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Wouldn't it be paradoxical, then, if financial alchemy could make an ingot of gold worth dramatically more?
Indeed, on the surface it seems to be its perfect antithesis: the collapse of a wall symbolizing oppression and artificial divisions versus the collapse of a seemingly indestructible and reassuring institution of financial capitalism.
Yet 2008-2009, like 1989, may very well correspond to an epochal change, whose unfolding consequences will be felt for decades.
Everyone seems to be a loser, even if some are more affected than others.
A different kind of revolution was taking place in Europe's former colonies in Asia, where native peoples had no desire to be ruled once more by Western powers, which had been so ignominiously defeated by Japan.
For a short while, many prominent people - Albert Einstein, for one - believed that only a world government would be able to ensure global peace.
All forms of leftist ideology - indeed, everything that smacked of collective idealism - came to be viewed as misguided utopianism that could lead only to the Gulag.
It cannot be the same as the 1945 consensus, but we would do well, on this anniversary, to remember why that consensus was forged in the first place.
I just took it for granted that, by the time I was, say, 40, space travel would be a common thing.
Some of today's restrictions on habeas corpus and civil liberties have sunset clauses restricting their validity; all such rules should be re-examined by parliaments regularly.
Terrorists continue to be outliers with limited appeal at best.
Drones - unmanned aircraft that are remotely steered - have proven to be effective in killing a significant number of terrorists, including many of the most important leaders.
Terrorists and terrorism cannot be eliminated any more than we can rid the world of disease.
But, in some cases, the harmonized standard could be more stringent than some countries' original standards.
Now, emboldened by continuing appreciation, some are suggesting that gold could be headed even higher than that.
And if you are really worried about that, gold might indeed be the most reliable hedge.
Even so, the fact that very high inflation is possible does not make it probable, so one should be cautious in arguing that higher gold prices are being driven by inflation expectations.
But before this new order appears, the world may be faced with spreading disorder, if not outright chaos.
We can only hope that, in the end, the consequences of 2009 similarly prove to be far less dramatic than we now - intuitively and in our historical reflexes - feel them to be.
In fact, my formal residence is in New York City, but I am about to spend most of the next five months in Russia, training to be a cosmonaut in Star City, just outside Moscow.
It is and would be wrong to make opposition to terrorism the centerpiece of what responsible governments do in the world.