The Economist - 2025 cover

China down?
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The buildings refer to the big real estate problem China have I guess.

The following image is the symbol of a far-right secret organization, although (for the time being) I don't know what relation it has with the sun above.​

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The organization is known as El Yunque (the Anvil)
The National Organization El Yunque is the name of a secret paramilitary, ultra-Catholic and extreme right-wing organization of Mexican origin of national and international scope, which declares as its purpose to "defend the Catholic religion and fight against the forces of Satan" and to establish "the kingdom of Christ on earth. Wikipedia
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El Yunque was born in 1975 in Mexico and is financed by businessmen who oppose state control of the country's economic life. This organization came to public light with documents leaked by Wikileaks where it was revealed that El Yunque had expanded first to Spain with the anti-communist Catholic youth and then to 50 countries, now forming a vast subversive network aimed at penetrating and destabilizing countries and/or overthrowing governments considered "enemies" by the United States.

El Yunque is rooted in the private universities. In Mexico, at the Universidad Panamericana and the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), from where it obtains elements for its cadres who are later encouraged to study in the United States and return to Mexico to occupy important positions in the public administration (Basically an indoctrination). This until the arrival of President Lopez Obrador and his socialist policies (known as Fourth Transformation)

Today, with the loss of political power in Mexico the ultra-right has become an enemy of the Fourth Transformation Regime now led by Claudia Sheinbaum. For this reason they have approached Trump in the hope that he will help them overthrow what they consider a communist and satanic regime. Mexican actor Eduardo Verastegui (known in the US for the movie Sound of Freedom) has served as a liaison with the next tenant of the White House.


Next to the ultra-right symbol we see the American continent. Possibly the sun represents the dawn of a new right-wing drive to regain the power it has lost in Latin America and with the help of Trump.

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The symbol of El Yunque is also one that represents conservatism. That is why Ursula Von Der Leyen appears.​
Von der Leyen’s re-election consolidates Europe’s shift to the right

The German technocrat’s second term at the helm of the European Commission will focus on business, conservative values and external security threats.

After an intense round of negotiations with parliamentary groups across the political spectrum, German conservative politician Ursula von der Leyen secured a second term as president of the European Commission.

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Technocrat is a word I've heard frequently lately, mainly with Elon Musk's rise to a position of power. See Musk on the cover? No, he is part of the power that rocks the cradle, one of the powers behind the throne in the Trump presidency, yet he is represented by a green or electric car.
 
There may well be an acceleration of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, with the use of nuclear missiles and radioactive fallout over Europe (see the yellow circles on the cover).
Biden has already authorized the use of long-range missiles on Russian territory, which the Ukrainian government was quick to use.
Putin, for his part, is warning the world that the use of nuclear weapons is an option. It could be a dangerous spiral for everyone.
 

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It's hideous, very crude, not refined at all, the images are ugly, the colors are dull. What a horror. Then all these images on top of each other remind me of the Chinese game of Mahjong, because there are other images underneath. We should see what they represent… to understand the real message, if message is.
 
Interesting that Putin doesn't figure anywhere in the image, or even a recognizable reference to Russia. Wonder what that's about? Unless the message is that it is subordinate to China. and doesn't merit a nod. What's with Jane Austen??

There are some lines of scholarship focusing on the politics she would have been surrounded with, being only a couple of decades after the French Revolution, and writing during the Napoleonic wars. Some close readers have said she walked a fine line in her stories in being socially acceptable, yet slipping in political commentary. Not sure how that meshes with the Economist cover. From a reddit post:

We must remember that in the shadow of the French Revolution, the Regency era was a rather repressive era politically and that writers were often scrutinized for adhering to appropriate ideas. Expressing radical ideas was a problem in those times. There is a very interesting book called Jane Austen the Secret Radical, by Helen Kelly that takes a revisionist view of Austen (at least revisionist in the era of Butler). While I find some of her positions hard to swallow, she makes a good case that Jane was very political and that there are numerous clues in all of the books. Of course, that raises the question of what is political? Clearly Jane Austen had issues with a lot of the status quo of Regency society - primogeniture, entails, male domination; her heroines are intelligent, capable women of character. She mocks and chastises British nobility, the class system, and even the Church of England. But she does so in a deeply personal way as each of those impact the story she is telling.
 
It's hideous, very crude, not refined at all, the images are ugly, the colors are dull. What a horror

Yup. In terms of colors, red and black predominate. Images of global leaders in black and white exactly like a horror movie.

Some believe that the colors red and black are an expression of both nationalism and fascism.


Red represents love and passions while black represents authority and death, together they represent the human emotions of power and domination.

AI Gemini mentions that "black can be seen as a protective barrier that keeps others away" and in fact, it can be seen in different parts of the cover of The Economist, black brick walls and red metal mesh. Undoubtedly the second rise of Trump represents not only nationalism but also isolationism, the end of globalization or globalized groups.

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Of course, Trump is at the center of this gloomy global scenario. We do not see a smiling and victorious Trump but one with a straight face. In fact, the photo reminds me of those that are placed near the coffin at a wake. Will Trump survive a new attempt by the Deep State?

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Saturn is up there dominating everything because this planet will be the Zeitgeist of 2025 according to the vision of the elite. Astrologer Linda George mentions in this regard:

"...the symbol for Saturn for example, tells us we may be dealing with the energy of time, authority, control, fear, anxiety, blockage, restriction, limitation, discipline, hard work, difficulty, boundaries, physical structures, ageing, the law, bones, the teeth, the skeleton, the colour black, etc. "

"The vibratory frequency field emanating from the planet Saturn is conveyed to our conscious, and more worryingly, our unconscious minds, via the language of symbolism. This means that the frequency field of fear and control is impinging our own frequency field – and thereby altering it (when two fields touch, both are altered) without us even knowing it!"

