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Can anyone suggest me some SSCI journals in Politics or International Relations or wider that are relatively easy and fast to publish?
Have you ever read this article? They help to understand when exism movements like Brexit and Usexit should be expected to take power under majority rule liberal democracy thuinking
Muñoz, Lucio, 2018. True Democracy and Complacency: Linking Voting Outcome Expectations to Complacency Variability Using Qualitative Comparative Means, Boletin CEBEM-REDESMA, Año 11 No. 1, January, La Paz, Bolivia.
Have you ever read this article normal democratic outcomes and extreme democratic outcomes?
Muñoz, Lucio, 2017. Majority Rule Based True Democracy Under Complacency Theory: Pointing Out The Structure of Normal and of Extreme Democratic Outcomes Analytically and Graphically, Boletin CEBEM-REDESMA, Año 10, No. 8, October, La Paz, Bolivia.
Faith is core in civilization and has been phenomenal, since the civilization began. Global human and species co- living arrangement has been re-shaped, to suitable arrangements to necessity to global change for the commodity, consuming availabilities and for the manageable living conditions. Mass of Migration took place between continents, therefore, human being are living across the globe 🌎,planet indifferent places.
Human instinct, traditionally said to be there is a six sense, what links to spiritually to the higher power, in another word this is appreciation, being thank for fof the abundance, the earth full of natural consumable production and fresh water for survival.
This is understandably where faith is connected to higher power.
Anyway, faith is meant to be for good teaching, for guidance and for enlightenment. Faith is often abused and used in cruelty and power.
Christianity, wider spread Old established faith, had been abused for power, might exercise for too long and too much in Europe marked deep huge scars led to Europeans mindsets to Secularism, to totally anti religious.
Christianity faith set up in the name Christ son of Mary cannot be bad notion.
The current Canterbury news is not only shame it is grossly disgusting. As such, among the Ethic claiming UK the worlds Law and reformation, Modern evolved Justice and value promoting, diverse loving human, this Art bishop of Canterbury resign case over Abuses abuses , disgraceful.
Jews , there in Israel Zionists had bern abusing Palestinians, and now in open injuring helpless people. There in India the RSS Hindu Nationalists abusing power over, weak Muslims. In Africa too many cruel dictation power running like closed doors to the world.
Muslims in some places rose up with cruel power towards good people. Muslims are worse vastly abused by Muslims namely evils.
Come on power abusers, power abuses come fore opens up before the world and eventually face the justice. The Canterbury has come to facing Justice and the rest will be too, soon.
Regards,
Dr Fatema Miah
Under the auspices of the Rector of Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University Prof.Dr. Mümin Şahin, "Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences 2nd International Symposium on Political Science and Public Administration" will be held in Tekirdağ on 28-29/November/2024, ONLINE. The theme of the symposium was determined as "Climate Change and Sustainable Future".
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Mouth and talk goes like the food and digestion, (my coinage.).
Of my understanding of Sharia, Sharia meant to be Safety and a device for Tommy Robinson. As Sharia is meant to be for safety and justice.
Anyway, I believe Tommy Robinsons concern should not be ignored, he has right of seeking safety and freedom to his freedom of speech.
Mouth and talk goes like the food and digestion, (my coinage.)
Regards
Author Dr Fatema Miah.
1. World Order has shown changes, especially after 2020 in almost all major fields of Politics, Economics, Social, Geopolitical etc.
2. Where the world order in real is diverting?
3. What will be the ultimate outcomes?
4. The alteration & changes of systems on Earth will change anything in Space?
5. Which systems will lose centuries-long grounds and what new will rise?
6. Is the current scenario being same as the Rise/Fall of Nations, Games of Thrones etc. or there is something significantly different this time?
7. Ultimately what impact will the Next World Order make on the entire human race and especially on the Bio-sphere?
8. How much was any World Order got impacted/formed/shaped through/by religious education directly/indirectly and why did such neuroplasticity/mind exercises base practices remain an integral part of World Orders in past? Can humans afford to continue past practices to build any new future?
