{"id":39095,"date":"2024-10-24T21:13:58","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T04:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/?p=39095"},"modified":"2024-10-24T21:17:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T04:17:16","slug":"understanding-self-regulation-through-self-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/understanding-self-regulation-through-self-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Self Regulation while using Self Control"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mama said there would be days like this. This is a saying my mother said when your normal flow is distracted by something that takes you aback or off course. Such is the case in this week\u2019s reading on The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi.<\/em> I exhausted huge mental and emotional capacity, with frustration and moments of uncertainty trying to capture the true essence of the reading while bringing my dictionary alongside to unpack several words as well as concepts.<\/p>\n

Polayni\u2019s book explores the cause of a reverberating calamity, the collapse of the international economic system. Polayni, a social theorist, was raised in Budapest within a family known for social engagement and intellectual prowess. Polanyi shares his thoughts on the calamity with the foundational premise, the self-regulated market was critically flawed.
\nPolanyi argues that contrary to popular belief, markets have been of marginal importance in traditional societies throughout history.<\/p>\n

Using an embedded theory, he believes the economy is embedded in society, constantly influenced by social relations. The market economy emerged after a prolonged battle against these traditions. He suggests the balance-of-power system could not ensure peace once the world economy had failed. He renders a new idea: a self-adjusting market with implications of a stark utopia.<\/p>\n

His defense is presented through a self-regulating market. \u201cA self-regulating market demands nothing less than the institutional separation of society into an economic and a political sphere<\/em>. [1] Such a dichotomy is, in effect, merely the restatement, from the point of view of society as a whole, of the existence of a self-regulated market\u201d [<\/em>2}<\/p>\n

The key to the institutional system of the nineteenth century was the laws governing market economy.. Another of Polanyi\u2019s charge against market liberalism was his assertion that it treats land and labor as \u201cfictitious commodities\u201d<\/em>.[3] Nothing could be more contrary to \u201cthe traditional organisation of human society than a system that disposes of land and labour as if they are \u201ccucumbers\u201d. Polyani believes the market providing goods to members would harm society and cause conflict with social mechanisms.<\/p>\n

The irony of Polayni\u2019s life and work is how it mirrors today. Liberalism made great strides during his day, but it provoked conservative and populist backlash. Polayni, born in the late 19th century, was a Jewish man who had to encounter several battles with antisemitism. Social anxieties were heightened in his day through xenophobia against immigrants. Many have suggested that social influence is the heartbeat of Polayni\u2019s thought process. The key to the institutional system of the nineteenth century was the laws governing the market economy. These are some of the ways I see Polayni making his map.<\/p>\n

Dr. Jason Clark draws his own comparison, mapping out the move of aseity from the Christian Community into the life of aseity in the market, where \u201cthe market becomes the ontological basis for all relationship and identity.\u201d<\/em> [4] Clark believes that Christians’ social life should not be subordinate to the market. [5}<\/em><\/p>\n

In summation, Polanyi suggests a primary tenant is focusing on ensuring that all people have the right to earn a decent livelihood. Capitalist economics have several requisites, such as purchasing selling and the egregious exploitation of labor, which we see playing out in increasingly in our Western Hemisphere. This is a pathway to poverty which plagues so many here in America. There is a fight for minimum wage and equal wages but this cannot be accomplished without change. The change Polanyi suggests? I\u2019m not sure how effectively Polanyi\u2019s method would play out in modern times.<\/p>\n

This was truly a difficult read and perhaps a more layman\u2019s approach to writing would help people such as myself to grasp the content clearer so that if one wants to write a blog post it will not look and sound fuzzy and foggy.<\/p>\n

[1] Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Times, (Boston, MA, Beacon Press, 2001), 72.
\n[2] Polanyi, 74.
\n[3} Polanyi, 75
\n[4] Clark, Jason Paul, \u201cEvangelicalism and Capitalism: A Reparative Account and Diagnosis of Pathogeneses in the Relationship\u201d (2018). Faculty Publications \u2013 Portland Seminary. 135
\n[5] Clark, 127.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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