The magician's apprentice
"Dividing lines are all around us, even when we prefer not to see them. The reality of the United Nations contradicts its name, the politicisation of migrants and refugees erects divisions in the mind just as it does in physical terms, and the rising disparity between the rich and the poor (both at individual and national level) draws a clear black mark across the oft-made assertion that ‘we are all in this together’. But nowhere are these dividing lines better seen, or more import, than in the rising tide between the two great polarities of the world. ‘East vs West’ is perhaps an oversimplification these days. What might be more appropriate, would be the ‘old guard’ versus the ‘new developers’, a division that is far more nuanced than any seen before, far more dangerous – and potentially, far more irreversible..."
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A great article KCS. An interesting perspective on the meaning of a 'New World Order'