Friday, November 04, 2005
"Fifty years is ample time in which to change a world and its people almost beyond recognition. All that is required is a sound knowledge of social engineering, a clear sight of the intended goal - and power." - Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End
1965 - 2005, 40 years, and already, the results are starting to be seen. The power is quite absolute in this little case. IT's not neccessarily for the worse, BUT we lack the most basic of conditions - critical mass.
Resources, surprisingly are not such a big problem. I must take my hats of to the administrators for winning this gamble. Apart from the tricky issue of water, most of the other resources are solved with the advent of capitalism. You have the gold, you get the goods.
Now there's one problem with social engineering - Who is going to run the place after the forefathers have departed? Who is going to give directions, and more importantly, who is going to motivate everyone else.
The foremost prerequisite, power is missing.
We seem to have created a sticky situation where the people with the ability to lead, don't care. Or, they are totally ignored in the first place. People say alot of bad things about the situation, but if you ask me, either they are telling alot of lies, drinking alot of beer or just need something to say.
If there really is a big freaking problem, then people should start solving it. Right now, I seem to be contributing to the problem. So I'll just shut up now.
---Actually, all I wanted to do was to share a beautiful quote from a book.
Gavin
pondered @ 20:45
