A little tale about short term sollutions versus stable long term solutions.
One thing both of us can agree on, is that our current world situation is [censored].. not many people would place their doubts on this fact, and optimistic views becomes a more and more seldom thing.
During the spring of this year, me and a a guy I know, had contact with a person from the island Mindanao, in the Philipines.
His name is Pedro Luis Cinco, and is in many way quite an extra ordinary good hearted person, that presents to me an ironical contrast to the solutions i see beeing made elsewhere in the world. Let me explain.
In the Philipines, Luson is the main island, with Metro Manilla as its main capital. The government is centralized... hence to say.. all decisions are taken in Manilla, the money, goods etc... is produced in the vast amount of islands around it. The next largest island is Mindanao. Mindano is producing 60% of all goods in the Philipines, but get back very little. Mindanao is very poor, and its infrastructure, healthcare etc.. is very very bad.
So.. Mindanao has wanted to be free for a very long time, and this of course has caused military crashes.
The main rebel militant group in mindanao is NPA (New Peoples Army), a communist division containing about 20.000 soldiers. Around NPA is a long range of more obscure movements.. and one of them called Alex Boncaya Brigade.. sort of a communist/terrorist movement, was the one where our contact Pedro Luis Cinco was part of. Until 20-25 years ago he was fighting suppression in the country by means that is [censored] up.. assasinations, bombings..etc...
One day he came in touch with a woman named Annie Enriqeuz Geron, head of organisation PSlink. PSlink is made with danish sociodemocratic system as role model. PSlink organises workers to stand up for their rights.. usually health care workers. Organising in a pseudo-tyrannny is a good thing if people wants their voice to be heard in contrast to their corrupt politicians.
Anyway.. Annie talked with Pedro. She made him realize that you wouldn't make it anywhere by bombing or killing... solutions for peace was long term. Bombing is basically a form of solution that can be compared with trying to get rich by selling drugs on the streets.. something comes out of it.. fast money, but loads of trouble.
Pedro came to realize that his measures was wrong. Now, and during the last 20 - 25 years, he is doing his part to further stabilisation of the Philipines. Organising workers, educating them. Learning people to read. Improve health care. Start initiatives to further the infrastructure, as well as being part of the peace talks between militant groups, and the government.
My point is, and I was quite interested in this guy because he presented a contrast to the solutions I see the US, Britain and Russia make.
Because of media whoring prime-time electionships of presidents and ministers no solution is made long term.
Only short solutions that make people to see short term results. The weapon manufactorers, media industry etc., have no interest in longer solutions. They think of what gives them money in the current situation, and this is one of the reason why I posted the movie in the first place, because of my opposition to the so called "corporatism".
At least. Try to give it a thought. We will propably never agree on this matter, but look at the current world situation. It is very fragile.. the last parts of stability we have left is not holding very well together. We are on the edge of a religious war, that can rage for decades. I don't want to see a war like that.. but after watching the polarisation of people around their flags, religions, or whatever.. listening to the stupid people on each side, speaking up, but only speaking of hatred, I see a world that is step by step walking down the path to the 3rd world war, that in many ways seems quite inevitable.
Each bomb that falls.. doesn't really looks like freedom does it? Total annihilation for democracy?
and a question for you: how can you actually know that your kind of democracy actually is the best? Democracy comes in many forms.. we have one kind in Europe, another in US.. all our lifes we get told that our way of governing is the best, but is it? Who are we to say that our way of thinking is better than anybody elses?
