should we take off our skins like a snake changing herself?

Yes. You are right.

Lets start here. Lets scratch here. Drop a few lines into the Internet, to irritate people and ourselves think. That is all we needed right now.













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