– Syria – and our humanity
One of my shorter anxieties today, this is derived from two of my lifelong intrigues with politics and governments, patriotism and (variations of) democracy.
Since I entered my teens after grandmother would take me to Bourda Green political meetings in the fifties, I began to wonder just why couldn’t our best brains from all parties co-operate fully to provide the best government and guarantee national harmony and development.
By my mid–to–late–twenties, I was made to accept that in our Western version of “democracy” things do not (cannot) work in my “unified” manner: One–Party States endanger criticism and monitoring; absolute authority,
