Author:
Sergey D. Bodrunov, S.Y. Witte Institute for New Industrial Development (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Abstract:
The trend towards simulating wants has been developing in recent decades creates a significant threat to the advancement of civilization, leading to an unlimited boost in consumption and increased pressure on the natural environment. At the same time, many vital needs of a considerable part of the Earth’s population are far from being satisfied, despite the achieved potential of technological progress. This trend is largely determined by the economic criteria of rationality reflecting in the modern social order. To overcome the negative tendencies towards the simulation of wants, it is necessary to solve three interrelated issues. Firstly, it is necessary to remove the simulative load imposed on existing wants. Secondly, society should be oriented towards the development of authentic human wants in the advancement of human qualities. Thirdly, it is necessary to change the very mechanism of wants formation, evaluating them using the criteria of reason and culture, and thereby forming noowants.
Keywords: dissimulation, knowledge, scientific and technological progress, person of a new quality, noowants, simulative needs, financial capital, ecological crisis, economic rationality.
For citation: Bodrunov S.D. (2022). Questioning the imperatives of the noosociety formation: de-simulation of wants. Noonomy and Noosociety. Almanac of Scientific Works of the S.Y. Witte INID, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 9–14. DOI: 10.37930/2782-6465-2022-1-4-9-14