The Flow Between Culture and Geopolitical Security

There’s a flow between, on the one hand, culture, art, films, literature about pirates and geopolitical security. This is especially apt as we see these attacks on Russia-connected cargo vessels at the moment. Those whom we entrust with securing our conditions of civilized life don’t seem to understand this flow between, on the one hand, culture, art, films and literature, and geopolitical security. Donald, of course, does, because he talked incessantly about Alphonse Capone. He talked about Hannibal Lecter. He brought in these archetypal characters from art.

Source: Disinfolklore Universe Episode 1

The “flow” between culture and security is the core of the Way of Seeing. Donald gets it; security professionals do not. The passage names the blind spot the Way of Seeing corrects: those entrusted with security fail to perceive how culture, art, and literature shape geopolitical reality.

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