Observers note there is a worldwide decline in support for internationalism, democracy, and the integration of economies. Anyway, it is too obvious. At the same time, one can notice a perceptible decline in respect for science and rationalism. And, there is a simultaneous surge of unfiltered customs, crass ethnicity, and related chauvinism. This is ironic as it is also the time when new technologies conduce life as never before and change living and work fundamentally. The crux of the matter is that the people are worried as they lack support in cases of life and existential crises.
Globally, things are worse. Putin launches a war at the very time when the world was somehow recovering from a devastating pandemic. Xi has more sinister plans. When the world faces unprecedented environmental crises as sinking shores, burning forests, melting glaciers, heat waves, floods, and pollution-generated illnesses havoc the world, the nations are gearing up for the ominous mix of hot and cold wars. It's armament that is the focus; not ecology, public health, and social harmony.I think this is a result of the collective lag in conceptualizing the mechanisms for common good in this age of fundamental transformations. Earlier, the intellectuals as a whole acted against the very self-emerging template of human advance, what is known as neoliberalism, leading the world towards greater freedom and integration. They undid the organic growth of humankind and pulled the world to the present predicament. It is past now and it is high time that social scientists in general and political scientists, in particular, think about remodelling the world to realise renewed humanism.
Niraj Kumar Jha
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