NEO-NATIONALISM’S PREMISES & CONTENTIONS
/ Make room for value-based &
integrated frameworks
Erle Frayne D. Argonza
Not only should we look
up to the West for paradigms with which to construct frameworks and models of
growth & development. We should also welcome the initiatives of our
emerging thinkers and practitioner-gurus to integrate the Eastern paradigms in
their conceptualizations, system designs and related matters. These efforts
will fortify our understanding of economics, Philippine-style, in as much as we
are a people forged in the cultural smelters of both Eastern and Western
civilizations.
Among civil society
groups, the modeling of entrepreneurship and social enterprises based on
integrated East-West paradigms have been demonstrated with success and clarity.
We should welcome such perspectives, and do our share of the task to transport
such frameworks from the margins to the mainstream of national consciousness.
The resultant frameworks are often value-based in form, though they do not necessarily
shun scientistic/empiricist treatment of economic problems. The common theme
among such frameworks is synergy: an interconnection among various ‘social
enterprises’ and NGOs reaching a far broader scale, resulting to a broad movement. This I am well aware of, having
immersed myself in civil society for a long time in the past.
[From: Erle Frayne D.
Argonza, “New Nationalism: Grandeur and Glory at Work!”. August 2004. For the Office of External Affairs –
Political Cabinet Cluster, Office of the President, Malacaňan Palace.]
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