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*"They plunder, they butcher, they ravish, they make it desert and call it peace.
They make it desert and they call it peace."* #Tacitus
We need more astute and globally aware, inspired leaders like "her excellency, #MiaAmoreMley, Prime Minister, Prime Minister and Minister for National Security and the Public Service and
Minister for Finance, Economic Affairs and Investment of #Barbados."
Her address to the #UN assembly is simply brilliant:
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"...But deeper than all of these crises is a bigger, more insidious crisis that is undermining our domestic and global institutions that have promoted order, peace, and prosperity. It is, my friends, the crisis of truth.
Excellencies, 👉when we lose shared truth, our communities, our countries, our global society loses their center of gravity.👈 At first, the damage may seem quiet...
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"...But deeper than all of these crises is a bigger, more insidious crisis that is undermining our domestic and global institutions that have promoted order, peace, and prosperity. It is, my friends, the crisis of truth.
Excellencies, 👉when we lose shared truth, our communities, our countries, our global society loses their center of gravity.👈 At first, the damage may seem quiet...
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"...But deeper than all of these crises is a bigger, more insidious crisis that is undermining our domestic and global institutions that have promoted order, peace, and prosperity. It is, my friends, the crisis of truth.
Excellencies, 👉when we lose shared truth, our communities, our countries, our global society loses their center of gravity.👈 At first, the damage may seem quiet...
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....Words bend and facts drift in the service of political point scoring.
👉But slowly over time, we descend into political tribalism.
We develop alternative realities and we are unable to understand each other and communicate with each other because we lack a center. Then we grow suspicious of each other.👈
In the absence of truth, trust deteriorates.
And we see it all around us in global forums...
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...and indeed on the blocks and in the communities in our own countries. Trust between neighbors. Trust between the governed and the governing. Trust in our instructions. Trust in our social order. Trust in our health systems. Trust in our global rules governance structures... "
Do listen to the entire article:
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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