Turkey is fairly easy to play in an alliance with Russia (the "juggernaut"). The two of them partition the Balkans and Austria-Hungary, possibly with the help of Italy. Then they go their separate ways with Russia fighting Germany and/or England, while an enlarged Turkey crushes Italy. They need to come to an agreement about the Black Sea, but as long as Turkey builds mainly fleets and Russia mainly armies, they're fine.
At the dawn of the third millennium, it seems as if the juggernaut of modernity (Giddens, 1991), with its dream of unlimited progress and cargo of unconditional trust in instrumental rationality, has abruptly slowed down. The economic shock is challenging the sociological premises underlying the fourth industrial revolution being implemented or already operational in numerous production companies (Schwab, 2017). The sociological premises of this development model are the ones that have driven modernity up to now: the growth in the potential of instrumental rationality, which, according to Beck (1992), already contained many of the risks that we are faced with today; the almost unlimited trust in expert knowledge and in the transformative capacity attributed to technical and scientific progress (Giddens, 1991); and finally, the desire for strategic planning and control of natural phenomena and social processes, which was to ensure the stability of the system (Taleb, 2007).
The image of the Italian army trucks transporting the bodies of the inhabitants of Bergamo who died during the acute phase of the epidemic collides with all these. It hits the juggernaut of modernity and the impact is disturbing, shocking, and devastating. The pandemic challenges us to develop a different weltanschauung, alternative to the performative and conformist idea of society supported by the neoliberal paradigm. It compels us to finally acquire an understanding that the complexity of knowledge and global interdependency requires collective awareness, political participation, and shared responsibility, as thinkers such as Morin (1973) had already suggested at the end of the last century. Some of these directions of change can already be glimpsed: extensive use of digital technologies is changing the way people work, study, and socialize; restrictions on global trade are relaunching national production chains (especially in agriculture and in the manufacture of essential goods); the fear of importing infection from abroad and rekindling new outbreaks will oblige us to review the international mobility of people and things; social relations will continue to be cautious for a long time, and, collective events (e.g., university exams, public competitions, soccer matches, concerts, and cinema) will change their form over the months and years to come.
Dave's Hot Chicken went from a parking lot pop-up to a fast casual juggernaut. The opening keynote at the Interactive Customer Experience Summit in Charlotte from Sept. 11 to 13 took a look at how the brand did it.
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