to blog or not to

This is my 3rd or 4th attempt to start a blog. I guess the difference with this one (i hope) is that, more recently, i have become dissatisfied with the limitations of platforms like facebook. if you want to put some considered thought to paper (figuratively) then facebook and social media is too limiting. so. here is my first considered posting.
The Prague Spring
On 21st August 1968 the tanks rolled into Prague bringing to an end a social and political experiment which, had it been allowed to continue, might have changed the course of history. Sci Fi is awash with what if scenarios and speculating on what might have been is reduced, at the end of the day, to wishes and fishes. But 1968 was such a pivotal year around the world. Not since 1848 had the world erupted (seemingly spontaneously) into mass demonstrations and calls for an end to the ancien regimes. From Newark to Paris, Rio to Belfast, the youth of the world were on the march.
The Warsaw Pact wasn't immune. Alexander Dubcek came to power in January and set about trying to free up the social and political culture of Czechoslovakia. This Prague spring offered hope that state controlled socialism could find the means within itself to reform itself. Here was the opportunity to "pilot" political reform. Alas the soviet politburo had neither the intelligence nor the flexibility to see Dubcek's reforms as an opportunity, only as a threat.
Twenty two years later the edifice of communism collapsed under the weight of its own inflexibility and its internal contradictions. Unfortunately it was the spivs and the carpetbaggers who stole the family jewels and the end result of 70 years of socialism was a reversion to Czarism with the peasants losing out again.
And in the west? The promise of "68 and its focus on individual liberties degenerated into a kind of "me too" selfishness of rampant consumerism based on a market economy that cannibalises itself on a daily basis until it will eventually disappear up its own materialist avarice.