The fate of mankind today hangs in the balance with the future of Afghanistan. While the American troops have been pulled out of Central Asia and the Taliban are everywhere gaining ground and threatening to bring about civil war with the overthrow of the Ghani government, there are everywhere intense talks taking place across the nation of Afghanistan for the purpose of creating the only miracle of economic development capable of gradually effacing the horrors of “endless wars” that the Anglo-Americans have created during the past 20 years. The question is: Can a reconstruction of Afghanistan become the trigger for a worldwide renaissance by causing the sort of axiom busting change in politics that the world requires today?
The world has come to a very perplexing Gordian Knot situation in Afghanistan since the opening days of July 2021, when mankind began to be confronted openly with the choice of either making an axiomatic change of collective proportion forward and discover the divine quality of its nature as a unique species or making a degenerative leap backward to a point of bestial savagery and barbarity such that has never been seen before in all of human history.
The crucial singularity, here, is located in the process of human survival being tested through the strategic situation of the Khyber Pass between Afghanistan and Pakistan; that is, the idea of human connectivity of different nations representing the human species beyond their respective national interest that is being challenged between Central Asia, South Asia, and the rest of the world. It remains to be seen if the United States is capable of addressing the “common aims of mankind” through such a narrow mental creative pathway for the benefit of mankind as a whole.
Beautiful little piece Pierre, thank you. Obviously very timely, too.
Tony DeFranco
Chicago