Another week another revelation. The thing about revelations is, it has got to be revealing to move the minds or to affect the hearts of the masses. When week in week out, we have "news" of things that we already know of, it doesn't stir up much emotion.
This reveals a deep and underlying issue with the society of our country and shows that the political maturity much less the political will of the masses is still in the benign stage. I had wanted to use the growth stage but we aren't exactly growing or progressing much are we?
The severity and number of scandals surrounding a number of elected officials is mind-boggling. How can one enact or be allowed to do such a thing in a "democratic", "free" and "developed" country such as ours? And how does on survive the political deathbed even after being caught red-handed?
Could be that outwardly, we have all the looks and impressions of a democratic country with checks and balances and democratic institutions to enforce the democratic free-will of the people that actually we aren't?
Laws to stifle free speech and to punish expression of different opinions. Laws to send people to jail if they dare to raise their voice or type on their keyboard. Where lays our freedom of speech and the right to have our own opinion? Does every word spoken, every speech made, every article written require the censorship of "Big Brother"?
Moving the masses is the hardest thing to do. I think. Society as a whole is lethargic and lazy. But I had expected that when push comes to shove, with our sovereignty in jeopardy; with our image in tatters; we would all come together to get rid of the cancer that is slowly but surely destroying our country.
I guess Yannis Varoufakis' observation holds more water than i thought. He recently opined, in a TED talk that there are 2 distinct spheres. The political sphere and the monetary sphere. It is evident that here, money talks all the way baby.
Separation of powers my ass.
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