Analyzing Financial Hegemony From Perspective Of Ecological Philosophy

Observing the global economic situation for now, a terrible financial storm from the wallstreet causes a global financial crisis. As a superpower country, the United States is trying to finda new method to maintain his hegemonic position, which is called financial hegemony. Theexplanations of the hegemony are obviously different between The West and The East,and that isbecause of the different culture. However, the difference can be removed when we take it in aecological way. this phenomenon is due to the nature of hegemony. The nature of hegemony iscontrolling,we especially can feel it through the ways of controlling. The way of controllingalways changing according to the development of the economy and human society, and that is theoriginal source of financial hegemony.Currency as a symbol of a economic system in the field of production,exchange, distributionand consumption is playing a very important role in the whole economic system, which is used byfinancial hegemony to force to control the field of production, exchange,distribution andconsumption, which mired the relationship of economic and destroyed the balance of economicsystem. Financial hegemony uses the way of controlling the production by controlling thecurrency to achieve its benefits. Financial hegemony controls the currency, in fact, it controls thefield of interchange, and realizes its profits by inequitable interchange. The financial hegemonydestroy the balance of production and interchange field which would lead to the destruction of thefield of distribution. By damaging the ecological balance in the field of distribution and using thecurrent information that guides people unreasonable consumption, which destroy the ecologicalbalance in the field of consumption.The financial hegemony controls the morals and cultures by using monetary method, whichprevent the development of human being and destroy the ecological balance. The damagemakes the variety of relationship dispersed, and that leads the relationship among human tobecome the money relationship gradually. Money relationship destroyed the coordinationbetween human being and society. The damage of relationship between human and society leadto the damage of ecological balance and social development.