En Route to The Siblinghood of Humanity?

Abstract

We are in the making of an information revolution in which big data is transformed into knowledge for policy recommendations by national and local governments, global institutions and other large organizations. Against this backdrop, a growing migration crisis pokes the western world threatening its past achievements and adopted values. My aim is to discuss one grand solution and three more modest solutions to the migration crisis which unsettles the European Union in particular. Moreover, my aim is, also, to extend invitations to decision makers to critically move towards the adoption of, at least, one of the solutions discussed. In addition to discussing both the grand solution proposed by Rosentein-Rodan, and the three more modest solutions, namely the reactionary, the reformist, and the radical, I explore the way decision makers can facilitate the conditions to formulate initiatives within the new status quo regarding the migration crisis in the European Union. My bias is for the humanitarian model and I consider myself a traditional liberal for laissez passer and laissez faire. My methodology is that of critical rationalism, which critically examines competing solutions to problems. I opt for the adoption of the grand solution in conjunction with the radical solution and for facilitating the conditions within the status quo in the European Union for a more critically assessed, dignified and fruitful migration.

Finally, historians of science should attend very critically to the marvellous but vague theory of the siblinghood of humanity and the humane but questionable claim that faith in it is the foundation of science.

(Agassi 2016)

The Siblinghood of Humanity is the title of a book by Joseph Agassi.

I would like to thank my friend and running mate, Tina Esther Pesah , for discussing with me every detail of the article and editing it accordingly.