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As Telegram mini-apps are taking over the crypto space by a storm, another hybrid crypto exchange ‘Blum’ has also entered the race. Designed for emerging markets, Blum promises to revolutionize the crypto trading experience by merging the best of centralized and decentralized exchanges. Moreover, the buzz around a possible airdrop in Blum has set alarm bells blaring in the crypto community.
Blum is set to provide users with a seamless, secure, and efficient way to trade crypto assets. All from the convenience of a mobile app or a Telegram mini app. If you are not familiar, this guide will help you explore what Blum is and what it has to offer including its features, Blum Points, and details about potential airdrops.
Blum is an innovative hybrid crypto exchange, launched as a mini-app on Telegram. It caters to the emerging need of making crypto assets accessible easily to millions of Telegram users. It combines functionalities from both centralized and decentralized exchanges. With this novel idea, Blum aims to eliminate the hassle of going through multiple apps. 
As per the official blog, Blum offers one-stop solution with support to over 30 blockchain networks including ers like Ethereum, Solana, Binance Smart Chain, and TON. It is tailored to the preferences of Gen Z investors, who have shown a strong inclination towards crypto. Moreover, it democratizes access to cryptocurrency trading in markets where local options are often underdeveloped.
Blum’s robust feature set is designed to streamline the trading process, making it accessible and user-friendly for traders of all levels. Here are some of its core functionalities
Blum combines an off-chain order book with on-chain settlements, offering users the choice of self-custody or multi-party computation (MPC) options. This hybrid approach provides the speed of centralized exchanges with the security benefits of decentralized platforms.
Blum automatically lists tokens that have sufficient liquidity from a variety of exchanges and protocols, giving users broad access to new and popular tokens.
In addition to its mobile app, Blum offers a trading experience through a Telegram mini app, making trading more accessible and integrated into everyday communication platforms. The trading process is gamified to enhance user engagement and make investing more interactive.
For those interested in derivatives trading, Blum offers user-friendly perpetual futures and options, including unique products like futures on NFTs and pre-market tokens.
Blum facilitates peer-to-peer (P2P) fiat trading, with a focus on local currencies and merchant integrations. This feature simplifies fiat transactions, making it easier for users in emerging markets to convert between crypto and their local currencies.
Blum simplifies the trading experience by allowing users to trade across multiple networks without the need to switch wallets or navigate complex interfaces. This means no more worrying about selecting the right wallet, choosing the correct DEX, or dealing with native tokens for network fees.
One of the unique offerings of Blum is the Blum Points system, which allows users to earn rewards by engaging with the platform.
As part of the launch strategy, Blum Points farming will be available on the Telegram mini app, giving early adopters a chance to accumulate points that could potentially be converted into other rewards or perks within the platform. These points incentivize active participation and provide users with tangible benefits for their engagement, enhancing the overall user experience.
While the exact details for Blum airdrop are yet to be officially announced, it is expected that Blum airdrop will be launched in the next few months. The buzz around Blum suggests that early users who accumulate Blum Points might have an opportunity to benefit from future token distributions. 
Airdrops are a common strategy in the crypto space to attract users and build a community around a new token or platform. Blum’s approach to incentivizing participation through points could be a prelude to such an event. Keep an eye on Blum’s announcements and community channels for updates on the airdrop details as they become available.
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Blum is set to redefine the trading experience in emerging markets by offering a hybrid exchange that simplifies access to a wide range of tokens and trading options. With its unique features, including trading via Telegram, simple derivatives, and P2P fiat trading, Blum caters to the needs of a tech-savvy audience looking for an all-in-one trading platform. As Blum Points farming kicks off and the potential for an airdrop looms, now is the time to get involved and explore what this innovative platform has to offer. 
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A popular model of evolution concludes that it was incredibly unlikely for humanity to evolve on Earth, and that extraterrestrial intelligence is vanishingly rare.

But as experts on the entangled history of life and our planet, we propose that the coevolution of life and Earth’s surface environment may have unfolded in a way that makes the evolutionary origin of humanlike intelligence a more foreseeable or expected outcome than generally thought.

Some of the greatest evolutionary biologists of the 20th century famously dismissed the prospect of humanlike intelligence beyond Earth.

This view, firmly rooted in biology, independently gained support from physics in 1983 with an influential publication by Brandon Carter, a theoretical physicist.

