Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Internationally, there is a gap between many states’ development, especially in the Global South. Because the United Nations promotes equality and peace amongst states internationally, the organization created seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)  that serve as a guide for states’ individual steps toward peace, prosperity, and sustainability, especially in international connectedness and national improvement. Despite…

Across the media, it is common to acknowledge the growing effects of globalization and how it influences the actions and reactions of certain international superpowers. But what, necessarily, is globalization? And how do we process its growth and predict its consequences? Political scientists offer multiple views to explain how the international world works, two of…

The world is obsessed with boxing people in. What do I mean by that? Notice how almost every conflict both nationally and internationally is advertised to the public as being a fight between two distinct groups, a fight between warring identities and ideologies. I experience this concept daily at Dickinson College. Here at Dickinson, I…

It is human nature to observe a culture or region and dismiss it as different from your own, to be studied from a distance or labeled as a force to be feared. In my opinion, many people find it easier to fear what is unknown rather than be curious to discover the world’s secrets. In…