9. What changes do you suggest in Next World Order, and Why?
10. Are Human going to accept defeat & surrender in front of Alien powers like gods, AIs, energy, any other life forms etc.?
11. How long more humans have the current status of rapidly shrinking freedom?
12. Will the current form of human life exist after such surrenders and what will be the expected shape of any of such life?
13. Its understood that human have to sacrifice current systems and life forms for existence, but, Is it necessary? Any workable solutions ?
Think about willful academic blindness(ACADEMIC TUNNELING) vrs willful democratic blindness(POLITICAL TUNNELING)....
The first type/academic tunneling seems now normal, taking place at universities, thinktanks, international organizations, governments....which will lead to the death of science in a way that THOMAS KUHN was not expecting, BUT IT IS NOT BEING SEEN AS A THREAT TO THE SURVIVAL OF SCIENCE as it seems we are now in a non-science based world as science or not, they still will push what they want to push.....
The second type/political tunneling is SEEN as an existential threat to liberal democracy as political tunneling does not work under democratic rules just see the political dynamics under political tunneling processes under exism movements like Trumpism....
Hence, willful political tunneling with the support of alternative facts is seen as a serious threat to democracy from within, but willful academic tunneling with the support of alternative academic facts is not seen apparently as a serious threat to science from within, which makes you wonder, why.
And this raises the question, Why willful blindness is taken as a serious threat to the survival of democracy, but not the survival of science?
What do you think?
Note:
This is an academic question, not a political one.
You have seen the comings and goings now of Trumpism, Brazilianism, and Brexism, 2016 to 2024 and the common theme is why they failed to persist in power ONCE THEY CAME TO POWER. You have seen the direction that exism movements take towards permanent authoritarianism. And you may be familiar with the environment in countries with permanent authoritarianism.
If you look at the evolution of democracy theory since 2016 paradigm shift from normal to extreme liberal democracies in some countries you and you adjusted your previous democratic thinking as now EFFECTIVE TARGETED CHAOS and THE NATURE OF THE COURT SYSTEM IN A CONJUNCTURAL CAUSALITY MODE play a key role. And you compare this environment to the one found in countries UNDER permanent authoritarianism you may see some similarities in terms of necessary and sufficient conditions for them to keep power for ever between the structure of permanent authoritarianism from within and well as from outside.
If you take into account this, then you may be able to see that the necessary and sufficient conditions for permanent authoritarianism to stay in power for ever using this new thinking has technically not changed, it is the same before 2016 and it is now in 2024..
And this raises the question: What is the necessary and sufficient condition for permanent dictatorships to remain in power regardless of opposing democratic movements?
What do you think the necessary and sufficient condition is?
Note: The answer is short.
If you understand what is the necessary and sufficient condition for exism movements like Brexism, Trumpism, Brazilianism.... to persist at all cost in power once they have power are within a liberal democracy under independent rule of law system you should not be surprised by ideas like USA Project 25 to come up as once exism players realized why they can never be in power for ever inside the democracy they are born into they will try to, if possible, proactively, create the conditions for staying in permanently in power once back in. And this raises the question: Should ideas like USA PROJECT 25 be expected to come up in places where exism movements came and went like in the UK or Brazil in the future?
I think Yes, what do you think?
Exism movements since BREXIT 2016 have been described as driven by emotions leading to the idea of Emocracy/Emocracies, but as the social discontent that is usually displayed after exism movements a kind of unexpectedly come to power as traditional democratic thinking is inconsistent with their coming shows is the true majority reaction/true emotions to the realization that the unexpected by the true majority actually has happened. So there are true majority emotions and true minority emotions and targeted chaos is directed at both with different goals, one to reduce the size of the true majority voting power by any means and the other to keep the true minority engaged and overdrive by any means...,Hence, we have the idea of democracy driven by emotions and the other idea of democracy driven by targeted chaos,....And this leads to the question, Why is effective targeted chaos more than emocracy?
You are families with coming and going of exism movements like Brexism 2016-2024, Trumpism 2016-2020, Brazilianism 2019-2023, and other exism movements still active out there, and this raises the question, Can exism movements gain power and/or remain in power without the existence of effective targeted chaos?
