‘Advancing Society’
It was privilege for me to attend in person the official Opening of the academic year 2015-2016 in Tilburg University, and to learn from the experience, wisdom and visionary thinking of people like Dr. Koen Becking, President Executive Board, Professor Emile Aarts, Rector Magnificus, Professor Kim Lane Scheppele, Princeton University, and Dr. Frans Timmermans, First Vice-President of the European Commission.
The Rector delivering his speech
The atmosphere of strong commitment to basic human values, innovative approach and firm resolution to build up Tilburg University’s contribution to our civilizational development fully justified the theme of the academic ceremony: ‘Advancing Society’.
I sincerely wish success to the Rector – Professor Emile Aarts, in accomplishing his ideas about how to awaken the Sleeping Beauty.
As for the impressive tapestry in the university’s Auditorium (above) , my interpretation would be:
Whatever choices you have made during the statistically average 17K days and 17K nights of your human presence on our planet, you will leave your unique and ineradicable footprint on the road of the human civilization. It does not matter how big or how deep this footprint is.
The only thing that matters is the direction you have walked.
About Lubomir Todorov PhD
"The mission of human spirit is to confront challenges that civilizationally stand orders higher than tribes of Homo sapiens fighting each other"
An early passion for science - Artificial Intelligence and Cybernetics, lead me to intensive high school activities and winning National round competitions. Later on, my work and studies in diverse cultural and political realities - Japan, Australia, Russia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Czechia, and numerous visits across the globe were abundant in meeting people of various mindset and existential background: politicians, aborigine artists, US military, Buddhist and Shinto priests, Royal families, Russian scientists, Mapuche musicians, Indian thinkers, CEOs of Japanese corporations, etc.
This primary data fused with the everyday flow of news about human behavior around the world and got processed through a newly built methodology machine, randomly assembled on the basic ideas of social anthropology, geopolitics, philosophy, evolutionary theories, history, and civilizational studies. The output – an infinite field of hypothetical constructs, was then narrowed down by an imperative axiological choice: in the final end, the only thing that matters is the individual human being with her immediate and strategic interests.
The result of the above superposition of values over logic, done in space uncontaminated by ideological, religious or personal prejudice, is Civilizational thinking - an approach that has the capacity to question the viability of any political systems to lead to where people want to be.
Human Civilization is the spiritual dimension of Homo sapiens group survival strategy.
Humans mutually defend their interests through generating Civilizational Values.
The optimal political design is Universal Future - a global multifaceted platform on which all polities in their ideological, political, national, cultural, ethnic, religious, racial, etc. diversity exist and interrelate with each other on a non-violence basis.
Lubomir Todorov PhD 