2092 AD
Are we about to rediscover America?
We may not be aware of the entirely possible change of time in which we are currently living.
These early years of the 21st Century A.D. are extremely variable and it may well prove to be that the distant future will be called, perhaps : “The Age of Re-determination”, or some newly tricked-out term which will delineate the close-cut details in each fabulous facet of our civilization at that time and place.
Right now, during these early years of our time span we label as “The 21st Century”, and we are marking the very time the first English settlements were made in the “New World”. About four hundred years ago, a new era came to be reality for thousands of people who undertook to move westward for several thousand miles. They covered sea and soil. We, in our time, are now “covering” space and infinites of unknown dimensions and potentials - both good and perhaps evil, who knows?
Yet, looking into that which is beyond the beyond of our conscious awareness, we realize again-and-again, through an endless series of wars and on conflicts of ideas and ideals we are aware of the accusative fact that we live in a warped world. For our new era to come alive, active and aggressive we need to find a new, firmer, more reasonable sense of international unity.
We agree we need such a time. After a major war at the start of the 20th Century a “League of Nations” was founded seeking world-wide peace and cooperation. We did not, as a nation, take an official role in that dream concept, wisely so considering the sands on which it was fabricated. In the middle years of the same century the same nations formed the same sort of wishful arrangement by starting a group which they was named United Nations. It was semantically imperiled from the start because it was far too easy for handlers to reverse the letters “i” and “t” to their selfish advantage.
The key word for our future is consolidation ...union ...oneness.
` Just this past week our President spent several days in Canada, Anglo-French nation to the north across the ”longest unfortified national boundary on Earth.” He wisely chose to speak in Nova Scotia where anti-war demonstrators were less numerous. FDR paid a tea-time drop-in years ago, but we have been noticeably absent from Maple Leaf land for decades of decaying diplomacy. President Fox in Mexico used to sell Coca-Cola which marks him as pro-American. At this moment few of us can comfortably conceive of a time when those nations and the Central American states will be part of a larger, unified body as well. Vancouver, B. C. will be the Hong Kong and financial of the Pacific Rim. The unification will start with the grain farmers on western Canada who are, in an economic sense, already a part of the American markets. Bi-lingual Quebec will continue to be a problem.
World-wide, South America will become more of a united living area by adapting some of the positive elements of Pan American projects of the past. The Euro nations will go along with more than just their money. Africa can become such a unit. Even wildly diversified Asia can, in time, find greater unity. Don't overlook Down Under either incorporating Pacific Islands not a part of the main land or coastal islands.
Like it or not, we are blending. Our nearby town has thirty-eight-eight per of its school children learning English as a second language. Church services are held in Spanish, Korean and Russian - and others I dare say. Stores and TV display bi-lingual signs.
Chris Colombo sailed in 1492. Who will be sailing what when 2092 A.D comes barrelling in? Think about it! You will want your grandchildren to be ready for whatever it might prove to be.
A.L.M. December 3, 2004 [c659wds]
