There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. – Shakespeare’s Hamlet CUP (Cruel Unusual Punishment) is a psychological necessity, reliable companion, and faithful ally to those running, undermining, and ruining affairs of state. Primarily caused by stinking thinking, it permeates through every nook and cranny of
There is a tremendous gap between public policy and public opinion. – Noam Chomsky, American professor of linguistics Public policy and public opinion clashed in the UK while facing its Suez moment in 1957 when it deservedly lost its monopoly over the Suez Canal impelled by the relentless anti-colonial policies
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. – Warren G. Bennis, American author America, born in the bowels of rebellion, was conceived from an unborrowed vision that thrust life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as the principal apparatus of and for governance. It was a tall order
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.– Winston Churchill ————————————– Changes in opinions or circumstances concerning government is best calibrated with the HELP (History, Economics, Law, Politics) quotient which gauges the past, present and the prophetic by employing uninspiring standards. The HELP quotient can only survive if
An idea is what you have; an ideology is something that has you. — Morris Berman, American historian Ideology is defined as a system of ideas and ideals, especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy. The citizenry, as the basis, must necessarily shape it
You were born an original. Don’t die a copy — John Mason, American author WHAT went wretchedly wrong is painfully obvious when almost all our codes, laws, rules and regulations reek of colonial stench. We quit being original, and instead yearn to live and perish as copycats. That’s an objectionable
A recent directive issued by the Ministry of Education requesting school students to participate in a show of support for Palestine is nothing but weaponising education and politicising schools with ethnocratic overtones to influence the minds of school-going children who have nothing to do with the prevailing Middle East crisis.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. – Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President In every sphere and corner of society, and in every realm of human activity, dicta and dogmas define, dictate, and determine who we are in discovering and realising the purpose of life,
Organised government is organised chaos like an unassembled jigsaw puzzle.– Lakota Native American chief ———————— As long as government is a fact of life, the W-I-T-H Wedge, hereinafter the Wedge, will continue to assail us as a vexatious and divisive factor. The Wedge is government in the abstract. W-I-T-H –
We learn by rearranging what we know. – Ludwig Wittgenstein, British philosopher The early 17th century ushered in subtle insights into law, politics and government that declared in veiled language that since government produces nothing, it is incapable of rearranging society. A country becomes a nation of political systems with
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