When east meets west…

Both sides are out of their league, or experience level. Expecting humans to think like “our own experience level” is all so human. Yet there is really nothing new under the sun, except the people do change, and history seems to recycle. For those who like history as a “hobby”, isn’t it amazing to read and find out that much of what is important “now” was just as important “then”. And “then” can be way back to the roman ages, or be more current like the recent world events.

Today’s soothsayers and pundits that we read are mostly western educated and experienced. That says it all. While we had a western dark ages, much of the rest of the world was flourishing, so there is much in our western education and experience that may be missing from the bigger picture of humanity. In turn, we westerners seem to have been dominant in the world for the last few centuries, but will it continue? Now we even have a minority of eastern educated humans using propaganda techniques, called madrashahs, to perpetuate a 7th century ideal of humanity.

The various ideas are different, to be kind. But the question should be less than one of dominance, than what is best for humanity? Again, there is nothing new under the sun, only the people. And only the people will decide, mostly with their feet and their pocket books, and love of their families. And there is much to suggest the ideas of east vs. west are already being superceded by old world vs. new world ideas. If this reality idea ever takes as what is really happening, then this is a new “under the sun” idea.

The practicality of this esoteric academic type argument is appropriate to we in the USA. Let us vote for those that promote our USA national interests, and expect the old world and the rest of the new world to follow. Never, ever, ever, let us get dragged down by the past. While most USA types are mostly too busy to worry about our old world, there is still a distant connection. And while the American pin striped pants types who do foreign policy may tend to be old world oriented, most of USA people still live here in the new world. And they still have to get up, maybe fight with their spouse, go to work, raise their pain-in-the-tail kids, do home repairs, listen to their parents and in-laws, fight city hall and the school boards, do charity work, and even support by word and family, foreign military affairs. And all this after getting up at 0430 to go to a church workout with one’s sister, and don’t forget balancing the family budget.

Even the arguments of benefits vs. basic government expectations are now in play in the new world. While none of these quandaries are “new under the sun”, the privilege to discuss so and vote for change is “new under the sun”. Pour it on, new world USA America! Whatever this means? While the financial picture is pretty ugly, the opportunity to vote even during possible hard times is still new world, and it is seemingly “new under the sun”, and it is still our USA and our new world. One might also note or imagine none of this is subject to professional media managers ideas of what to think. We are smarter than them as to our future.