Global Order and Geopolitics

Three current political examples show how language, public image and resentment can replace individual judgment with narrative allegiance. OVERCOMING COGNITIVE PARALYSIS (II)Three current examples of applied MarxismBy Dr. Nelson Jorge Mosco Castellano Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva: The Occupation of Language and the Ethics of ImpunityIn Lula’s case, the application of Olavo’s concepts reveals a […]

Olavo de Carvalho’s critique of ideological thinking and the replacement of reality by collectivist narratives. OVERCOMING COGNITIVE PARALYSIS (I)Ideology: an abstract simplification that brutalizesBy Dr. Nelson Jorge Mosco Castellano “The minimum you need not to be an idiot,” Olavo de Carvalho.This phrase immediately evokes his emphasis on overcoming “cognitive paralysis” and the importance of classical

Not all collapses begin with weakness.Some emerge precisely at the moment when power feels most certain of itself.The current global landscape reflects that pattern.It is not merely a conflict between actors.It is an accumulation of decisions driven by a shared assumption.That limits have been surpassed.The figure of Icarus offers a precise lens to understand this

A frontal proposal to link public spending, state efficiency and technology in a Uruguay facing the material limits of its own model. THE SENSITIVITY OF THE POCKETThe worker’s back. The suffocation of inefficiencyBy Dr. Nelson Jorge Mosco Castellano The pocket is the most sensitive organ of the political body.In Uruguay, intellectual debate is a national

From the Quranic concept of People of the Book to the reality of millions of Christians facing persecution, discrimination and silence in Islamic countries and totalitarian regimes. When we referred to the situation of Armenian Christians during the Ottoman Empire, we saw that, at least for a time, they were organized into millets.Beyond theological differences,

The new technological shift makes the old bureaucratic State unviable and forces the country to choose efficiency or decline. The Inevitable Change of EraThe “Great Wave” of Agentic IntelligenceBy Dr. Nelson Jorge Mosco Castellano We are living through what some call the Administrative Singularity, about which some people offer opinions simply because they hold public

A critique of bureaucratic statism, political dependency and the urgent need to recover merit, technology and citizen sovereignty. THE SWAMP OF GOOD INTENTIONSThe socialist hypocrisy: equally enslaved by “social justice”By Dr. Nelson Jorge Mosco Castellano In an age in which language is used not to illuminate truth, but to dissolve it, few phrases are as

From Ibn Khaldun to Belloc, an essay on how small extremist minorities can reshape the historical perception of an entire civilization. In 1377, the sociologist and historian Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406) wrote Al-Muqaddimah, or Introduction to Universal History.The book covers a wide range of subjects, including war.Chapter XXXVII of Book III refers to war as “the

A liberal reading of Olavo de Carvalho, cognitive parallax and the political temptation to manage human freedom. The Garden of Afflictions and the rebellion against utopiasA liberal reading of Olavo de Carvalho, cognitive parallax, and the danger of political projects that promise to redeem man by abolishing his freedom.By Dr. Nelson Jorge Mosco Castellano The

A reflection on the surrender of individual judgment, republican simulation and the hollowing out of the State’s essential functions. The Triumph of the Collective ImbecileThe Erosion of Institutions and the Renunciation of JudgmentBy Dr. Nelson Jorge Mosco Castellano Olavo de Carvalho was a Brazilian philosopher, journalist and essayist whose influence transformed Brazil’s political and intellectual