What does a king do in the republic of pain? Give them bread and circuses like any king, the bread of memory and the circuses of forgetting, bread and nostalgia. Nostalgia for God -- and-a-better-world.
- YEHUDA AMICHAI in Open Closed Open
(Translated from the Hebrew By Hana Kronfeld & Hana Bloch)
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We are a bunch of screwed up people who have live in an even more screwed up nation (And by this I mean that we have successfully brought our nation from functional to dysfunctional).
We spend millions looking after men (read as terrorists or politicians) who run around town killing people and hopes at will.
We house a herd of non working employees in each of our government centres.
We have a group of nitwits running the country.
We have great people lying desolate and impoverished due to reservation and other quotas.
We need a group of people who can run the country better.
We need a better bunch of high level officials.
We need a group of people who can influence the people into doing good for themselves by doing good to the society and the nation.
We have gone from bad to worse in six decades of freedom.
We were better off then in the rule of our dictators than in our own democratic rule.
We were better off united in division than being divided in unity.
We need atleast a single party to state in their manifesto that they'll successfully abolish corruption and religious propaganda.
WE NEED A BETTER CITIZEN.
nah! let me rephrase that -
WE NEED A BETTER YOU AND ME!
But all we get is a nostalgia of a better nation.
P.S. - For people who say we are still in the early years of a better nation - When do we grow up??
