The economy is the most important factor shaping the life of the individual and of society as a whole. Its character and structure determine the type of society we live in and its values, social attitudes, processes, culture, lifestyle, opportunities, the health status of the population, and much more. However, the economy is neither democratic […]

Solidarity is one of the pillars of society.But not under corporatocracy. As mentioned earlier, corporatocracy is collective in nature, yet neither social nor solidaristic. In contemporary life, security and peace of mind are absent for the majority. No matter how high someone’s salary may be, as long as they remain a paid employee, they are […]

Less Thinking, Fewer Problems “Ideas are far more dangerous than weapons. We do not allow people to have weapons.Why should we allow them to have ideas?” — Joseph Stalin At the beginning of the 20th century (1908–1909), U.S. President Woodrow Wilson outlined a vision for American education—and for society as a whole. According to him, […]

Progress as a Private Affair Today, Science has become the new God. Faith in it is often no less fundamentalist than religious fanaticism. Science is elevated above everything else—and lately there are even attempts to place it above human rights, justifying their restriction with “scientific” arguments. The claim that science does not make mistakes is […]

Convergence with Facebook? There are no longer any independent mass media. And those outlets that still remain independent are not mass media—their voices are drowned out by the overwhelming roar of the mainstream. Media are a powerful psychological and social instrument. It is no coincidence that they are often called the “Fourth Estate”, due to […]

Nothing cultural, it is just bussiness Culture can rarely sustain itself financially. When it does, it is more often commercial junk than culture. When cultural funding does not come from the state, it inevitably follows the same business logic as any other investment. As a result, the character of mass culture is shaped by those […]

Social Construction or Social Engeneering(the real meaning)? Society—or human society—is a large group of people, a community engaged in sustained social interaction, sharing the same geographical or social territory, subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Sometimes the term also refers to society on a global scale—the “global society” as a whole. […]

What’s unthinkable today can feel normal tomorrow—and mandatory the day after… The Overton Window is a persuasive strategy aimed at gradually making deeply unpopular ideas socially acceptable. The concept itself comes from a model developed in the 1990s by American policy analyst Joseph Overton, who described how ideas and policies can be measured by the […]

Renowned critic and always MIT linguist Noam Chomsky, one of the classic voices of intellectual dissent in the last decade, has compiled a list of the ten most common and effective strategies resorted to by the agendas “hidden” to establish a manipulation of the population through the media. Historically the media have proven highly efficient […]

It is a fact that sexual instincts and predispositions motivate a large portion of human behavior. They also belong to the most basic needs in Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Everyone knows who Sigmund Freud is. The name of the Austrian psychologist has become synonymous with the connection between unconscious impulses, sexual instincts, and human […]

As we have seen, the need for security is a basic human need, according to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. This is why people are inclined to make compromises with other needs in order to satisfy it. If we are not confident in our physical safety, we are unable to think about anything other than survival. […]

Daniel Broudy and Makoto Arakaki Department of English Communication, Okinawa Christian University, Nishihara, Japan Marshall McLuhan observed in the 1960s that humans are toolmakers whose tools eventually reshape them. Fifty years hence, we suggest that the aphorism should include “rewire” humans as the present age of the internet serves as the global nervous system for […]