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.
Barry McGuire: Eve of Destruction (July 1965).
Does it have to be this way? Is it inevitable that each decade brings more war, more disillusionment and less hope?
On this, the second day of the 16th BRICS summit in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia we can see that hope for a better world does exist. Stability, tolerance, cooperation, dialogue and the search for a route to a civilization we can be proud of are ongoing within the ever-expanding BRICS group. On this second day of the summit its members are seeking that way forward to the better future we all deserve and must find for the sake of all who come after us.
The more things change the more they remain the same they say. In the Sixties we refused to believe that fundamental change was impossible. Subsequent events proved us wrong at that time. Our naive belief in love and peace didn’t last. 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 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 judgment passed upon every aspect of our lives. We are constantly observed, targeted and sold things based upon those observations, castigated for some of them, punished for others and rewarded for those western states deem good. The vast systems holding ‘big data’ about us can be analyzed to provide every possible detail of our lives, using and abusing the data at will. Big Brother is arriving soon… and is determined that we do as he says.
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 surveillance 24/7 and demands you conform to its needs. Resistance against this dystopian nightmare began around two decades ago due to the determination of Russian president Vladimir Putin. In the wake of 9/11 and the western demand that all nations must be subservient to it he said no. Not with Russia anyway. He made it clear that Russia will remain an independent, sovereign nation determining its own future path, and will not act as a slave nation manipulated by any single nation or group of nations.
Slowly but surely since the words of Vladimir Putin spoken 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, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iran. Others too seek to become members of the BRICS alliance. All 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 over thirty, approaching forty. Nations ready, willing and enthusiastic in presenting another way forward rather than continued western domination and endless wars.
In recent times Saudi Arabia has stated that the deal it made with the USA fifty years ago to only use the dollar to trade in has expired and will not be renewed. The grip on world trade by the West using the petrodollar has been removed. Now dedollarization 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 Sixties. Russia, China and the others are seeking the stability and peace that benefits trade, greater understanding and most important of all, mutual cooperation. Cultural exchange in an atmosphere of trust where nations hold peaceful coexistence at a premium cannot but generate greater mutual understanding.
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. A better world MUST be possible, this world of war as set in place by the western powers cannot be our legacy passed on to the children of the future. There has to be a better way.
That better way is through the building of a stable world where peace can thrive. That world has now become possible through BRICS. The possibility now exists where we can bring about a new dawn of civilization on our planet where we will no longer stand here helplessly on the eve of destruction. A better world is possible. The BRICS group can and will bring it into being.
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