In 1983, Carter attempted to explain what he called a remarkable coincidence: the close approximation between the estimated lifespan of the sun—10 billion years—and the time Earth took to produce humans—5 billion years, rounding up.

He imagined three possibilities. In one, intelligent life like humans generally arises very quickly on planets, geologically speaking—in perhaps millions of years. In another, it typically arises in about the time it took on Earth. And in the last, he imagined that Earth was lucky—ordinarily it would take much longer, say, trillions of years for such life to form.

Carter rejected the first possibility because life on Earth took so much longer than that. He rejected the second as an unlikely coincidence, since there is no reason the processes that govern the Sun’s lifespan—nuclear fusion—should just happen to have the same timescale as biological evolution.

So Carter landed on the third explanation: that humanlike life generally takes much longer to arise than the time provided by the lifetime of a star.
The sun will likely be able to keep planets habitable for only part of its lifetime—by the time it hits 10 billion years, it will get too hot. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

To explain why humanlike life took so long to arise, Carter proposed that it must depend on extremely unlikely evolutionary steps, and that the Earth is extraordinarily lucky to have taken them all.

He called these evolutionary steps “hard steps,” and they had two main criteria. One, the hard steps must be required for human existence—meaning if they had not happened, then humans would not be here. Two, the hard steps must have very low probabilities of occurring in the available time, meaning they usually require timescales approaching 10 billion years.

The physicists Frank Tipler and John Barrow predicted that hard steps must have happened only once in the history of life—a logic taken from evolutionary biology.

If an evolutionary innovation required for human existence was truly improbable in the available time, then it likely wouldn’t have happened more than once, although it must have happened at least once, since we exist.

For example, the origin of nucleated—or eukaryotic—cells is one of the most popular hard steps scientists have proposed. Since humans are eukaryotes, humanity would not exist if the origin of eukaryotic cells had never happened.

On the universal tree of life, all eukaryotic life falls on exactly one branch. This suggests that eukaryotic cells originated only once, which is consistent with their origin being unlikely.

The other most popular hard-step candidates—the origin of life, oxygen-producing photosynthesis, multicellular animals, and humanlike intelligence—all share the same pattern. They are each constrained to a single branch on the tree of life.

However, as the evolutionary biologist and paleontologist Geerat Vermeij argued, there are other ways to explain why these evolutionary events appear to have happened only once.

This pattern of apparently singular origins could arise from information loss due to extinction and the incompleteness of the fossil record. Perhaps these innovations each evolved more than once, but only one example of each survived to the modern day. Maybe the extinct examples never became fossilized, or paleontologists haven’t recognized them in the fossil record.

Or maybe these innovations did happen only once, but because they could have happened only once. For example, perhaps the first evolutionary lineage to achieve one of these innovations quickly outcompeted other similar organisms from other lineages for resources. Or maybe the first lineage changed the global environment so dramatically that other lineages lost the opportunity to evolve the same innovation. In other words, once the step occurred in one lineage, the chemical or ecological conditions were changed enough that other lineages could not develop in the same way.

If these alternative mechanisms explain the uniqueness of these proposed hard steps, then none of them would actually qualify as hard steps.
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But if none of these steps were hard, then why didn’t humanlike intelligence evolve much sooner in the history of life?

Geobiologists reconstructing the conditions of the ancient Earth can easily come up with reasons why intelligent life did not evolve sooner in Earth history.

For example, 90 percent of Earth’s history elapsed before the atmosphere had enough oxygen to support humans. Likewise, up to 50 percent of Earth’s history elapsed before the atmosphere had enough oxygen to support modern eukaryotic cells.

All of the hard-step candidates have their own environmental requirements. When the Earth formed, these requirements weren’t in place. Instead, they appeared later on, as Earth’s surface environment changed.

We suggest that as the Earth changed physically and chemically over time, its surface conditions allowed for a greater diversity of habitats for life. And these changes operate on geologic timescales—billions of years—explaining why the proposed hard steps evolved when they did, and not much earlier.

In this view, humans originated when they did because the Earth became habitable to humans only relatively recently. Carter had not considered these points in 1983.

But hard steps could still exist. How can scientists test whether they do?

Earth and life scientists could work together to determine when Earth’s surface environment first became supportive of each proposed hard step. Earth scientists could also forecast how much longer Earth will stay habitable for the different kinds of life associated with each proposed hard step—such as humans, animals, and eukaryotic cells.

