THE optimism of John Milne for our future (Letters, July 2), is commendable. However, as Milan Kundera wrote, “optimism is the opium of the people”. Mr Milne’s quote from Gordon Brown, “We’ve got to give people a message of hope. Tell them about the dream” is a good example. Perhaps part of the problem for the Labour Party in Scotland is that their previous hegemony perished on the rock that too many people, for a variety of reasons, stopped believing them any more – that the “dream” was just that, a dream. As I said in my earlier letter (June 30), a carefully constructed peace deal in Northern Ireland is unravelling, and the Labour First Minister in Wales holds that the UK “is over”. Optimism is fine but must be based on facts.
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Published 4 July 2021
In the contest for power and resources in history, people always try to outdo each other by creating divisions around race, ethnicity, or faith. People do this to enlist group support for otherwise private agenda or whip support for personal disappointment or loss, as it presently is. Sometimes when faith and ethnicity are the same, demagogue explores doctrinaire differences as it was in Europe in the 17th century, where European kings fought a 30 years’ war dividing themselves into Catholics or Protestants between 1618 and 1648.
Europe never emerged significantly as a powerhouse until it overcame that era of darkness, only then was it able to march into renaissance (Enlightenment), industrial revolution and democracy. Ethnically and religiously homogeneous Somalia, whose war lords divided it along clans, has yet to escape from the ruins and darkness of her own division. Rwanda to the contra
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