Society is Nothing but a Man-Made Concept

In a seminar last week, we discussed the plausibility of Huntington's hypothesis of the Clash of Civilization. As I listened to the entire class argue that there is no longer a clash of cultures/ not enough to cause conflict, it began to anger me how Western academia has made us become, in a sense, ignorant. Theorists have debated that human rights, liberal democracy and the capitalist free market economy have become the only ideological alternatives that can adequately alter foreign policy. However this is based on the fact that these are the only ideologies exposed to the west. For the purpose of this debate I define the term culture as a set of ideas, customs and social behavior of particular society As someone who grew up with both British and Asian influences I can understand why there are sometimes clashes in cultures. Not in terms of how we dress and the things we eat, but the mentality of values and traditions. These values and traditions subsequently affect our percept...

I am Diana Lore, and this is my tale. Why in this world full of darkness, my crescent blade will prevail. Born to the Solari. Forever fenced by deceit. The story of the Sun’s dominance, controlled by the weak, the elite For the sun does not reveal the truth, its light chooses to only burn and blind. Met with derision and punishment, false faith, false light, I leave behind The sun falls and the eerie of the night, comforts me in solitude Though the years passed, from a child to a warrior of the night sky. The answer inscribed in a tomb, the answer is nigh. I began my pilgrimage, and reached my might at the Mount Targon with aging relics and faded murals my life I will bargain To prove that the light of the night is right and in its glow It is worthy of your worship, through the rain and through the snow. I have accepted myself, and I pray to the moon And though I showed them, I guided them right. There is no fear, in our being benight They claimed me heretic like a...