As early as 1950, Albert Einstein understood the nature of the rip-off. He said, “The men who possess real power in the country have no intention of ending the cold war”. Thirty-five years later they are still at it, making money while the nation itself declines to eleventh place in world per-capita income, to forty-sixth place in literacy and so on, until last summer (not suddenly, I fear) we found ourselves close to $2 trillion in debt. Then, in the fall, the money power shifted from New York to Tokyo, and that looked to be the end of our empire. Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as the world leader, and we – the white race – have become the yellow man’s burden. Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him. {2} In any case, if the foreseeable future is not nuclear, it will be Asiatic, some combination of Japan’s advanced technology with China’s resourceful landmass. Europe and the United States will then be, simply, irrelevant to the world that matters, and so we come full circle: Europe began as the relatively empty uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun is setting in our West and rising once more in the East.
P.S. Empires come and go but how About our Conscience and Responsibilities to Our Beloved fatherland Persia.