Evolutionary biologists and paleontologists could better constrain how many times each hard-step candidate occurred. If they did occur only once each, they could see whether this came from their innate biological improbability or from environmental factors.

Lastly, astronomers could use data from planets beyond the solar system to figure out how common life-hosting planets are, and how often these planets have hard-step candidates, such as oxygen-producing photosynthesis and intelligent life.

If our view is correct, then the Earth and life have evolved together in a way that is more typical of life-supporting planets—not in the rare and improbable way that the hard-steps model predicts. Humanlike intelligence would then be a more expected outcome of Earth’s evolution, rather than a cosmic fluke.

Researchers from a variety of disciplines, from paleontologists and biologists to astronomers, can work together to learn more about the probability of intelligent life evolving on Earth and elsewhere in the universe.

If the evolution of humanlike life was more probable than the hard-steps model predicts, then researchers are more likely to find evidence for extraterrestrial intelligence in the future.

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
Daniel is a postdoctoral fellow in geomicrobiology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. His research primarily concerns the co-evolution of the Proterozoic biosphere (Earth’s ‘middle age,’ 2.5-0.541 billion years ago) and eukaryotic life—a topic he approaches by studying modern organisms and environments.
Jason is a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State. He studies nearby stars, their ages and activity levels, and most of all their planetary systems. He finds and characterizes new planets around other stars by making careful measurements of how they move their host stars and how they block their host stars’ light. He also works in SETI, seeking signs of technological life elsewhere in the universe.
Jennifer is a professor of of geroscience at Penn State. She is a microbiologist who studies biological interactions with earth materials—soil, water, atmospheric gases, and rocks. These interactions are encoded in microbial genomes that give us clues about the co-evolution of Earth and the biosphere in deep time. In the present, these interactions are of prime importance to human societies, with implications for greenhouse gas production and consumption, pollutant bioremediation, element cycling, energy production from coal and biomass, and water purification. Our tools are emerging techniques in molecular biology, bioinformatics, and geochemistry. We look at microbial diversity and activity through the lens of microbial ecology.
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The Herbal Medicine Market is expected to reach USD 330.4 Bn by 2030, driven by the trend toward alternative medicine and growing consumer interest in natural cures.

𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞? 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐛 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰:https://www.maximizemarketresearch.com/request-sample/148333/
Herbal Medicine Market to Hit USD 530.2 Bn by 2030
The Herbal Medicine Market was USD 233.31 Bn in 2023 and is expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12% from 2023 to 2030, reaching USD 530.2 Bn by 2030. The Herbal Medicine Market is also driven by the increasing knowledge and shift towards herbal remedies benefits of herbal medicine throughout the projection period. As the prevalence of chronic illnesses like diabetes, arthritis, and heart disease rises, more people are using herbal remedies and conventional therapies. In the US about one-third (35%) of Americans say they use plant-based treatments or herbal medicines as part of their medical routine.
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Herbal Medicine Market Segmentation
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Herbal Medicine is also driven by demand for functional foods, natural ingredients, and health-promoting drinks like Herbal Teas such as chamomile, peppermint, hibiscus, ginger, and green tea. Herbal Beverages like ready-to-drink beverages infused with herbal extracts like kombucha, matcha lattes, etc which are antioxidants and have immune boosting properties. Herbal supplements such as capsules, tablets, or pills containing ginseng, garlic, etc are used for anti-aging and overall health issues.
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Pharmacies are one of the most popular locations to find herbal supplements and therapeutic herbs. This drugstore has a wide range of topicals, tinctures, capsules, and teas. Wellness stores like Whole Foods, GNC, and Holland & Barrett. Hypermarkets and Supermarkets show the availability of essential oils, supplements, and herbal tea.
𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐮𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬? 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬-𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭:https://www.maximizemarketresearch.com/request-sample/148333/
Herbal Medicine Market Regional Analysis
In North America, particularly in the United States and Canada, the growing awareness and shift in people’s attitude towards natural care has driven the Herbal Medicine Market. This results in the belief that alternative therapies have detrimental effects on people’s health
Europe has dominated the market with a 41.5% share in 2023 and is expected to witness significant growth at a CAGR of 12% in the forecast period. Europe has a significant history of using herbal remedies, such as St. John’s Wort, echinacea, chamomile, and valerian root. With so many medications made from plants, Germany has a particularly strong connection to herbal therapy. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) contributes significantly to the regulation of herbal medications, guaranteeing their efficacy and safety.
Germany
The German Medicines Act, which regulates herbal remedies and their incorporation into traditional therapies, makes Germany one of the countries with the most advanced regulatory frameworks for herbal medicine.
𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬, 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭:https://www.maximizemarketresearch.com/market-report/herbal-medicine-market/148333/
Herbal Medicine Market Competitive Landscape
Herbalife Nutrition Ltd. in April 2022, had a merging agreement with Whitney & Co., LLC, and Golden Gate Capital, Inc., valuing approximately $685 million. In December 2012 Herbalife Nutrition Ltd. Acquired a manufacturing facility in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Himalaya Wellness Company was established in 1930. In October 2023, at Dubai Industrial City, invested AED 200 million (about $54.4 million) in a cutting-edge herbal pharmaceutical facility.
Nature’s Way Products, LLC (Nature’s Way) in 2021, acquired a personalized nutrition company called Baze. In 2014, the acquisition of a Canadian company named Ascenta Health
Conclusion
·        In the Herbal Medicine Market transparency, education, and sustainability should be given top priority in PR campaigns.
·        Social media and digital media are quickly becoming indispensable PR tools for boosting customer involvement and company trust.
·        Strategic alliances with wellness authorities, health influencers, and academic institutions broaden the market and boost consumer confidence.
 

