Sunday, 9 September 2007
Obama's plan as addressed to Muslims - work-ability.
Question: Will this work http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8082862.stm (viz., Obama's address to Muslims)?
My opinion: It misses two important items, as follows.
- Kaleem Aziz.
My opinion: It misses two important items, as follows.
- Democracy is not a medicine that can be served. It is to be a change of mood of people who feel they are ready and want it. Otherwise, you've just welcomed to the world yet another mismanaged, corrupt, and undecisive bureaucracy that's a weight on the world and self-absorbed nationalistic to the extent of not recognizing where they fall in the world order.
- Mental/Psychological/Educational gap also creates a Wealth/Maturity gap that is a 200 years or more in some cases. So while on one side you have an ill-prepared/ill-funded bureaucracy trying to handle a 95% even more immature populace (and one that fears getting itself voted out for trying anything different than the will of ill-conceived/backward populace) - their freedom creates the kind of world conflict that we are trying to solve today. a) Government atrocities and b) populace moods - both drive them into deeper isolation as well as positioning against the developed/mature cultures of the world. Is this the basic reason why tradition is always being against progress, and vice-versa? Both believe in different truths and one's good is another's bad. Suggestion is not colonization, but more pervasive global education/modernization/commercialization/privatization. That, more than military deployments or food-medicine aid will fix issues than the current band-aid patches we see being served at steep billing.
- Kaleem Aziz.
