The Curtains are Falling

Yet another dictator has fallen by the people he repressed. Is the world safer? Maybe, we don't know or we can't foresee the consequences of the turmoil. Will the relative stability of a dictatorship evolve toward a democratic stability or will the power vacuum threaten to engulf its people in a longer battle between themselves? Shrouded in mist is the future. The first country to shake of the chains of dictatorship in the North African region was Tunisia and its election time. They stand at a crossroad, and it doesn't seem that good when one of the alternatives is more censorship and a more religious government combined with that if the result doesn't go their way they will hit the streets again. It's not that much of a democratic vibe in these people. Doesn't help that people seems indifferent and would abstain from voting. What can we do if the people themselves don't care about their government or their human rights?

Even if I paint it in the bleakest colors, it's still a very vibrant situation all over the world. Dictatorships are falling by the hands of their people (with one instance of western help) and it could be a new dawn in front of us. Of course this echoes back from the fall of the iron curtain and communism. If I had been interested in politics and world news from an early age my first memories would probably been of the fall of the Soviet Union (the fall of the Berlin Wall I was definitely to young to remember). More interesting events I do actually remember and followed more intensely was the fall of Afghanistan and Iraq and now North Africa. At the same time I've been around to witness the genocide's in Rwanda and the Yugoslavian wars and the after tremors in the above countries. At the same time we see how the western worlds themselves stand on the brink of collapse due to economical failure and even corruption. Are we seeing a steel bath to cleanse the air and bring forward a reigniting of the western hegemony? It's a bit of a stretch since all of the western powerhouses are crumbling at their very foundations. The US economy is at a stand still and the same is for the political leadership who is to weak to bring them out of it. The EU don't have the strong leadership they need either to unify and lead them toward the same goals, they are all to differentiated and when the economical resources they possess are being poured over almost failed states and farming subsidies instead of reforms toward a modern economy there is little hope. This leaves our asian friends in the pacific. Japan is a zombie economy that haven't released itself from the death grip in the 90's which leaves South Korea and Taiwan that are to small and forced to protect themselves from the threat of hostile neighbors. So there is no industrialized countries to go too. A new generation must step forward. South America (I know it's not a country, but there would be to many to name), India and China are the only ones that seems to have a decent position to restart the wheels. Or we could start World War III, war seems to be a good way to build industries on and this time we don't take loans over the roof when it's over.