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THE END OF GLOBALISATION
There seemed to be an inevitability in the talk of globalisation and the ‘end of history’ which ushered in the twenty first century. This emanated from the post World War 2 era of New Deals and free trade, and of a dollar hegemony supposedly built on a dichotomy of liberalism and democracy. There was a broad consensus amongst academics and liberals, combined with a myopic belief in the progressive benefits of technology, that a brave new world consensus was forming and that war and discontent was ebbing away like the tide from an old broken Empire.
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK: REFLECTIONS ON CHINESE ‘TIANXIA’
The normal polemic against the so called ‘civilisational states’ such as China, for example, is that they can be pigeon holed merely as ‘authoritarian’, that they are, in fact, aberrations on the road to the full model of ‘liberal democracy’. It is their inherent ‘backwardness’, inability to reform, not quite ‘all in’ on the merits of liberal democracy, that keeps them locked up in Plato’s cave.
Only a God Can Save Us
The modern occidental world, roughly from the Renaissance onwards, sprang from a secularization of culture and its culmination is the main reason for the polarization of the contemporary world. The modern phase of culture has seen an antinomy of opposite values squeezed together, like a nuclear fission, a building of energy and dissonance and spewing out its contents in the twentieth and twenty first centuries.