by Christopher D. Lowe ( http://www.weblogbahamas.com )
Change is inevitable, but it may not be the change we think we want.
Adverse situations on a personal, tribal and national level force change, but up until recently these changes have been subtle, and have all been occurring in relatively good times.
Now more than ever our country needs competent people to contribute intellectually in charting the rough waters ahead and I for one firmly believe the roughest is yet to come.
Especially if our current crop of politicians and civil servants keep acting as if everything is under control and will improve in spite of their efforts.
A pessimist? Me? No way, I am an optimist and a realist, but I am getting hemmed in by some pretty mediocre resources, which is making it difficult to stay optimistic. I will always deal with reality head on, as dismal as it may get.
Take interpersonal communications for instance: I have yet to have a conversation of any length with a politician that is, for lack of better words, coherent in thought and progression. In fact, I am beginning to think that they think in 30 second commercial type sound bites.
There is no development of the idea, real or abstract, and no discussions have ever ended very well. Any authority they have, whoever they may be, usually ends up being wielded as power, as an effort to subjugate me.
As those who know me will attest, this has never gone over very well.
Most often I start to feel as if I am re-living the tower of Babel Biblical story, in which the tribes are scattered to the winds through their sudden lack of ability to speak to each other.
At this point I should probably take my leave, and go back to my quiet corner, survive as best as is possible, and stay out of the way.
Who am I to tell anyone what to do or how to do it?
But, at the same time, this is my country as much as anyone else’s, and I choose to try my damndest to contribute come hell or high water. And I probably will for life.
One last thought for now: A lot of Bahamians in high and mighty places better learn to laugh at themselves every so often instead of laughing at other Bahamians, the ones they try to keep under foot.
This applies to the two political leadership groups, the complete farces that they are.
Remember, whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. (Euripides Greek tragic dramatist 484 BC - 406 BC)
There is ample madness in the Bahamas to give that thought credibility.
