BlackGrowth

Power. That is the abstract concept behind the one of leadership, fundamental to understand the evolution of human sociality. The nature of power is elusive and yet fascinating.  Everyone wants power . There are the ones who want to rule, and they need power; the ones who strive to accomplish, and they need power; even the ones who just wish to live quiet and unnoticed, they need the power to have someone else manage responsibilities in their place. Any ambition has to be sustained by power. And power is in the first place the power to choose; who to be, what to do, how to act or even to not act at all. What is power? So many variables and just one word, then. What is power? How would you define it? ‘Power’ has many possible facets, depending on the contexts. In general, we can say that power is the capability to bend and shape specific aspects of reality according to one’s will. This is magnified when people work together – humans are a social ...

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...