JOHAN GALTUNG terms of its own criteria; it makes inefficient use of local factors. Trade ls the easy solution once the infrastructure exlsts and serves as a substitute for search and re-search, for new ways of growing food, for new types of foodstuffs etc. Nobody who has been through a crisis, e.g. a war economy is ln any doubt as to what this means: a mobilization of resources, some of them known before but un- or underused; other even unknown. The argument against this is often heard, "we do not want to live in a war economy". lt is true that psychologically this kind of economy has been associated with crisis in the rich part of the world - for the poor in the poor part of the world it is just the other way around. For them the "normal" capitalist economy has been a state of permanent crlsis and self-rellance, under one name or the other, the alternative at least capable of satisfying basic needs. But it is quite clear that the psychology of the "developed" countries, and of the overdeveloped pockets in the "developing" countries, would have to undergo some changes in order for SR to be more acceptable. These changes will probably corne about in two ways, negatively as the result of crisis produced with the coming redirection and recomposition of world trade (and that would corne even as a consequence of the much more moderate New International Economie Order), and positive/y as a desire for an alternative style of life where seff.fulfillment is seen as somethlng comlng out of self-rellance than from mass consumption in an affluent, but clientelized, soclety. 17 (4) Through SR creativity is stimulated. We have mentioned above that the transfer of technology, however good the terms, casts the recipient in the raie of the learner, the pupll - learning how to produce, even learnlng how to consume. Possibly this is the most devastating consequence of the present world order and the consequence most difficult to remedy. The way to go about it is definitely not through schooling alone since that would, with the present pattern, only lncrease the dependency on the Western centers rather than instilling faith and pride in own culture and confidence in own ability to innovate. The road to innovation probaly goes through innovation, and by 17 lt is probab1y only when the quest for a new llfe style ·ln rlch countrles, less consumptlve, crlsis is seen as a quest for a hlgher quallty of llfe (and not as a reactlon to changlng trade patterns etc.) that sufflclent momelltum will be generated. · 60,
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