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In the following article, I would like to write about the importance of understanding the basic core of deconstructionist and postmodernist ideas which leads us to why the current Western society is at a crossroads between traditionalism and postmodernism or progressivism. I will describe and interpret the current postmodern zeitgeist. I think this is important because it gives us a better understanding of the world we live in and how society thinks. By the end of the article, it will become clear that postmodernism can weaken the country’s defence capabilities because of the lack of willingness to fight for our homeland and can endanger the classical 19th-century ideas of how truth can emerge victorious from lies. Consequently, readers can better understand how a subversive activity works—even though I will not analyze in this article subversion in detail—and whether the current zeitgeist is conducive to such operations.
What exactly is post-truth? In 2016 the Oxford Dictionary chose this expression as the most popular word, and it was used to describe the workings of Vladimir Putin’s media and Donald Trump’s communications. The gist is that there is no truth; everyone has their own narrative, which they believe is true, and facts do not matter.
Camille François, a cyber warfare scholar at Harvard University, has written that in the age of Facebook and Twitter (Editor’s note: now X)—the age of social media—it is impossible to silence dissent as in the old regimes, so propagandists use different methods: flooding the target audience with information, creating a huge buzz on social media. It details two methods:

‘Modern—or rather postmodern—propagandists aim to undermine faith in truth’
Modern—or rather postmodern—propagandists aim to undermine faith in truth. Post-truth represents the postmodernist position: you have your facts and we have our alternative facts. That said, the aim of modern propagandists is not to construct a metanarrative but to destroy the very basis and concept of truth itself. This type of communication can be observed in the functioning of many European parties, especially populist ones, where the aim is to keep certain issues on the agenda, to character assassinate political opponents, and to adapt to changing public opinion rather than to govern along values. But my aim here is not to analyze in detail the political communication of European parties.
Professor at Yale University Marci Shore gives an interesting analysis of the antecedents of the emergence of the postmodern world in the West and the interpretation of postmodern society. She shows how philosophical thought was in the period from the pre-Enlightenment onwards. In the beginning, God was at the centre of the world (and before Christianity, the various polytheistic religions), followed by modern Enlightenment society, where rationality dominated, and finally, we arrive at postmodern society, which has abandoned absolutes in its search for truth.
If we understand it in more detail, before the Enlightenment, God was the epistemological and ontological truth. The answer to what is true was clear: God’s truth was absolute. It follows that there is always an unquestionable truth.
As for modernist thought, the Enlightenment questioned the absolute truth of God but replaced it with rationality and scholarship. The ‘death’ of God left a void, so the most important aim of modern philosophy was to find a way to an absolute truth independent of God, to bridge the subject to the object.
In contrast, during postmodernism—the generation of 1968—we gave up the idea that there is a holistic order that connects the particular to the universal, the individual to the world through stable structures. So, the postmodern world begins when we move from epistemological uncertainty to ontological uncertainty. When we abandon the belief that there is a stable reality beneath the narratives we create.
The article also mentions the ideas of several other philosophers, such as Tony Judt and Jean-François Lyotard. The former argues that the seduction of postmodern theory lies in its subversion not only of centuries-old certainties but of certainty itself. According to the latter, postmodernism is a disbelief in metanarratives.
‘The answer to what is true was clear: God’s truth was absolute’
The most important representative of deconstruction in postmodern thought is French philosopher Jacques Derrida, who argues ‘for the difference between signifier and signified to be somewhere absolute and irreducible.’ As Marci Shore puts it: ‘This centre—this “transcendental signified”—is precisely what is missing, what does not and cannot exist. The implication is both destabilizing and liberating. “The absence of the transcendental signified extends the domain and play of signification infinitely,” wrote Derrida…For Derrida, “play” suggested openness, an embracing of plurality…Meaning is never self-identical, but rather always fluid and in flux…The relationship between words and things is not fixed; words are always already at play with one another, and so there can be no once-and-for-all determinate truth. Life is not a closed structure. There are no closed structures; life is constant movement.’
