World Shift

Throughout history certain events such as: wars, literacy, advance of social societies, great feats of architecture, nationalism, have affected our world dearly. In the west the idea of time and space compression is normal everyday life, and our sense of history is dulled do to the lack of focus and remembrance on our part. We tend to forget the most important "small" things that have affected us all. We fail to see the global panoramic events that have changed the tides of history. The idea of nationalism is very recent, and yet we act as it has been present from the beginning (which for America is truth, but it also ignores the rest of the ENTIRE WORLD). We act and know (or don't know) these things because we have a view from the top. What if our seat won't last, it certainly didn't for Europe. Over time general idea's and notions tend to start in Europe and end up in America (look at music, religion, governments), and eventually moving ultimately west (or technically east) to Asia. People in Asia tend to realize trends as these better than us in the west. There are many things pointing toward the advancement of Asia, to the top status. It shall be interesting in the next decade to see where we end up.