Survivalism

If an unsettling shadow was stalking you as you tiptoed through a pitch-black alleyway, would you flee? Would darkness and evil envelope you, sparking fear and alertness? Fear will instinctively warn you of any danger that passes through your short life, potentially saving it. On the contrary, with every opportunity, there comes a consequence. Warped minds, paranoid nights, and twisted emotions are all repercussions of the double edged word: fear. Fear can either cause the obsession with death…

The dictionary describes the human mind as the totality of conscious and unconscious mental processes and activities. It directs and influences the entirety of human behavior, driving all of our thoughts and actions. In his novel Lord of the Flies, William Golding represents the human mind through an allegory that pertains to all who read the classic piece. The work’s timelessness significantly contributes to the book’s great success over such a large span of years. In Lord of the Flies, a plane…

Yuval Harari’s claim that war is a specific experience only truly understood by those who have endured the experience themselves is a common conception that is frequently accepted even to this day. It is easy to understand how one would believe that war changes the people who have experienced it considering the wide range of literature that has been devoted to portraying this idea of the untouchability of war. The fact that so many artists and writers have dedicated their lives to creating…

increase its security, be it military or diplomatic, is done in order to defend itself in hard times. It is not done with the intention of threatening another state but merely for saving itself. Hence defensive realism’s foundations are based on survivalism. On the contrary, offensive realism does not consider states as security maximisers but as power maximisers and its spokesperson is John mearsheimer suggested that it is impossible to be sure of any state’s intentions. No state would display…

In his first State of the Union address, President George Washington stated, “a free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined.” This assertion was in a section of his speech which was dedicated purely to advocating for the right of the American citizens to own firearms. It can be inferred that Washington believed that gun control itself was not the problem, but rather how people used or viewed guns. Many of the founding fathers of the United States such as Noah Webster, George Mason,…

Ecclesiastes Revealing the Truth The book of Ecclesiastes has been said to have occurred between the fifth and third centuries BCE in Persia. Scholars have placed emphasis on the fifth century BCE period because it was a time where commercialization thrived and the standardization of currency occurred. Introducing the problem of unequal wealth distribution which is why it’s been considered the “dark age” in the history of Israel. However, it wasn’t the first time money was introduced and the…