After the 1929 market crash in U.S.A, US government noticed that the recession had brought chaos in the socio-cultural fabric of the society, which was threatening, so the US government decided to find out reason behind it, and after a deep Thoreau research they found out that countries with deep socio- cultural roots can withstand financial, climatically, natural, man-made (War) disaster much better then countries with shallow or non-existence socio-cultural roots,
For example , India which bounced back after almost 1000 years of foreign occupation, all the contemporary civilizations perish but India still standing , Japan which bounced back after suffering heavy defeat in WW2 and almost faced annihilation after the detonation of two nuclear bombs, but it took less than 50 years for Japan to bounce back
After receiving all the facts in this matter US government decided to create an
"Synthetic Socio-Culture "What is synthetic socio-culture?
It's an artificially/man-made created Socio-Cultural structure devised to fulfil the void which was created because of the lack of natural or creative socio-culture in the society,
As United States of America has no deep rooted socio-culture of their own and native culture was lost, so to fulfil the need of common masses they decided to create their own Synthetic socio culture,
Actually common masses of USA had a gaping hole in there heart caused by lack of depth in there socio –culture, because for them " Past is Dark and Future is Uncertain" so for them it was need of the hour , which could fill that gap, which could have transformed there society and which could helped them to get a grip on reality to draw inspiration for new invention, to guide future generation with good moral values , to develop leadership skill and most importantly , to develop keen sense of justice in the society etc, in short they were looking for a "Fresh Start"
After almost 25 years of research the US government decided to start the project on creation of "Synthetic Socio-Culture', they named the project FRESH START,
Under the project "fresh start" they gathered information about the most resilient and ancient Socio-Culture in the world and transformed that information/knowledge/wisdom/secret , into their own language and requirements , the mythological character were changed and replaced with business tycoon , inventors and other famous personalities, and compiled it into a book, this book was supposed to create Synthetic Socio-culture, or you can say its main purpose was to fulfil the need of the society/masses ,you may recall the HOLLYWOOD movie LEGION where in the last scene protagonist was saying " you gave god what is asked for , I gave him what he needed "
"So moral of the story need triumph Want" So as in this case,
The book was sold in the market as self-help or motivational book, it was an instant hit, and it sold over millions of copies that year, but no one in US understood what secret it holds, it contained a formula to create Synthetic Socio- Culture,
Actually if you read this book carefully, you will find that this books divides the common masses into 4 classes/categories based on their intellectual capabilities, you can also say it was designed like a test to check intellectual boundary or Mentality of common masses, Let us further understand this concept of division of masses based on intellectual boundary, or mentality, Every human being has some intellectual boundaries, you can also mention it as periphery,
A person who thinks about himself, his periphery is narrow compare to person who thinks about him, his family his friends , his relative etc., if a person thinks about his nation more than anything else then his periphery bigger than the 2nd person, now let see how the groups are divided in the book,
1) The Labour/Worker Mentality: This type of people generally are self-centred, and indulge heavily on sex, addiction, crime in other words , they are very short sighted, they live day by day, a sort of daily wage worker mentality, there periphery is very small.
2) The Business Mentality : This type of people have a broader perspective then the labour/worker mentality , they take care of themselves there family and friends, and at best there society , they will show few acts of kindness here and there, and there main purpose is profit, therefore you can also say they are profit driven mentality, sometime cold in their approach, moreover a vital part of society and a very influential one ,they are also captured the imagination of American , as majority of America wants to be a successful businessmen/women , and they have every right to be after all USA is a capitalist economy, but to maintain this you will need someone to lead you in right direction.
3) The Leader/Administrator Mentality : in present day this kind of people are almost non-existence in US society , The leader mentality will think about his nation and its people, he will not do anything just to get praises, he will not be an womanizer , he will have a keen sense of justice even when he is in the receiving end, he will have courage to stand firm on his decision , and to take responsibility for his mistake , in other words he will always stand beside his moral, ideals, and principle , his intellectual boundary covers the whole nation,
4) The Seeker/Observer Mentality: This class of mentality in people are only develops when there is a strong leader/administrator( his qualities should be based on 3 category of mentality) ruling the nation, as the name suggest they seek knowledge, therefore a real seeker of knowledge don't have an intellectual boundary, they can observe things better, there intellectual boundary or mental periphery keeps on growing as they gather new information/knowledge
No one really knows what happened to Project "Fresh Start"
Why this synthetic socio-culture was never initiated or realized in US society, it's a mystery
But when you look at current US society you will see the structure was realized but not fully but partially only 50%, only two classes of mentality are there
1. Business class mentality
2. Worker/labour class mentality
Now this gets trickier, there could be four possibility for that
1. As we know USA is a Capitalist economy, so obviously people will not realize the full structure, or they thought they don't have to, perhaps they might have thought that there leader come from amongst the businessmen and capitalist etc.
2. This will sound like a conspiracy theory , what if one of the class of mentality , who yields the economic and political power obstructing the leadership mentality, to grow or even if they become leader of the nation, they are being assassinated , there are few leader in US society who showed those qualities but unfortunately they were killed.
3. The flaw we are witnessing in the socio-cultural structure could be structural meaning it may have done intentionally, it may have been designed to develop /facilitate only two sets of mind-set that is 1. Business 2. Labour/worker that could have been the reason for the praises for businessmen in the book as if they are modern day god.
4. This book might have been design as a Trojan horse, to penetrate the capitalist society (USA), that may have been reason for, riches described in that book.
Whatever may be the reason but half – realization of this "Synthetic Socio-Culture?"
Is destroying the basic fabric of US society, you see socio-culture plays an important part in human psyche, and without deep rooted socio-culture , people outlook is outward, sexual confusion, lower cultural threat perception , tribe mind accommodation in the society without taking any consent from the majority population, which in result in creating more resentment, more anger , more fear amongst the masses, I am not taking any side , but when look at their current Socio-Culture one can easily guess that US society is heading for a civil war.