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Patriarchy. Who has not heard this word? It is fed to us with annoying daily cadence. We are also told that the problems of our Western society are caused by male arrogance, by a wrong definition of the role of the male, almost incurably ill with an archaic machism that is past its sell-by date.
Baluchistan, the largest and one of the most diverse provinces in Pakistan, has long faced numerous challenges, including political instability, economic deprivation, and extremism.
Authoritarian democracies, as ours proved to be during the Covid flu epidemic, as well as tyrannies, deliberately instill fear in their subjects to keep them in a state of awe. Fear is a primary reaction common to all humans and animals, with an indispensable function of adaptation to the environment.
The Festival of the Italian Distributist Movement, committed to disseminating the economic thought of the great Catholic writer Gilbert K. Chesterton, is being held in Bergamo. It is an opportunity to reflect on a central concept of the author of The Tales of Father Brown and his companion Hilaire Belloc, the dioscuri of Distributism.
It is said that history does not know the subjunctive. In reality, it is the bad historians who do not know it. In history there is always a set of options - if this were not true, it would have to be considered a destiny, a super-determined mystical process in which there is neither subject nor free will. History is a clash of wills and a competition of options: as soon as one of them wins, the other options simply fall away. But, as long as there is no winner and there is a struggle, history has a probabilistic character.
Artificial intelligence is one of those critical technologies that are developing rapidly, and their application is being implemented in a wide variety of fields. Although there are cases when these innovations are clearly not beneficial, but rather used for destructive purposes.
Today, hardly anyone would say that in the last 30 years, since the 1990s, the world has clearly been in a state of degrading evolution, but it started earlier, in the 1970s, under the cover of the leap into the future that took place in the 1960s and 1970s. This degrading evolution can be seen as one side of the terminal phase of the systemic crisis of capitalism.
The detention of Pavel Durov in France should open the eyes of those who still believe in the fairytale of a loving Europe, a family of peoples walking together on the path of peace and prosperity.
As the clock strikes midnight, today marks two years since Daria Platonova Dugina became the name of a generation, a turning point, an explosive revelation whose waves are still unfolding.
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