Understanding (Interpreting) With and Without a Context

Nothing but Nothing could be understood (interpreted) without a proper context. The context of 9\11 is that the USA is no longer as it was till then separate from the rest of the world –politically, socially, geographically – even psychologically. The most evident part of ending that previously accepted position by Americans is the changes that happened to the USA since then. Some of the changes were profound and foundational and some were and still are more loud but not of any serious nature. I am saying that as a trained psychoanalysts who is conditioned to find the ‘context’ of the changes in the patient's condition before reaching a proper interpretation of the patient’s claimed changes. This attitude is foundational in any work of interpretation in any field of epistemology. The difference between a good analyst and a not so good one it their abilities to finding the right context to use in understanding the meaning of the patient change.

The war in the Ukraine is a historical statement that requires interpretation, because of many features in it. So, thinkers have to chose the context this event has to be understood within. I have chosen the context of the end of the last empire in the history of social development. That war could be understood within the framework of the undeniable fact that Europe is the last front that still carries features of the old sociopolitical entities…… the Empires. Trying to maintain its military façade NATO backfired and resulted in the devastation of the Ukraine. To still think in terms of democracy and unilateral leadership, and in terms of communism (whish does no exist anymore) and capitalism is like psychoanalysis based on the libido theory.

We are few decades from Earth invading the Milkyway Galaxy. So please shed off the old fixation on They and US.