Recession and Macho Politics

An analogy exists between the recession and the increased testosterone that America has applied at home and abroad in its bid to keep its standards, it states but also in its bid to remain supreme.

The way that government has been spending without regard to a deficit tomorrow or without having revitalizing current health plans, is what characterizes the government as headstrong and insensitive to the issues at home. This is said with Katrina in mind when it was easier for America to pay attention to ceaseless conflicts abroad when its own citizens waited on rooftops to be carried away from a major flooded city.

 The same government has allowed a housing crisis to occur while people have been induced to spend on credit as though there was no tomorrow. Naturally they could also themselves for their excesses but the point is that more masculine than feminine traits seem to powering the current political and economic drive.

 A testosterone driven surge in the economy could be likened to a continued war effort abroad ,with little thought to the numbers of post –war traumatic syndromes that are cooking up elsewhere. Feminine attitudes could be likened to corollary of that effort, the need to create an efficient medical program so that veterans will not fall through the cracks when they get home and can adjust to the society that sent them out to battle.

In the healthier capitalist world, there should be a finer balance between the two mechanisms of going out and destroying the enemy and promoting health care just as there is a balance between the emotional extremes of a family nucleus: early man went out to hunt for his family while his consort kept the hearth glowing, fed and protected their young.

 The fact that the US has gone democratic and is attempting to dismantle Guantanamo, which has been in the news because of a debate to close it, can be likened to an attempt to reintroduce some maternal elements into American politics that have gone lacking because of the headstrong measures, lack of hindsight and insensitivity mentioned above. But the senate has blocked Obama’s bid to close the base. This makes the presidential bid look like an ‘odd couple’ arrangement, with the senate hawks happy that the status quo will be kept.

 In a successful unified couple, there is a functioning discourse between the formerly aggressive hunters, still the major breadwinner across the continent and his mate who still looks after the concerns of the home much as she looked after them in the cave in early Paleolithic times.

 The model of the average family has changed and there are much more liberal couple arrangements but still there appears that it is the woman who is prevalently more interested in protection at home and the male role is prevalently more aggressive. If that functionality cannot be rebalanced or Americans cannot balance their need for security at the expense of ceaseless wars with a need to constantly revitalizing its economy, than recessions like this one will occur more frequently and may even be more hazardous to sustain economic growth.