BlackGrowth

Our society is a complex system, people interconnected on multiple levels of interaction. It has to be somehow dynamic in order to match, reflect and contribute to progress. In fact, society evolves similar to how living species do – under environmental pressure. Like a building lying on shifting foundations, its walls moving along and adjusting their shape to remain intact, society continuously changes. All of those steps answer internal or external needs and opportunities. Looking at the West, how is the society evolving? What its needs, what the opportunities?     The needs can easily be declined in terms of money, power, influence, supremacy – progress costs, after all. New opportunities to fulfill those needs, and how the may be exploited, depend on the context. For instance, technological innovations can provide lots of surprises – like Internet has been an horizon of the events in respect to communications. We could talk about many different aspects – in part alrea...

The West awakes and abruptly - and eventually - notices the ongoing immigration crisis at its gates. Media and politic are focusing their and our attention to the borders, be them between USA and Mexico or Europe and Northern Africa and Middle East.  However, long waves come from afar and this situation has been developing for years. We mostly ignored the causes of this immigration, leaving them unchecked. Blitzkrieg on the economic front Some immigration is due to political chaos and ongoing conflicts. In many other cases, the reasons are economic. Choosing not to regulate the numbers and means of immigration, and not addressing its causes, we allowed it to become the major social issue that is presently confronting us. The issue is also moral and yet it also is made into a business with many illegal shades: moving immigrants closer to borders; employing them underpaid or leaving them without honest jobs at all, ready to be exploited by criminal organizat...

Sometimes, it happens that the West gets involved in wars. Chiefly, USA and States part of EU intervene in some conflicts (or even cause the escalations in first place, most notoriously in Iraq, 2003). The West even handpicks which wars are worthy of attention (through mass media) and of military intervention, and which not. In fact, States in the West acts on the basis of (supposed) higher morals, as the keepers of justice and the watchers over human rights in the world. Throughout history we built our apparent moral superiority An alliance was the pragmatic thing to do, and also sold as the moral one. But give it a few years and an Iron Curtain... This attitude was largely built over the last decades, first inheriting the system of values that permeated the Second World War. While fighting fascism in various forms during the War, it was 'easy' and of course convenient to label the Axis Powers as evil and the Allies as good . While not unjustified - ...