The above is staggering with your razor sharp insight into the issues that face us.
A question I ask myself often is the West with all its dysfunction and intractable problems even capable of reaching a viable equilibrium ?
I see the East has having established a viable equilibrium that will propel them into the future. I see the West as falling into an irretrievably dark age .
.... Sort of like the world is a speeding freight train and the West has missed the last train to Destiny.
The problem, it seems, is that The West can’t even think outside that box, constrained by 1800’s ideals of “progress” and unilateralism and over-simplification of any serious issue. That all ties in with yes, a coming Dark Age, along with diminishing productivity - “We don’t need no edjucashun.” We can see this in the new Canadian government, hell-bent on building a glorified version of the 1960s in total disregard for any environmental concern. This brings on further irreparable damage, another externality cast aside in the name of progress. They can’t imagine any kind of equilibrium and if they did, it would just be another obstacle in the way of progress. Again, the adults have left the room. These people don’t even know the train has left the station, and couldn’t care less where it is headed. They can’t even realize that there was a train at all, much less that it might be headed toward a better place, since their reality is confined to making their utopian dream manifest.
"For the West, BRICS is both a challenge and an opportunity. It can be met with hostility and hubris (the current default reaction) or with introspection and reform. But the choice is narrowing. The world will not wait for the West to heal itself. BRICS is not the future because it seeks to displace the West. It is the future because it is already doing what the West no longer can: building systems that work, for the majority of humanity, in the real world of energy, infrastructure and interdependence."
The above is staggering with your razor sharp insight into the issues that face us.
A question I ask myself often is the West with all its dysfunction and intractable problems even capable of reaching a viable equilibrium ?
I see the East has having established a viable equilibrium that will propel them into the future. I see the West as falling into an irretrievably dark age .
.... Sort of like the world is a speeding freight train and the West has missed the last train to Destiny.
What do you think?
The problem, it seems, is that The West can’t even think outside that box, constrained by 1800’s ideals of “progress” and unilateralism and over-simplification of any serious issue. That all ties in with yes, a coming Dark Age, along with diminishing productivity - “We don’t need no edjucashun.” We can see this in the new Canadian government, hell-bent on building a glorified version of the 1960s in total disregard for any environmental concern. This brings on further irreparable damage, another externality cast aside in the name of progress. They can’t imagine any kind of equilibrium and if they did, it would just be another obstacle in the way of progress. Again, the adults have left the room. These people don’t even know the train has left the station, and couldn’t care less where it is headed. They can’t even realize that there was a train at all, much less that it might be headed toward a better place, since their reality is confined to making their utopian dream manifest.
So a failure of imagination is but another symptom .
"For the West, BRICS is both a challenge and an opportunity. It can be met with hostility and hubris (the current default reaction) or with introspection and reform. But the choice is narrowing. The world will not wait for the West to heal itself. BRICS is not the future because it seeks to displace the West. It is the future because it is already doing what the West no longer can: building systems that work, for the majority of humanity, in the real world of energy, infrastructure and interdependence."
https://warwickpowell.substack.com/p/brics-and-the-architecture-of-a-post (Western Global Order)
Excellent post, thank you.