Its been a while since I wrote anything but I think i finally now have something decent worth writing. I finished uni for the year about 2 months ago and have been emerging from a broke student hermit to a broke ass working girl who sells over priced cooking supplies to posh people who smell funny and Germans and Scottish people who have a fascination with mini spactulas...... I dont get it it's a pice wooden , silicon or plastic thing used for many purposes chiefly scraping food out of a sodding pot.
As a result of going from broke ass student stressed out and strung out on caffiene to broke ass working girl who remains unstressed and has gone back to a more normal caffinee consumption....... and slightly higher alcohol consumption my routine has changed.
Every morning I grab a coffee and sit on the steps of the Indian consulate general nurse my coffee and read the news on my phone if theres anything interesting, but for the most part its more like "UN IS CONFUSED AND IS STUCK ABOUT WHAT TO DO" "RUSSIA IS BEING A FUCKTARD" "Another bomb went of in Syria and things are getting nasty and hundreds of people are dying" " Muslims are getting cheeky and reaking havoc.......again" "AFRICA IS POOR FULL OF AIDS WAR, RAPE AND FAMINE" " Israel is being a douche to Palestine again" " Chinas misbehaving again" and " OOOH SPIES!"...... same shit different ass hole day in day out so I usually just end up watching the world go buy cause thats much more fun.
As a result of seeing these headlines day in and day out and being a student of history my mind wanders to the topic has the world really changed? Like almost all other things in life the answer is sort of. The world has changed in the sense that technology has evolved and for the most part, the world is more "technologically advanced" with inventions like social media, touch screen technology the internet etc.
The world has also changed in regards to music as well as with new technologies enables new types of music to be produced and intern tastes towards music have evolved as well.
Fashion is another thing that has changed as people do not dress how they use to in the 1920's and some decades keep reappearing namely the 80's...... god forbid.
So ok, the world has changed then yes in regards to what I just mentioned but in regards to world power behaviour things have not really changed. To illustrate this i'm going to analyze my simplified headlines.
" UN IS CONFUSED ABOUT WHAT TO DO"- simple enough really, having taken multiple classes on how the UN functions......or doesn't the UN being confused about what to do about conflicts and various issues takes you back to the League of Nations, the UN's predecessor in the interwar period, was unorganized nothing got done....... sound like the UN.... well, yes.
" RUSSIA IS BEING A FUCKTARD"- Mother Russia ( in the best Russia accent I can do) The king of all fucktards, from the first world war with the decision to mobilize early because they "needed" more time. To the cold war when they would veto everything at the UN........ sound like whats going on with Syria right now? yes.
"Another bomb went of in Syria and things are getting nasty and hundreds of people are dying"- Syria a tragic case, one know for its prosperity and beauty has descended into a war zone at the onset of the Arab Spring and with accusations of ethnic cleansing being carried out within the country and the UN is still unsure about what to do. Sound like Yugoslavia in the 90's? yes.
" Muslims are getting cheeky and reaking havoc.......again"- Since 9/11 the concept of Islamism and Islamic terrorism has worked its way into our everyday vocabulary and the first bad thing to happen in any country the first person to blame is the Muslims or anyone remotely associated with the Islamic faith. Personally, i'm getting flashbacks to the Cold War where their answer for everything was "when in doubt blame the communists".
"AFRICA IS POOR FULL OF AIDS WAR, RAPE AND FAMINE", self explanitory really, the common misconception that the dark continent is full of rape war in famine and since many African countries receieved their independence from various colonial powers Africa has and continues to be portrayed as a horrible evil place for the most part.
" Israel is being a douche to Palestine again"- The Israeli Palestine conflict, something that has existed since the age of the dinosaurs, much like white people oppressing black people in South Africa. With the conflict getting increasingly more violent, Palestinians being further segregated, and the Free Palestine movement gaining an increasingly global backing, direct parallels can be seen to that of the situation which was Apartheid South Africa.
" Chinas misbehaving again"- China the worlds fastest growing economy and as a result basically being abel to do what ever it wants because "I'm China you are nothing without me".... Cue flashbacks to the USA post WWII.
" OOOH SPIES!"- Since WWI spies have been used as cheeky tools to gather information from other people about other countries to use to their advantage. A tool that continues to be used today. Naturally some spies tend to let stuff slip out, and soon enough thanks to the internet everyone finds out soon enough and then we find ourselves thrust into an Ian Flemming novel all over again.
The list goes on but i've got some bacon cooking and I don't want to burn it so I'm going to let you lot ( if anyone is reading this) play a little game. If you take out 1 word and put in another word or one country and replace it for another the headline on any major news website, that headline could be from a news paper 10-100 years ago.
So now you have heard my case that the world as sort of changed but when push comes to shove and you get to the core of it all, the world hasn't changed much, in my opinion anyways.
heres a song for you to ponder too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCWdCKPtnYE
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