A historical visit a thousand years ago
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If a celestial visitor were to pass over the earth a thousand years ago without knowing any language, culture, or religion, and observe the earth, the people, the time, and the work, a clear impression would form in their mind as a result of the repetition of the scenes, that this world is not one world, but two worlds, and that there are two distinct lines separating the people on the globe, just like the lines of longitude and latitude, the equator, the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer, but these are not geographical lines, but rather two distinct civilizational lines, or we can say two axes of the north and south.
The first axis (Tangier - Jakarta) possesses wealth, knowledge, and military power, is economically active, and international trade routes pass through its lands, its markets are crowded with goods, people, and money together, in the greatest economic dynamism known to the financial markets, its houses are adorned with books of global science and culture and various translations, and its gatherings are filled with scientific research and debates in the manner recorded for us by the intellectual of that era, Abu Hayyan Al-Tawhidi, in his book “Enjoyment and Sociability” "Al-Imtia' wa Al-Mu'anasa", and its schools that measure the circumference of the earth and plan to select the best location to build a hospital through the experience of the resistance of the flesh to corruption, and its countries possess advanced regular armies, and its cities are filled with active and beautiful people, wearing clean and beautiful clothes, and in a city like Baghdad, more than 800 doctors treat tens of thousands of people in dozens of hospitals and clinics, who enjoy prosperity, regularly visit public baths, care about cleanliness and beauty, exude elegance, compete in elegance in food and clothing, and spend a lot of time in scholarly gatherings and travels, as immortalized in Arabic literature in the stories of Sinbad the Sailor, and the gatherings of wit and humor, the wonders of travels and the marvels of events, in the stories of One Thousand and One Nights, and the book "Al-Aghani" by Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani."
The book of global culture and the lines of civilization were written at that time from right to left, and in the second axis on the London-Moscow line, most of the world's people live in poverty and backwardness, with the plague spreading among them, claiming at least a third of the population. In dirty cities that do not know the system of sanitation and bathrooms yet, they chase witches and cats, treat whooping cough with donkey milk, buy tickets to enter paradise, burn scientists and books together in public squares, on charges of heresy and disbelief, and their cities are crowded with beggars in the manner described by the famous French novelist Victor Hugo in his global story "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". They treat the mentally ill with chains and beatings with a club to extract evil spirits from their skulls, and attribute the spread of diseases to constellations and planets or Jews! People come out in lines that roam the countryside, beating themselves with a whip to ward off disease, or burning Jews, witches, and cats together in public squares, and from their midst, bands of poor pilgrims move to visit Jerusalem, or bankrupt Crusader gangs led by men of the caliber of Richard the Lionheart. Pope Laughter laughs the most at those who claim that the earth is round, saying: Have people gone to this extent that it enters their minds that countries, trees, and people are hanging from the other end? In a (caricatured) civilized image that even the greatest artist's brush fails to capture!
After exactly a thousand years, the celestial visitor gets dizzy and crosses his eyes, and begins to walk on his head until he understands reading the lines again. The north moves to the south, and the south shifts to settle in the north in a very inverse equation. The axis of Tangier-Jakarta is crowded with poor, feeble, and helpless people unable to solve their problems, in which the Islamic world holds great weight, has lost the global bet, and is surrounded by a Western capitalist civilization with unified management that governs its grip on the entire globe, armed with nuclear missiles, financial institutions, and scientific research centers for the first time in the history of the human race. And the line of the north has flipped this time to extend its control over four new continents, and puts his hand on the sea navigation routes and with it the global wealth, and possesses advanced regular armies that surprised the Mamluk knights at the foot of the pyramids at the end of the eighteenth century, along with advanced weapons such as rifles and artillery, in addition to sophisticated military technology.
The West today owns three-fifths of the Earth's land and four of every five important rivers in geography, and five fertile valleys out of every seven fertile valleys suitable for agriculture, and possesses eight tenths of every nine tenths and a half in the world. And it sleeps in Manhattan in New York, the greatest treasure of gold in the history of the human race, which the Pharaoh Khufu never dreamed of, and which even Korah himself did not possess. The language of Richard the Lionheart spread to become the global language, and a house was built on the moon for his descendants, and the Sojourner rover was sent to the surface of Mars.
The German magazine "Der Spiegel" represents this global upheaval under the title (Upside Down - VERKEHRTE WELT), and represents it by the global energy consumption, where North America tops the list, consuming a third of what all humans consume on the face of the earth (822.12 million tons), followed by Europe in second place (114.07 million tons), and Eastern European countries in third place (216.85 million tons). The entire continent of Africa shrinks in this map to the equivalent of Spain's energy consumption. When the image is inflated, America or the opposite, the size of the countries shrank to the amount of energy consumption. The image of the world turned into giant creatures inhabited by the white man, and we turned into dwarf creatures and tails belonging to mythical dinosaur-like creatures that expand along the north axis line, which the Algerian thinker Malik Bennabi previously called (Washington - Moscow).
The question is, how did this sudden upheaval happen, and when?