Challenges Facing Modern Democracy
Democracy is facing significant problems. Institutions are weaker than before, and rules are being ignored or broken. Leaders use lies and corruption to gain power, damaging the system. Political parties’ lies, populism, corruption, and attacks on institutions are creating instability. These problems are connected and represent a major democratic crisis.
Weakening Political Parties
Political parties are no longer strong or united. Historically, they represented many people and solved problems. Now,
Read MoreThe Interplay of Languages: Coexistence and Evolution
The Interplay of Languages
Coexistence and Evolution
Language is a fundamental human right and necessity, regardless of the specific language spoken. The origins of human language and the reasons for linguistic diversity remain a complex enigma.
Linguistic Diversity
Language diversity is inherent, as languages constantly change and evolve over time, leading to variations that can give rise to new languages. The language used by speakers of each community is a vital communication tool and an integral
Read MoreDisinterestedness in Criticism
But criticism, real criticism, is essentially the exercise of this very quality [curiosity]. It obeys an instinct prompting it to try to know the best that is known and thought in the world, irrespectively of practice, politics, and everything of the kind; and to value knowledge and thought as they approach this best, without the intrusion of any other considerations whatever . . . The rule may be summed up in one word—disinterestedness. And how is criticism to show disinterestedness? By keeping
Read MoreMyth Definitions and Cultural Shifts: Gatti, Sullivan, Sarlo
Gatti on Myth as Collective Construction
According to Gatti, myth is a collective construction. Society itself gives certain accounts value, provoking their preeminence and creating an effect of approximation and belonging among those who recognize them as such. Myth provides humans with a unit for processing and comprehending the reality around them. That is, humans cannot only know things directly related to them, but also things that contain added value in the comprehension of beings. This is
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Globalization and the Global Village
In the late ’60s, Marshall McLuhan introduced the idea of the global village, understanding human intercommunication as being generated by global electronic media. McLuhan argued that information travels via highways beyond natural borders, making men and women citizens of the world. Media can foster solidarity but can also shape opinions on controversial facts or actions.
Communication media (informing, disseminating ideas, creating opinion, aiding solidarity)
Read MoreMarxism, Anarchism, and Workers’ Movements
Marxism: Origins and Philosophy
Marxism is the set of political and philosophical doctrines derived from the work of Karl Marx, a German philosopher and revolutionary journalist who contributed in fields such as sociology, economics, and history, and his friend Friedrich Engels, who helped him in many of their theoretical developments. To distinguish it from later derived currents, the Marxism proposed by Marx and Engels has been called scientific socialism.
Key Philosophical Influences
Historically,
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