Key Points
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The global crisis has been the result of humankind’s evolutionary path.
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The crisis affects many areas of our lives, such as education, family, and ecology, but we have not properly addressed it. The outbreak of the economic crisis forces us to take immediate action to ensure our survival.
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Globalization and the integration of the global system have rendered the old paradigms irrelevant. Therefore, we must develop new paradigms that suit the laws of the global-integral world.
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The crisis is an opportunity for worldwide introspection, as well as for improving our interpersonal and international relations.
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By closing the gap between the rules of the global-integral world—which compels us to connect among us in mutual guarantee—and the competitive, individualistic current economy, we will create economic well-being and a stable and harmonious society.
In medicine, diagnosing an illness is considered a good thing. It allows us to pinpoint the problem and treat it. The same applies to the economy. The economic and financial crises are global, affecting virtually every country in the world. It is hard to estimate the overall damage wrought by the crisis, as we are nowhere near its end. However, it is clear that the crisis is a continuation of the downturn of 2008, and has emerged as the greatest economic and financial challenge the world has faced since the 1930s’ Great Depression. How governments, federal banks, and international financial institutions handle this evolving, expanding crisis will have a major impact on the future of the planet.
Every crisis presents an opportunity. The current one presents an opportunity to examine the state of the global economy, the global financial system, the state of financial relationships in the international system, as well as the social relations within each country, and even within individual businesses. Introspection is not a process performed while in a state of euphoria. Rather, it is done during periods of distress and crisis.
In truth, the global crisis is not confined to the economy. It is just as acute in education, domestic issues such as divorce and domestic violence, ecology, and the dwindling natural resources of the Earth. Every so often Nature “reminds” us of our fragility through an earthquake, a tsunami, a hurricane, or some other natural disaster. The immediate, forbidding effect of the global financial crisis makes the ideal wake-up call for us to reconsider the premises on which our economies, and our societies, are based.