{"id":130617,"date":"2019-04-02T18:51:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T17:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=130617"},"modified":"2019-11-19T10:39:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T10:39:23","slug":"meanwhile-around-the-world-an-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/04\/meanwhile-around-the-world-an-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, Around the World: An Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alf\u00e0s del Pi: “The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plains<\/em>.” (Pygmalion).\u00a0 And in mountainous Southeast Spain; “unspanish activity” with no McCarthy.\u00a0 Fortunately: the air is fresh, drinkable; and the clouds promise more.<\/p>\n

There are millions of such places of local beauty in the world. But we tend to focus on the more global and often less beautiful; right now there seem to be four of them.\u00a0 US<\/em> with a UK appendix make Anglo-America; EU<\/em> in the process of that appendix Brexiting or not; SCO<\/em>–Russia-China-India-some Islam; and all of Islam<\/em> (1.650 million).<\/p>\n

Is a four-power world stable, or will it tend to bipolarize?\u00a0 Probably, and in that case, who will line up with whom?<\/p>\n

Anglo-America with EU–the world Northwest–and SCO with Islam. Almost all of the latter were recent colonies of the former; the Northwest now facing the South, the East, and the Southeast with Japan-China.<\/p>\n

The world center moves from Northwest to Southeast<\/em>. Geopolitical, historical drama unfolding every day, every hour.\u00a0 Much denialism is needed not to see it, but US has an abundance of that commodity.<\/p>\n

And thus it is that a candidate for the US presidency from the Democratic Party, Sandar, known for voting against military budgets, seems to have fallen in love with offensive fighter-bomber F35 and cannot have enough of that costly commodity.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Accommodating to Pentagon and Wall Street at the same time, like competitor Hillary and incumbent Trump have done.\u00a0 Does not speak well for renewal of the US.<\/p>\n

What kind of world map does this drama offer, using the compass?<\/p>\n

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  1. A Judeo-Christian Catholic-Protestant White Northwest “first” world.<\/li>\n
  2. A Judeo-Christian Orthodox White Northeast Russia “second world”.<\/li>\n
  3. A multi-religious Red-Back-Brown Southwest “third world”.<\/li>\n
  4. A Daoist-Buddhist Yellow Southeast China-Japan “fourth world”.<\/li>\n
  5. And in the middle of all four is Islam, with Islamic unity and the multicolored diversity of the four worlds a “fifth world”.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Five processes in this drama have been emphasized from 1970:<\/p>\n

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    1. US much down, relatively speaking.<\/li>\n
    2. North-West down, relatively speaking.<\/li>\n
    3. States yielding to regionalism above and localism below: most states being too small given present means of transportation-communication; and regions and the world being too big for human togetherness.<\/li>\n
    4. South-East up, relatively speaking.<\/li>\n
    5. China much up, relatively speaking.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Europe is now in a Second Discovery Period, discovering China.<\/p>\n

      A different world, also in terms of race and class.<\/p>\n

      RACE by color<\/em>, highly visible:\u00a0 White\u00a0 Brown\u00a0 Yellow\u00a0 Black\u00a0 Red.<\/p>\n

      White was in charge, seconded by Brown (India) and Yellow (China); all three seeing themselves above Red (“Indians”) and Blacks (“Negroes”). We are now moving toward Yellow in charge seconded by White and Brown.\u00a0 White racism against all may now yield to Yellow racism against all. But White no longer in charge may lead in declaring race irrelevant.<\/p>\n

      CLASS by power<\/em>: Clergy Aristocrats Merchants Workers Others Nature.<\/p>\n

      (Indo-European origin:\u00a0 Brahmin\u00a0 Kshatriya\u00a0 Vaishiya\u00a0 Sudra\u00a0 Pariah).<\/p>\n

      Cultural-Military-Economic power competing\/cooperating for dominance; using values-force-goods\/services for power over the others.<\/p>\n

      Workers-Others–Women, Young–use their majority for democratic power.<\/p>\n

      Autocracies by a No. 1, oligarchies by elites, democracies by people,\u00a0\u00a0 are all vulnerable to demoralization by corruption and lack of faith:<\/p>\n