Dr. Akram Hawas writes for ELITE : Alienated Nationalism  

Already with the start the great pulse of globalization process in the start of the 1990s, it was obviously clear, that the process was dismantling the traditional and the classical post nation-state social foundations. However, the economic nature of globalization seemed to be based upon forms of well-organized networks, perceptions like ‘fragmentation’ and ‘one-word/divided-world’ supposed such a de-homogenization of the socio-cultural and socio-political structures on the world basis, with most decisive consequences in the less modernized societies and traditional communities. Over the last few decades new forms of social, cultural and political constellations raised the questions about the spirit of nationalism and challenged the classical methods of societal organization. Not only the geographical and political sovereignty dimensions lost their central role and perceptional values, the social and cultural convergence-bonded grounds could no longer convince the ontological anxiety in the mind of the individuals and social groups. Unlike the historical social movements and political organizations and parties, the new forms of socio-cultural constructions seemed to be associated with norms that in many ways go beyond the social, cultural and political establishments. In any form of -ism, like nationalism, the Dolby inspiration could be closer in terms of a clear mal-consistency between the physical form and the nature of performance. In other words, it seems that the common sense is no longer form the basis of social association, not because of lack of individual commitment, but ironically because the perception of both common sense and individual commitment are essentially changed at time no alternative form of common sense is proposed. This would leave the individuals in no-man’s land falling to recognize the mainstream representation and societal associations. While human rights and welfare approaches are in severe decline, the projects of environmental groups, however seeking rescuing the future of life on our planet, fail to tell apart from those of associations like Me-Too, Neo-Feminism, Veganism and Anti-Speciesism. Whereas the classic of post-cold war dichotomies vanished the dominant social rhetoric and political discourse constructed upon a form of disparate mal-identified ego-centralism and xeno-neglect and demonization. The current ideal norms can hardly represent any liable alternative social approach, rather than human history- and -evolution dismantled. Simultaneously, new waves of migration, both across geographical borders (65 millions) and throughout the space in form of voluntary to Mars Colony 2013 (200,000 men/women applied world over), can be seen as a serious delink with the societal- and Earth-correlations than seeking security and “American Dream”. Obviously because flying to Mars is one-way and the routes to Europe and USA are proven to be extremely insecure and humiliating. Likewise, the re-ethnocentrism and neo-religionism ended by the demise of the approach of coexistence, and rather led to the reemergence of white-man supremacy and political populism with severe consequences of violence and social conflicts both within and over borders. In the less developed/modernized societies including the Middle Eastern, the social association is undergoing a form of UFOization process. That’s to say that individuals as well as social, cultural and political organizations developing high sense of alienation, whereas conflictual, distress and severe lack of self-confidence and mistrust are some of many elements of de-homogeneous and fragile social and societal structures. While changes running on in a very fast acceleration sense by the effect do technology of communications and others, producing a stable form of social approach seems to be a great challenge. The degree of disparity in the modern societies is eliminating the stability and coexisting bases ,while political populism is ahead to reestablish a new form of ethnic-and wealth-based supremacy. In the less modernized societies particularly the Middle Eastern, the need for a new social approach, could be a form of nationalism, faces severe challenges posed both by internal hitch and globalized world projects.