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“What do we do if we don't have hope?"
Michelle Obama 'This is what not having hope feels like'
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When the question of what will define 2016 comes up, the response most often includes words and sentiments like “Brexit” and “Brexiteers”- “Trump” and “populism”- “alt-right” and “progressive v reactionary”, “open v closed”, “liberalism v fascism”, “rational v irrational”- “division” and “anger”- “fear” and “frustraion”- “mistrust” and “foreigners, immigrants, asylum-seekers”- “xenophobia, racism, intolerance” and “Islam, Muslims, Mexicans, Latinos”- “securing our borders, making our countries great again”- “article 50” and “judges the enemies of people”…: All summarised in "Post-truth", named word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries, as an adjective "relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief".
There are many reasons/scenarios, indeed, as many as words themselves out there, to explain why 2016 came to be defined by such negative sentiments as the ones noted above.
To my mind, there are two main reasons:
- We Refugees: I am told I have no country now
- Thank you Governor Carney: Yes, You are Right- We Need Globalisation for the Common Good
- GCGI Christmas Appeal 2016: The Gift of Refugees and Migrants
- Brexit, Trump and the failure of our universities to pursue wisdom
- Black Friday, Brexit and Trumpian Values: Deadly forces taking over our world, controlling our minds
- The new Brexit and Trumpian World Order: Will they engulf Europe and the rest of the world?
- Beyond the Agony and Hatred