Who governs and manages a world of chaos?

[rangerrebew]

Who governs and manages a world of chaos?
Saturday, 11 March 2017
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Ghassan Imam

Amid the chaos governing the world, a generation that lived through the Cold War is still alive thanks to better awareness in the importance of preventive health. This generation longs to an era, which was governed by two international giants that cancelled politics and managed the world through the balance of nuclear terror.

America and Red Russia possessed thousands of nuclear rockets, which were capable of destroying life on earth several times. However, they did not have the courage to press the launch button. Inside their secret rooms of diplomacy, they found an art for settlement and co-existence and there was thus no need for the violent war.

The Cold War cancelled politics. Diplomacy became an elitist art to make mutual concessions. The international giants neutralized the leaders of the non-aligned movement. Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Josip Broz Tito, Gamal Abdelnasser and Sukarno became the leaders of “positive neutrality.”

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2017/03/11/Who-governs-and-manages-the-world-of-chaos-.html

[Sanguine]

...The generation of the Cold War found solace in the American popular culture, which was spread by Hollywood’s Jews. Lazy young men dressed like Marlon Brando and loved like Clark Gable. Brigitte Bardot became the cover girl. Meanwhile, there was significant literary and intellectual momentum. Marxist thinkers created to billions of humans a rosy dream that is void of politics and money. Capitalist thinkers responded by criticizing the Marxist experience which turned Karl Marx’s and Vladimir Lenin’s revolutionaries into governmental employees working for Joseph Stalin and Leonid Brezhnev....

...The reason behind my noble desire to abandon “this rental space” is the massive chaos and its leaders like Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. Putin thinks Russia lost the Cold War without using its right in firing one bullet or a nuclear rocket and must thus avenge from the shaken capitalist world. Trump wants to avenge from globalization which liberalism produced and which awarded the brown worker in the developing world at the expense of the white worked who is unemployed in the richer part of the world.

Actually, this liberalism which put its trillions in the state now controls the world which is governed by a secret government of businessmen, banks and wealthy people. Meanwhile it manages its financial and economic crises at the expense of broke tax payers and miserable workers who, for instance, work at fabric factories which have bad ventilation and chains so they don’t escape when a fire breaks out.

The current global chaos may be an introduction to civil and religious regional wars in Europe, to political assassinations, (Russian research centers predict that the governing American institution will assassinate Trump) and to a new form of terrorism that is practiced by these chaotic generations which are deprived of capitalism’s pleasures.

I think something may have been lost in translation.

[Oceander]

Idiot author.  It wasn't cowardice that kept the US and the Soviet Union from launching their nukes, it was bravery that kept them from doing so, even in the face of provocation.  Launching nukes would have been the coward's way out. 

[geronl]

Nobody does.

True chaos means nobody has enough power to control things.

After the fall of the Roman Empire there were centuries where the UK had hundreds of tiny kingdoms and the same happened all over Europe. They don't even have precise maps and histories of all of them because it was so chaotic. You likely even had the Vikings raiding and pillaging at will because it was a target-rich environment, news didn't spread.

[r9etb]

Idiot author.  It wasn't cowardice that kept the US and the Soviet Union from launching their nukes, it was bravery that kept them from doing so, even in the face of provocation.  Launching nukes would have been the coward's way out.

His exact words were, "However, they did not have the courage to press the launch button."

What struck me about that line, is how much it sounds like some of the keyboard commandos here and over at TOS.

[Free Vulcan]

This whole thing is a random, meandering intellectual mess. It hardly makes sense.

One part did really rankle me though. This author has no sense of how close we came to nuclear war. One incident in the 1983 was due to a false positive in Soviet sensors, it came down to one man who made the decision not to launch because he didn't think the Americans would attack like that. He fortunately had civilian training and didn't blindly follow protocol, had it been one of his military trained compatriots that worked that position on other shifts, they would have launched.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

[Smokin Joe]

The writer lost me at the first line.

Amid the chaos governing the world, a generation that lived through the Cold War is still alive thanks to better awareness in the importance of preventive health.

Balderdash. My grandparents passed at an average age of 89 1/2. One was over 100. They ate well, worked hard, lived fairly simple lives, One smoked, another was exposed to second hand smoke, the others grew tobacco and were exposed to the 'gum' the plants exude. They lived in a time when automobiles had no air bags, no seat belts, steel dashboards, no antilock brakes, and bias ply tires, sans emissions controls, and it was not unusual to be out in a boat without a life jacket on, just one to toss if someone went over the side.
In fact, the ninnies of today would pale at the life they led, where a dust mask was a bandana tied across the face, and hearing protection was a wad of cotton stuffed in an ear, often disdained because it got in the way or was a pain to fool with. Where Lard, real butter (fresh churned), and homemade bread were the norm, eggs were for breakfast, not long from the hen, and meat was raised and smoked at home, with salt the primary preservative.
That was the cold war world I grew up in, not the relatively pampered existence of today that the writer seems to think was so widespread.

What they missed out on along with all that 'preventive medicine', were the dyes, the preservatives, the additives in processed food, the spectral array of electromagnetic transmissions the average person of today is surrounded by, and the headlines which said 'this or that is going to kill you--or not' a few times a year. They ate the apples from the orchard, tomatoes from the field, and caned their own vegetables from the garden.
 
They raised 4 children (each couple), and went to church every Sunday and on Holy Days, too.

Preventative medicine isn't necessarily found in a doctor's office, it is in the way you live.