Questions and Meditations

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Is there today a single nation that be at once free and capable of managing its own resources, its own economy, and the harmony of its own society?

Those nations that are “great” or “puissant” are only so at the detriment of other, less arrogant ones, which they speedily ransack or “protect” conditionally, or they only become so, like India, at the expense of their own inner culture and natural riches, emulating the model of success promulgated by the West and throwing their population to the shepherds of the world market. The space and milieu of international “negotiations” is that of a deleterious dynamics of mutual pressure, blackmail, extortion, threat and false promise. Thus all the nations, preys and predators, rally, bend and bow under the flag of “progress”, the flattering appellation for a criminal development devoid of love and vision. As of today, two very small countries appear to be escaping the dictates of this frantic race, Bhutan and Costa-Rica. However, Bhutan is coveted by China, which seeks to consolidate its territorial dominance all around India and depends partly on India for its energy sources insofar as its people, recently emancipated from an ancient monarchy, is now demanding access to the contagious array of goods and facilities of “modern life”. Costa-Rica stands rightly proud, having kept its integrity while renouncing any armament; its denizens practice the respect and care of Nature and, to a major extent, of every individual human being’s fundamental rights. These are two dots on the map of the Earth, two minuscule enclaves of health and well-being.

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