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2030: A Letter to My Grandson
A nomadic political analyst realizes he will soon become a grandfather. So he decides to write a digital letter to his grandson-to-be; an intangible legacy, encompassing some lessons he learned from life. The letter can only be “opened” in 2030, when the grandson will be a teenager in a world in turmoil. Beginning with Bob Dylan and touching on techno, Keats, Maserati, Siddhartha, Shakespeare, Blake, Borges, Xuanzang and scores of other legacies, the author shares his experience and wisdom in a deeply cultured and tremendously moving ode to the beauty and richness of past and future worlds. A wonderful gift for any seeker.
Pepe Escobar is an independent geopolitical analyst. He writes for RT, Sputnik, TomDispatch, Strategic Culture Foundation, and is a frequent contributor to websites and radio and TV shows ranging from the US to East Asia. He is the former roving correspondent for Asia Times Online, where he also wrote the column The Roving Eye from 2000 to 2014. Born in Brazil, he's been a foreign correspondent since 1985, and has lived in London, Paris, Milan, Los Angeles, Washington, Bangkok and Hong Kong. He is the author of "Globalistan" (2007), "Red Zone Blues" (2007), "Obama does Globalistan" (2009) and "Empire of Chaos" (2014), all published by Nimble Books. Follow him on https://www.facebook.com/pepe.escobar... Facebook
Pepe Escobar is an independent geopolitical analyst. He writes for RT, Sputnik, TomDispatch, Strategic Culture Foundation, and is a frequent contributor to websites and radio and TV shows ranging from the US to East Asia. He is the former roving correspondent for Asia Times Online, where he also wrote the column The Roving Eye from 2000 to 2014. Born in Brazil, he's been a foreign correspondent since 1985, and has lived in London, Paris, Milan, Los Angeles, Washington, Bangkok and Hong Kong. He is the author of "Globalistan" (2007), "Red Zone Blues" (2007), "Obama does Globalistan" (2009) and "Empire of Chaos" (2014), all published by Nimble Books. Follow him on https://www.facebook.com/pepe.escobar... Facebook
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First published November 17, 2015
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December 31, 2019
Lots of cultural references, a number of which for show-off purposes, extremely unstructured, absolutely non-edited by anyone.
The author is one of the very few real journalists around, a fabulous reporter and a peerless essayist about the current transition in power geopolitics, with an interesting life, so it's worth reading. There are lots of observations like "As you’re born, Cold War 2.0 is installing a virtual wall from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea. What is certain is that you are being born in a EU where Germany is an economic colossus with clay feet, incapable of a truly visionary pan-European project. You are being born into a EU where fathers and mothers despair about their unemployed—or underpaid—sons and daughters; their slashed pensions; their neglected public services. You are being born right into the most serious economic crisis since the Depression in the 1930s—possibly the early warning sign of an endless stagnation. You will be hurled smack into the eye of the hurricane, as a member of the first generation to emerge into something completely different; the closing of a historical phase that lasted half a millennium—the rule of the White Man over the whole planet, starting with the “Great” Discoveries and throughout colonialism. It’s as if History’s pendulum—the Angel of History’s vengeance?—would be sending us back half a millennium ago, when Chindia was the center of the world, wealthier, more populous, more advanced."
"For so long I thought that 1968 was defined by May 68 in France. It’s forbidden to forbid. Be realist, demand the impossible. No. 1968 was actually defined by the picture of planet Earth—it’s blue, and there’s nothing I can do—transmitted by Apollo 8."
The author is one of the very few real journalists around, a fabulous reporter and a peerless essayist about the current transition in power geopolitics, with an interesting life, so it's worth reading. There are lots of observations like "As you’re born, Cold War 2.0 is installing a virtual wall from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea. What is certain is that you are being born in a EU where Germany is an economic colossus with clay feet, incapable of a truly visionary pan-European project. You are being born into a EU where fathers and mothers despair about their unemployed—or underpaid—sons and daughters; their slashed pensions; their neglected public services. You are being born right into the most serious economic crisis since the Depression in the 1930s—possibly the early warning sign of an endless stagnation. You will be hurled smack into the eye of the hurricane, as a member of the first generation to emerge into something completely different; the closing of a historical phase that lasted half a millennium—the rule of the White Man over the whole planet, starting with the “Great” Discoveries and throughout colonialism. It’s as if History’s pendulum—the Angel of History’s vengeance?—would be sending us back half a millennium ago, when Chindia was the center of the world, wealthier, more populous, more advanced."
"For so long I thought that 1968 was defined by May 68 in France. It’s forbidden to forbid. Be realist, demand the impossible. No. 1968 was actually defined by the picture of planet Earth—it’s blue, and there’s nothing I can do—transmitted by Apollo 8."
December 9, 2020
É quase um poema, uma narrativa solta, como um pássaro voando entre memórias. Talvez budista na sua mensagem, onde importa deixá-la e onde não importa nada, porque tudo é impermanente.
O neto do Pepe Escobar terá de fazer o seu caminho, percorrer o mundo como Xuanzang, mesmo que diferente deste, não tenha terra nem reino ao qual voltar.
O neto do Pepe Escobar terá de fazer o seu caminho, percorrer o mundo como Xuanzang, mesmo que diferente deste, não tenha terra nem reino ao qual voltar.
March 9, 2016
Pepe, that whirlwind journalist, writes a letter to his inutero grandson, willing him his library. And what a fine library it is, with the Madhyamika at one end of the stacks and Diogenes at the other, with The Clash in the middle sparring with Shakespeare. Liberally laced with music references from Robert Johnson and Monk to folk poet Dylan he slips from California dreamin' and takes the babe on a world tour across time from London and Paris, along the Silk Route through Istanbul and Kabul Valley to the vast Steppes. He makes a gas/pit stop on the way to tell how The Who christianized a Taliban. Charming, nostalgic and romantic, Pepe gifts his his heir with an effervescence for life and a library to plot its course.
August 5, 2016
It is a very beautiful letter. You can feel the honesty and love. It is the kind of reading that cannot be described, so, just read it!
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