Balázs Búzás

But today’s global environment, unlike the postwar era, is multi -polar, fragmented, and adversarial: market integration no longer guarantees political convergence, and financial instruments cannot by themselves substitute for an assumed shared strategic purpose that no longer exists.

institutional trajectories emerge from recursive, path-de -pendent interactions among struc -tural constraints, agent strategies, and exogenous shocks.

Stopping technology is impossible. It's like trying to stop a river: even if you build a gigantic dam, it will eventually overflow. But you can manage the flow of water so that it benefits society as a whole.

The lie is that money will make you someone else. The truth is that money only makes you more of what you already are.

A stable society was possible only with the development of mechanisms that pre-served both temporal and spatial orientations, that preserved compe-tition between religion and the state, and that preserved independ-ence and tension between the moral and the technica