Countries As Contracts
Nations are formed around contracts. It is rare for any nation to survive a change from the fundamental contract that it was founded on. And the common thread that runs for all the countries in…
Category: Politics
Friend Or Foe?
Civilizations can be considered as frameworks that allow humanity to function at scale by reducing the cognitive burden of assessing the question whether someone you come across is a friend or foe and by making…
Existential Risk In Societies
Existential risk works out differently for different socioeconomic classes in the society. For a poor person, existential risk is almost any event that disrupts regular income, including being unemployed or falling unwell. For the middle-class,…
Pandemic Notes: November, 2020
It is already November and the world is stumbling through its response to the pandemic. I cannot imagine how it is that we have a global pandemic that has brought the world to its knees and there is no a coordinated response to it.