🌻Paradigm Shift -- Zeitenwende -- Turning Point🌻

[Hekate]

This is an excellent essay that popped up on my newsfeed this morning. Because it is now late, I will have to kick it a few times myself tonight and tomorrow morning as it sinks out of sight. In any case, highly recommended to read it all.

The use of the term “paradigm shift” struck me in particular because only a little over 30 years ago, the publication of Riane Eisler’s The Chalice and the Blade had us talking about a different kind of paradigm shift altogether. I was one of those enchanted by the possibilities opened up by her book, and it shaped my spiritual and academic path for years to come.

Alas, “Kurgan hordes” and their brothers in arms are not so easily put down. They rose again in 2001, and again, and again just 3 weeks ago.

Would like to know what you think.

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Ukraine war: Putin has redrawn the world - but not the way he wanted https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60767454


Ukraine war: Putin has redrawn the world - but not the way he wanted
By Allan Little
BBC News
Published1 day ago

It is a rare thing to live through a moment of huge historical consequence and understand in real time that is what it is.
In November 1989, I stood on a snow-flecked Wenceslas Square in Prague, the capital of what was then Czechoslovakia, and watched a new world being born.
The peoples of Communist Eastern Europe had risen in defiance of their dictatorships. The Berlin Wall had been torn down. A divided Europe was being made whole again.

In Prague, the dissident playwright Vaclav Havel addressed a crowd of 400,000 from a second-floor balcony. It was an exhilarating moment, dizzying in its pace. That evening, the Communist regime collapsed and within weeks Havel was president of a new democratic state. I sensed, even at the time, that I had watched the world pivot - that it was one of those rare moments when you know the world is remaking itself before your eyes.

How many such moments had there been in the history of Europe since the French Revolution? Probably, I thought then, about five. This, 1989, was the sixth.
But that world - born in those dramatic popular revolutions - came to an end when Putin ordered Russian forces into Ukraine.

The German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called this moment a zeitenwende - a turning point - while UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said it was a "paradigm shift". The age of complacency, she said, was over.

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[SunSeeker]

1. The UN needs to be reformed and strengthened so that it actually prevents war.

Which was the whole purpose of the UN.

Link to tweet

[Hekate]

2. Yes, it feels like the UN has become a bureaucracy stuck in glue. nt

[BlueIdaho]

3. For starters

A nation invading another nation should automatically lose their seat on the Security Council.

[SunSeeker]

4. Yup. nt

[uponit7771]

15. +1, and there should be a 'war fact' website so whole nations aren't lied into killing others

[Hoyt]

5. Hope we don't see another shift-- China, Russia, India, & others aligning.

Think we are good right now, but one never knows nowadays.

[Hekate]

6. Fareed Zakaria (CNN) said something about Russia/China a few weeks ago that struck me...

He called Russia “a satrap of China.” I about spit my coffee. That is a rather ancient term. As Wikipedia says:

Satraps (/ˈsætrəp/) were the governors of the provinces of the ancient Median and Achaemenid Empires and in several of their successors, such as in the Sasanian Empire and the Hellenistic empires. The satrap served as viceroy to the king, though with considerable autonomy. The word came to suggest tyranny or ostentatious splendour, and in modern usage refers to any subordinate or local ruler, usually with unfavourable connotations of corruption.

A satrapy is the territory governed by a satrap. . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satrap

I thought it was a rather elegant way of pointing out Russia’s diminished status vis a vis China.

[roamer65]

7. I think in a year or two we will see a US, EU, UK, Canada, Australia and Japan economic union.

The world is shifting before our eyes.

[Hoyt]

8. Hope we try to entice Mexico and South America into union.

[roamer65]

9. Mexico would probably happen due the existing trade agreement.

South America hard to say.

[Warpy]

10. It needs to shift in Russia

People know that timber, minerals, oil, gas, and diamonds are flooding out of eastern Russia and are being sold to China and Europe. They know that a lot of Putin's family and friends have gotten very rich. They know their own standard of living and share of the wealth has gone nowhere. What they haven't done is put it all together.

When they do, all hell will break loose. That might be the major reason dead Russian kids are left to rot where they fell, instead of being shipped home for burial. They're not even going through the pockets for ID to notify families. As long as families don't know what Putin's war is costing them directly, maybe they won't ask other questions.

All this will eventually catch up with Putin. It is just going to be brutal, grisly, and dangerous until it does.

[Silver Gaia]

11. Bookmarked to read tomorrow when my brain is fresh.

Thanks!

[Hekate]

12. Kick & good night

[Hekate]

16. For the day shift

[SheltieLover]

13. Kicking for visibility

[ananda]

14. goosebumps

Wow