More and more that’s how I feel: that the traumas besetting mankind around the globe that we complain about are not about to abate. For a number of reasons, some to do with exploitation of A by B, those sometimes shocking actions, popping up in the world, flow from the nature of human beings, whatever the country, so we have to step back from that assault and concentrate on the other strands that exist ‒ like the four musicians playing together on one cello, or the order and the splendour of nature, or the voice of Andrea Bocelli, or, a local example, the glorious sunsets in Guyana, or, as I type this, the small bird on the phone wire outside my window, happily pruning its mate, and I’m warmed by that happening just naturally. And that we then actively embrace the good examples, because the other kind is always going to be there. Racism and pollution and corruption, as well as disregard for nature and animals, are all propelled by mankind; seeing them as ‘things we have to eradicate’ may be philosophically sound but ultimately impossible; they are simply part of us. No country has succeeded in the edification and the unification involved there; what makes us think we can achieve it in a small nation, and particularly one struggling with development issues?
