Category: Articles
Current Conspiracy Theory
Current Conspiracy Theory Written by Alfonso Elizondo One of the first thinkers who used the term ‘conspiracy theory’ was the brilliant sociologist and philosopher Karl Popper in his work entitled The Open Society and Its Enemies. Popper used this term to critique the ideologies that led to fascism, Nazism and communism because he believed…
The War between Russia and the United States
The War between Russia and the United States Written by Alfonso Elizondo From the Pentagon Washington announced to the world new sanctions against Russia: one for August 22 and another that would come 90 days later if Moscow does not meet a set of conditions. Seeing that Russia has refrained from using its…
The End of the Traditional Family
The End of the Traditional Family Written by Alfonso Elizondo The current family worldwide is facing great challenges such as poverty, marginalization, different roles and cultural changes. The traditional role of the woman as housewife, wife and mother has almost completely disappeared. In the not too distant past the idea of a woman…
Trade Wars (II)
Trade Wars (II) Written by Alfonso Elizondo The risk that the World Bank sees in the current trade war involves not only Trump and the United States, but can also be applied to other countries with general price increases and shortages of basic products. It can be argued that Trump has only reacted to…
Trade Wars (I)
Trade Wars (I) Written by Alfonso Elizondo Just like currency wars, in the long run the situation gets worse for all involved, even if one forms the impression that there are advantages in the short term. The real fact is that excessive debt and low growth never go away. And ultimately gangs are formed…
Postmodernity (II)
Postmodernity (II) Written by Alfonso Elizondo This period is characterized by a lack of focus on the traditional sense of History: 1.- Form is privileged over content in the mass media. 2.- Attention is focused on the ‘non-structural’: hybridity and fusion replace strength and linearity. 3.- Popular culture replaces academic and scientific culture.…
Postmodernity (I)
Postmodernity (I) Written by Alfonso Elizondo Postmodernism is the cultural, literary, philosophical and artistic movement that prevailed during the 70’s and 80’s as a challenge to Modernity, which criticized formalism and rationality in the search for a new cultural expression that would pay more attention to forms and not shy away from conventions. …
The Great Myths of the United States
The Great Myths of the United States Written by Alfonso Elizondo According to activist, writer and actor Lee Camp, the high level of inequality that exists in the United States should prevent their society from functioning. Camp says that 63% of Americans could not meet domestic emergency expenses even if they were only…
The New King of Oil
The New King of Oil Written by Alfonso Elizondo The United States is trying to dethrone Russia and Saudi Arabia as the kings of crude oil production in the world. In 1975 it stopped being the world leader when it was surpassed by Russia and Saudi Arabia. According to Rystad Energy’s vice president…
Reform and Revolution
Reform and Revolution I have attached an article by Mr. Abraham Nuncio written in La Jornada, where he gives a brilliant summary of what happened in Mexico after the War of Independence: Never in the history of Mexico has there been a transformation of major significance without armed intervention and without a different…
Trump’s Latest Show
Trump’s Latest Show Written by Alfonso Elizondo From an objective analysis of the behavior of the current president of the United States we can conclude that he is not the case of a complete lunatic, but an individual who emerged in ‘show business’ where he was always the central figure. So his individual interests,…
End of the Global Economy
End of the Global Economy Written by Alfonso Elizondo The most visible events of the trade war between China and the United States will not lead, as many believe, to the identification of which empire or nation will control all of the current world, but will instead lead to a total breakup of existing social…
The Current Geopolitical Essay
The Current Geopolitical Essay Written by Alfonso Elizondo In my last article on current geopolitics, Larry Diamond, the sociologist from Stanford, California, put forward a view of the decline of democracy in the Western world in which he pointed out that this decadent situation was the same for all democratic models globally, given that…
The Crises of Democracy (I)
The Crises of Democracy (I) Written by Alfonso Elizondo The social phenomenon that is creating the current crisis in almost the entire Western world is not something new but has already happened in the recent past, mainly between the two major World Wars. That is why I will try in this article to give…
The Crises of Democracy (II)
The Crises of Democracy (II) Written by Alfonso Elizondo The effects of World War I were very extreme in Great Britain. Prices went up, wages were frozen and a very tense social climate was created. Politically, the post-war world was very different from the world before the war and the two parties…
Pinker and Populism (II)
