Twenty years ago, a "Desert Storm" presaged the ultimate American ascendancy in the world. Right now, another "Desert Storm" is raging throughout the Arab world's societies, and it seems to be clearly pointing to the downfall of that American world order and its underpinnings. That is good too, for what did this order bring humanity, but untold greed, corruption and chaos? Twenty years ago, mankind was regaled with the glorious tidings of the birth of a new world, a Garden of Eden where "freedom and free enterprise" would rule the roost - after the fall of the drab and dreary monolith of the "Evil Empire"of Soviet Communism, that threatened the future of mankind with the worst form of slavery....and nuclear holocaust.....perhaps, but two decades later, we now really know the true identity of the actual evil empire straddling the globe a bit too well, only.....and where have we got to? Yes, "freedom" does rule the world, but in the "free-for-all" sense, it is evident.......
True, we did get the internet during this period - that is enabling me to share this - as well as being blessed with innumerable other technologies..........but we also got a generation of loutish youth, who write in the moronic SMS texting style. And we got another anomaly, a new type of terror - Islamic "stateless" terror, with a mentality from the age of the camel, but proficient in the use of nothing but the latest technology and gizmos. Returning to the internet, we now also have a profusion of those unfit people to whom it has given a voice, but who would be better off not having one. It has only increased the clamour, not the quality of the content. The same can be said about the glut of information deluging our overworked and buzzing brains on the internet and on cable TV channels. Old social order has been destroyed, yet nothing new has replaced it. Poor societies are still floundering in the ashes of their past. Manners and form have been decimated and replaced by cynicism and a devil-may-care informality prevails, hanging like a pall over everything. It is truly a dark age.
Like America that typifies it, this is an age of extremes too. This era could have been the gateway to an unprecedented new global human utopia, had America behaved properly, maturely and benevolently. There was a lot of anticipation way back in 1991. But I suppose, we expected too much........
But such outcomes can not be expected of a society that is based on the shopkeeper ethic - a linear process of increasing material output and consumption. Since the rise of the USA to absolute world dominion, we have seen nothing but a runaway spiral of increasing corruption - particularly in countries like Pakistan, not to talk of the world over. Over the past two decades, corruption has become a way of life in Pakistan - proliferating and "blooming" as never before. The cultures and societies of races like the Pashtuns - which already have criminality and lawlessness latent in their character - have also reached "full flower" in this period, having taken advantage as never before of the indiscriminate and irresponsible empowerment American Globalism and its disorderly practices have afforded them. If America were really the benevolent guardian of the world and civilisation as it poses to be, one of its first responsibilities would be to deal in an effective and efficient manner of whatever is required, regarding the kind of threat posed to international stability and wellbeing by the likes of delinquent and dysfunctional vermin like the Pashtuns......
So where will this disastrous tempo lead to? Surely, it can not last forever. And how near are we to the overall crash?......The more such vast power is abused and misused, the greater the damage incurred and the more horrendous the consequences for all involved. It seems that America wants to arrogate global leadership and control without the moral responsibility that goes with it; and that it might profit from deliberately inspired disorder in some cases....both are criminal suppositions, entailing the heaviest of consequences.
I believe that the end of this system is nigh, and that will be the most horrifyingly spectacular of all. It is too late to talk about amends now; this is the time of the onset of consequences...............
