Few days after the G20 summit in Buenos Aires , a meeting of roughly 30 of the planet's strongest and richest leaders tried for two days to mellow down some of their huge differences and trade disagreements. Unfortunately no great results or successes were achieved, and the world is still as separated, divided and far from some needed peace and harmony...
Confronting the challenges of the modern world in its entirety, has to go through a liberal way and liberal thinking, contrary to what we are witnessing nowadays in many if not all spots of the world. As a wave of conservative and racist populism is rapidly spreading, only equal to 20th century fascism, whereby both systems, past and present, constitute a clear threat to world stability and endangered future. By encouraging nostalgic fantasies of a gone-by past that is embellished purposely, it ignites nationalist separatism, and is against any real international cooperation and integration, which are vital for humanity's survival on planet earth. Populism is deliberately creating a kind of panic, leading to political and social paralysis .
Economic inequality, social insecurity and human suffering, could only be addressed properly and efficiently, only after a period of adoption of those problems by liberalism and liberal philosophies and liberal political strategies and ideas. Reenacting economic, social, political and cultural means, and reaching a general world-wide consensus and acceptance of these accepted universal norms. Thus ensuring a proper blue-print for humanity and its future existence .
For thousands of years, humanity as a whole, lived and faced continually major existential destructive problems, namely brutal wars, hegemony, famine, spread of deadly diseases. We all believe that all these catastrophic dangers in our day and age could be easily prevented, conquered and forgotten, on the contrary we can add to them a sense of social justice and a fair global wealth distribution.
Historically, humanity in general prayed for gods, prophets and saints, as well as to local tribal, religious or political leaders and kings for help. We now have the ability to succeed in preventing and eliminating these deadly challenges on our own, we don't need to pray to gods and their earthly representatives for help, we only have to be vigilant in choosing and stopping some of our existing crazy impostor leaders, hijacking humanity's well being and security, for their own personal ego and pretentious dreams.
There cannot be any strong-man ruler in the world who fails to see the pattern and opportunities, from Syria's leader, to Mr. Erdogan, Putin or the new European ultra right, or the Iranian and Saudi religious oligarchies, and of course our great friend Netanyahu applying the same Trump adage, of Israel comes first and only Israel's interests and imperialism count. All Middle-East, Europe, Africa and Latin America, as before them it was the entire South East Asia, are looking for more solid friendships and partnerships, and better support from America and the Western world, from Mr. Trump and other world leaders, but alas nothing serious was achieved in Buenos Aires, not even a common climate change strategy, only marginalities, and theatrical acts, and leaders dragging their people and countries to doomsday scenarios with them .
My many thanks to all .
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