I think No. What do you think?
Elections are often repeated, usually after several years, but sometimes also after several months. Some mature democrats strongly oppose a repetition of a referendum. Why? Why do they repeat elections?
You have seem exism movements to come and go now(Brexit/UKEXIT, Trumpism/USEXIT, and Brazilianism/Brazilexit) from 2016, all of them have been the result of targeted chaos being effective and then being ineffective. And this raises the question then, Why is effective targeted chaos the biggest threat to existence of liberal democracies?.
What do you think?
Hint
The answer is short if you are familiar with what exism movements are and what effective targeted chaos is and that they are operating under an independent rule of law system as this is happening inside liberal democracies.
It seems to be back to square one with Brexism, Brazilianism, and Trumpism....They came and they fell in ways away from how traditional democracy theory and thinking works....I wrote since 2016 how extreme democratic outcomes can come out, how they will behave once in power and how they could persist or fall, how important effective targeted chaos is and how important the independent law system and morality is together with predictions/expectations given whether or no targeted chaos is effective or not within an independent rule of law system and majority rule.... If what happened to Brexit July 2024 is consistent with what happens in the USA in November 2024, then the outside the box theory may have several validating points. And this raises the question: Does the fall of BREXISM, Brazilianism and Trumpism mean we know when they come and when they fall in theory and in practice?
What do you think?
You have seen the comings and goings now of Trumpism, Brazilianism, and Brexism, and the common theme is why they failed to persist in power ONCE THEY CAME TO POWER. If you look at the evolution of democracy theory since 2016 paradigm shift from normal to extreme liberal democracies in some countries you and you adjusted your previous democratic thinking as now EFFECTIVE TARGETED CHAOS and THE NATURE OF THE COURT SYSTEM IN A CONJUNCTURAL CAUSALITY MODE play a key role you may be able to see that the necessary and sufficient conditions for extreme democratic outcome to come to exist as temporary authoritarianism is different than the necessary and sufficient condition binding to persists under reelections at all costs and become permanent authoritarianism.
And this raises the question: What is the necessary and sufficient condition for exism movements to become permanent authoritarianism from within liberal democracies?
What do you think the necessary and sufficient condition is?
Note: The answer is short.
You have seen the comings and goings now of Trumpism, Brazilianism, and Brexism, 2016 to 2024 and the common theme is why they failed to persist in power ONCE THEY CAME TO POWER.
If you look at the evolution of democracy theory since 2016 paradigm shift from normal to extreme liberal democracies in some countries you and you adjusted your previous democratic thinking as now EFFECTIVE TARGETED CHAOS and THE NATURE OF THE COURT SYSTEM IN A CONJUNCTURAL CAUSALITY MODE play a key role.
If you take into account this, then you may be able to see that the necessary and sufficient conditions for normal liberal democratic outcomes to come to exist and persist has changed as conditions have changed.
And this raises the question: What is the necessary and sufficient condition for normal democratic outcomes to maintain power regardless of the coming and going of exism movements and dictatorship threats?
What do you think the necessary and sufficient condition is?
Note: The answer is short.
"The ship of fools (Modern German: Das Narrenschiff, Latin: Stultifera Navis), is an allegory, first appearing in Book VI of Plato's Republic, about a ship with a dysfunctional crew. The allegory is intended to represent the problems of governance prevailing in a political system not based on expert knowledge."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_fools#:~:text=The%20ship%20of%20fools%20(Modern,not%20based%20on%20expert%20knowledge.
So through social media, advertising, politics and life in general.
I know the Stroop Effect is a psychological and biological effect but I am interest to search if, and if yes, it can be present in our daily life.
What can this say about the way we interpret and judge politics, for example? Could this be present in our internal judgment of what can be considered good or bad?
Mansfield, Harvey. "Niccolò Machiavelli". Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Apr. 2024, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Niccolo-Machiavelli. Accessed 8 May 2024.
1)The most consistent politicians don’t get to the highest office(President):
Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Ron Paul". Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Apr. 2024, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ron-Paul. Accessed 8 May 2024.
McNamee, Gregory Lewis. "Bernie Sanders". Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 May. 2024, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bernie-Sanders. Accessed 8 May 2024.
