At the end of the eighties things were crystal clear: communism lost, capitalism won and we will all live together happily ever after in material abundancy and liberal bliss, at last.
Now thirty
years later the Chinese Communist Party has declared victory over poverty while
in the US the middle class is slowly withering away while the media is increasingly
turning into a propaganda machine of those in power.
Not only is
the trend pointing to China becoming the #1 economy in the world but the US is
foolishly isolating Russia (and increasingly the EU) thus pushing them to look
for more reliable friends in the East.
How did
that happen? Why? Can we do anything about it? Perhaps organize a demonstration
on Tiananmen square or march on the Capitol or the Kremlin, or maybe break down
the Berlin wall (that’s already broken) but we can always try the Korean
demilitarized zone? Revolution? I hope
that will never happen because revolutions usually hurt the innocent and cement
the power of the corrupt elite.
I do
believe in unity in diversity. That we the people can and will unite and
acknowledge that everyone has a right to an opinion (and that means everyone
including those you don’t like or don’t agree with) as long as that opinion
does not involve hate, or planning to harm someone, or planning to coerce someone
into changing their opinion or choice. And that unity will bring reason,
stability and abundance.
You may say
I’m a dreamer but I hope I’m not the only one….
