Critique of pure "it"

Firstly, it is necessary to draw a line between the natural desire of a person to equip his bodily-objective existence and the perception of money as a fundamental life orientation. The latter is the subject of this study and represents a pathological state of spirit. Philosophically, as mentioned above, this line is drawn in the form of contrasting two qualitatively different states of the spirit. There is the integral spirit, in which the monetary intention is an element of the worldview among an infinite number of others, and the disintegrated spirit, in which the monetary intention occupies a central position and, consequently, is extrapolated to the whole worldview as a whole. In practice, this distinction is realized in two opposite orientations of a person: a productive orientation to creativity, love, life- for-all and a reproductive orientation to careerism, hoarding, and parasitism, life-for-oneself. It should be noted that the formation of life orientations, worldview, is a two-way process, however, like all spiritual and social processes. On the one hand, a person’s worldview is formed under the influence of social factors, conditions that are beyond his «ego», on the other hand, the very existence of a person, his individual psychological, subjective characteristics are an important reason for the development of his value orientations, his «ego». At the moment when the inner world of a person ceases to be self-sufficient for himself and loses the possibility of receiving external stimuli for self-development, a completely natural psychological crisis occurs. Awareness of the boundaries of his «ego», his spiritual limit, and, at the same time, awareness of the redundancy of the external world, which is unable to creatively transform (and even more so - to be realized) in his «himself», forces the personality to search for additional means to justify his existence.Ultimately, the crisis of self-sufficiency stems from the awareness of the problem of existence itself, that is, at that moment when the very fact of its existence becomes a problem for a person. This problem arises from the intuitive or conscious opposition of «I» and «not-I», the need for unity, communion with the outside world, overcoming one’sown isolation and powerlessness. However, overcoming the isolation of one’s existence in relation to the outside world is possible only through the creative realization of me in the world and the world in me, which requires significant volitional, mental, emotional and spiritual costs from a person. If the ability to realize creatively himself in the world and the world in him is absent, and the personality is not able to develop it, a deep crisis of existence is possible. The unwillingness to put up with one’s own isolation and powerlessness, on the one hand, and the inability to spiritual improvement, on the other, forces a person to look for ways out of this impasse. Ideally, the most adequate way out of it should be the natural desire of a person to develop his own productive orientations, the struggle for himself and the world at the level of the spirit. Otherwise, the person takes the path of pseudo-solutions, condemning himself to inevitable degradation. This degradation can occur in the forms of alcoholism and drug addiction, it can end in suicide, or, quite comparably, it can take the form of stimulation of monetarist psychology. The subjective endowment of money with spiritual functions and the attribution of mythical attributes to them is a consequence of a painful state of mind, a deep psychological crisis.