2)Liberals correctly interpret authority as necessary evil thus, liberalism is the dominant ideology
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Whites(more specifically Northwestern Europeans) are the most privileged, least indigenous and most recessive, MAYBE all because they are the last derivative people.
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The unwritten rule is "don't look suspicious. If people do look suspicious then they either get destroyed or subvert enough TO survive."
Sources:
Even if a more conservative POTUS is elected still, modern liberalism will continue to dominate the USA. Sources:
The following are metaphysics for social justice:
How could politicians and scientists better work together to address issues in our world? For example, can Researchgate provide opportunities for politicians to get involved in some sort of discussion forum for a specific issue to exchange information and ideas between researchers and politicians?
Respectfully, at least the modern version of liberalism is the natural result of the equality thesis that still acknowledges heritability to further diversity, equity and inclusion. Whereas conservatism directly denies heritability or dodges the question. Also conservatism does less to oppose racial animosity. Hence why liberalism usually wins being both more fair and more sustainable. Also the metaphysics of liberalism(universalist Christianity) are stronger. Plus Universal Eternal Salvation is the most parsimonious afterlife.
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As all of you may know, we can take the experience of Trumpism(November 2016-January 2021) in the USA to explore questions such as when a democratic contest can lead to partial and permanent authoritarianism. The failure of the USEXIT/Trumpism to persist by losing reelection means that we just witness temporary authoritarianism, but it could have been worse as one more step was needed to move towards permanent authoritarianism in the USA and the lost of the most relevant normal democratic system in the world. Which raises the question, When can permanent authoritarianism take hold under majority rule liberal democracies?. Any ideas about what the missing step was to transition from temporary to permanent authoritarianism in the USA in 2020. Feel free to share your ideas.
Every war and every battle has a long-term effect on the quality of life we live, the quality of air we breathe, and on the sustainability of our natural ecosystem.
So there a time has to come when we will reach a critical point of sustenance, post which any further war will bring catastrophe for every living soul.
So what's you opinion on how far we are from this point of no return?
Why Read War and Peace? explained in: https://tableau.uchicago.edu/articles/2013/04/why-read-war-and-peace "...Tolstoy himself explained: “It is not a novel, still less an epic poem, still less a historical chronicle. War and Peace is what the author wanted and was able to express, in the form in which it is expressed.” Readers will be surprised by the book's modern devices: stream of consciousness, cinematic point of view, shifting narrative voices. The great twentieth-century Russian author Isaac Babel said that when he read Tolstoy, he felt as if the world was writing itself...".
War & Peace is available in PDF on: https://www.academia.edu/download/46302346/War_and_Peace.pdf
And in audio on:
See also the movie on YouTube: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjOiebQ0KSAAxXxSvEDHQRkCTYQtwJ6BAhdEAI&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DbIij-KQ0jYU&usg=AOvVaw1I5fnXI-6KDwl8AfgytUTd&opi=89978449
And if we discussed? "War & Peace" in a debate, which to be enriching for all, must be totally dispassionate and fundamentally responsible.
Illustration: "Costume designer Edward Gibbon said he tried to capture the “essence and feelings” of Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” when creating the wardrobe for the BBC TV drama, which is airing in the U.S. Like the book, Andrew Davies’ adaptation of Tolstoy’s masterpiece unfurls in Russia during Napoleon’s 1812 invasion and focuses on five aristocratic families and all the drama that the Napoleonic Wars drum into their lives.."
Read more and see the Gallery on:
While preparing for my contribution to the Nanotexnology 2023 conference, I have noticed that submissions from researchers affiliated with state universities of the Russian Federation have been accepted for the international conference. This fact implies the sharing of the latest scientific knowledge despite the ongoing war started in 2022. I strongly disagree with this approach, and I personally distance myself from active scientific communication with researchers officially connected to state institutions of Russia. With its criminal activities in Ukraine, Russia is violating fundamental principles of the international community, and also destroying nature with a potentially global impact. Scientific communication that ignores this fact supports the technological progress of the state that destroys human values in general. Out of respect for the many Ukrainian scientists who have fallen victim to this war, I firmly reject the active transfer of scientific knowledge to scientists affiliated to Russian state institutions as a matter of principle.
