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|   | Par:- Nazim Esoof
On 10/11/2009 |
Jamais le monde n’a bougé aussi vite. La chute du mur de Berlin, le 9 novembre 1989, annonçait un monde nouveau. Fin de la guerre froide, une «Europe réunifiée», le crépuscule d’un monde coupé en deux blocs, l’annonce d’une occidentalisation à outrance du monde, triomphe attendu du capitalisme, règne des valeurs propres aux droits humains et à la démocratie… Bref, jamais autant de bouleversements et de changements n’étaient programmés sur un si court laps de temps.
Mais c’était mal connaître la ductilité de l’histoire. Celle-ci n’en a pas fini de nous surprendre depuis que la civilisation est.
Le monde s’apprêtait, au lendemain de ce fameux 9 novembre 1989, à adopter une bienpensance occidentale. Les choses ne sont pas passées exactement de cette manière. Même s’il est vrai que les principes démocratiques transpercent un peu plus facilement certaines frontières, tenues par des dictatures et des ploutocraties, d’autres murs se sont, cependant, érigés.
Le plus fameux est celui qui sépare Israéliens et Palestiniens. Et il y en a bien d’autres encore.
Dans le même temps, s’il n’y a plus deux blocs, comme à l’époque de la guerre froide, il y a quand même deux axes. «Grâce» à George W. Bush, il y a, désormais, l’axe du mal et l’axe du bien. Le communisme est peut-être mort, mais le terrorisme, du moins tel que le conçoit le monde occidental, est né.
On a, certes, changé de monde mais on a seulement changé des maux par d’autres maux.
Ce nouveau monde qu’on nous prédisait, voici deux ans, est déjà bien vieux. Il doit, de surcroît, subir les coups de boutoir d’une révolution permanente que lui imposent les mutations technologiques. Sans oublier cette nébuleuse économique qui, à n’importe quel moment, peut changer la face du monde.
On peut certainement, aujourd’hui, dire que le monde n’a jamais été autant évolutif…
Nazim Esoof
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| jean pascal chaton | | | ce monde est-il vieux ou c'est notre regard qui n'arrive plus a le voir vraiment, la physique quatique nous dit qu'une certaine region de notre cerveaus rentre en activité dès que notre regard se foczlise sur quelque chose, et que les mëmes regions s'animent quant cette fois ci on l'imagine...deuxieme postulat de la physique quantique ; le regard d'un individu participe obligatoirement au tableau observé, donc, si notre regard modifie notre réalité, et si, l'homme, seule entité sur terre a ëtre conscient du passé et d'un certain avenir, si ce meme homme arrive a regarder son monde avec un regard neuf, tout en ayant conscience qui'il fait partie de celui-ci. Qu'attendant nous pour vraiment voir notre réalité...comprendre notre passé, pour pouvoir vraiment essayer autre choses, Evolutif, ce monde l'a toujours était, c'est peut ëtre nous qui sommes restés figés dans des comportements inadaptés... a voir... | | | Ali Gopaul | | | I found this article very negative , without any moral and self contradicting. | | | joyce jhabeemissur | | | j'ai adore cet edito. c'est ma lecture prefere meme quand tu ecrivias pour l'express. c simple et tellement vrai ce que tu ecris. merci pour la lecture | | | From: WALESA | | |
From: WALESA .
The bittersweet anniversary
La chute du mur de Berlin, le 9 novembre 1989, annonçait un monde nouveau. On a, certes, changé de monde mais on a seulement changé des maux par d’autres maux. Sans oublier cette nébuleuse économique qui, à n’importe quel moment, peut changer la face du monde./ So now, as its 20th anniversary got celebrated this month, it is worth getting back to the facts behind the fall of the Berlin wall. The key role in creating the climate which led to the dramatic climax of the cold war was played by the much-derided peace movement. The marchers, the banner-wavers, and the women of Greenham, who are still often pilloried as Moscow's patsies and agents of influence, did more to open the wall than the western governments of the time. The huge street demonstrations which grew in number in East Germany against communist party rule throughout the autumn of 1989 had their origins in the country's peace movement. They were centered on the Protestant churches which had courageously developed a common programme for peace and human rights for a number of years before the rest of East German society threw off the mantle of fear, turning a movement of a few hundreds into one of hundreds of thousands. It was pressure from the peace movement which changed the superpowers' international agenda and managed to launch a peace race, even before Gorbachev came to power. At their first meeting in 1985, Gorbachev and Reagan issued a statement parrotting the peace movement: "A nuclear war cannot be won and should never be fought.". East not sold on values of the west- Despite reunification the Germans remain to a striking extent two distinct peoples. And nowhere is that clearer than in the overlapping worlds of retailing and advertising. The eastern mineral water company branding slogan is: "Lichtenauer mineral water - so beautifully normal." . Lichtenauer mineral water is sold exclusively in eastern Germany. The agency behind its latest campaign, Fritzsch & Makat, has built up a sizeable business, with a turnover last year of DM5m (£1.7m) by producing advertisements that appeal to the still-differing sensibilities of eastern Germans. Ten years after the merging of the two Germanies, Fritzsch & Makat's co-founder, 30-year-old Alexander Makat, sees no reason to abandon his firm's guiding premise, that Der Ossie tickt anders, which roughly translates as "the easterner marches to another beat". Everybody is trying to be politically correct and skate over the differences. "But when you do that you undermine people, because you play down the things that give them their personality and confidence. You see that easterners and westerners both spend, say, 10% of their disposable income on beer. But then you find that the easterner buys only eastern beer and the westerner only western beer. In the east, the ranking is Audi, then BMW and then - at a considerable remove - Mercedes