Center for Strategic Communication

Emptiness and Hezbollah

by | Jul 26, 2013 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — food for thought, or empty calories? ] . Sources: Heart Sutra Hezbollah ** Pondering. There’s definitely a form here, a commutative form, and the Buddhist part is interesting because it asserts some kind of commutation is possible...

Geometry aka logic as an analytic tool

by | Jun 28, 2013 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — reflections on cognitive empowerment by selective noticing ] . . I just realized that I take notice of details at the level of “geometry aka logic” which I would miss if I were more focused on content. In effect, I treat...

Of dualities, contradictions and the nonduality

by | Jun 27, 2013 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — on the basis, the mathematics, the essence of conflict and resolution ] . . This DoubleQuote features two great masters on duality and the coincidentia oppositorum: the upper quote is Yogi Berra at his best, a koan worthy of a discourse by...

“Sustaining” your Way to Serfdom as a Grand Strategy

by | Jan 14, 2013 | Monitor

Friend of the blog, commenter L.C. Rees, likes to point out that one of the most important part of a grand strategy, particularly one that is maintained despite evidence of being a geopolitical failure, are the domestic political effects that work to the advantage of...