Since 2022, scientific publishing sanctions have been applied in response to the Russo-Ukrainian conflict. Most reputable Western publishers, though earlier declared to be beyond politics, supported one side of the conflict with unprecedented banning manuscripts from every Russian institution, that is, every Russia-based scientist. Only Chinese and some other non-Western publishing houses remain open for scientists from Russia, but these publishers (such as Hidawi, MDPI, Frontiers) are regularly accused to be 'predatory' by the Western competitors. Is it admissible and compatible with the fair play principles?
"What is the Commonwealth of Britain?
The Commonwealth is an association of countries across the world. Although historically connected to the British Empire, any country can apply to be a member of the Commonwealth, regardless of its intersection with Britain's colonial past. The Commonwealth consists of 54 countries, including the United Kingdom.14 May 2023" From internet...
What if we never knew that plant has life. What would be the difference with and without this discovery of plants as living entity in Philosophy. What may Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose conclude about chatbot.
I think yes, what do you think?
Please share your own ideas.
Since 2016 we have come to see that liberal democracies under majority rule can lead to normal democratic outcomes/normal democratic movements; and extreme democratic outcomes/extreme exism movements like Brexit, Usexit/Trumpism, Brazilexit, Italianexit….and so on. We have come to see also that exism movements cannot be in power forever under majority rule and the independent rule of law based liberal democracies. As the world view of a normal liberal democracy is the inverse of the world view of the extreme liberal democracy, this leads to the question: Inverse reality and exism movements: How are they linked?
Any ideas? Please share your own views.
On the one hand, the author Ibram X. Kendi writes that "The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination."
On the other hand, the Supreme Court judge John Roberts holds that "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race."
Which view do you side with -- and why?
As a researcher, one question that keeps coming to my mind is: Is knowledge induced with the social, political, and cultural factors of the territorial context within which it is produced? Do countries give access to certain topics to be discussed and not others?
For example, as someone in the field of urbanism working in Egypt, can researchers discuss and publish papers regarding cities for women (feminist cities)?
How about the LGBTQ community?
How about the marginalized communities, e.g. black community, refugees, etc.
How about topics on religion?
How about politics? Topics that may tackle / criticize the ruling system
Regardless whether the researcher supports these topics or not, do you think a researcher has access to openly discuss them in countries that establish certain standards? (Any country in the world)
A lot of factors affect curriculum planning. Among them include changes in social, cultural, economic, political and globalization issues. How has curriculum planning at all levels been influenced by these social variables?
What is the current consensus among historians and other scholars? Apart from his alleged relationship with Mrs. Crawford that compromised his political career, did Dilke have other clandestine romantic liaisons?
I think Yes, what do you think?
Below are some articles with some food for thoughts shared recently in order to understand the nature, structure and expected working of exism movements
Sustainability thoughts 133: Stating the expected step by step road from majority rule based liberal democracies to permanent authoritarianism: The case of the 2016-2020 rise and fall of Trumpism
Moral and Amoral Liberal Democracies: How Targeted Chaos Can Affect the Democratic Process?
The 2016 shift from normal liberal democracy to extreme liberal democracy in the USA: Pointing out the structure of Trumpconomics, its meaning, and its expected local and global implications, both analytically and graphically
Sustainability thoughts 131: How can the shift from normal liberal democracies to extreme liberal democracies be used to extract the democratic structure that leads to the rise of temporary and permanent authoritarianism from within?
Sustainability thoughts 131: How can the shift from normal liberal democracies to extreme liberal democracies be used to extract the democratic structure that leads to the rise of temporary and permanent authoritarianism from within?
Dear friends!
I hope you are doing well. I recently wrote an article dealing with democracy in Russia. What do you think? Will there be democracy in Russia, what factors are in play? Article can be found here below:
Best wishes Henrik
The question is prompted by this terrific talk by Jonathan Haidt, which I urge you to watch in full: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gatn5ameRr8
Which form of Democracy is better according to you for running a country smoothly and please mention the reasons also.