Pinker and Populism (II) Written by Alfonso Elizondo Steven Pinker says that in order to overcome populism, the value of progress must be recognized because normally intellectuals and journalists highlight only the negative and always describe the world as if it were on the verge of the apocalypse. Trump exploited this way of…
Pinker and Populism (I)
Pinker and Populism (I) Written by Alfonso Elizondo Born in Montreal Canada, Steven Pinker is considered one of the brightest cognitive psychologists in the world today. This Harvard University professor is a staunch advocate of the genetic origin of human behavior. He has recently written an extraordinary book entitled Enlightenment Now where he settles…
In the Final Days of the Arts (II)
In the Final Days of the Arts (II) Written by Alfonso Elizondo At the end of the 19th century, aestheticism emerged as a reaction to the prevailing utilitarianism of the time and the materialism and ugliness of the industrial age. Then Théophile Gautier started a trend that gave art and beauty their own…
In the Final Days of the Arts (I)
In the Final Days of the Arts (I) Written by Alfonso Elizondo The first reflections on art occurred during classical Greco-Roman antiquity. It was thought of as the human being’s competence in any productive field. It was a synonym for skill, whether applied to building a temple, an object, commanding an army or winning…
The Trump Commercial War
The Trump Commercial War Written by Alfonso Elizondo On June 7 and 8 the 44th Summit of the G-7 will be held in a remote town in Quebec called Charlevoix, where it is expected that a trade war will break out, unleashed by the United States imposing – outside the world order established…
Brockman’s ‘Third Culture’ II
Brockman’s ‘Third Culture’ II Written by Alfonso Elizondo John Brockman defines the ‘third culture’ based on the contributions of a set of scientists and thinkers who, according to him, are now taking the place of the traditional intellectual by engaging in analysis of the deepest meaning of the life of the human being. According…
John Brockman’s ‘Third Culture’
John Brockman’s ‘Third Culture’ Written by Alfonso Elizondo In 1995 the English author John Brockman published a book called The Third Culture, an oral history of a dynamic emerging system in which ‘third culture’ scientists identify very interesting and important issues in the present culture by communicating with each other and then with the…
Towards The New Paradigms
Towards New Paradigms Written by Alfonso Elizondo Since the appearance of the first groups of sedentary human beings, stories and myths were created that in different ways expressed their mentality and their moral consciousness, however diverse their ethnic groups and the location of the territories where they lived. From the moment the first…
America’s Planned War
America’s Planned War Written by Alfonso Elizondo A brilliant young man belonging to Generation ‘X’ explained to me today the two basic reasons why the United States meticulously plans and pursues its lengthy, large-scale wars in different regions of the world. He told me that it is all due to the fact that wars…
Quakers and Freemasons
Quakers and Freemasons Written by Alfonso Elizondo The Religious Society of Friends or Quakers was a religious movement founded by George Fox (1624 -1691), where the Quakers were persecuted for opposing the puritanism of Oliver Cromwell. So they went to the United States in search of a space with religious freedom in Rhode Island,…
Camille Paglia: Another Feminism (II)
Camille Paglia: Another Feminism (II) Written by Alfonso Elizondo At the moment there is a crisis of gender roles and a debate focused on the needs of women throughout the Western world. Men are described as criminal rapists and everything male is discredited, to the point where it is said that…
Camille Paglia: Another Feminism (I)
Camille Paglia: Another Feminism (I) Written by Alfonso Elizondo The entire conservative sector in the West and those who control the billionaires and universities in the US hate the guts of the writer and Professor of Humanities at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She believes that feminist women have created the myth…
The Generation Z: Devoid of Emotions (II)
The Generation Z: Devoid of Emotions (II) Written by Alfonso Elizondo Other recent findings in the study of Generation Z indicate that this generation is the first one born to use mobile devices, as 88% of its members spend more than one hour a day on them, compared with 82% of Generation Y…
Generation Z: Devoid of Emotions (I)
Generation Z: Devoid of Emotions (I) Written by Alfonso Elizondo This generation corresponds to those who were born in the 1990s. They used to be called the ‘Technological Generation’ because their communications revolve around these digital technologies and because they have very little capacity for verbal communication. Therefore their future cannot be assessed because…
Towards a New Economic Model
Towards a New Economic Model Written by Alfonso Elizondo One of the main reasons that explain the long duration of the neoliberal model is that there is no real developing countries market. This is due to the fact that in any social institution there needs to be values, principles, regulations, behaviors and conditions of…