Oscillation situations have already been met56 to 13613 dollar while it had declined 3Hire stars of football has never been the guarantee of winning the matchIn Britain TMobile and the operator 3 already doMarch 19 the international monetary fund has given the tempoWhat get the bankers to excellent managersEvery word is weighed each taking soupesée positionSomething has changed in the country of financeInformation immediately contradicted by the BankWhy not but it is really not the purpose of the debateReligious There is doubt. Secular It is known. End of year celebrations became, first of all, great rituals of consumption. Sophisticated food and beverage cost to eat up there in enormous quantities. Is Exchange of gifts, preferably valuable kyrielles. The crisis does not change much: it, these days, everywhere in the world, to consume ever more.
To this phenomenon, anthropologists diagnose Exchange of gifts and contre-dons, lavish, waste challenge, biggest globalized potlatch. Historians discern a survival of archaic cycles associated with the winter solstice fear of the night which extends hope that reborn light since the festivals of Jul among the Norse until the birth of Christ, from that of Mithra. Activists will transform our festivities in infallible developer of inequality: if everyone drinks, there is in the glass indicates to little things, what one WINS...
For a philosophical look at the economy, it is a great lesson in things. Because holiday first recall this basic definition: consumption is destruction. The fact is: we do not eat twice the same chocolate. The pleasure can be repeated (yet happy), but at the cost of the new destruction of another product. Of course, the use of a flat screen or a car is obviously slower. In addition, sustainable development is working now to make longer life of the goods or to their recycling. But these efforts will never prevent all consumption, at the end of string, that switch in this nothingness that was manufactured, transported, kept, transformed, presented with so much care, by a multitude of successive relay.
The large, well-known but always surprising paradox so this observation: everything is organized for ultimate disappearance. Adam Smith in 1776 knew already: "consumption is the single goal, the single term of any production.". Contemporary economists have qualified this statement with amount of theoretical refinements, but no one has denied it. That is why it feverishly facing lower fluctuations in consumption, its more or less deep mutations, changes in its distribution. Yet it remains, always, ultimately, destruction. Strange reality: everyone is working hard for an intended result, from the outset, to disappear forever.
Should we take this result to a very dark picture One could imagine this jérémiade black: human labour by nothingness, the sum of our efforts flooded vacuum economy continuously haunted by death... It would end accents to Schopenhauer, the philosopher who did not hesitate to judge the existence despairing and especially deficit. "Life is a company which does not cover its costs," he said.
Pessimism is unnecessary. The destruction that the consumer carries out is not the sign of victorious death nor triumphant nothingness. On the contrary, it is both essential and banal, this vital process in the heart of the existence. Because life is continuing, and perpetually, again by the disappearance. This applies to biology as for the economy. Programmed death of cells and the disappearance of individuals are a necessity for the perpetuation of the species first. That use the destroy permanently is the condition of all production. Empty and full form the two-stroke engine. The pace may be more or less bright. It can disappear.
By itself, this beat without end is not frightening. He noted, in the area of the body and in that of the goods, a deep metaphysical structure, present in large polarities (night-day, winter-summer, life-death, production-consumption) and ensuring their permanent renewal. Is this sufficient to pass good holiday
