Signs of Our Times

“We make events* and we are in turn changed by them; so we may
make more of the same. There must be some method to this madness.”

Light from dead stars, travelling across vast space, lights up our night sky. They being dead do not matter to us. We see their presence in the form of light along with the light from other stars that have enough fuel to last millions of years. Cosmos teaches us to take the past and the present events as not separate but relative. The anonymous inventor of wheel may be unknown yet his concept is still verymuch in evidence. Ideas are past the reckoning of time and space. What would it mean to us?
God as an Idea is connected with the idea that some monarchs touted in their Divine right rule. Monsieur Guillotine corrected the error of such an idea. Similarly totalitarian rule of the 20th century was a rehash of the same concept. We haven’t seen the last of it. Under consitutional monarchy the prime Minister is first Among the Equals. Prime Minister Mr. Blair may feel passionate about committing troops to a war, which is very unpopular in Great Britain. Still why does he play second fiddle to American interests is based on an idea. How valid is it? Only time will prove that.

En passant: Had the British government taken steps early on to diffuse the growing discontment of the Asian immigrants and given them same avenues for advancement as with everyother I doubt if the situation would be as today. The road covered by England to become an Imperial power was paved with her own conviction of moral superiority,- and Religion was an integral part of its policy making. The chain of events set off by them still cause ripples.
Event*: a coincidence of two or more objects in relation to one another in time-space. (American Heritage dictionary)
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