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09/08/2026

Professional status was being defined through institutional structures. So a general sociological principle:

++ Competence and legitimacy are not identical.++

Someone can possess:

> high epistemic competence + low institutional legitimacy.

Conversely, someone can possess:

> high institutional legitimacy + comparatively different forms of competence.

This distinction is extremely important across academia, government and professional life.

It also explains why intellectual histories frequently misidentify who actually produced knowledge.

What is institutionally visible is not necessarily what is socially causally important (or meaningful)

09/08/2026

The Easterns and Orientals already predicted the cyclicality?

09/08/2026

Western Teleological Universalism: The AJR paradigm (boosted with its rewarded Nobel prize) is rooted in an Anglo-American teleology, assuming that Western liberal market democracy represents the unique "end point" of institutional evolution (Fukuyama's end of history). It treats alternative polities not as distinct, viable institutional configurations, but as temporary deviations.

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

08/08/2026

The track record of World Bank: https://focusweb.org/the-political-economy-of-a-predatory-state-revisited-the-marcos-world-bank-partnership/

03/08/2026

Law isn't a neutral arbiter but the juridical mirror of commodity exchange. When commoners try to use the law to defend themselves, they hit insurmountable structural walls (by design):

- The Cost Barrier: In common law, the sheer financial cost of litigation prices the working class completely out of the market for justice.

- The Legislative Barrier: In civil law, because the code is written by the ruling political elite, any law that genuinely threatens capital or state accumulation is safely amended, bypassed, or left unenforced by the state bureaucracy.

- The Capture of Final Courts: because judges in both systems are selected by the political elite (civil law) or drawn from the elite legal class (common law), their subjective class alignment inherently protects the status quo.

Key Concept Whether one believes that law is provided by God (Natural Law), is created by human intellect (Positivism), a gendered institution

01/08/2026

Isn't it too obvious https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7489289267891015680 but doesn't seem to invite the public to concern?

The absolute domination is increasingly concentrating into ever smaller group of capitalists: https://lnkd.in/gHKt6sNr and the rest seems to ignorant ?

23/07/2026

Idea once planted, can't be eradicated:

Evangelicals have become Israel's most important American allies.

23/07/2026

There is always money to be made in USA including religion: https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/entertainment/article/3260500/8-richest-pastors-and-televangelists-2024-net-worths-ranked-td-jakes-joel-osteen-and-kenneth
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Prosperity-preachers-like-Joel-Osteen-can-cause-13428789.php
https://www.ulc.org/ulc-blog/a-look-at-some-of-the-wealthiest-pastors
God is for sales indeed?

Discover the wealthiest pastors in America in 2026, including Kenneth Copeland, Joel Osteen, and Steven Furtick. Learn how they built their fortunes.

23/07/2026

We need some policy discussion:

The most interesting mental‑health story right now isn’t in Silicon Valley. It’s in ASEAN, India and China.

These systems are quietly building something most countries don’t have yet: a national mental‑health operating system.

>In India, the District Mental Health Programme is now sanctioned in 767 districts, with outpatient care, counselling and 10‑bed units at district level. Over 1.75 lakh Ayushman Arogya Mandirs have become primary‑care hubs, handling 369 crore visits, with mental, neurological and substance‑use disorders built into the package. On top of that, Tele‑MANAS runs a 24×7 helpline (14416) through 53 cells, in 20 languages, and has already crossed 34 lakh calls.

>Singapore is wiring up more than 450 health and social agencies through its Digital Mental Health Connect platform, feeding into a stepped‑care ecosystem. Thailand has spent decades building community mental health: village health volunteers at the front line, primary‑care units, district hospitals, psychiatric institutes.

>China’s 686 Programme and national mental‑health plans have shifted psychosis care from hospital‑only to hospital‑community collaboration. Yet a recent survey in Beijing still finds that only around 13% of people with mental disorders ever receive professional mental‑health care. The architecture is there; the uptake is not.

23/07/2026

If it is not: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11685575 there will be another round of colonisation?

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