The traditional aesthetics of left and right are lost in the unfolding confusion of the 21st century. Wall Street bankers, the most powerful entities on the London Stock Exchange, the Silicon Valley elites, speaking to us through CNN, Facebook, Twitter, and every high tech mechanism for molding opinion, are screaming “revolution!”
The Arab Spring seemed to be the opening explosion, and the fallout from that geopolitical disaster continues. Libya went from being the African country with the highest life expectancy and most prosperous economy to its present condition as a failed state, with refugees fleeing and terrorists setting up shop. Syria has faced over half a decade of civil war, as western-backed “revolutionaries” who beheaded children and bombed churches unleashed hellish conditions in the hopes of toppling a government led by Baathist Arab Socialists. Western media now cheers for mobs of enraged students and armed extremists who work to topple the governments of Nicaragua and Venezuela, decrying the popular, elected Bolivarian leaders as “dictators.”
Powerful voices from the western world are screaming almost in unison: “revolt!” But revolt against what? For what purpose? What is the goal of this highly romantic, but ideologically vague CNN-led revolution? No answer has been provided. It is as if the ghost of Leon Trotsky has shed his socialist aspirations, kept only his fixation on barricades and firing squads, and taken the helm of western geopolitics.