"Saturn energy is the energy of fear and control and it is the energy that defines, most clearly, the dense, material, third dimension – the place where waveform energy is slowed to its extreme, giving the appearance of solidity. This is the world of forms, the world of finite forms. The world that Saturn rules – as we say in astrology."

"When people are fearful, they are easier to control – and that is the agenda. Religion is a glaring example of control through fear, and look at it! Organised religions are masters of divide and rule – and rife with symbolism: the symbolism of Saturn."

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Saturn is also chronos, time, and the fact that it is present over a city reminds us of the World Economic Forum's dream of controlling everything by designing 15-minute cities.​

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Saturn is Satanism
 
Several things caught my attention.

There are several pictures with a red frame and a black background:

The planet Saturn.
The planet Earth showing the American continent.
Trump.
Putin.
The symbol of the closed fist, which according to the network is a symbol of solidarity, defiance and resistance.
Possibly the photo of the writer Jane Austen, who wrote the book Pride and Prejudice, for example.
And an upward arrow, a symbol of an improving market.

What caught my attention the most was the hourglass with time starting to run, while in previous years the hourglasses they put up had almost run out of time.

That's what I found most curious.
 
What caught my attention the most was the hourglass with time starting to run, while in previous years the hourglasses they put up had almost run out of time.

That's what I found most curious.
Yes, 2024’s cover had an hourglass prominently shown nearly expired. The 2024 cover was black and white, blue and red. So 2025’s cover perhaps depicts the start of a new Republican era, hence the dominance of red.
 
I find the presence of Jane Austen in this setting really strange. I also think it's a good image of her, clear, limpid compared to the other images of the other characters. She's at the bottom of the frame, so she's like a support.

So I ask myself, what does Jane Austen have to say?

I searched for information about her and found these two paragraphs, which seemed interesting given the context of the setting.

Rather than delving too deeply into the psyche of her characters, Austen enjoys them and imbues them with humor, according to critic John Bayley. He believes that the well-spring of her wit and irony is her own attitude that comedy "is the saving grace of life".

Part of Austen's fame rests on the historical and literary significance that she was the first woman to write great comic novels. Samuel Johnson's influence is evident, in that she follows his advice to write "a representation of life as may excite mirth”.

Maybe she is telling us don't take it all so seriously, see the situation with irony, humor, laughter. Because when it comes down to it, everything is a show, is Commedia dell'arte.

Of course, I let my imagination run wild, since Jane Austen was a writer and the art of writing is a work of the imagination.

Virginia Woolf write an article about her and she says in it:

But the gossip says of Jane Austen that she was perpendicular, precise, and taciturn — "a poker of whom everybody is afraid". Of this too there are traces; she could be merciless enough; she is one of the most consistent satirists in the whole of literature.

So lets say that all of this, this frame and this reality is a satire.

Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement Although satire is usually meant to be humorous, its greater purpose is often constructive social criticism, using wit to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in society.
 
Jane Austen is transition?

In this context that seems to suggest a world heading towards extreme nationalism, ultra-right and authoritarianism, Jane Austen's image seems a contradiction but it is not gratuitous that she is here because her life took place in a time of revolutions.
The Age of Revolution:
Jane Austen's life coincided with one of the most transformative eras in global history, marked by numerous Revolutions which immeasurably changed the political and social landscape of the world. Born in 1771, Austen lived through the American Revolution (1775-83), the French Revolution (1789-99), the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), and the Napoleonic Wars (1803-15).​
Despite living against the backdrop of political unrest, Jane Austen never directly refers to any revolutions in her writing. The critic Raymond Williams wrote in 1975: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that Jane Austen chose to ignore the decisive historical events of her time.

Although she ignored the revolutions of his time, she did make use of military characters in his novels.​
Thus, even though her novels do not directly write about revolutions or wars, Austen was clearly aware of the impact they had on everyday Georgian society.
Did Jane Austen write about any revolutions?

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I think for this reason, of ignoring what is happening in the world, Jane Austen looks away from the fist that is a symbol of revolution and resistance. (like Trump who on the day of the attempt raised his fist and shouted "fight!")

She is at the base, not at the top like Saturn, maybe she represents the rest of humanity, not the worshippers of Saturn, which by the way, It is also represented as black stone, the black rock or the black cube (It is not for free that Saturn is inside a black square). It is not surprising that Saturn appears over a black city that looks like New York, an international financial center that is prophesied to be destined to disappear.

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So on one side we have an eye with the nuclear symbol and a graphic pointing towards the city while on the other side the eye of the once mighty dollar is next to an hourglass marking that its time is ticking.

Now, the Georgian era also represented a period of transition to the Victorian era.​
The Georgian era was a period in British history from 1714 to c. 1830–1837. The transition to the Victorian era was characterized in religion, social values, and the arts by a shift in tone away from rationalism and toward romanticism and mysticism. Wikipedia
Romanticism...The purpose of the movement was to advocate for the importance of subjectivity, imagination, and appreciation of nature in society and culture in response to the Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. Wikipedia​
Mysticism is popularly known as becoming one with God or the Absolute, but may refer to any kind of ecstasy or altered state of consciousness which is given a religious or spiritual meaning. Wikipedia​

All in all, I think Jane Austen represents humanity in the year 2025, which with a certain weariness apathy or disillusionment is trying to find new meanings and answers. It is not uncommon, therefore, that people fall into idealism as a golden age, into messianism as the new MAGA era. Faced with the reality of a world in climatic and geophysical chaos, any ISM can be the solution.

 
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