Home Grown and Imperial Dramas
The closing year of the old millennium in America ended with an illuminating political, military and media circus in Florida. One that exposed American doubts about the political system it proselytizes to the world and the American family. A presidential “electoral joke” -- and the Elian Gonzalez family reunion. The new millennium then witnessed, for the first time in history, a change in the party controlling the U.S. Senate without an election. That, along with the change of the New York skyline after the Twin Towers imploded, forever changed a people’s misperception of themselves. Fear and the quest for knowledge and understanding became very personal.
Americans conveniently overlook the facts that America’s “Twin Towers”, its “secure free democratic model” and “transparent corporate governance” have become global jokes. America is the world’s largest arms dealer, has the largest nuclear arsenal and is home to the largest corporate frauds and bankruptcies. The U.S. threatens the security of anyone who is a threat to its corporate or geopolitical agenda. Yet America always gets a favourable deal from the United Nations, even when it is delinquent for several years in paying its dues. It is crowned the world’s sole superpower and has all the makings of becoming the global bully of the 21st century. Some would say it already has. The successor to England and Spain, America imposes its will on the United Nations and other international organizations such as NATO, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization. They then pass it on to taxpayers and to Asia like shopkeepers passing a price increase on to the consumer.
America’s evolving New World Order is dominated by tense dysfunctional communities that share two sharply defined conditions:
-Expensive political, corporate and religious hypocrisy and
-Social and economic models that are being warped in a vain attempt to emulate the glorified ideal of the “American model” with its crony capitalists sitting becalmed in an intellectual Dead Sea surrounded by Reaganesque lifeguards.
Americans conveniently overlook the facts that America’s “Twin Towers”, its “secure free democratic model” and “transparent corporate governance” have become global jokes. America is the world’s largest arms dealer, has the largest nuclear arsenal and is home to the largest corporate frauds and bankruptcies. The U.S. threatens the security of anyone who is a threat to its corporate or geopolitical agenda. Yet America always gets a favourable deal from the United Nations, even when it is delinquent for several years in paying its dues. It is crowned the world’s sole superpower and has all the makings of becoming the global bully of the 21st century. Some would say it already has. The successor to England and Spain, America imposes its will on the United Nations and other international organizations such as NATO, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization. They then pass it on to taxpayers and to Asia like shopkeepers passing a price increase on to the consumer.
America’s evolving New World Order is dominated by tense dysfunctional communities that share two sharply defined conditions:
-Expensive political, corporate and religious hypocrisy and
-Social and economic models that are being warped in a vain attempt to emulate the glorified ideal of the “American model” with its crony capitalists sitting becalmed in an intellectual Dead Sea surrounded by Reaganesque lifeguards.
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