Civilization and Culture: The Strategic Foundation of Everything
We have become obsessed with the belief that technology, not people, wins wars and dominates economies. But destroying cultures and civilizations is what weakens societies.
We have become obsessed with the belief that technology, not people, wins wars and dominates economies. But destroying cultures and civilizations is what weakens societies.
And what does that mean for the next era of strategic alliances? A new NATO? A new period of diminished cooperation between the US and Mexico, the US and European NATO, and so on?
Perhaps the “experiment” in universal, forced literacy, has been a failure, an historical blip. Literacy is in retreat because of technology and because inquiring minds challenge leadership patterns. Yet intellectual capacity— signified by literacy— determines strategic success. What is to be done?