“State security”, i.e. protection of the State, its boundaries, its people, institutions and values from external attacks.

http://www.daghammarskjold.se/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/UN-Chronicle-2015.pdf

Good response Kouser

Dear Thomas,

There is but one way of getting rid of poisons of the body and mind: revolution or liberation of the mind that is the thinking ability.

Unfortunately, at the moment the position of industrial mind poisoning (= globalization) is very strong.

Speaking at a global scale, the problem grows significantly when the stupid culture of take advantage or winning by any price flourishes. Persons and groups behave irrationally and move merely by their petty interests of the moment and not by the universal values that, according to Pope John Paul II, are written in the heart of each human being. Nobody wins in such culture of greed that is not sustainable, because is constructed at a wrong basis.

Hello Artur, so may be for the next year it might be a common proposal, to distinguish more consciously between a mostly understandable and sometimes acceptable interest and on the other side the different Dimension of felt and more universal accepted values? - Even when they are not always easy to define...

For a better 2016 to all!

one of my mentors, feliks gross, often spoke of values but in sociology especially such terms were redefined as the values of the dominant and as a result, rather than being studied as to how they are created, disseminated, and affect social life, they were merely the subject of critical analysis. my feeling is that scholars are too engaged with themselves to see that they are a miniscule element in a complex compound called 'society at large.' i rely on weberian-parsonian pre-post-modernist structuralism to help me understand how social values work. i am a proud pre-postmodernist....

Dear Artur,

May I answer you like that: hon(n)i soit qui mal y pense?  Of course, I have not wanted to hurt you.  

Dear Doctor Heise,

In my own profession (experience of 43 years) of archaeology, my focus has been researching the values of other cultures. Perhaps, in honing a skill to lookout for changes in cultural values, I am somewhat overly-sensitized to the stark changes in the values of my own society ... and my views may be, thus, overly biased ... in rating the changes wrought by "globalization" of the world's economy (and the tendency toward homogenization of cultures catalyzed by that globalization, and re-enforced by the instantaneous direct-communication of the memes of that "globalized" and homogenized world culture ... which acts more like a new religion .. by the Internet and social-media) in traditional values as extremely (dangerously) rapid ... more rapid than in previous historical ages and cultures. So, yes, definitely I have seen traditional values changed by globalization, and change drastically, and the changes are not slowly eroding-away traditional values, but smashing and sweeping-them-away as if flotsam in an onrushing flood ... and your word POISON is certainly NOT too strong to describe the general effect of these changes to traditional cultures and values. Many of the leaders of poor nations have been infected with this materialistic virus, and acting like rabid dogs infected with rabies, they froth-at-the-mouth in anticipation of sinking-their-teeth-into the imagined "benefits" of globalization for their nations' peoples ... or, as is more usual, in imagining how the bribes from facilitating the globalization of their nation will fill their personal bank accounts ... perhaps, not realizing, that they are destroying all their proud traditional culture, essentially, trading their nation's history, as-well-as their children's souls, for a chance to possess a smartphone with an Internet connection   (the people, especially the youths, rapidly become addicted to this new "opiate of the masses" ... which induces them to shed all the vestiges of their old traditional cultures even-more-rapidly ... so they will be considered as "cool" and worthy citizens of the new-world-order, a worthy congregant of the new-world-religion, and not perceived as old-fashioned)... and, so they may join-in the worship of the commercial gods (media icons) of the globalized new-world religion of materialism.

Yes, to me "globalization" is simply a word that describes the poisoning of the world's poor nations (cultures) by the rich-and-powerful ones, which makes it easier for their resources to be exploited by trade (taking advantage of the unfair entrenched economic and financial advantages that the rich/developed nations have historically established) and diplomatic strategies, rather than by the old means of military conquest and colonization. Really, the only difference in the motives-and-outcomes between colonization and globalization is that the rich nations no longer have to dispatch armies to conquer-and-occupy a poor nation in order to strip their resources, the poor nations' leaders are all too helpful in doing that nasty task, taking away the resources from their own people, and shipping them away to the industrialized/developed/rich/powerful nations in exchange for the poison (a crate of iPhones and a connection to the Internet backbone ... and, usually, some hefty bribes) that will inevitably destroy the traditional culture and values of its peoples.

From an economic perspective, globalization is beneficial for the already rich and developed nations, but detrimental to the poor and undeveloped nations ... from a perspective of preserving traditional values, globalization can only be considered as deadly poisonous to all.

Regards,

Bob