I don’t know what’s coming, but it doesn’t feel good. It
always starts with a mad megalomaniac or two, and let’s face It, we have more
than enough of those around at the moment. Trump or Putin, Kim-Jong Un or Abu
Bakr al-Baghdadi, it makes no difference. Each believes that their way is right
and each will stop at nothing it seems to make their beliefs a reality.
In the event of global war where do we stand in all of this?
Will we be with America or
with Europe ? Make no mistake, Europe isn't the easily recognisable place it was fifty years ago and the world isn’t the relatively simple
place it was back when Kaiser Bill or Hitler decided that they deserved to have
everything. What if Trump were to become US president? If he does as he
promises then the world will be thrown into chaos. How will Putin react? Those
two are likely to go at it like a Frankie Goes to Hollywood
video or worse still form a terrible and deadly alliance for a while. How will
Hu Jintao react? And what about all the little guys when they are given their
head as the big guys are distracted away. Will Mamnoon Hussain decide it’s time
to settle an old score? Will Rajendra
Prasad decide to get in first? And what about Israel ,
those volatile and numerous African countries, Columbia and the rest? Will Argentina take their chance and invade the Falklands again? Will we go to war to keep them?
The world is like a playground. There are big kids and
little kids, strong kids and weak kids, nice kids and nasty kids, kids who want
to be friends with everybody and kids who want to be friends with nobody. There
are kids who want to play and kids who want to fight, there are kids who want
to stop other kids fighting and kids who want to watch other kids fight. There
are kids who want to give what they can and kids who want to grab what’s
available. There are kids that want to help and kids who want to harm. There
are all sorts of kids in the playground.
It looks like it could be playtime again, but in the playground there’s also usually a teacher to keep
order. Where’s ours?
Every time I hear our politicians braying during PMQs I think "The Politics of the Playground" so it's most definitely a widely-held belief... But it's not just in politics, it sneaks into all walks of life. Who we ultimately are seems to be defined by those awkward few years spent in the school yard. Some of us never grow up... Perhaps it's time the human race did...?
ReplyDeleteI agree Martin. I just find it hard to define grown up.I know that Trump isn't. i know he's as dangerous as a whole bunch of terrorist, but then populists always are.
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