Are student governments or student movements better at enacting policy change?
Some other aspects to consider:
How do these two concepts overlap? How are they different and how are they similar? What are some examples that would help provide answers to this question?
Dear distinguished colleague,
Recently we have started comparative global research that we have started recently on 'Students' perception on the Russia-Ukraine war 2022' (link to the website: http://www.covidsoclab.org/russia-ukraine-war-2022/), covering various economic and social effects of this war. The global comparative analysis helps us formulate the most useful recommendations for policymakers.
If you are interested in participating (as a contact person and a potential co-author of a joint paper, do let me know to give you further guidelines – see also research guidelines on the webpage: http://www.covidsoclab.org/russia-ukraine-war-2022/research-guidelines/). Your main task at this stage would be to motivate students from your institution (or wider in the country) to complete the online questionnaire by 30 April 2022 at the latest (here is only a preview link: https://1ka.arnes.si/a/60ee60a0&preview=on). When we have the results, we will analyse and compare them (between countries included in our study - then is a plan to prepare academic article(s) relating to different (e.g., economic and social aspects) of the Russia-Ukraine war 2022 together with the analysed results of our questionnaire survey). You will also receive data from your country/institution in order to deploy it in further research. The detailed dissemination plan will be finalised later according to the interests of international partners.
If your time is limited and do not allow you to fully join at this moment, we would kindly ask you if you could motivate and share a link with your students to fill out the questionnaire (please, do see a message and a link for students below) and we will be happy to provide you with the data/result/report for your institution.
Please, do not hesitate to contact me in case of any further queries.
Prof. dr. Aleksander Aristovnik
CovidSocLab
Modern politics is characterized by many aspects which were not associated with traditional politics. Big data is one of them. Data mining is being done by political parties as they seek help from data scientists to arrive at various patterns to identify behavior of voters. Question is, what are the various ways in which big data is being used by modern political parties and leaders?
The coming of exism movements in 2016 led to the coming of extreme democratic outcomes within majority rule based liberal democracies like in the USA.
And this brought a change in the nature of democracy as it has led to a shift from true democracy thinking to temporary democratic authoritarianism thinking.
We are probably familiar with the structure of the forces competing for power in a true democracy, I think. but not with the forces competing in a temporary democratic authoritarianism system. Which raises the question, what is the structure of temporary democratic authoritarianism? Any ideas?
Feel free to express your own views so we can exchange ideas in a positive academic environment as this is an academic question, not a political one.
Dear friends.
I have been been involved in journalism for the majority of my adult life, both as a talk radio host, but later also despite my aversion as a child as someone who writes articles, mainly in the sphere of politics and business for different outlets. During my radio days it was almost a natural law that if you covered a political event you had a guest from academia. This is something that has changed.
Today political commentators who are non academics and also not very neutral ( CNN, Fox etc) has taken over the role of the political scientist as the expert in the field.
Academia had a natural place in society for centuries but as of lately political and societal forces has undermined the legitimacy and the authority of academia and science it self as an institution. Former president Donald Trump is often seen as the first "Post truth president", a truth with modification perhaps. In the political arena, far right parties has challenged the very role of science in society and replaced it with spinn. Facts and counter-facts are words many of us have gotten used to as well as alternative facts, reminding us of the scientific streams that claims that there is no objective truth.
Why do you think this is? what are the implications and how can academia make it self relevant again? ( If it is not). Perhaps academia is losing its position as an institution?
Best Wishes Henrik
* Not only right wing parties has a problem with the truth, the same illness has been present also to the left of center.
I'd love to see a rough sketch of how the task would go.
Do you think it is worthwhile to try to apply the scientific method to questions of politics? After all, the social world is a messy place and we are never going to reach conclusions with certainty, like the laws of physics. What are the pros and cons of trying to “scientifically” study a subject that is almost inherently subject to different interpretations?
COVID-19 pandemic has thrown open a plethora of questions regarding countries preparedness for handling crisis at the national level. This pandemic has also brought a lot of issues, be it political, social, economic and personal to fore.
