Discontinuity?

I worry sometimes at the discontinuity between the people in the U.S. and Canada and Europe and Australia and New Zealand and other places versus the attitudes of Russians and Chinese.

Of course I can admit that these fears come from having lived through the Cold War until I was about 42 years of age around 1990. However, I don't think I'm alone in people my age around the world concerning all this. Living every day from the 1950s as a child in school in the 1950s being told to crawl under our desks and asking what "good this would really do?" of our teachers then as little children.

And being told that basically, it should protect us from exploding glass shards and pieces and might also protect us of the ceiling came down upon us in a nuclear blast. Somehow this wasn't very reassuring at ages 5 though about 12 to 14 years of age when we practiced this or from 1953 until around the time (or after) that President Kennedy was assassinated.

I'm sure people around the world that had to do similar things didn't always sleep well at night then. Some still don't.

Now days the problems are sort of different. We have worried more about terrorists which is something the U.S., Canada, Europe, Russia, China and most other nations can agree on, even though we all might have slightly different definitions of what a terrorist is.

And these definitions have more to do with an areas history and governments in place and the kinds of brainwashing each country practices on it's children. In the 1960s and 1970s we in the United States were more aware of how brainwashing of children is practiced by literally all countries than now. It is one of the reasons the Cold War ended because more people became aware of this around the world. As people freed themselves from their childhood conditioning the Cold War could end through the educated people of the world who could get beyond their brainwashing by whatever nation they were raised in.

Though many middle and lower class people around the world didn't overcome their childhood conditioning, enough people did to have the Cold War end.

So, the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s. Then we had to deal with Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda and that style of Sunni Based Terrorism. We also learned more about Hezbollah which is Shia based terrorism. This tended to bond the U.S., Europe, Russia and China in the idea of banding together to share information to rid the world of Al Qaeda. In some ways this alliance was successful and in some ways the world wasn't successful in regard to this. We see all the results today around the world.

However, then something else happened (mainly global climate change) and more unpredictable times of growing food worldwide because of unpredictable rain, floods and droughts. Then Russia because of a corrupt government was not able to move forward fast enough with democratic changes to effectively compete in the world market like it did before. Then Putin Took over great oil reserves from Corporate Oligarchs in Russia.

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However, this greatly reduced free competition in Russia and dampened people's capitalistic hopes for the country. So, even though it made the Russia Government and Putin much richer it basically destroyed Russia's capitalistic future by so doing by taking over the vast oil reserves of Russia by the Government of Russia. 

However, now things are going very awry in Russia and the takeover of Ukraine by Russia politically was botched so Russia and Putin felt they had no choice but to take over at the very least, Crimea so they would have a Russian Warm Water port in order to ship weapons to Syria to defeat the Syrian Rebels and for world trade from Russia with people around the world by ship.

So, because of food shortages and capitalism not working right in Russia and other reasons we might see Russia try to take over more EAstern Block nations from the old Cold War. And this is not good for the western world. (And I'm not even sure this will be good for Russia either) Because they aren't ruling very well over what they have now. So, of course, everything is relative in the end.

China is doing much better at least economically. But, in the end the Soviet Union destroyed it's ecology and now China the last 10 or more years is doing the same thing by trying to compete with more advanced nations. This is a real problem not only for China but for the whole world. If you have a window seat on a passenger plane traveling across the Pacific Ocean you can see why because all the bad air pollution from places like Beijing where it is now completely unhealthy to breathe on an average day that people wear surgical masks walking around outside so they don't choke on the particulates in the air. Often even in South Korea people have to wear Surgical masks outside to screen the air that is coming over from China into South Korea too.

However, the main reason I started to write this article is because of people's attitudes. I would probably say that the average person's attitude in China (lower middle class to poor) is about where lower middle class and poor people were in the 1950s in the U.S. with a (we will bury you) undercurrent from both Russia and China towards the U.S. and Europe (Canada, India, Australia, new Zealand, Japan, South Korea etc. etc.) and this is mostly from conditioning received in public schools in Russia and China when people grew up.

You can see a lot of the confused conditioning in the relatives of the Malaysian Air Lines disappearance from China because they have been sheltered from the real (rest of the world so much).

China is one of the most ethnocentric and uniformed countries on earth (at least in the lower middle class and poor people's). So, in some ways the poor of China resemble the poor of a place like Afghanistan or any other 3rd world nation where women and sometimes men are not publicly educated that much.

So, My worry is that the politically correct ways of the U.S. and Europe are going to clash with the 1950s more bigoted attitudes of the average person in Russia and China which in some ways resembles what people were like in the U.S. in the 1950s except for political conditioning. IN that realm people in Russia and China in the lower middle class and poor class are extremely different than people in the U.S. in the 1950s.

Russia and China perceive the U.S. and Europe as weak both morally and physically because of being politically correct. And in an animal sense countries often attack a perceived weakness whether it is a real weakness or not. And so we may be in for a really bad experience in the western world during the next 10 to 50 years because of this. This is my concern for the world at present. If you took people out of the 1950s and had them comment on what people are like now in the U.S. and Europe it would be something like: "What a bunch of pussies!" and this also would be the Russian and Chinese  point of view about now regarding the U.S. and Europe.