My sojourn in Prague reinforced the values of a free and democratic society.; the champagne socialists engaging in the last bastion of union influence, the Australian public service now number just 12% of the Australian workforce, they are indeed a dying breed.

  

The socialist utopian dream of the sheltered workshop defying free-market influences that must be maintained at all costs is crashing down around them. Instead, a confident nation free from the shackles of protectionism is engaging globalism and free-market forces propelling the nation to the forefront of economic might.

Reflecting on the artwork and inscription at the base of Petrin Hill; the artist depicted the human form in various states of distress and decay, as we look further back, people are disintegrating physically and mentally under the total duress of the totalitarian regime. The victims of the communist regime is not just measured in deaths and prison terms for political dissidents; all society is affected by the discredited totalitarian ideals, independent thought and action, once controlled by the state are almost relics of history – North Korea, Zimbabwe and Burma stand alone as organised despot regimes.

Failed African and Middle Eastern states are far less organised, instead brutally controlled by warlords engaging factional forces against their own people intent on destroying the fabric of the human being. Democracy unfortunately is not viewed as a fundamental right for many world inhabitants by their undemocratic regimes intent on holding power using all means at their disposal to subdue their citizens to enrich themselves only.