One of the unforgettable moments in our history of human life, I think, is the collapse of the WTC on September 11th. The death of communism has been officially confirmed by the “tearing down the Berlin Walls.” I recall the days that I have fallen into reading the End of History by Francis Fukuyama around that time.
Death of Communism meant the victory of Capitalism—the end of long-lasted ideological war, at least, around those years. I do not believe that I am the only naïve human who dreamed there would be no world wars as seen in the twentieth century.
Victory of Capitalism has been succeeded into freshly named “globalization,” and we have witnessed vociferous Pax Americana in the every corner of the world which was not unexpected.
The European reaction against this flimsy and improvised American capitalism has been debated under the “the third way” among the conservatives and the liberals. Admitted victory of capitalism, it argued the victory did not mean capitalism could not be democracy.
Unimaginable despite possible but faint challenge from the other sides of the world has not surprisingly risen from the Middle East. The September 11 is the symbolic beginning which may usher into unprecedented tragic dawn of new chapter of history.
Samuel Huntington already forecasted this in the “Clash of Civilizations.” It was not so severe and clear during the Clinton Administration. But now everybody knows, sees, and touches the color of the Bush Administration. To make it worse, the world is again sectored and divided into blocs and nationalism.
I do not see yet how all this works out in God’s Plan. But I only emphasize very unfortunate that all we are besieged with a grand phobia. I think this phobia “our fighting against forces and authorities and against rulers of darkness and powers in the spiritual world.”
“Why do the nations plot and why do their people make useless plans… In heaven the LORD laughs as he sits on his throne, making fun of the nations...”
