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When all media focus is on democratic problems - the election processes in Ohio, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Iraq usw - the old powers of personal tyranny - Russia, China and Germany - are out looking for the man! In Tibet and old Lamaism there are a lot of prerequisites that should be fulfilled for the new lama to be elected. He is to be found already as an infant. The ravens must chose him first, and things must occur in the right way, when the lama priests approach the boy in the house the ravens pointed out. The present Dalai Lama tell the story of his life after fleeing the residence in the aftermath of Chinese occupation and describes the process of divine choice. In the old powers of Asia the way to political power is long march. There are always individuals involved here - Joseph Stalin escaped the Siberian imprisonment and walked back to Georgia, through thousands of miles of the Taiga and began organizing the assault on the Tzar. Everybody know the deeds of chairman Mao, bringing freedom to the working class of China, and cultural revolution. The way to ultimate dictatorial power is a long one, but there are always a few robust characters to endure the early defeats, to go against the stream of the current power - always someone believing in something completely opposite to what the political power belives and especially the colonial powers have many enemies. In Asia the waves of colonialism rippel through history and the riders of the mountains colonialize and expand, falls together and collapses. Like pulses of power, flushes of blood, pumped by the hart of the world, the tyrants wake up. In Hollywood
you have the the Austrian Mr. Universe, in Moscow you have Putin and in
China and Germany the strong man is slowly waking up. |