The Decline of Industrial Civilization of Modern Humankind: (No. 3 of the Series of Reflections on Economics Law and Ethic Culture Caused by World Financial Crisis)

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1. Human is standing on the crossroad of the destiny

Existing for over 200 years, the history of industrial civilization society from the sixties in 18th century, rising Industrial Revolution three times, the world war two times, and the various economic crisis eight times during the period. (Annotation by this writer)

In the 200 years, the material wealth which was created by human beings exceeded far more than the sum of human civilization in the previous over five thousand years, but this state that industrial civilization in the 200 years has consumed non-renewable resources on the Earth forces human to face another revolution--" new resource revolution."

Some bodies ranged a simple number "fourth" to " new resource revolution", it was named as " Fourth Industrial Revolution", it seems that the revolution is a continuation of the three previous technological revolutions, this title actually ignore the sublayer connotation of new resource revolution which is as different as chalk from cheese. In fact, mankind is standing at the biggest turning point, which is between developed over 200 years, but declined rapidly in the end of stage of industrial civilization now, and creating another completely different new era in the history of human civilization. This is the totally different end of old civilization and the new beginning of another civilization, not the old civilization surviving. Therefore it is improper that titled it as "Fourth Industrial Revolution". This proposition is correct or not, that needs to analyze the cause of the descent of modern industrial civilization.

2. The root cause of the decline of modern industrial civilization

First of all, facing the appeal of material benefits, human beings have been corrupting and ruining indulgently on conventional culture and moral values, establishing the supreme rule of short-term self-interests on the earth.

The survival of human beings must rely on certain material basis, the pursuit for material interests is inevitable, therefore, the evolution history of humankind civilization is always tight connected with the development history of the way of how to obtain material interests. For the material interests that human beings has somewhere in common with animals, however, human beings is radically distinguished from animals not only human has the ability of creating and utilizing tools, but more important also the consciousness of cultural speculativeness and moral sentiment. It is no other than this reason, human can be the noblest life, and the life is endowed with intelligence to control all of creatures on the earth. Unfortunately the weakness of animality …