I've been watching a bit of the coverage of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was great to re-live the moment that the wall fell and see the people who had been held captive by it free. Let me be clear, I think that the Berlin wall was a terrible symbol of a divided world and I was pleased to see it fall, but I miss an alternative ideology.
I was also watching the secret history of the wall a few days ago and it showed a number of people who moved to the East because they believed in the ideology. They wanted to be part of establishing a new utopia. The socialist ideology that drove them was quickly corrupted, and eventually the wall collapsed and western capitalism dominated. Western capitalism has been the dominant force since, all the Easter Block countries quickly moved to a capitalist system with the only communist countries being dictatorships.
I want to know where the new ideologies are? Where the new utopia dreams are? And I want a coherent dream of the whole of society, not a fundamentalism, not a far left or far right wing view of it. In fact I don't want something that identifies itself as left or right, I want something that moves beyond division into togetherness...can some one point me in the right direction?
