Interview With Author About His Book That Warns Of A global Systemic Crisis

Book’s Panoramic Analysis Of The World Warns We      Will Be In A Seismic Crisis Unless We Wake Up 

1.       Egon, what is your book, Global Systemic Crisis, about? My book is very distinctive. The reality is that numerous publications, such as books and articles, focus on specific elements of the contemporary crisis, yet very few pieces provide a comprehensive view of the crisis as a whole. My book provides a specific summary of current events. The initial three sections aim to illustrate the history of the most significant current trends. It illustrates the historical background and the contemporary state of the global system in which we exist. It also reveals the future that is already apparent. Alongside the condition of science. Not everything, just the humanities section. In conclusion, I dedicated a distinct section of the book to the human being, where I describe the evolution of man, current developments affecting him, and the trends that impact contemporary individuals.

 

2.       What inspired you to write it? It's hard for me to answer anything definite. You know, there wasn't something that prompted me to write this book all of a sudden: there wasn't some incident or some conversation or something like that, which often prompts a person to express themselves. I would put it this way: what led me to write this book are my observations in the sum of them. It is important to note that I have been writing this book for many years. It's just that in 2023 and 2024 it was ripe to be published, which is why I started looking for a publisher. By virtue of my education and activity, I am interested in science, social life, economics, and other things, and I began to gradually observe certain trends that I am writing about. Of course, I am not the only one who has observed them, which is why I quote many experts.

3.       You have a Master’s degree in philosophy and sociology. You also have taught philosophy. Do you think enough people think about the world as often and as deeply as they should?

It's hard to speak for all people, but if you're asking the question directly, I'll answer directly: no! Moreover, they do not want and do not like to think about the world or anything else. If you ask cerebral biologists, they will even explain to you why this is so. In short, thinking is difficult and energy-consuming, and our brain saves energy wherever and whenever it can. Therefore, as historian Andrei Fursov, not a biologist, once put it, and I agree with him: a person likes to live comfortably and conveniently not only materially, but also spiritually. Tell some responsible parents who care about their children and their education in particular that this very education is degrading, that even higher education today is not what these parents received and certainly not what their parents received, and they will be horrified, exactly horrified. They'll say, “We didn't know! It can't be that schools and universities taught children who are not ready for grown-up life."

 

4.       Why do you write that capitalism is becoming ultra-imperialism? Kautsky wrote about this. The term, by the way, was also coined by him. And in German, in which he wrote his articles, the term sounds like Ultraimperilismus, in English it is most often translated, and this is correct, as: ultra-imperialism. Here we are talking about a certain phase of capitalism, or rather post-capitalism, which Kautsky foresaw, or rather predicted - it is a monopolistic economic system. It is also called monopoly capitalism, cartel capitalism. It lacks many of the characteristics inherent in capitalism: free market, money, and so on. Later this system will acquire the form of mega-corporations or, as it is wrongly called, “TNC capitalism”. Even later, although the rudiments would appear as early as the 1960s, what is dying today would be financialism as an important manifestation of ultra-imperialism. But that whole economic world of ultra-imperialism, envisioned by Kautsky and to some extent by Lenin, is dying before our eyes. 

 

5.       Is there a crisis in the old-world order? Depends on what one means by the old-world order. In my book, I adhere to the understanding of many analysts and historians who understand it, in short, as the postwar postcapitalist order with what is often erroneously called "corporate capitalism" and what is called "financialism," what is socially called "neoliberal counterrevolution". After 1991, the former socialist camp gave this counterrevolution a second life, thus prolonging the agony of what is called “capitalism” out of inertia and for lack of another term. Liberal values, as a manifestation of the old order, were given a second life for a short time, or rather they were prolonged in their death agony. And now those who once, i.e. under the old order, propagandized liberal values, today propagandize the infidelity and incorrectness of these very liberal values and try to convince all mankind that their values are wrong. That is, as I write in the book, lawyers have suddenly become judges. The old order is definitely in crisis, if the former advocates have suddenly become prosecutors of their now obsolete propaganda.

 

6.       You write that today’s world “seems different, stranger, and grotesque.” Why do you believe that? You mentioned three key concepts that characterize our changing world. Why is it different? Because it is different from the one we knew, I mean even my generation, not to mention the older ones. We knew science, we believed in it, but it proved impotent. We knew money, but there is no more money. We knew education, medicine, security, but that is gone, it has become services, and very limited ones at that. Strange. The new world, like everything new, cannot but seem strange, unfamiliar, unusual. When the world you are used to dies, when all that you have always believed in and known, that was the orienteer in your life, suddenly goes away, when former lawyers become judges, it cannot but be perceived as something strange. Finally, grotesque. In his Last Bow in one of the stories Sherlock Holmes asks Watson how he understands the word “grotesque” and not satisfied with his answer he himself answers that grotesque is suggesting “the tragic and the terrible,” something “criminal,” it “led to a murderous conspiracy.” You see, the new world is not an update of the old with improved options, it is not the Great Reset, as it is fashionably called, it is the total erasure of the past and the establishment of something new. As I write in the book, many people never understood or realized properly what was happening in the world they were used to. When they are confronted with reality, with new values, for example, this very same familiar world disintegrates, the old order dies, the illusion dissipates. They were told “free market” and now they are told openly not only that there is no “free market” and never has been, they, dependent on credit, are no longer consumers, but there are, white-collar workers tell them, more important values than consumption. As I write, the Cheshire Cat's smile fades and something new, bizarre and grotesque, even something sinister, emerges before us. For many, the world that emerges is wonderful and interesting, but I am writing to draw attention to the fact that it can be seen in other colors.

 

7.       What challenges, if any, did you have in researching and writing your book?

The main challenge for me was that I tried to present my thoughts to a wide range of readers. That is, what would be, first of all, understandable and interesting not only to experts, but also to the unprepared reader, i.e. someone who, as we said above, does not like to think about the world, but whom I would like to make think. I would like to make him think, mind you, but he should draw his own conclusions.

 

8.  If people actually awaken to your views and truths espoused in your book, what should they do? There was a wonderful expression in the Soviet secret services: active waiting. It's important right now. Yes, the new world order is being actively built, or rather imposed on people, but this does not mean that those who impose it are successful in everything. Just remember the protest convoys during the Covid era. Look at how a whole range of processes are slowed down due to the fact that large world structures, Russia, for example, are excluded from them for various reasons. For all the success in lining up the concert conductors have a lot of problems, and this is a chance for the common man. But as a simple example for the common man, you can think of the same digital school: many schools let parents decide whether their child will learn with digital books and write on a tablet, by poking their fingers, or use a paper book and write with a pen in class, thus developing their brain. If parents are able to understand the difference, they should make the right choice.

About The Author: Egon Hein has worked as an educator and freelance writer. He has taught philosophy, literature, and German in Russian and German universities. He also taught German in language schools in Kazakhstan and Russia. He also taught language in a secondary school in Germany. Born in Kazakhstan, he grew up in Germany. He graduated from the University of Konstanz, in Germany, with a Master’s degree in philosophy and sociology. He resides in Saxony, near Dresden, Germany.

 

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