The primary focus of the major powers (America, Russia, and China) is the material capabilities of one another. When the material capabilities of each major power changes, so does the balance or the distribution of power between them. And that is exactly what has occurred in recent years. America’s drive into egregious debt has led … Continue reading The Brooding Shadow of Violence
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A Fraction of Mankind
If world history is essentially a process based on change, and change has cultural meaning which stems from a “cultural apparatus” to borrow from Mills, that cultural apparatus which prompts change and explains the cultural meaning of change is the intellectual class or the intelligentsia. To borrow from Mills: “Intellectuals are now living in a … Continue reading A Fraction of Mankind
The Universal Standpoint
If doctrine is everything, and doctrine is then derived from method, and method comes down to psychology, then psychology itself combines consciousness, experience, and knowledge into a “richness of relations” which need to be examined and studied, to borrow from Dewey. But what is more important than the origin of these relations is the manner … Continue reading The Universal Standpoint