Interestingly, Derrida—and other postmodern left thinkers—argue that to have a constant truth is to favour totalitarianism. If there is no fixed truth, totalitarian systems cannot win. The existence of a transcendental signifier is already a totalitarian threat; its absence is salutary and joyful. It is an absence that gives not a deficit but a surplus of meaning. The rejection of absolute truth serves as a defence.
Thus, according to the zeitgeist, there is no absolute truth, everyone can be right, anything is free and nothing is certain. This can be seen in the popularity of leftist ideologies in the West, where more and more things like nation and homeland are becoming relative. And from this relativity comes the post-truth world, where there is no need to be consistent in the battle of narratives, which greatly favours the external subversion of society.
The question arises as to why it is important to understand the ideas of postmodern philosophers—take for example the most traditional institutions in the Western world: the national armies. It is therefore important to be aware of the dominant narratives. According to Derrida’s theory, there are no contradictory words and all words can be true, meaning is never constant, etc. This is also the zeitgeist in Europe today, which is open libertarianism. But why is this a problem?
The military is based on authoritarianism. It is an institution where there is epistemological and ontological truth, embodied for example in the omnipotence of command. However, authority and respect also play an important role. This idea stands in stark contrast to the deconstructivist tendency that dominates postmodern society.
It is no accident that recruitment is a growing problem in Western societies. After all, why would anyone go to work in an institution that stands for traditional values such as country, nation, and ‘national justice’? The 20th and 21st centuries have transcended them: nothing is fixed, everything is fluid. Of course, there will always be some in society who believe in old values, but they are fewer in number—that is not the spirit of the time now.
The rise of postmodernism was also helped by the fact that history ‘ended’ at almost the same time. After 1991 the West started to disarm its armies, as liberal democracy had defeated communism—there was no need for large armies anymore, as democracies no longer went to war with each other over common values and economic relations. Eventually, this was overturned in 2022 and the Western world realized that history is not over. However, precisely because of the aforementioned zeitgeist, it is no longer easy to recruit soldiers. The UK has acknowledged that the last time in its history that it had such a low level of military personnel was in 1815 during the Napoleonic Wars. In the US and Europe, too, there is a problem of recruiting. In an interview with Euronews, Vincenzo Bove, professor of political science at the University of Warwick, identified three reasons: young people’s values have changed; inadequate pay; and demographic changes.
‘Why would anyone go to work in an institution that stands for traditional values such as country, nation, and “national justice”?’
In my opinion, the changed values can be traced back to the postmodern social thinking outlined above. And, as mentioned earlier, the end of history has only reinforced this, as the Western states began to reduce their armies massively after 1991. This is also apparent from the statistics that NATO member states’ defence spending fell dramatically after 1991.
Jarosław Wołkonowski’s study looked at expenditure between 1949 and 2017. In his paper, I would highlight the following three important findings[1]:

The figures published by NATO for 2014–2024 also show that 10 member states did not reach the requirements until 2022, but the war has awakened the alliance, as the figure has risen to 23 member states by 2024.
Another interesting detail is Gallup International’s research from 2024, which shows Western societies’ unwillingness to fight for their country if it was involved in a military conflict. In the end, in my opinion, it comes down to the fact that we eliminated our society’s core values, and the ‘carpe diem’ lifestyle does not favour traditionalism. Why would someone defend their country if everything is relative, and everyone is right?
Turning to propaganda and the postmodern man, it is interesting to examine Hannah Arendt’s idea of the lie. In her view, the traditional lie was solid compared to the modern lie.
Traditional lie:

