Your new graphic novel, The Ruins of Empire, deals, in part, with the decline of the West’s global domination. Is this – and its corollary, the rise of the BRICS1 powers – a positive development?
There’s no guarantee that a new power will be just. But I think it guarantees a different world. I don’t know if humanity is going to wipe itself totally off the planet. What I do know for certain is that the current system, which enables a few individuals in Europe and elsewhere to amass greater wealth than that of entire countries, is just not tenable. And whether or not Europe and the US would rather destroy the entire planet than have a world that is bipolar, a world that is negotiable, a world in which the US and Britain, in particular, don’t just get to do whatever the hell they want – only time will tell. But that world is certainly emerging.
