The Post-America Scramble

And as a result of a systemic rivalry having arisen between America on one hand and the Sino-Russian alliance on the other hand, we are now in a “post-hegemonic era” as certain scholars and thinkers have dubbed it. Or as Brzezinski called it, a “Post-America Scramble.” But America is not accustomed to having a peer … Continue reading The Post-America Scramble →

Studying a System in Transformation

In short, world history is a history of world systems, and the two basic pillars of world systems are accumulation and hegemony-rivalry. Our world system happens to be going through restructuring and transformation. In fact, all world systems are always in a state of evolution and change. They are never static. Also, the world system … Continue reading Studying a System in Transformation →

Suggestion

Love is an education in and of itself, as Eleanor Roosevelt once said. Hence, at the heart of both communication and therapy, we have what is known as “transference” or “transference-love” to borrow from Freud. In a sense, Freud equated “transference” to therapy. And the goal of therapy, as Freud argued, is to help the … Continue reading Suggestion →

What Went Wrong?

We can perhaps even go as far as dividing all of recent history into two periods. For one, there is the Cold War period. Second, there is the post-Cold War period. The former was defined and shaped by discord and division. The latter is defined and shaped by growing interconnection and integration. And when the … Continue reading What Went Wrong? →

An Absurd Reasoning

The absurdism or the absurdity of the world scene leads us to Camus yet again, for it was Camus who developed absurdism as part of his existential philosophy. And the realization of the absurdism or absurdity of the world scene begins when one begins to think. The realization stems from thought and from the act … Continue reading An Absurd Reasoning →