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THE WORLD WE LIVE IN

By Naheed Kamal
THE demise of the initials USSR makes one Beatles tunc archaic. Now that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic has cased to be a union as such after 70 odd long years many popularly used phrases such as the "Iron Curtain" (coined by Winston Churchill himself) and the "Cold War" are also redundant. John Le — Carre's much read spy thrillers too are redundant; and who wants to be a "Red if the mighty CPSU has fallen. It is not only that a political Ideology has failed but the very ideas, thoughts, and culture which evolved due to it have become part of history already. Politics is often like religion and those who believe in It, do so with a religious fervour. Humans are a fickle race. They skip from one idea to another and are never fully satisfied with any of them. It is accepted as mere human nature to be dissatisfied and the concept of "Revolution" is one which gives rise lo many happy thoughts.
Since lhe dawn of time man has been revolting agumnl one another. More than two hundred years ago the French rose against the Absolute Monarch, Louis XVI and the face of Europe was altered in lhe course of the French Revolution of 1789. The First Republic was, formed and lasted only until Napoleon formed the very first "Empire" in France and Monarchy was once again established in France but ended in 1848 when the Second Republic was formed, which became the "Second Empire" under Napoleon III (Napoleon II died without ever ascending the French throne). The Third Republic lusted till the occupation of France in 1940. then came the Fourth Republic and then the Fifth Republic ....
This Is proof of man's fickle character and what's more the French are an extremely volatile race and in 1848 they staged "the revolution to end all revolutions." This was of course nol applicable to the Russians, Chinese, Koreans, ad infinitum. War Is thus another aspect of human nature. In the history of mankind, for every year of peace. there have been foiV hundred of war. It is the idea that "do unto others before they do unto you", this acute fear of losing that drive*
us to war. The last two centuries have given us socialism "liberty, equality, and fraternity". the free state, and Universal suffrage, also Women's lib, communism, the demise of the British Empire, the United States of America, Bangladesh, Marilyn Monroe, Cuba, Queen Elizabeth, Lady Di, and so much more to celebrate of mourn but it has also given us two World Wars, the Iran-Iraq war, the Irish conflict, the Golden Temple massacre, catastrophic civil wars, etc... I could continue for ever. There Is always an uneasy sense of peace in our world. It used lo be that the fear of what the aggressive Prussians might do lo Europe kept the other
European nations on their toes. Of course the Prussians feared an uncalled for attack by one of his neighbours and so Inevitably some-one had to make the first move and ft was
always the Germans who become restless and so the scapegoats. The Asians were not with-out their mishaps.
One after the other the colonics began to rise up in arms demanding freedom.
Freedom they got and to this day freedom they still seek. The end of the War to end all wars gave birth to Hitler and another war and this time ft was a definite World War;
nearly every free (and occupied nation), with the exception of the neutral Swiss, was Involved in some way or other.
The war only ended when the Americans (with the help of German scientists) spill lhe atom and blasted two entire cities and their occupants off the face of this by now not so Green Earth. The Japanese accepted defeat and the world was at peace; well, not exactly.
With the end of the "Hot war" began the "Cold war' and thus ended the friendship between the Soviets and the Americans.
The communists had their part of the world and the Americans had theirs. In typical fashion they argued and fought until they could argue and fight no more. The end of this phase of our history came with the Eastern Block rising up to demand freedom. Thus began the same cycle of one revolution after another until nothing remained of the tyrannical rule of hard-line leftists, communism and the ideas which was bom of the infamous concept.
History, it is said, repeals Itself in some vague manner. If the situation as we see it In the world Is something to go by then we can be assured of more chaos yet to come. But. there is always a "but" which allows us an alternate to every thing and it is upto "US" ... this generation to see lo it that we do not end up fighting an endless war. In the words of Dylan Thomas,
Do not go gentle into that good night
Rage, rage, against the dying of the light.
11 is after all our only home and if we do not work to save then how can we free ourselves truly and wholly from the abnormal fear that eats us all. and is the reason why we end up fighting senseless wars like we did in Kuwait. Afghanistan, and now tn Sri Ixinka. We can put an end to all the unnecessary blood-baths, we just have to remember :
The lives of great men remind us
That we must make our Ilves sublime
Yuu departing leave behind Footprints on the sands of time.