When you have a family let’s say of 5 members, parents and children. On that level it’s fairly easy to have consensus. The problem arises when you have other members joining. Consensus is possible but voting may be more easily achieved. The worst scenario is dictatorship. The same could happen on a local, provincial, national and international levels. Again, the problem is what to do when there are no agreements on the simplest objective: healthcare for all. This should be simple. We humans tend to complicate things when we shouldn’t.
On the international level, government or parliament would function in the voting mode as we can say. Consensus mode would be more difficult if not impossible. Dictatorship would be possible but we firmly believe that is not the mode we would want to have. “Occupy International” is fighting against dictatorship on all levels and domains: political, social, financial, etc. We are also “fighting” against exclusion. We are fighting for a more just world where our government hears and listens to us who voted them into power and if they don’t hear and listen to us we can and should surely vote them out. OASIS of governance must be just that: an OASIS where elected officials and electors come together to discuss their mutual present and future needs in order to live in harmony not just with themselves and each other but with Earth.
Younes told me this: When he was younger in his late twenties he worked with a Japanese engineer who asked him: “why you’re fighting with Israel? If you had a company and needed a Jew would you hire him?” Younes replied: “yes I would. It’s not my problem if he’s a Jew. It’s his. I’m a Muslim, it’s my problem not his. Ordinary people don’t want war, only leaders. If I need a worker I would hire him.”
Then, Younes told me: when a whale is frustrated with small creatures cleaning and at one point hurting him he shakes to get rid of the scavengers. We are like a huge whale with scavengers (our supposed leaders) on our backs who we follow in many cases blindly telling us war is good to claim more resources from others be it petrol, water, etc. Now, if we are this huge whale shouldn’t we give our leaders a good shake and shake them off our backs? (Come to think of it: being a whale ourselves, leaders who are scavengers follow us where we swim in which case we are the leaders not them.) This is the problem we have: we follow not good leaders but I dare to say fake or false leaders. A good leader would never lead his or her people to war just because. He or she would defend his or her people only if attacked but not provoke war. What a wonderful example. I mean, our world would be better off if ordinary people took charge, no, responsibility of their own lives and look after each other no matter what origin they be or social status. Besides, we shouldn’t have categories. We should exercise our leadership and responsibility. We do need good leaders; it’s not a perfect society. But those leaders give and share responsibility not take away. This is the second OASIS, an OASIS of good governance. If we are going to have a global government, it better be that we are the whale and they follow our lead.
Younes told me this: When he was younger in his late twenties he worked with a Japanese engineer who asked him: “why you’re fighting with Israel? If you had a company and needed a Jew would you hire him?” Younes replied: “yes I would. It’s not my problem if he’s a Jew. It’s his. I’m a Muslim, it’s my problem not his. Ordinary people don’t want war, only leaders. If I need a worker I would hire him.”
Then, Younes told me: when a whale is frustrated with small creatures cleaning and at one point hurting him he shakes to get rid of the scavengers. We are like a huge whale with scavengers (our supposed leaders) on our backs who we follow in many cases blindly telling us war is good to claim more resources from others be it petrol, water, etc. Now, if we are this huge whale shouldn’t we give our leaders a good shake and shake them off our backs? (Come to think of it: being a whale ourselves, leaders who are scavengers follow us where we swim in which case we are the leaders not them.) This is the problem we have: we follow not good leaders but I dare to say fake or false leaders. A good leader would never lead his or her people to war just because. He or she would defend his or her people only if attacked but not provoke war. What a wonderful example. I mean, our world would be better off if ordinary people took charge, no, responsibility of their own lives and look after each other no matter what origin they be or social status. Besides, we shouldn’t have categories. We should exercise our leadership and responsibility. We do need good leaders; it’s not a perfect society. But those leaders give and share responsibility not take away. This is the second OASIS, an OASIS of good governance. If we are going to have a global government, it better be that we are the whale and they follow our lead.
I love the whale analogy. It well articulates our situation, but at the same time demonstrates how we are in a funk if we, the huge whale, allow a few hangers-on to lead us and scavenge from us in the process.
ReplyDeleteI see your reasoning. That's why we, if we were the whale shouldn't allow the hangars-on as you say to control us. We should control them if I may use the term.
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