POL208Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Human Security, Benjamin Barber, Three Futures
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In order to be able to predict, we need to be able to describe and understand the past and the present. Visions of any future have to proceed from the awareness of some kind of past; otherwise there can be no conceptual frame of reference more than that, there can no language which to express them (gaddis) What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? . When the barbarians come they will make the laws . Why all of a sudden this unrest and confusion. (how solemn the faces have become). Because night is here but the barbarians have. And some people arrive from the borders, and said that there no longer any barbarians. We need to differentiate between changes of the system and changes within the system. Within system changes happen within an existing system: bipolarity to multi-polarity is a change within the system because it is still part of the westphalia system.
