The world in constant flux

The last couple of years have seen the course of a great many changes to the established world order, threats from economic downturns, at worst a recurrence of the market crash of 2008/2009, the election of leaders that are seemingly out of touch with the electorate that voted for them to make a difference, the rise of nationalism in places where traditionally, for the past 50 or so years, democracy and an outward look towards internationalism and globalisation have been the dominant views, and more uncertainty about what the future might look like and what it may hold.

But why have things changed so drastically over the last few years, why have so much uncertainty crept into our thoughts and fears that we are starting to become numb to what is happening around us and taking a more inward approach to close ourselves off from what the world is coming to.

Perhaps it is a portrait where we have been feeding all our insecurities, uncertainties, actions and fears into in order to keep the veneer of normality and that it has festered for so long that it was bound to burst open and reveal to us exactly what we have been trying to ignore all these years after the last World War, where we and the international community have tried to set up a system with checks and balances to not let the events and circumstances that led to the outbreak of both World Wars, occur again, but in setting up these systems we inadvertently set up a system that will eventually lead to exclusion, arrogance, alienation, wars and suffering and an eventual descend back into anarchy and revolution that seem to crop up in so many places around the world. 

Has the system let us down? Is the time ripe for a change to the system for a more inclusive, embracing system of diversity and differing views? 

Like Dante, do we descend into Hell to face our worst fears, conquering them and through redemption finally be lead to a more peacful world where nature and people are respected, treated equally and fair or do we walk the dystopian path to repeat the past over and over until we finally learn from our errors to bring us back to growth, if we ever do. Like Hegel said from what experience and history have taught us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history nor acted on principles deduced from it.