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Furthermore, advertising stimulates desires in people pointing them in the direction of acquiring certain goods for the purpose of stimulating the demand. For the most part, these goods are useless and frivolous and, in the long term, create dissatisfaction. (25:1) In the course of the years this concept has been modified and perfected but the basic idea of the mechanism on which our economy is based has remained unchanged. Many nations even destroy excessive production rather than diminish its price. In spite of it all, few people realize that today we live in a transitional period dominated by the old nationalistic systems of government and economics. With the fall of the Berlin Wall which nobody had believed could happen in such a short time, the problems facing nations have enormously increased. The duopoly US-URSS, that guided the world's destiny for more than forty years, was not followed, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, by an equally determined and alternative center of world power even if, doubtless, the United States has this potential. (25:2) Precisely because internationalization and globalization prevail in the world, phenomena, with the fall of the Berlin Wall, have become disturbing elements of the world order which until yesterday were sustained by the freezing of the cold war, namely: dangers of massive immigrations, the aspirations of minority groups, the self-determination of people, the fading away of border regulations, the spread of financial crime and political immorality, the renewal of persecutions and religious conflicts. Regained freedom in Eastern European Countries after half a century of dictatorship, the desire of these same countries to organize their own internal affairs independently from each other, the astonishing thirst for autonomy and independence of different ethnic groups kept together for many years by the threat of terror, have all caused conflict and war among peoples who treated each other as brothers until yesterday; without any national or international organization being able to stop or to control them. Wars and conflicts have caused new suffering for those who had already suffered, have caused millions of dead, have completely destroyed cities and territories. (25:3) After fifty years of economic and cultural seclusion, the idea of quickly assimilating and imitating the experience of Western countries, their economy, their material wealth, their way of living, has created in those people, at long last liberated from the proletariat dictatorship, a state of great excitement for sudden change, worsening the internal condition of those countries. Executive and legislative chaos of newly elected parliaments, internal struggles and wars, massive emigration towards those false paradises of the white race, total inexperience in conducting public affairs have determined such a unbalanced situation that many western countries have been forced to physically close their borders in order to prohibit the entrance of millions of desperate people in search of work, food, and housing, so erroneously publicized on their televisions which show unreal pictures of a rich, comfortable and absolutely untrue lifestyle in western countries. Finding themselves in a foreign country, unwelcome, unwanted, deprived of the minimum for their survival, has exacerbated relations between local residents and immigrants to such an extent that organized groups where formed for the sole purpose of physically eliminating these desperate people who come from various poor countries. All these problems are general and, even if a single nation could solve them, problems would remain, because as the above analysis has pointed out, the issue is transnational. It is like a small ball that tries to escape from an iron circle placed on a flat surface. Any direction, north, south, east or west, would confine the ball within the border. The ball is in difficulty because it is only moving on a flat surface and can't escape. The only possible solution is to move from the flat surface into space. Only by lifting the ball into the third dimension will give it a chance to come out. In like manner, nations inundated and distraught with similar problems, attempt to solve them within the confines of the iron circle of their own borders and their own national politics, without realizing that the problem can only be solved by "leaping" from the national into the international dimension.
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