Geopolitics of Present Day may not be easily definable in one size fit all terminologies.

 

Geopolitics of Present Day may not be easily definable in one size fit all terminologies.

Politics of present day, more so, geopolitics, like every domain the human history, has acquired  various new aspects , dimensions and is subjected to multiple dynamics.

However, it has also retained certain fundamentals as part of its inevitable attribute, which are often confined to vote bank politics involving local/regional issues.

In way that is why we may say that  politics, especially electoral politics, and political outfits,  are social coelacanths ( living fossils that have stayed much the same while everything around has changed).

But at the same time trying to oversimplify or to over generalize and to ascribe a few conspiracy theories will make us not to take note of several factors which are uniquely regional, and context specific issue based.

Whatever be the ‘methods and terminologies’ [terminological terrorism is the first step-telesis of terminology is a subject that has been neglected consciously by linguistics psychology. Coining a terminology is to wind the coils of frame of references to perceive the world in a specific wired way-often in ideological binaries or dichotomies] that the West tries to use to homogenize [which incidentally is the curse of the Western conceptual approach which is against nature, and which has been responsible for setting an agenda of negative mindset which eventually has led to various human generated destructive actions].

 

This homogenization has led to hegemonize and command easily. If you want to list, all that we need to do is just to run through history, even the history that they themselves cannot deny.

A short list may run like this:- This globalization mania is the product of that incurable sick obsession of the western psyche, namely, homogenization.

If we glimpse through the annals of history, we can observe this and the several ways in which this has been carried out, by indoctrination, by force, by cultural invasions, by wars etc. Throughout history it has failed miserably.

Be it the Roman Empire’s greed to spread its tentacles , be it the attempt to homogenize religion which failed with Spanish Inquisition, be it Nazism or Colonialism, all have failed.

Once these attempts at homogenizing cultures, beliefs, political ideologies have failed, now, the West is trying it in Trade and Economy.

As before, it is bound to fail. But what we must learn from history and guard ourselves against is the heavy price that humanity may have to pay for facing and overcoming these attempts emanating from a few individuals charged with fanatical obsession in terms of religious wars, Nazism, Colonialism etc with all their destructive manifestations.

The impact of the previous obsession was restricted to specific geographical area as they collapsed before they could successfully spread everywhere. But the manifestations of the present obsession, read Globalization of trade and economy affects the lives of everyone on the globe, either directly or otherwise, and can cause irreparable trade imbalances, some environmental damage etc which can even render life miserable for future generations.

 

The world with all its species were and are always interconnected, interrelated and interdependent and that is the inevitable law of nature. It did not start when these terminologies were popped up.

We are in a more or excessively connected world, and it is a real global village [ why not call it as global metro or global heaven or global city or global town- because it has to appeal to the most gullible human beings who choose to live in villages, work their ass out and gawk at every new technology as if it has descended from some heaven – as portrayed in the movie ‘Gods Must be Crazy’.

Being a global village if one is lucky, may enjoy the sojourn of bucolic beauty or encounter rustic behaviour. 

 

We cannot afford to be xenophobic or nurture any racial or regional bias. 

 

We need to ensure that well entrenched or propped up pride of nationalism lives comfortably with inclusive and inevitable internationalism as a cooperative team.

 

Any mass frenzied anti ​-​West​ attitude will be an empty and impractical neo​-​snobbishness. Similarly, the trite portrayal of the Orient as delayed civilizational world will be kicked out with all the choicest abuses that such portrayal deserves with all authentic evidence. 

 

All or at least most of the natural laws and  universally useful and accessible benefits of scientific and technological utilities to humanity as well as natural calamities transcend all barriers to influence and to impact humanity equally.

 

Whether they are the thousands of scientific discoveries, inventions, technological tools, rational and humanitarian conduct all of them have managed to dominate despite the nudges of religious, regional and all other limiting perspectives.

 

This long preamble is necessary, as in the plays of George Bernard Shaw to set the context and tone.

Now, coming to present day geopolitics, it defies all sorts of or at least many predictable scheming, probable strategies, perceived conspiracy theories or  even populist propaganda as there are counter versions too every hyped publicity like phobia generation [ like global warming], victimhood peddling [as minority rights, racial discrimination etc].

Though obviously the ‘deep state players’, ‘mega financial institutions and many other tacit coalitions engaged to exploit the natural resources and enhance their respective control mechanisms are at play, they are not ‘the whole of geopolitics’.

Had it been some conceivable whole, then it would be easier to initiate and to instigate trouble as well as to advocate remedial measures.

Anarchies  and outrages have penetrated, into more domains, aided by, easily accessible multitude of advanced technologies than before.

So, geopolitics, too is not immune to these trends. Of course, there can be no denying of the role of  ‘The deep state’ and big financial institutions.

In short, I have tried, a few years back the overall picture of the present-day politics and geopolitics through these slides and I have also written at length about “The Deep State” which national leaders can ill afford to ignore.

Is it possible to de-clutter the unending debates on certain issues? Or is it possible to oversimplify certain things in ‘Black and White’?

 

Getting into the kerfuffle of the much mussed up subject of most of the happenings in political and economic fronts especially in present scenario would be risking reputations and exposing lack of lucid understanding.

 

It is dangerous to oversimplify something referred to by a single word or term for convenience of easy recognition. In reality , it may involve multiple factors of various hues and colours- clear, vague, intentionally masked etc-all very clumsily and inextricably interwoven and messily struck together.

 

Some of the things are not even distinctly visible threads for us to decipher the knotty spots, rather it is having no slubs and a clueless clew of knotted messy lump of  multi-coloured threads [நூல் கண்டு சிடுக்கு] soaked in thick mud of politicization further rendered fuzzy by the muddy waters of media interpretations.

 

What is predominantly being done is reacting to reactions and presumed repercussions.

 

While some may try,  sincerely, to decipher the long-term implications and impacts of certain happenings [I do not know whether we can even qualify them as economic, financial, or political]. Only , the mercy of evolutionary inevitabilities, over a time may unfold and make us see what have been  hampered, hidden or helped among the multitude of possibilities- humanity is , in a way, back to square one, resigned and perhaps, humbled to accept fatalistic results, despite all its much hyped claims of and attempts to effect the changes it wants and the way in which it wanted to have them.