By: reginald chee-a-tow

reginald chee-a-tow — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:12:58 +0000

As the saying goes”Nero fiddles while Rome burns.”We are fighting and arguing about narrow domestic issues,while the bigger issue-that of the survival of the planet itself-goes unattended.China,for examle,claims that it is contributing less to the problem of global warming than the USA on a per -capita basis,and tahtit has no intention of cutting back.They fail to see the bigger picture-We are all affected-we will all be consumed.

By: Shaun Michael Samaroo

Shaun Michael Samaroo — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:10:40 +0000

Well, we have to realize that the world is not just drifting along making mistakes. Human beings are not innately inhumane, and therefore would not obviously – even over greed and profits – destroy the very environment we depend on.
Which leaves us with a baffling question – why the seemingly inefficiency in managing the global affairs of Man?
My theory?
First. some backgrounder. I was first alerted to this idea during a press conference at Freedom House in Guyana hosted by then Opposition Leader Dr Cheddi Jagan. Jagan said something that got stuck in my mind, and later, when Jagdeo got into office, and based on my research on the international geopolitical climate, I came up with this theory.
Jagan had said that Marxism would eventually triumph in the world as a global system, evolving out of developed capitalist states. Words to that effect. Not Leninism or Stalinism, which are the aberrations of real classical Marxism. But the true socialist society where such things as poverty, crime and brutality become non-existent. This secular state of centralized governance would evolve into a global universal state system. Given Gorbachov’s career since the collapse of Soviet-style communism, I have watched the world and seen Jagan’s prediction take shape. I believe now that Jagan read the world system better than most politicians.
Which brings us back to McDonald’s lament. Yes, the world will see drastic brutality and depressing collapses in our civilized way of life, but this will be short-lived.
Why?
Because the people who are engineering the global geopolitical world system have a humane, poverty-free, economically equal global civilization in mind. We are just seeing the adjustments and stresses from the necessary radical realignments taking place, for this system to be functional.
Of course the future scares me, enormously, given the fact that my children have to live in that world. The US banking crisis is seeing a total centralization of physical assets into the hands of the Federal Reserve. When most of the Real Estate assets – people’s homes – are owned by the state, through the Federal Reserve’s control of the private sector’s financial system, we are in for a long haul of shocks as these developed societies plunge into a socialization of the global economic system.
We in this generation are facing and witnessing a revolution right before our eyes. Our children and grandchildren will live in that world. Which frightens me.

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