Psychology Today,
Oct. 28, 2009
"The Great Recession of 2008 and 2009 could be ... the event that shocks us into a new vision of ourselves, our past, our future, our mission, and our destiny... or the prelude to a long decline, the beginning of the Chinese Century," says Howard Bloom, author of the forthcoming book, The Genius of the Beast: A Radical re-Vision of Capitalism.
The outcome depends on our serotonin neurochemistry, which causes us to react to success with confidence and dignity or to failure with depression, he points out.
"If America can find its next big goal and aim for it, if America can see its next way of climbing to the heights, if America can shift its perception from decline to the peaks that lay ahead of us, to the next big challenge, if we can lift ourselves with all our might, we can enjoy the bio-boost that surges through winning crayfish and lizards. We can see obstacles as challenges and difficulties as opportunities. And we can make massive contributions to humanity. But if we insist that we've reached the end of our run and that it's all downhill from here, down is where we will go. Our internal chemistry will make it so."
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