Before i address the meaning behind the title of this post, i would like to go over the definition of disillusionment. The definition of disillusionment based upon my trustworthy dictionary is the following: a feeling of disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not as good as one believed it to be.
Disillusionment really hit me shortly after Putin's War started. Prior to the actual initiation of that war, i truly thought my new book, Globanomics, was the greatest thing sense sliced-bread. I thought Putin's War had put a monkey-wrench into all of my well laid out plans for a loving world working for the betterment of all.
Prior to Putin's War, Linda, my wife, had, on her own, put a copy of Globanomics standing cover-forward on a table in our den where we watch television nearly every evening. Earlier, i was so proud of that book, and Linda's own action in doing what she did, i let it remain as she had put it there.
About four days into Putin's War, i became so disillusioned with Globanomics, i had to take the book down and put it in a drawer. For reasons of my own, i had let my greatest success become my greatest failure. No longer could i stand looking at my failure to eliminate war, let alone Putin's War. No longer could i even think of opening my Globanomics book up again. I was embarrassed, ashamed, and disillusioned for what i had written. I thought i must look like a fool. I had let my "super high" get the best of me, and i knew everyone must be laughing at me.
Since those early days of Putin's War, my disillusionment began to temper. At one point, i even began to think Putin's War might be good for "globanomics". Putin's War was making things more clear as to why Freedom is superior to Authoritarianism--one of the basic tenets of globanomics--and why globanomics is so important to the world.
Now today, my disillusionment has completely dissipated. Globanomics is very much alive, and i think Putin's War may have even sped up its implementation. Now all i need to do is increase the readership of Globanomics.
Go figure.
ps. due to other recent events, if the United States is going to lead the world toward globanomics (like i said it will and should), the United States will need to clean up its act relating to its gun laws beginning with a ban of all assault rifles in civilian hands. It's important to remember that "love" and "do no harm" are also fundamental tenets of globanomics. It's very difficult for a country like the United States to take the high moral ground when it turns a blind eye to the real cause of gun deaths in America. Guns kill people and people use guns to kill people.
ps2. Globanomics only works in a free and open world. And democracies are at risk if they allow a deranged, small minority, to set legislation and policies that are deemed abhorrent to the majority of the populace. As things stand today, we have a two-party system, which seem to share the popular vote somewhat equally or close to equally. One of those parties (the republican party) has become so dependent upon a small group of haters they can no longer get elected without kowtowing to those haters. We cannot afford for that party to be successful. In case any of you are still disillusioned about the important role that the United States must play in the world, think what your disillusionment will be if the "haters" gain control for real (again). This is not the time to get discouraged; instead, it is time to be active and to vote for freedom and democracy. And to vote democratic.