Society is Nothing but a Man-Made Concept

It is not the fall of America but the fall of the West, led by America, which contributes towards  the decline of American hegemony and its world order. Their current military and economic  state permits their hard power to be unchallenged. America overtook Britain as the leading  producers of the world’s wealth in 1876 and now rests on a GDP of 16 trillion dollars . At the same time it acts as the world’s leader for Foreign Direct Investment [FDI] at 180  billion dollars, twice that of its nearest competitors. With 4,600 nuclear warheads available for  distribution, another 2,700 in storage and spending a massive 560 billion a year on defence,  America consequently owns the world’s most powerful military. As much as  America succeeds in being the dominant player in terms of hard power, superior military and  economic power does not necessarily translate to geopolitical influence. Cultural influence or as  IR Scholar Joseph Nye states ‘soft ...

The State of Nature and the Social Contract are both theories where philosophers, Thomas Hobbes and John Locke express their own interpretation. Hobbes argues that man is born with characteristics to wage war and thus the only way to control this is through an authoritarian. Locke however sees the good in people, and our state of nature is one that should be transitioned into government. The question of whether our state matches Hobbes’ or Locke’s is a question which I have rewritten several times. Our current state consists of elements and interpretations of each which contradicts or intertwined with each other somehow thus making is difficult to conclude. In order to answer this question and to determine what we are, we have to determine what we are not. It is argued that we are currently not in a Hobbesian proposed state as firstly we do not have an authoritarian and secondly, the idea that we have not yet left our state of nature. Our democratic system has led to public opinio...