Some are wondering about geopolitics: To where are we heading? Aniki's Japanese group in Bali thinks that the Americanization of this world will continue, as Olaf Stapledon "prophesied" in his sci-fi book, Last and First Men. "Goman! Gojippun," one says, "50 thousand! 50 minutes." Many Americans themselves don't want this kind of future. They think that their White Wonder Bread civilization is sterile. Will China just become more and more Americanized? Is the American Way the most robust? How does the Tagalog Global Xenoglossia play into the world scene? Is it a Renaissance of Animism-Buddhism? Is it a subtle change seeping into the foundations of humanity? Is this world really culturally unipolar, with really the USA as the centre? Is Tagalog a hidden, mystical pole, creating bipolarity in this world?
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