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culture

Bad Bunny: Culture trumps Politics

America is presently in a phase of contraction rather than confidence: heightened suspicion of difference, attempts to reassert a singular national story, and a political atmosphere animated less by vision than by grievance and enforcement. Cultural life has not escaped this. Language, migration, race, and belonging are being pulled back into blunt, exclusionary frames, while […]

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Peace Philosophy

Kindness

No, Elon, empathy is not the weakness of civilisation. Kindness, compassion, and mutual care are the conditions that make civilisation possible at all. Large-scale cooperation, cultural continuity, and institutional complexity do not emerge from fear, dominance, or competition. They emerge from trust, reciprocity, and the slow accumulation of relational stability. Without these, society collapses back […]