When eating a fruit, think of the person who planted the tree,”
(Vietnamese proverb)
The world of illusions describes the world of matter, material world, with its own thought patterns, cosmology, civilizations and political life. It is the world representations, interpretations and challenges of the phenomena rather than the phenomena itself.
Political life is a complex description of social interactions; it is about power as well as about justice (values). The global political system could be described as well by the expansion of globalism, based on the balance of powers and balance of interests (power politics, international society and world society). Values are construed as a result of evolutional processes of human civilizations. The values are the indicative evidence of the human political progress, but values could be manipulated or neglected, at least for the short term; nevertheless, it is the consistent part of political life, which shapes and civilizes power.
Political Power builds up on strength through transforming resources into capabilities1. Power interaction through cohesive and creative processes generates hierarchies, culture is born. Culture in Latin means cultivation, a process, a universal human capacity (imagination and creativity) of cultivation or improvement (Cicero-cultivation of the soul); and expressed in symbols (language, customs, imposition of arbitrary forms upon the environment- fantasies, constructions). Culture is about hierarchy and means cultivation – morals and ethics, values and beliefs; culture is the learned body of behavior, habits, customs and cumulative knowledge-history2. Culture produces and sustains society through creative processes- communication, reproduction, experience and exploration (Consensus between acceptable and unacceptable, evolving through the interactive processes of an individual within the society and between social groups and societies)3. The main defining characteristics of any society could be described in 3C cyclical process - Conflict, Control and Cooperation.
The nation is a cultural and political community (language, history, racial and ethnical aspects, common/collective future), and nation-state is a political organization of the nation. The nation and nation-state are interwoven, inseparable concepts: Common history, common values and common future (goals) for the benefit of all, the institutionalized principle of justice- ideology and economic organization. The power hierarchy at the nation-state level is based on the ideological dominance and economic organization, mysticalness is added by the religion. National identity is added on the personal identity which serves as the basis for the loyalty to the state.
The state is the formal political organization [(in Lat.) Condition, status; political system, law-making, law-enforcement, monopoly on the use of legitimate violence (Max Weber)]4 reconciling conflicting interests of power-struggle and allocating resources (public good), improved norms of social interaction, system of cohabitation and developing society. State politics on other words could be defined as “Organized Cynicism” (Who deserves to rule?/Human is led passion rather than by reason?!/Inconsistency of political equality with the economic inequalities!/Power vs. Justice). Two main aspects of the state are territoriality and sovereignty. The principle of sovereign power-rule infers the right of “legitimate” coercion with in the particular territory/people5. The legitimacy of power rule is dependent on two factors, on political participation and consent of a society. The sources of legitimacy vary from traditional-charismatic to democratic power- source. The traditional-charismatic power is based on the mystical, personal, emotional, psychological and institutional characteristics of control (M.Weber 1864-1920)6. The democratic power-source starts with the constitutionalism- “Rule of Law”, principle of checks and balances [the declaration of Independence in 1776, followed by the American(1787) and French Constitutions (1789),though the first was Britain adopting constitutionin 1688].The European statehood have passed developmental phases from prosperity of state sovereignty (1648-1789), through the period of reaction nationalism (1789-1914) and the period of formation and development of political ideologies (1914-1974) to the postmodern statehood (1992-present).
The concert of nations make up civilizations (larger community consciousness), which is the offspring of cross-fertilization of cultures7. Civilization is designated by the three qualifiers: cultural-historic, Religion and values; and, Geographic8. Religions serve as vehicles for transformations of civilizations; there are three definitional clusters within which civilizations take shape – culture, history and values. In particular exemplification, the Western Civilization is based on the Greco-Roman cultural heritage, Judeo-Christian Religion and the Enlightenment starting from the WVIII-XIX centuries9. The great powers believe that they have special destiny that are bearers of universal missions (Civilization Mission, White Man’s burden, Spread of democracy), which is the cause as well as tool of their expansionary politics. From the other point the great nations and civilizations are also the part of the greater one – the human civilization, so thus by fulfilling their missionaries they are embedding the entire human civilization with its own special destiny.
The special destiny or the special mission of human civilization from the evolutionary perspective could be highlighted as the strife for harmony and integrity of development and justice. Soul, philosophical soul, is the