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THEORETICALLY SPEAKING: Part II: Global Economy - 21st Century Style
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Sunday, July 15, 2012. Part II: Global Economy - 21st Century Style. International trade and investment is not actually a new phenomenon in itself. The growth of trade and investment across borders began over five hundred years ago as part of European imperialism. With reference to the acclaimed documentary, 'The Corporation', TNCs have actually been classed as mentally insane if one was to take their status as a legal 'person'. This is why globalisation is sometimes also defined as 'capitalism is th...
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THEORETICALLY SPEAKING: November 2012
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012. Erich Fromm on American Consumerism and Marketing Characters. A German intellect who moved to the USA in 1934, was a Marxist, psychoanalyst and Buddhist. He argued above all things for joy in life rather than the living death that he perceived around him in the affluent post-war USA. Identity Crisis: To Have or To Be? For him, the choice in Fifties America was 'To Have or To Be'. Citing Marx's notion that 'a man is the one who is. Much, not the one who has. What matters to the...
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THEORETICALLY SPEAKING: July 2012
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Sunday, July 15, 2012. Egalitarian vs Communal Principles. I was reading an interesting book on my flight called 'Why Not Socialism? By G A. Cohen. It tied in nicely with the concepts that I discuss here on this blog so I thought I would share two principles that Cohen discusses: the egalitarian and the communal, or community, principles. Let's start off with an analogy that Cohen uses throughout the book: 'the camping trip'. On this camping trip there are also plenty of differences but these differences...
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THEORETICALLY SPEAKING: September 2012
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Sunday, September 30, 2012. 8220;Judge, and be Prepared to be Judged”. I've been meaning to learn more about the philosophy of. So, I finally got stuck in to Ayn Rand's 'The Virtue of Selfishness' (1964). Being in. For the past two months, one can't help but notice the correlations between what she wrote about decades ago, with everyday life here in Egypt, today. In light of recent events. I wanted to share an interesting principle that. 2) The thug who is not troubled by questions of responsibility.
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THEORETICALLY SPEAKING: Egalitarian vs Communal Principles
http://theoreticalmusings.blogspot.com/2012/07/egalitarian-vs-community-principles.html
Sunday, July 15, 2012. Egalitarian vs Communal Principles. I was reading an interesting book on my flight called 'Why Not Socialism? By G A. Cohen. It tied in nicely with the concepts that I discuss here on this blog so I thought I would share two principles that Cohen discusses: the egalitarian and the communal, or community, principles. Let's start off with an analogy that Cohen uses throughout the book: 'the camping trip'. On this camping trip there are also plenty of differences but these differences...
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THEORETICALLY SPEAKING: “Judge, and be Prepared to be Judged”
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Sunday, September 30, 2012. 8220;Judge, and be Prepared to be Judged”. I've been meaning to learn more about the philosophy of. So, I finally got stuck in to Ayn Rand's 'The Virtue of Selfishness' (1964). Being in. For the past two months, one can't help but notice the correlations between what she wrote about decades ago, with everyday life here in Egypt, today. In light of recent events. I wanted to share an interesting principle that. 2) The thug who is not troubled by questions of responsibility.
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THEORETICALLY SPEAKING: Part I: Globalisation - A New Phenomenon?
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Saturday, May 22, 2010. Part I: Globalisation - A New Phenomenon? This is just an example of growth and progress in technology over the past decade, which has been nothing but mind-blowingly phenomenal. Indeed, this speed and vast influx of technology as we know it, has radically changed how we go about our every day life. Nowadays, this global village that Mcluhan so rightly predicted has been manifested into a word which has come into common use especially in the last twenty years: 'globalisation'.
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THEORETICALLY SPEAKING: Our Media or the Other's?
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Sunday, May 06, 2007. Our Media or the Other's? Effects of the Information Revolution on Egypt. 8216;Each of us is the destiny of the other, and no doubt the secret destiny of each of us is to destroy (or seduce) the other- not by virtue of a curse or some kind of death drive, but by virtue of our own vital destination’ -. J Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil. What is The Media? Who is 'the Other'? What is the Information Revolution? And, what are the effects? Now, looking back into history, we see th...
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THEORETICALLY SPEAKING: May 2010
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Saturday, May 22, 2010. Part I: Globalisation - A New Phenomenon? This is just an example of growth and progress in technology over the past decade, which has been nothing but mind-blowingly phenomenal. Indeed, this speed and vast influx of technology as we know it, has radically changed how we go about our every day life. Nowadays, this global village that Mcluhan so rightly predicted has been manifested into a word which has come into common use especially in the last twenty years: 'globalisation'.
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THEORETICALLY SPEAKING: May 2007
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Sunday, May 06, 2007. Our Media or the Other's? Effects of the Information Revolution on Egypt. 8216;Each of us is the destiny of the other, and no doubt the secret destiny of each of us is to destroy (or seduce) the other- not by virtue of a curse or some kind of death drive, but by virtue of our own vital destination’ -. J Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil. What is The Media? Who is 'the Other'? What is the Information Revolution? And, what are the effects? Now, looking back into history, we see th...