Petroleum: Prevaricating and procrastinating realities
The German-born U.S. philosopher and historian Johanna Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) wrote on the ‘Crises of the Republic’ in 1969 that the Third World is not a reality but an ideology. Arendt’s postulation is factual to the extent that what was termed Third World tended towards the ideological divides of the cold war rather than reality.

