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Over the last centuries, the increasing dominance of a rational dimension of knowledge over people’s consciousness (and collective unconsciousness) is evidenced by its steady and incontestable adoption by an increasingly globalized society. This rational knowledge is represented by all kinds of scientific and not-so-scientific technological discoveries and all sorts of individualities and mind-centered philosophies and their subsequent ideologies. It has been molding all aspects of humankind’s progress and development, captained by predominantly complex social languages that mediate all people’s interactions and communication in multiple personal, social, professional, and political environments. These days Politically Correct and Free Speech “languages” dispute antagonistically the mainstream of all humans’ expressions, being uprooted ideologically from evolutionary philosophies that have been developed and interconnected for centuries. Consequently, individuals’ minds, brought face-to-face instantly by light-speed communication technologies, have come up with an infinite of conflictual interpretations of antagonistic ideologies, resulting in a crescent deterioration and depletion of humankind capacity to formulate a congruent and cohesive social communication pattern, consistently capable of bringing light and real knowledge to our society, allowing the long-awaited democracy to progress more realistically, so that it can be experienced and shared by all individuals in future generations. The present work approaches this disturbing and complex social status quo from an integrative knowledge approach, considering the revival of the spiritual dimension of knowledge to consolidate a sense of unity and commonality to human identities as absolutely essential, fundamental to an ever-evolving democracy.
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Cherman, A., Azeredo, F.E.M. (2022). Democracy as a Catalyst of Human Identities’ Evolution: A Reductionist Approach to an Infinity of Political Identities. In: Baikady, R., Sajid, S., Nadesan, V., Przeperski, J., Islam, M.R., Gao, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87624-1_23-1
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