Posted on 07/13/2021 3:13:24 PM PDT by mr.olwol
I think what’s happening in Cuba, right before our very eyes, is the latest in the continuous crack-up of the old Cold War political order and the rising up of a new one. A worldwide political order that’s re-defining politics and nationhood for the foreseeable future. So let’s unpack that a bit.
Believe it or not, scholars have been predicting something like this for decades, particularly after the Soviet Union fell on Christmas Day, 1991. Now, if you remember, there were a number of scholars who believed that with the fall of the Soviet Union, we had reached an era that Francis Fukuyama called “The End of History.” And what he meant by that was that for centuries, the world was looking for the single best political and economic system available. Now, we tried all these different options, but now, with the death of the Soviet Union, the world had finally arrived at a consensus, and that consensus was that Western liberal globalism was the single best political system imaginable, and was thus the standard-bearer for a truly worldwide modern society.
But right around the same time there were a number of other scholars such as Sam Huntington of Harvard, who were highly skeptical of such a bold pronouncement. Huntington believed that what happened with the breakup of the Soviet Union, and then the violent balkanization of Yugoslavia that followed—he believed that that was what was going to happen to the entire Western liberal globalist order. In other words, the breakup of the Soviet Union was indicative of a much lager crack-up, and that’s the entire world political order that was built over the last century on the decaying foundations of Modernity.
Now, what the scholars like Sam Huntington recognized was two things. One, that the Western liberal globalist order was built on the philosophical foundation of modernity. And two, those philosophical foundations have collapsed in the hearts and minds of the vast majority of western populations. Now, you may recall from a history class back in your day, that modernity or modernism was founded in what was called the Enlightenment or the so-called Scientific Revolution, right? So this is the eighteenth century; Europeans believed that science and scientific rationalism was the one true way for understanding the world for all peoples, times, and places. So scientific rationalism was viewed as the one-size-fits-all way of knowing the world for everyone.
If you disagreed with that vision, if you believed that your superstitions, particularly your religious superstitions, were more important than scientific rationality, then you were by definition a savage, right? You’re primitive. You’re still living in the dark ages. You, my friend, are a Neanderthal.
And so, modernity gave birth to the three major political, economic, and cultural systems that dominated the twentieth century. Modernity gave us liberalism, it gave us communism, and it gave us fascism. Liberal democracy was touted as the one-size-fits-all political system, communism was touted as the one-size-fits-all economic system, right? And fascism was touted as the one-size-fits-all cultural and bio-ethnos system. Now of course, World War II took care of fascism, so the ensuing years became a stand-off between the other two modernist systems. And with the fall of the Soviet Union on Christmas Day 1991, ideologically Francis Fukuyama told us that we had reached “The End of History.” That liberal globalism won the battle of modern ideology. Easy-peasy, right? There were three major modernist alternatives, and liberal globalism won the day.
The problem with this “End of History” notion is that it failed to realize that it wasn’t so much communism had died with the fall of the Soviet Union, but rather the real victim was modernity itself. You see, the problem we’re facing today, in the twenty-first century, is that no one truly believes that scientific rationalism is the one true way of understanding reality anymore.
Populations are now what we call postmodern. They’re no longer modern in the strict philosophical sense; it was the scholar François Leyotard who recognized (by the late seventies!) that western populations had largely abandoned the modern myth, that modernists’ enthronement of scientific rationalism was the one-size-fits-all way of knowing the world. And this abandonment has only increased over the last decade.
And so what are we seeing in Cuba? Well, it’s the same thing we’ve been seeing with Brexit; it’s the same thing we’re seeing with the rise of Trump; it’s the same thing we’re seeing in India and Brazil and Hungary and Poland and Russia and eastern Europe … more and more populations are rising up and they’re pushing back against modernist globalist political and economic systems that no longer make sense in a postmodern world. And in many respects what is happening in Cuba is as simple as that. It’s all part of a collapsing world order that no longer makes sense in the twenty-first century.
Now this is wonderful news for all of us who despise the Marxist ideologues that have taken over our permanent political class and the mainstream media and our woke corporate boardrooms. The uprising in Cuba is precisely what we’re going to see more and more against our woke political and media and corporate elite. The uprising in Cuba is unprecedented for sure, but it’s but the latest in a worldwide uprising that will indeed topple the world’s globalist elite once and for all.
The question is: they’ll be replaced with...what?
Solzhenitsyn predicted that Russia would abandon Communism, only for the West to embrace it.
Smarter socialists that will do it right this time! Because they are smarter...that’s why.
/sarcasm
Now if we could only run the American Marxists out of power, and keep them out.
We are in the Springtime of Soul Growth and souls are growing like crazy.
Just as a teenager develops the need to separate from their parents and go on their own, the soul seeks freedom. It reaches a point where it would sooner die than be shackled.
This is also going to unfold in China.
The weeds are observing this and are trying to create turmoil on earth that blocks the Light, and keeps trying to block Springtime.
It won’t work, except on those who embrace fear.
China gave Cuber the technology to completely shut down the Interwebs and Cuber is at this very moment completely cut off from the Interwebs.
When they come back online all the protesters will be dead.
It would be great if Cuba became free but the Communists will fight to hold on to power and perhaps the Democrats (long-time admirers of Fidel and Che) will throw them a lifeline if necessary. When the Soviet Union collapsed the US did not try to save it (even if George Bush discouraged the Ukrainians from wanting freedom in his “Chicken Kiev” speech). Obama’s visit to Cuba was the high point of his foreign policy—will he allow the Communists to be driven out of power?
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