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• The Third Place: Vacant Spaces and Dead Malls

  By Duty and Honor on October 9, 2022 • ( 0 )

  In this Entry, I will be delving into two relevant topics which are of importance to the Shopping Citadel as a worthy rival of the Shopping Mall. First, I will discuss about the sensation behind the “Dead Mall” phenomenon and… Read More ›

• The Third Place: On Economic Foreignization

  By Duty and Honor on October 8, 2022 • ( 0 )

  The term “Economic Foreignization (EF)” was introduced in The Work-Standard (2nd Ed.) to describe a phenomenon that often occurs as part of Real Trade Agreements (RTAs). When the Council State agrees to the terms of an RTA that it has… Read More ›

• The Third Place: On Heroic Realism

  By Duty and Honor on October 8, 2022 • ( 0 )

  “Heroic Realism” refers to a type of artwork that rose to prominence in the early 20th century. Its aesthetics can be easily distinguished from other contemporary artworks, especially those from the period, through the ability to convey lifelike paintings to… Read More ›

• Update (8 October 2022)

  By Duty and Honor on October 8, 2022 • ( 0 )

  There is only about six Entries left for Section Five. Three Entries are to be devoted to the Shopping Citadel and Shopping Arena. One Entry is intended for Heroic Realism, another for the Socialization of Young Minds, and a third… Read More ›

• The Third Place: The Mechanization Rate in MTEP

  By Duty and Honor on October 7, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  There are a number of ongoing technological trends in the State of Total Mobilization whose classification falls under the “Mechanization Rate (MR).” This Entry will be discussing about the latest ones to have been made possible Technology and could be… Read More ›

• The Third Place: Youth Palaces

  By Duty and Honor on October 7, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  An “Embassy” refers to the building that houses a nation’s diplomatic mission in another country. Usually, they are located in the capital city of the host nation, although there can be exceptions in which the Embassy is situated elsewhere in… Read More ›

• Update (6 October 2022)

  By Duty and Honor on October 6, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  I just finished four new diagrams for The Third Place (1st Ed.). Three of them are diagrams depicting how the Scholarship, Apprenticeship, and Sponsorship NSFIs function. They are meant to be used by someone from the VCS Economy and directed… Read More ›

• Critique of Neoliberal Conflations of Social-Democracy and Pure Socialism

  By Duty and Honor on October 6, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Bogumil, I felt that I needed to write another follow up comment due to the implications of the information that I had gathered in my own research. On my Blog, I had been trying to develop a Work-Standard alternative to… Read More ›

• Revision (5 October 2022)

  By Duty and Honor on October 5, 2022 • ( 0 )

  The latest Entry for The Third Place (1st Ed.) is slated to include some diagrams that are dependent on me having already drawn three separate ones depicting how the “Scholarship,” the “Apprenticeship,” and the “Sponsorship” function as NSFIs. I made… Read More ›

• The Third Place: Applying MTEP in Shopping Citadels and Arenas

  By Duty and Honor on October 5, 2022 • ( 1 )

  

  The “Shopping Citadel” and the “Shopping Arena” are designed to serve as Production for Dasein’s antitheses to the Shopping Mall and Shopping Center, the latter of which are manifestations of the first and second Modes of Production. The economic capabilities,… Read More ›