Open AccessThe Choice for the West: Bifurcation Between Innovation Breakthrough and Information Dictatorship
Author(s) -
Зубец Алексей Николаевич
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
gumanitarnye nauki. vestnik finansovogo universiteta/gumanitarnye nauki
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2619-1482
pISSN - 2226-7867
DOI - 10.26794/2226-7867-2021-11-2-16-22
Subject(s) - dictatorship , ideology , civilization , fork (system call) , meaning (existential) , competitor analysis , isolation (microbiology) , quality (philosophy) , development economics , sociology , political science , economic system , economics , politics , law , engineering , management , epistemology , philosophy , mechanical engineering , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , democracy
The author showed that the modern Western world is facing an extremely important fork in the road, meaning the choice of a further path and ideology of development and a new system of values and social motivation. It is argued that the leading cause of the crisis is the inhibition of the innovative development of modern civilization, which made impossible the neocolonial exploitation of the rest of the world, using innovative superiority. Also, the author showed that a severe problem of the West is the stimulation of growth of quality of life standards and lowering the cost of labour. The paper presents options for responding to this crisis — military suppression of competitors, innovative breakthrough, self-isolation, and information and social manipulation.