A few years ago it seemed the Soviet Union was 'The Enemy'. The worlds fastest growing economies now include Brazil, Russia, India and China, and increasingly prominent is Indonesia. Indonesia will enter the five largest economies on earth in less than five years.
Life is not only happening faster than ever before, it is changing faster than ever before. What was true for us as children is now largely not true. For example, I was taught Columbus discovered America, and Magellan was first around the Cape Horn. There is now incontrovertible evidence that not only was America visited by the Chinese in the 14th Century, but that Magellan had a map! If he had a map he sure wasn't the first person there.
While we may be sure about certain things today, it doesn't mean that this 'truth' will always be so. Perhaps it never was.
In the clip below the rock band Metallica plays in Moscow. It was September 28th, 1991. The thought of this being possible a mere a year prior to the concert was unthinkable. Whatever is unthinkable today, may be commonplace tomorrow.
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