Fundamental to the notion of an effective social theory is the construction of an understanding of social understanding. In this article, I outline cognitive theory from the standpoint of biological emergence, and its subsequent applications to social behavior.
The current U.S. war on terror is a strategically architected plan to secure power structures friendly to U.S. interests in foreign oil markets to temporarily stay the effects of its scarcity on the American people. By fighting terrorism, however, the US Government perpetuates terrorism through economic competition and disadvantageous trade, and unethical international business practices. This article discusses war as a necessary condition of human life, the evolution of war to include terrorist practices through the process of industrialization, the causes and effects of both major American-Iraqi conflicts, and the effects of American foreign policy on the human condition.
In a previous article, I drew the conclusion that the separation of church and state is “not just a nice saying, it’s grounded in centuries of war and conflict between two different ontological approaches to truth and knowledge.” For a political system to be most effective, it must encourage debate and a free market of ideas – that is, it must be integrative. Theocracies tend to discourage this, however, by either building upon religious hegemony, or imposing it on its citizens. In this view, democracies are founded on science, and autocracies on religion. In this article, I examine the distinguishing characteristics between the practices of science and of religion, and the effective practice of each.
Today, thousands of authors around the world are converging on a single issue: the environment. The problem of environmental pollution is part of a greater pattern of socioeconomic externalities, however. Modern industrialized capitalism also produces crime, gangs, pollution, black markets, losses from insider trading, and many other forms of pollution. These social problems converge, however, when viewing their collective traits, causes, and forms of address. In this article, I expand on these relationships, addressing the problems of mental and social pollution through comparison with environmental, physical pollution.
Capitalism requires poverty because of it’s dependence on scarcity. For something to have price (and subsequently value), not everyone can have it, price being the convergence of demand and supply. Value of an object, person, or opinion comes from the application of that opinion towards the amelioration of need. Supply-side problems in life-sustaining necessities have ceased for the most part in the most industrialized capitalist states and the economies tied thereto. This article examines the current path of industrialized capitalism to describe likely scenarios of economic evolution.