Context determines meaning, we were told, in every class during my university studies. Finding context requires effort, but we live in perilous times. These days form defines the content, or at best, form determines interest in the content.

For example: opinions are moulded solely on the basis of memes, rumour, sensationalism and a tendency to read a news headline or watch a thirty-second video and decide that its content is all there is to know. However, acknowledgement does not always lead to knowledge. This is because all of the above involve, in one way or another, not just an exchange of information, but a surrender and realignment of the heart and mind, with the swaying utilitarian consensus of social media.

Often resulting in a large portion of the public who have become mindless and misinformed. For instance: the growing confusion between what it means to be a free citizen or an indentured subject. Or the growing transaction of faith in God with an absolute faith in an ideology. Blurred distinctions arise when an ideology no longer serves, but is served.

In order to defeat an ideological war machine, the ‘United Nations’ had to become one. The very real questions we face today are how much of that legacy thrives, unseen, in the Western parts of our world today, and what kind of a counter-response does it demand?