Given the current alignment of nation-states in the world-system under U.S. hegemony, whose hegemony is unstable, precarious, sustained by manifold antagonisms, and perpetually challenged by other regional blocs, becoming Filipino is an ever-renewing trajectory of creation and re-creation, a process overdetermined by legacies of the past and unpredictable incidences of the present and the future.
Kaakibat ng propaganda ng Cold War laban sa Marxismo at sekular na pananaw, ang eksistensiyalismo ay tutol sa anumang pagbabagong materyal sa lipunan upang malunasan ang alyenasyon.