The Fall of Democracies and the Economy of Happiness

Young people don’t believe in the representative and old-fashioned democratic action of the ballot box anymore.

The new generations believe in clusters - a way of being together in life that reflects the virtual way of being together on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and every other kind of social networking.

Today's youth live in a bifurcated contradiction of an upbringing focused on the concept of free-economy learned from the Internet and voracious States that have abandoned their citizens to the tsunami of the financial crisis: a hellish, hopeless circle where the new generations try to survive.

The younger generations, in the end and above all, lack a belief that the political system represents their interests (one of the best examples is the rage caused by the bailouts of financial institutions when the public declared the money should have gone to people instead of banks!)

For this reason, youths think that you can only make a difference if you are part of a movement (social networking). However, networking is out of any political and traditional political party system, and therefore is recognized as a true act of representation.

Only by trying to better focus on and understand these networking clusters can we can better understand the real needs of a Nation and spin off an Economy of Happiness rather than one of plundering and wild exploitation (see my post:La compassione buddista come modello di business

http://milanprincipe.blogspot.com/2011/08/la-compassione-buddista-come-modello-di.html)

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