passed in 1944 and was born in an isolated American community, a new World Order. New Hampshire, in July 1944 was the scene of the conference held in Bretton Woods. Here you say what it would be the new world economic order. The reason for this call had been, Suguna organizers, agree on how to accelerate economic development worldwide scale, the need for a new global economic system and centralized.
There would be no more wars
horrendous and people would be well fed and would enjoy the fruits of the technological revolution and consumerism.
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But it is quite far from reality. The Bretton Woods international monetary system established based on the pattern changes-dollar. Gold is seen as the principal reserve asset and the dollar played a similar role, being considered the reserve currency. The price of gold had a fixed value (35 per ounce), and the par value system was very rigid. Also provided a mechanism governed by international credit International Monetary Fund (an institution created by the agreements). The monetary system that emerged from the agreement accurately reflected the U.S. hegemony in the global economy. According
Jerry Mander (1) American activist who can see and hear in the previous post posted below, "Economic globalization actively undermines all the values \u200b\u200bexcept the economic. Venera the free market and its key players - global corporations - such as motors and benefactors of the process. attaches importance to the achievement of economic growth always faster and the constant search for new markets, new resources and cheap labor - that is why so much excitement over the idea that China participate in this experiment.
To achieve such rapid growth, globalization needs a free market without any restriction, the privatization of state enterprises and deregulation of business that, together, eliminate most obstacles that could block the way of business in expansion. In practice, these constraints are usually environmental laws, public health laws, food safety laws, laws related to rights and opportunities for workers, laws that allow nations to monitor the investments in their territories and laws that attempt to retain national control over the culture LOCAL Currently, all these are considered obstacles to free trade and corporate are rapidly being outlawed by the big new trade agreements. And while companies are being deregulated and released, states, nations and local governments are being severely restricted and regulated, which is more difficult to secure employment, identity and local tradition, as well as national sovereignty and the natural world. "
In this global economic context in which we live is pretty obvious perceive that the fight against mass media like television. The Mass Society raises an unbalanced relationship between two social groups: elite and mass. We can not consider the mass as an inert and devoid of opinion or decision, but we know that means "create" opinion, "pass values" and disseminate information generated content. The serious and dangerous
containing this medium is its essence in itself, an unequal relationship in which the media is controlled by an economic elite or professional, who determines the message to which the majority of society-a mass of receivers - can only choose whether to receive or not. Four
causes explain the implementation of the Mass Society:
The process of democratization, development industrial, along with population growth and urban that accompanied it, a strengthening of the States that results in bureaucratic and interventionist policies, and the central role of newspapers in society as a transmission belt of the new mass culture.
Among television media is particularly significant: the image is an undifferentiated and easy code access and massification homogenized messages. Jerry Mander
intenssivamente explains in his book, "Four good reasons to delete the television" ("Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television" 1977) the dangers of the television and why we should nuetsras eradication of lives.
Roughly four reasons would be:
The first author's argument is that while television may seem useful and interesting, at the same time taken from people in a proper mental and physical condition for the appearance of autocratic control.
The second argument concerns the emergence of the drivers. That television could be used and expanded by the powers that be, and should have been expected (maybe it was!) From the beginning. The technology allows not allow another control.
The third argument concerns the effects of television different human organs and mind.
The fourth argument demonstrates that television has the democratic potential. The technology in itself is absolute limits of what can pass through it. The means, in effect, choose their own content in a very limited field of possibilities. The effect is drastically limit all human understanding within a rigid channel.
What unites these four arguments is one that none of them has a chance to reform.
The elimination of the means that promote and act as comptroller of public opinion, it is easy to explain if we realize it considers the technology as an ideology.
(1) Jerry Mander (who can see and hear in the previous post posted below) attended the Business School of Columbia University and directed the 1960 a major advertising agency in San Francisco until began to put their talents to the environment.
In 1971 he founded the Public Interest Communications, the largest advertising agency for social action groups and environmental policy. He is currently president of the International Forum on Globalization.
is the author of numerous books, including The absence of the sacred, The Case Against the Global Economy andfor a Turn Toward the Local. Gedisa has also published the book edited by him and John Cavanagh Alternatives to economic globalization.
sources and links of interest:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Arguments_for_the_Elimination_of_Television
http:// www.sangay.org/mander2.html
http://www.ifg.org/store.htm
http://www.infoamerica.org/teoria/mander1.htm
http : / / es.wikipedia.org / wiki / Acuerdos_de_Bretton_Woods
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