Posts Tagged ‘change’
Two elections, two worlds and hope of change
Kenya is rejoicing and backing US Presidential candidate Barrack Obama. This news of rejoice is being carried out by all media channels. It is historic moment indeed. The world is all set to have first African-American President of America. It has been a long march since Martin Luther King gave that historic speech. The change is here and now. Race and colour do not really matter. This long march of Barrack Obama which began in land of blacks in Kenya will end in White house. Yet Africa and America will remain two poles. We live in polarized and disjointed world with ironical connectedness.
Few months ago media was covering another historic election in another part of the world. There was much hope that Zimbabwe will get freedom from Robert Mugabe’s regime which has bled nation for nearly 30 years! But this hope of change was imprisoned, terrorized and forced to flee from that land. People in Zimbabwe now are starving, battling cholera and inflation. Mugabe has made a joke of democracy, elections, western world, equality, economy, development, hope and everything positive. Zimbabwe, Congo, Ethiopia and many other poor nations of Africa are reeling under extreme poverty, hunger, distress and are being raped for resources. But media and world has no time to stop. American financial crisis is the biggest news of all!
On the (Cutting) Edge
At issuesbeyondborders, let us not see the world in terms of countries, regions, and hemispheres. These are borders that divide, and make people revel in their territorial and self-centric nature. The real divisions that put men asunder are not found on terra firma. What separate men are also the same things that drive rifts among them, though not without the possibility of closing in the gaps.
The real demarcations are in the attitude and behavior of men.
So, here at issuesbeyondborders, let’s talk about what happens when human behavior and attitude affect the tides of change, even if the change isn’t at all good. For instance, let’s not talk about the proliferation of Ecstasy in Europe or hashish in Thailand or meth in Hong Kong or cocaine of the Medelin Cartel in South America or, even, heroin in Afghanistan. Instead, let’s talk about the global drug trade and see similarities in how this has spread to practically all corners of the world. What make drug pushing easy and drug use accessible are some of the contexts that we will explore here at issuesbeyondborders.
Let’s drive the shovel deep into the apparent crust of things, and call a spade a spade (pun intended). Though human attitude is the toughest to crack and fathom, issuesbeyondborders hopes to shovel in enough material to actually close in the gaps among humans.
Let’s go out on a limb. Go far to the edge. Let’s flatten the world.