How has this pandemic made you a question, realize, contemplate, introspect in various areas, be it in global or personal front?
Will the world be a better or worse place to live post this pandemic?
Please share your views, opinions, suggestions, case studies etc.
Thank you.
Daily news from all around the world are feeding fear because we hear a lot about death, control, containment-mechanisms and suffering accoring to COVID-19. Following the media we see a lot of "important" people saying "...we need more security, more prevention… we have underestimated that Virus" - And smilingly in fear the we accept measures which may be helpful for prevention for one thing but harmful for our souls on the other hand. Prohibition to meet at the playgrounds for children, prohibition to connect each other, stay togehter in hard times and strongly not to touch each other and many more. Even cashless payment and within this total loss of finance liberty is discussed in political rounds…
So what can we do?! We need a logical but also heartful and soulful handling and very urgent a respectful handling of COVID-19 otherwise the biggest damage will be the loss of humanity!
Donald Trump's withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement threatens its future. Now, whispers of Brazil's withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement is heard. Seems Brazil's withdrawal influenced by the withdrawal of the USA. Under this situation, will other countries also withdraw from the agreement?
In your opinion, how will the withdrawal of these countries affect the future of this agreement?
Religions are an important part of the cultural richness of the society and they should be respected. However, those working in science may face questions about it, as the tenets of some religions have been claimed to be against modern scientific evidence.
How do you feel about it? Do you see inconsistencies? Do they cause you unrest? Or do you have a way to reconcile science and your religion?
Thank you for sharing
A question that crosses my mind while reading Simon Callow's review of Stephen Greenblatt TYRANT: Shakespeare on Politics.
Big tech is constrained by the political environment in which they operate, locally and globally.
If the world is divided between democracy and non-democracy given current capitalism dynamics, we should expect big tech to face fewer constraints; and therefore enjoy more business stability under democracy than under a non-democracy, and this should expected to affect future globalization trends. Which raises the question, Democratic capitalism vrs non-democratic capitalism: Is this the end of true globalization?
I think, perhaps yes and perhaps no. What do you think?
In a liberal democracy, there is a free market, and in a free market big tech has the freedom it needs to maximize profits even when their actions are not socially and/or environmentally friendly. Big tech can spread easier around the world in countries under liberal democratic structures as the risk of expanding and operating freely there is technically small, rarely futile, than in places where there are non-liberal democracies where the risk of operating freely is very high, even futile.
Usually democracies have been defended by ordinary citizens during elections, not by big tech, but since 2016 and more after the covid19 pandemic big tech has taken a bigger role as it has been expected by their costumer to do so to promote and protect democratic rights using their economic muscle, specially the right to vote/participate, as the case of the USA shows.
Now it seems to be that big tech has realized that profits are more secure the better democracy works, and profits are more at risk when democracy is at risk or when there is no democracy or when democracy ends. They seem to know now that the stability of freedom of operation and expansion is directly related to the freedom that comes from operating under a true democracy.
In other words, current dynamics seem to show that true democracy to succeed needs the support of big tech and big tech to continue to succeed freely needs the support of liberal democracy.
If acting in a coordinated way, big tech can have a huge impact on the political systems inside which they work, be it democratic spaces or non-democratic spaces, which raises the current question, true democracy and big tech, do they need each other now more than ever to succeed locally and globally?.
I think yes, what do you think?
I am interested in doing a quantitative analysis of voter turnout in multiple Canadian student unions (a sample size of about 80). Elections in these organizations are held annually. Would three election cycles (for example, 2019-2021 elections) be a long enough study period for an article or should I include more years in the analysis?
BREXISM finally is over and they got a trade deal with europe now, but exism left the UK poorer according to the news
Brexit is finally done. It will leave the UK poorer
TRUMPISM set a war of tariffs with other countries making US citizens poorer, including the supporters of exism, as they have to pay more to continue consuming those goods...
But being poorer both is Brexconomics and Trumpconomics as a result of exism means being a winner as exism is the goal, no matter the cost, loyalty is to the exism is the rule, not to the country....
Which leads to the question, Are there only winners in the world of exism? What do you think?