Sign of An Epoch

José Guadalupe Isabeles Martínez

These days I have been thinking. What is going on in the world? Particularly, What is happening in that region where the three most important monotheistic religions long time ago were born? It is really pretty hard to explain on the basis of future implications. Obviously it is kind of easy to talk of causes. I mean people one day get tired and say “That’s enough!, no more!” And that is exactly what entire peoples are saying right now in the Middle East, and what Egyptian and Tunisian citizens have already said.

We actually can pronounce peoples don’t worry at all of the ideological-political-economic system they are living in. What they worry in true is all that affect them in their pockets in their lives. If their stomachs remain empty for a considerable period of time it will soon say: ey, you, stop it! Welfare state is the matter, the real matter. Why? Because we’ve been facing an economic model which hasn’t brought all of its promises. Very few are the people throughout the globe whose ideals are still loyal to their majesty: neoliberalism.

A lot has been written trying to explain the whys of the model consequences, what in the hell happened with this? Is the key question when scholars try to address cases and find out of the scientific results. It simply didn’t work! Of course we realize this wasn’t because of evil, of course not! It was due to each country to its singular circumstances to their politicians due to their corrupt systems to their deficient structures.

The thing is now we’re facing an epoch which seems to be the sign of it, the sign of an epoch. Genuine change has arrived to this newcomer 2011. It has arrived at the beginning of the 21st century, yes, but does it mean 2011 arrived soon? Late? We don’t know and possibly we do not care either. What it’s true is that we must start thinking of that Francis Fukuyama’s book called The End of History and the Last Man, where he talked about the end of threats like communism regarding the Cold War, the end of bipolarity. The only threat which still existed at that time for the United States was mainly Islam and terrorism as a threat to democracy in a revised version of his thesis.

Maybe the threats are now some others besides the ones are been said. The Arab world show us the new challenge not exactly to democracy but to the United States allies in the region. The same thing happened in Iran in 1979 revolution which ousted a dictator supported all time in the past by the US until the revolution took place. The Shah of Iran’s era was reaching to its end.

Is something reaching to its end now? I guess so. Even though we don’t know yet the real destiny of every nation’s upheaval, we must recognize this precise months as a milestone which turmoiled not just the oil region but to the whole world in at least a very different way, isn’t it? That’s how a new universal thought, if we can put it that way, seems to be taking its right place. An economic model is walking by its right side. A different but not necessarily a new state’s role is coming to be present. We need it, we really need it now because all this pieces constitutes what we can undoubtedly call: the sign of an epoch.

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