On Modern Societies and Future Forward

By : Dr. AbdelHak Azzouzi

Moroccan Writer and Thinker

Topics such as the "third wave", "post-industrial society", "information society", "communication society", "knowledge economy society", "global village", "culture capitalism", "network society" and "information technology boom".. are all indicators of how the developed world has become, but also how deep those countries link to production, labor market along with culture, arts, sciences, goods, services and information feeding capitalism.

This is only happening via communication and informations means. In addition, the public policies count on the relationship between society and technology, where technology directly influence the future of inpidual and society, but also how economy, finance, military, cultural and political aspects develop within what is known as the third wave of capitalism.

Worth noting that the scientific developments, the need to rationalize and manage the poles of the production cycle, the study of sudden market expectations and their direct consequences, and abandoning jobs with value added in the new capitalist society, are policies guaranteeing their countries the right track. In contrast, the countries which abandon these policies will suffer crises exceed the repercussions of the financial crisis in 2008. If the countries couldn’t invent the production which will generate future jobs, prepare next generations for those jobs - which are still beyond imagination - they will only be countries of tourist destinations.

But if they succeed at this, we are going to have a generation capable of inventing and innovating and making future jobs.

It is not surprising that the happy and developed nations are those who have constructive and successful public policies in the presence of strategic minds that can analyze the future requirements.

Hence, there is a constant call for deepening scientific, intellectual, cognitive and academic capacities, as well as the adopting the documentary approach that make the thinkers in the Arab world contribute with objective and strategic reference books in economy, finance, public policies, providing information, scientific analysis, with high professionalism, transparency, objectivity and accuracy.  This would certainly help decision makers in the Arab countries, economists and statesmen, diplomacy, politics and professionals, to have reliable references.

When I wrote my book “Why Arabs lag behind and others progress?”, I suggested that looking to the future was the main motive for progress for inpiduals and peoples. This is derived from a key idea that the golden age for people is in the future and not in the past.

This is the right thinking and culture. And as culture dominates the thinking of all inpiduals, groups and institutions, where culture also described at heart traditions and supreme mental traits.

This is contrary to the cultures dictating that the past must be better than the present and certainly better than the unknown and 'wild' future ... this very idea results in closing the mind and thinking prospects, but also preventing the inpidual from stepping up... If we want solutions, we have to ask a good question and look Just to inside ourselves. In the same context. It is understandable that the developed countries flourished when they created economic inclusive institutions, while others failed when they were absent and established exclusionary economic institutions.

The exclusionary economic institutions, no matter how it proved economic success as in some countries, it will never be permanent; but that alleged success would have to survive challenges. These societies are, most likely, living in fear and anticipation .

On the contrary, the economic inclusive institutions encourage investments in energy and renewable industries and modern technologies, and utilizing the skills, leading to economic growth percedes the other kinds of economic institutions, which were built upon exclusion.

In this context, I recall Libya, whose people, are cherished in the Arab world, if they do not stop talking about separation and pision, will have to live with dangerous exclusionist institutions built in the absence of a strong political and economic central authority, and deepen a catastrophic legacy of abandoning citizenship and political sphere, citizenship and the prevention of the general political sphere of existence and life.

Nations flourish when they establish economic institutions that protect and liberate, and empower all, poor and rich, young and aged, scientists and innovators to invest and develop.. this is the way to progress.