A toast to not repeating history's mistakes

Anonymous

November 29, 2024

A toast to not repeating history's mistakes

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Dear future self,
We are currently living in times of great civil unrest. We see the atrocities committed around the world driven by a quest for more power, resources, productivity, success at the cost of another. Inequity is rampant and we are all victims of this as we live lives hoping for financial and physical freedom near the end of it.

Dear future self,
I hope you are living in a time post a transformation, with a new world order. I hope you are living in a time where transparency is rampant in political decision making and equity truely thrives. I hope you are living in a time where historically marginalised groups can represent themselves when policies and corporate decisions affect them (both positively and negatively). I hope you are living in a time where we are aware of and taking care of both the negative and positive externalities of our human actions on nature, where circularity is the norm and that we are truely regenerative - leaving a place thriving further than how we found it. I hope you are living in a time where the knowledge of traditional custodians of the land is prioritised, and a mind-body-spirit-place connection is restored. I hope technology is leveraged for the collective good, rather than a tool to build wealth for a few. I hope community has replaced the individualism that currently seeks to divide and conquer us. And I hope that colonialism in a macro scale, a micro scale, and in our minds is abolished and that we have learned from history's mistakes not to repeat its narratives.

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2040, I come to the end of my life. The years have passed since Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine. European leaders did not have enough guts to help this , country, they made too many concessions to a dictator. However, in 2019 during a trip, I found Russia, let’s say its magnificent monuments, its interpreters ready to do anything to satisfy me, in compliance of course with the dictatorial laws of that country. They were easy to see that we were being watched. Today, Ukraine has become a dismantled land, occupied by foreign armed forces to ensure its security. But, this masquerade will not hold back a new attack, of Putin, still at the head of the country, very old, but always virulent. President Trump, so-called united states, has made a pact. In France, for my part, we live in safety. My children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren may not know her for good, unless one day the leaders of all countries take charge, become adults, stop fighting over land and natural resources. Like the children's round, hold hands and finally offer them a better world, Where there is universal peace with respect for all and they finally protect nature.

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A toast to not repeating history's mistakes

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