Lifestyle changes reflecting 2017
This is the final My Canada article for the year 2016. A different year to say the least with the recent American election of billionaire Donald Trump as president of the world leading economic and military super power it is difficult to foresee the future for the full year of 2017.
That isn't a solitary observation but the view of most according to news reports and analysts all across North America. The sudden and radical change in American politics was at first frightening heralding dire headlines across the traditional media. However as the January 2017 date for installing the new president approaches many serious political figures on all sides of the political divide appear willing to concede the election outcome was inevitable. The result claimed is due to the complete corporate control that emerged in America or for that matter across the world in recent years. History indicates changes such as currently underway are inevitable.
Another fact of history is the lifespan of democratic experiences such as the America experience initiated with the civil war between the north and south. A new democracy's lifespan is usually 200 years give or take a few decades as change progresses. The real years the American democratic experience has been progressing to its present precarious time and now in serious decline according to a Smithsonian museum news article is approximately 220 years. Whether history will repeat due to the Donald Trump election or some other world event can only be known as the year or years progress.
America is only one place in the world now in the throes of radical change. Britain's recent decision to withdraw from the European Union, Russia's resurgence as perhaps an occupying force in many of the former USSR Soviet states including involvement in the Syrian civil war outlasting the duration of WWII. China's expansion into its former territories such as Taiwan is another indication of the new instability among world powers. Donald Trump and the perceived radicalism currently attributed to the election outcome might be just the tip of the iceberg of change according to many analysts. Although the scenario might be frightening to the current generations in all nations it is by no means unusual in the annals of documented world history.
My Canada just like every other nation must await the outcome of all the mentioned scenarios before the resumption of life as it developed during the past century while the changes probably inevitably take place. Undoubtedly Canada is facing change of some kind since the country cannot avoid becoming part of the new world on the horizon. Music, life style, language and even manners and traditional standards change. So a new direction will undoubtedly emerge for almost everything we now practice.
That isn't a solitary observation but the view of most according to news reports and analysts all across North America. The sudden and radical change in American politics was at first frightening heralding dire headlines across the traditional media. However as the January 2017 date for installing the new president approaches many serious political figures on all sides of the political divide appear willing to concede the election outcome was inevitable. The result claimed is due to the complete corporate control that emerged in America or for that matter across the world in recent years. History indicates changes such as currently underway are inevitable.
Another fact of history is the lifespan of democratic experiences such as the America experience initiated with the civil war between the north and south. A new democracy's lifespan is usually 200 years give or take a few decades as change progresses. The real years the American democratic experience has been progressing to its present precarious time and now in serious decline according to a Smithsonian museum news article is approximately 220 years. Whether history will repeat due to the Donald Trump election or some other world event can only be known as the year or years progress.
America is only one place in the world now in the throes of radical change. Britain's recent decision to withdraw from the European Union, Russia's resurgence as perhaps an occupying force in many of the former USSR Soviet states including involvement in the Syrian civil war outlasting the duration of WWII. China's expansion into its former territories such as Taiwan is another indication of the new instability among world powers. Donald Trump and the perceived radicalism currently attributed to the election outcome might be just the tip of the iceberg of change according to many analysts. Although the scenario might be frightening to the current generations in all nations it is by no means unusual in the annals of documented world history.
My Canada just like every other nation must await the outcome of all the mentioned scenarios before the resumption of life as it developed during the past century while the changes probably inevitably take place. Undoubtedly Canada is facing change of some kind since the country cannot avoid becoming part of the new world on the horizon. Music, life style, language and even manners and traditional standards change. So a new direction will undoubtedly emerge for almost everything we now practice.