THE CURRENT INSANE WEST CAN & MUST GIVE WAY TO THE BRICS DREAM

Apocryphal material from the edge of the Apocalypse.

Could things get any more insane than now? Could the hopes and dreams we held close to our hearts in the Sixties of future peace and harmony become any less visible than now? 

We stand on the eve of destruction to employ the title of a popular protest song of the Sixties by Barry McGuire.

Eve of Destruction (July 1965)

The Eastern world, it is explodin'

Violence flarin', bullets loadin'

You're old enough to kill but not for votin'

You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'?

And even the Jordan river has bodies floatin'

But you tell me

Over and over and over again, my friend

How you don't believe

We're on the eve of destruction 

 

Don't you understand what I'm trying to say

Can't you feel the fears I'm feeling today?

If the button is pushed, there's no runnin' away

There'll be no one to save with the world in a grave

Take a look around you boy, it's bound to scare you, boy

And you tell me

Over and over and over again, my friend

How you don't believe

We're on the eve of destruction 

 

Yeah, my blood's so mad, feels like coagulatin'

I'm sittin' here just contemplatin'

I can't twist the truth, it knows no regulation

Handful of senators don't pass legislation

And marches alone can't bring integration

When human respect is disintegratin'

This whole crazy world is just too frustratin'

And you tell me

Over and over and over again, my friend

How you don't believe

We're on the eve of destruction.

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The more things change the more they remain the same. In the Sixties we refused to believe that real change was impossible. However, subsequent events have proven us wrong. Our naive belief in love and peace in truth didn’t last long. A bare half a decade later we saw those hopes and dreams fall apart and ‘normal’ life resume. The archetypal norms reasserted themselves and all we had left was nostalgia for what we felt could have been but in fact never could have been.

These days all the talk is of war and the threat of war. Sides have been taken more firmly than ever before. Diplomacy is dead and anything resembling a purported democracy in the West is fast dying too. Those who railed against the totalitarianism of the East are now steadily enforcing it on the populations of the West. Freedom of speech is transmogrifying into the control of speech in the West. More and more we are told what to say, the views to hold and the attitudes that we MUST have… or else.  Thinking now of how free we were down decades past, beginning arguably in the Sixties, brings the most mournful thoughts possible to our minds. 

We appear to be headed toward a full on prison planet where everything about us is known with judgement passed upon every aspect of our lives. We will be sold things based upon them, castigated for some of them, punished for others and rewarded for those the state deems good. The vast systems holding ‘big data’ about us will be able to analyse every possible detail of our lives, using and abusing them at will. Big Brother is arriving soon… and he is determined that you do all he says.

Then all is lost you say. What hope is there? This is the inevitable result of all we have seen during our lives. What can be done? The young are totally immersed in the ‘bread and circuses’ lifestyle the mass marketers have sold them. The West is overwhelmingly about consuming the products provided and abandoning anything resembling critical thinking. Next time you are in an airport concourse or anywhere that a mass of people congregate just look at them, look at their eyes. How much awareness of our true situation do you detect?

However, thankfully all is NOT lost. As unlikely as it may seem there is hope for something other than lives locked within a system that keeps you under control 24/7 and demands you conform with its needs. Resistance against this dystopian nightmare began around two decades ago in the name of Vladimir Putin. In the wake of 9/11 and the western demand that all nations must now be subservient to it he said not, that’s not happening. Not with Russia anyway. We will remain an independent, sovereign nation determining our own future path, and will not act as a slave nation manipulated by you. 

Slowly but surely since the words of Vladimir Putin uttered in 2007 at the then Munich Security Conference other nations have begun taking the same line. Notably among them China but also others such as India, Saudi Arabia, Brazil and others who, being or becoming members of the BRICS alliance have asserted that another way exists than the way the western powers demand, of subservience to it and its institutions. Unless you have not heard, currently the total of nations wishing to join BRICS is fifty nine. Fifty nine nations ready, willing and enthusiastic in presenting another way forward rather than continued western domination.

In recent days Saudi Arabia has stated that the deal it made with the USA fifty years ago to only use the dollar to trade in has now expired and will not be renewed. The grip on world trade by the West using the petrodollar has been removed. Now dedollarisation will continue apace, freeing up myriad nations from U.S. control via its unilateral sanctions. Thus the movement away from the draconian future the West wishes to impose on us all will now inevitably flourish and expand.

Here is our hope, hope even reflecting to some extent the innocent dreams of youth in those long gone years of the Nineteen Sixties. Russia, China and the others seek the stability and peace that benefits trade, greater understanding and most important of all mutual cooperation. Love may transpire also, that is open to debate. However, cultural exchange in an atmosphere of trust where nations hold peaceful coexistence at a premium cannot but generate greater mutual affection. Dare we hope for greater levels of love then? We can. We should. Not naively this time, but based on a new reality, the future that BRICS holds for all of us.  

That the forces of the West now operating in unison to destroy the effect of the BRICS nations, to weaken them and stop them rising, must be defeated, is obvious. Anyone who sees the reality of our common situation must surely hope so. The alternative vision, of a prison planet where the western warders suppress any and all resistance is just too awful to contemplate.