Not a very attractive picture, is it? But protests and pogroms happening in the world are just symptoms. The economy skewed in favour of the "golden billion" is crumbling before our eyes. The ideology imposed on the world has not only reached a dead end but it is leading humanity to the abyss.
Any common sense idea can be brought to the point of absurdity, like suggesting that chess is racist because the player who plays with white pieces always makes the first move. This summer, an Australian ABC Local Radio tried to promote this idea. It may seem so absurd that one couldn’t help but laugh. But such approach does not work if we consider other similar postulates put forward by the ideologists of the "golden billion". They continue to impose their beliefs on the world, thereby obscuring genuine issues and values.
By the way, older generation of the former Soviet Union’s residents know well this approach. The more decrepit socialism and its permanent leaders became, the louder the propaganda developed, more and more at odds with reality each day. TV and radio reported about milk yields and harvests, but shops greeted citizens with deposits of hardly edible canned food. The posters called for equality and democracy, but everyone knew very well about special distributors and privileges.
The leaders of the "golden billion" did not draw any conclusions from the mistakes of the USSR party leaders. They also tried to arrange an eternal velvet season for themselves and their loved ones, hiding behind the right words and good ideas, but in the end, they destroyed both their country and the allied states.
But this catastrophe would seem like a small incident in the event of an uncontrolled collapse of the countries of the "golden billion". Historians know the term the ‘Bronze Age collapse’. It refers to transition from the Bronze Age to Iron Age, when, for not very clear reasons, entire civilizations just disappeared in the Middle East and the Mediterranean. They existed for a thousand years, had a developed economy and writing. We may say that they lived in an eternal velvet season, without overwork and almost without knowing sorrows. But not a trace of them remained except for archaeological artefacts.
I would very much like to hope that it would not come to this (although everything is possible with nuclear weapons). But the countries of the “golden billion” have clearly outlived their velvet season. Ahead is chilly autumn and cold winter. And there will be more than enough adversity and troubles for everyone.
But is it fair that everyone will have to pay for the prolonged velvet season of the “golden billion”? I am sure that if politicians and leaders of states knew how to think and calculate their actions at least a few moves ahead, we would not find ourselves in such a situation.
Now we have only two options: either to leave everything as it is and hope that new Dark Age will not come, or to unite and work out new rules of life on this planet. Life without nuclear weapons (and ideally without other powerful weapons of mass destruction). Life without imposing ideals and rules of the game on neighbours. Recognizing the most important right - the right to life for every person, every living being and our entire planet and acting in accordance with this right.
Only then will the velvet season come once a year and although not for long time but to everyone.
