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Missing: Political creativity
May 16th, 2017 | 
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By Johan Galtung
A key slogan during the student revolt in Paris May 1968, soon 50 years ago, was Imagination au pouvoir! Bring imagination to power!
We were there, walking with thousands from Champs-Élysées to Place Etoile where a stentorian voice commanded us to sit in small groups in the circles under the Arch to “discuss the situation”. So we did.
France is now suffering from more imagination deficit than ever. To call Le Pen-Front National “extreme right” when the issue is for or against the EU is not helpful.
Left-right was 20th century politics.
Why not think bigger, beyond EU: for or against EURASIA, Russia-China are ready? Trade fills trains London-Beijing; a West-East axis, not the old colonial obsession with North-South (neo)colonialism.
And how about both, EURASIAFRICA? They hang together geographically.
Another word for imagination is creativity. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Donald Trump, James Comey, Left-right, Paris May 1968, right-left, Theresa May | 
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