Benz. This is because the image of Mercedes Benz is imbued with the old notion that it is a car for big capitalists. In formerly communist east Germany, wealth and success are not seen as the unmitigated blessings they are taken to be by most in the old federal republic. The dominant eastern ethos as "Prussian-puritan". Its values include order, discipline and modesty. This could explain a phenomenon for which there is no universally accepted explanation. Advertising for western products devised by western agencies can provoke suspicion - or worse - in the east. Easterners rarely play golf, in western advertising a running a television commercial that showed a woman executive who had gone back to work in late middle age. Her husband and children were failing miserably to cope at home. Three ways in which the advertisement upset easterners. It seemed to be telling liberated eastern women that there was something wrong about going back to work. At the same time, it seemed to be saying to a part of the country in which work is scarce that you can drop into employment whenever you like. It tried to sell the product by reference to a lifestyle rather than on its intrinsic merits, and the inhabitants of formerly communist states are notoriously resistant to that kind of subliminal message. "German unity is still incomplete," Merkel told ARD public television, noting how east Germany still lagged behind the west in economic growth, with joblessness nearly twice as high."We must tackle this problem if we want to achieve equal quality of life."The chancellor gave her warning before the main ceremonies at the historic Brandenburg Gate with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, presidents Nicolas Sarkozy of France and Dmitry Medvedev of Russia and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Our history did not end the night the Wall came down. To expand freedom to more people, we cannot accept that freedom does not belong to all people. We cannot allow oppression defined and justified by religion or tribe to replace that of (communist) ideology. The Wall "was swept away by the greatest force of all -- the unbreakable spirit of men and women who dared to dream in the darkness. An overwhelming majority of Germans are still grateful for the Wall's fall, according to a poll in the Leipziger Volkszeitung daily, with 79 percent of those surveyed calling November 9, 1989 a joyous day. But sociologist Frithjof Hager of Berlin's Free University said national unification, sealed in 1990, was still a work in progress. That a stark reminder for us all in Mauritius that for all the pledge to build a national Mauritius, the authoritarian mindset is still an issue. On various issues the own Mauritian Wall stands and we are torn apart, split. In contemporary Mauritius- Parliamentary Questions, like the one from elected representative Mr. Guimbeau on who pays and who avoid tax met with nebulous and opacity, and unclear reply. The Social alliance that got elected on a wave of optimism, now finds governing an increasingly pessimistic country while trying to revive a struggling economy. We as a nation has mammoth domino pieces marking the path- where Wall still stand and reminisced about life in the barrier's shadow. Leaving with remark of Germany chancellor- freedom is not self evident," Merkel said. "Freedom must be fought for. Freedom must be defended time and again."
| | | eric | | | Nazim, your article is very depressing and to exacerbate matters you've mentioned George W Bush..The Berlin Wall is nothing compared to the one being built in Palestine even bulldozers and tanks won't bring it down. The destruction of Lebanon and Gaza. Detention, torture without trial. The illegal Iraq war, The terrorist have abandoned their caves for the comfort of rich countries. All courtesy of that man who each time he opened his mouth he put his foot in it up to his knee. Le monde est deja vieux, bonjour au nouveau monde. | | | MoralScientist | | | NAZIM, Tu utilises, sans reflechir le terme "bienpensance occidentale". Je n'arrive jamais a comprendre pourquoi les non-occidentaux ont ce complexe d'inferiorite vis-a-vis d'un occident qui, selon tous les indices, y compris ceux compiles par Mark Penn dans son bouquin "Microtrends", est en declin spectaculaire. Je veux bien que tu n'aies pas encore eu l'ocasion de lire le bouquin, mais lis au moins l'article d'opinion du Rabbin Waskkow sur Fort Hood (http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/panelists/arthur_waskow/2009/11/ft_hood_shooting_a_flashback_to_fragging.html), et compare le a celui du Grand Mufti de Al Azhar sur le meme sujet ( http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2009/11/egypts_grand_mufti_responds_to_fort_hood_shootings.html). Pourquoi, quand nous sommes victimes de la barbarie d'un Occident en decadence, certains d'entre nous arrivons a nous auto-flageller? | | | .m.larose | | | " La terre n'est qu'un seul pays et tous les hommes en sont les citoyens" Baha'u'llah.
" l'équilibre du monde s'est trouve rompu par la vibrante influence de ce très grand, de ce nouvel ordre mondial. L'ordre sur lequel reposait jusque-la l'humanité a été révolutionne par cet unique et merveilleux système dont les yeux des mortels n'avaient jamais vu l'équivalent." disait Baha'u'llah plus de 150 ans de cela Seul la recherche personnel et indépendante de la vérité permettra a chaque individu de travailler pour la paix et la tranquillité. Pour le bonheur de toute l'humanité entière | | | Baltazar | | | Le terrorisme est né bien avant la chute du mur de Berlin. La bande de Bader Meinoff et Rote Armee Fraction (RAF) faisait trembler les capitalistes de l'ouest. Les extremistes de droite et de gauche s'affrontent toujours avec la même violence. Qui dit que la guerre froide est fini ? Au contraire elle est devenue universelle et il y a bon nombres d'Allemands qui auront préférés rebatir le mur plus long et plus haut qu'auparravant. Pourquoi ? Parcequ'ils n'ont rien profité de cette reunification et ils sont toujours marqués comme Ossi et Wessi ( Est et West). | |
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