Modern lie:

In the postmodern lie, however, there is no longer a coherent narrative—it is all about confusion, misleading, and disinformation. This is also borne out by Camille François’ earlier point that the current attack on social media is either about over-information or character assassination. Since, as we know, the truth does not exist, because everything is fluid, and neither does the lie, which can easily be used by the opposing sides to target a society. Through the media comes the idea of freedom of speech.
‘The truth does not exist, because everything is fluid, and neither does the lie, which can easily be used by the opposing sides to target a society’
Freedom of speech is the foundation of liberal democracies. John Stuart Mill discusses this in his On Liberty. Mill invented the theory of the marketplace of ideas, following the analogy of the market. The idea is that in the marketplace of ideas, truth will always emerge in the free competition and transparent discourse of ideas.
The importance of competing ideas and robust debates can be found already by John Milton, since in a ‘free and open competition, truth always wins’. Thomas Jefferson and Fredrick Siebert also believed in free debate, because truth and reason will always win. Besides, their ideas reflect enlightened thinking based on reason.
Here the problem of postmodern thinking returns. If there is no truth, since everything is relative and free (but if there is an absolute truth, Derrida calls it totalitarianism), then in the marketplace of ideas, truth—since it does not exist—cannot stand out. If there is no truth, thus no lie, and no set of values, then anything can be disseminated in the public discourse of democratic countries, because there is freedom of speech. And the truth will not emerge because it does not exist. This greatly favours disinformation and subversive operations by foreign countries, but also by populists from within. This brings us to information operations and subversive activities. Thus, in my opinion, it is clear that the spread of social media and postmodern thinking is conducive to disinformation. To create a barrier to the spread of disinformation and subversion, Western societies must consider returning to their core values. It is easier to subvert and undermine democracy in a valueless society than in one which has its own beliefs and values. Conserving tradition and values does not mean regression. We must progress with the intention of conserving what is important.
[1] Jarosław Wołkonowski, ‘NATO defense expenditures in 1949–2017’, InfoGlob, Vilnius, SHS Web of Conferences 57, 01032, 2018, pp. 1–10.
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Thomas P. Cullinan’s 1966 Southern Gothic novel, “The Beguiled,” is a story about women. Here, the all-female residents of a seminary in Virginia are rattled by the arrival of a wounded Union soldier at the height of the Civil War, and what he might represent for each of them. This man, Corporal John McBurney, appears to be harmless at first but sets off an unsettling chain of events that incite rage, envy, and resentment among the women (and children). The slow-burn novel jumps across perspectives, helping us piece together a dizzying, suspenseful tale about the fallout of war, and how it extends to the secluded residents of the seminary.
However, Cullinan’s agonizingly slow narrative grants agency to his female characters only in relation to McBurney, as their individual wants and desires vanish the moment he’s not around. There is some interiority weaved in when the events culminate in acute tragedy, but Cullinan paints the concept of femininity in broad, horribly shallow strokes. It is a novel about women, written by a man who is only interested in fleshing them out through the narrow lens of heteronormative desire and jealousy. Solidarity and sisterhood are foreign to the premise of “The Beguiled,” and any adaptation worth its salt would undoubtedly have to address and remedy this glaring issue without foregoing complexity.
Don Siegel and Clint Eastwood teamed up to bring “The Beguiled” to life in 1971 to extremely controversial effect. Although critics panned the release due to its misogynistic, sexploitation bent, Eastwood opined that the film bombed due to poor marketing and his attempt to play against type (which, in his case, was lone wolf-heroism and stoic masculinity). Siegel and Eastwood’s take on the novel feels rather superficial, the focus being on McBurney’s (manipulative) sexual charm and how it provokes the most violent, dangerous impulses in the women surrounding him. Although Eastwood’s McBurney is meant to be an unsavory predator, his victims are etched as caricatures, pale shadows of who they are meant to be.
More than 40 years after the film’s release, Sofia Coppola decided to remake “The Beguiled” with women at the forefront of the grisly Gothic horror tale.

