Ramblings of a Mad Man

2008: Global economic meltdown occurs in spite of the best interests of the intellectual global economists pushing their weight behind globalization and the buzzwords since the 90s and earlier. And, capitalism creating a global political and financial elite class that only wedged the wealth gap further. It's not surprising then that strong man leaders in the East choose to project themselves as journeymen who traversed their way to the top from humble beginnings. Everyone loves a rags-to-riches story anyways. Populism, strong man politics, anti-intellectualism, and identity politics has to emerge from some place and they probably did in 2008. And then there are the strong men in the west who promise the safeguarding of neo-colonist interests of their homeland, while the strong men in the east proclaim a soft rejection of globalization and promise a push back against western interests in the name of evangelizing indigenous soft power in its various forms. Both; bei

Dreams of wax, they burned so bright in the eyes of the progenitor... The paraffin knows not its true purpose until it is consumed by the flames of affirmation. Yet, he opens his eyes and soars through the skies, for he chooses to seek faith in the beauty of his moment. He sees what his father did not see; an earth that lay waste by cause of a lesser vision, firm in gravity. In that twinkle of a distant star, he witnessed the Pale Blue Dot... The Minotaur was Daedalus' demon... Icarus had his unseen... - Icarus Re-imagined (C) Been a while since I wrote something...with a very visible nod to Sagan...:) :