Change for the better, right. Otherwise
change is of no use, but then how do we know it will improve, we merely embrace
it in the hope it will improve, whatever it is that we want improved.
In a Country where the Prime Minister
comes even to open a multistory car park in the heart of Maharagama, when they should
be coming up as a matter of natural growth in highly congested cities, more as
an expectation and a business proposition, we are hard wired to think that even
common or garden organic growth is something we must even celebrate!
It was partly with this intention, and
to highlight the growth of the hair care industry, that would go unnoticed, had
I not taken the plunge and dyed my hair for a dare, against the normal expectations
of our society, that I was testing how this change would be taken by just those
on my friends list to whom this information would go on social media.
The comments are there for all to read,
and surprisingly, there were many in the older age group who one would consider
less likely to approve, were complimentary, whereas the youth of course
embraced it with gusto.
Coming to the nub of my argument then,
is the need for an attitudinal change in our society, as far as our political
culture is concerned but related to that, and much needed for the change, is
the change in the whole educational system and thinking to face the next 50
years instead of teaching methods, more in tune with the last 100 years.
In social media sites such as Voice for
Change, it is quite apparent that everyone wants change as the current status
quo just does not produce the goods, but there is no uniformity on how it
should be done, and the blame game is the result.
I am afraid sometimes there comes a
time, we have to take the plunge, where the existing order is the worst of all
alternatives, and anything else would be an improvement.
Let’s stick to politics here. If we don’t
throw out the familiar NOW, we are again left to ponder what might have been
for another 5 or 6 years, as that is what is being planned. The same faces,
jockeying for position, working out the strategy to fool the people sufficiently
by fears unfounded IF NECESSARY to stay or regain power, and we the people,
being suckered to believe that Change cannot win, so let’s choose the lesser of
two evils. IS THAT A CHOICE?
1 comment:
I had a comment on my FB post, which I think I should share here, and that is that we just have to be the change we want, as there is no one who will do it for us, everyone is for themselves only. So if there are like minded people who want the same thing, like for example, no one in the present parliament to be returned, then we need to do what we can to force legislation to that effect, and not vote for a candidate or party which espouses anything but!
I would add however that we individually have to take proactive steps to talk to and influence others of the efficacy and need to follow the same course of action, by persuasion and explanation, and allay their fears, namely that of tactical voting, which is the way our voters (the floating ones) have got used to bounce from one deadly lot to the other
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