Coppola’s “The Beguiled” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2017 and immediately made an impact with a historic Best Director win. However, this adaptation became laced with controversy from the get-go: although the film was superior to the 1971 version in its treatment of femininity and female agency, it seemed to have deliberately evaded intersectionality. The only Black character from the novel, Mattie, is visibly missing from the film, and Edwina, a biracial woman in the source material, is portrayed by Kirsten Dunst in this adaptation. Coppola justified some of these choices in a statement published on IndieWire:
“There are many examples of how slaves have been appropriated and ‘given a voice’ by white artists. Rather than an act of denial, my decision of not including Mattie [the only Black character in the novel] in the film comes from respect […] Some have said that it is not responsible to make a film set during the Civil War and not deal directly with slavery and feature slave characters. I did not think so in preparing this film, but have been thinking about this and will continue to do so.”
Coppola also went on to state that she did not wish to “perpetuate an objectionable stereotype” that was embedded within the source material, which informed her decision to focus solely on “male and female power dynamics that could relate to all women.” Although the intent to not regurgitate harmful stereotypes is understandable, the story of “The Beguiled” is only half complete when the perspectives of characters of color are completely left out. It is a feminist perspective that is not inclusive at all, with Coppola eliminating an integral layer of race-based politics in a Civil War narrative set in the Confederate South.

If you’re able to overlook these grave missteps, then Coppola’s version is certainly more surefooted and empowering than the Eastwood adaptation, as it does not approach female sexuality from a fetishistic lens. It reinvents the source material by investing depth into female characters who were originally written to evoke cheap sensationalism, and Coppola takes a languid, measured approach to the evolving story. In an interview with The Film School Rejects, the director explained why she had decided to remake the controversial 1971 film:
“When I saw the movie it was so fascinating to me that these macho filmmakers — Don Siegel and Clint Eastwood — would make a story set in a girl’s school in the South. It’s such a male point of view of a group of women that I thought ‘Okay, I want to tell that story from the women’s point of view’ […] I felt like I had to give these women a voice, and then I thought to flip it over from their point of view and [show] women during wartime; you always see stories about men at war, but I don’t think I’ve seen what happens to the women left behind.”
Moreover, Coppola’s film improves upon the novel’s psycho-dramatic aspects by unearthing the rot beneath sophisticated facades. Colin Farrell plays Corporal John McBurney in this iteration, and his callous treatment of the women feels more pointed and jarring because of his guileless facade. However, this flawed feminist reinterpretation suffers from the same pitfalls as the novel it is based on: we see very little of who these women are outside of their tempestuous, complex feelings for the only man in their vicinity.
Perhaps, it is best if we collectively leave “The Beguiled” behind as a novel worth adapting, and focus on the countless women-centered stories that actually deserve to be brought to life.

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Dangerous Animals swims to theaters in the U.S. on June 6, 2025.
Hassie Harrison (“Yellowstone”), Jai Courtney (Terminator Genisys) and Josh Heuston (“Heartbreak High”) lead the cast of Sean Byrne’s shark movie Dangerous Animals.
In Dangerous Animals, “Zephyr (Harrison), described as a savvy and free-spirited surfer, is abducted by a shark-obsessed serial killer (Courtney). Held captive on his boat, she must figure out how to escape before he carries out a ritualistic feeding to the sharks below.
“The only person who realizes she is missing is new love interest Moses (Hueston), who goes looking for Zephyr, only to be caught by the deranged murderer as well.”
Shudder’s Emily Gotto said in a statement, “Sean Byrne is one of the most visceral filmmakers in the current genre space and we are thrilled to join forces with him again on Dangerous Animals. In this film, he ventures boldly into two of horror’s most terrifying realms—serial killers and sharks—fusing them into a singularly intense and ferocious spectacle. Prepare for a groundbreaking cinematic experience that will leave you breathless this summer.”
Byrne teases, “There have been a lot of shark films over the years but, I promise, none like this, where audiences are left to decipher who the deadliest creature really is – man or animal. It’s a survival horror experience with teeth that screams to be seen on the big screen.”
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When twin brothers find a mysterious wind-up monkey, a series of outrageous deaths tear their family apart. 25 years later, the monkey begins a new killing spree forcing the estranged brothers to confront the cursed toy.
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Meagan Navarro wrote in her review, “With brisk storytelling efficiency and a playful spirit, The Monkey delivers a Stephen King adaptation like no other. Perkins pushes back against logic in favor of entertaining midnight madness, and death has never been funnier or gorier as a result.”
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