The Human Element on the Political Impasse

I've side-tracked a bit from the original purpose of this blog, which was to discuss the human element of change in our nation.

 

I've posted comments on the turn of events in our nation in the last few weeks because I think they are quite relevant and demonstrative of the human element. That is in the issue of morality, pride, humility, honesty, loyalty to the Constitution, the reality of truth, the reality of a moral order, etc.....and the impact these invisible qualities have on our nation.

 

This blog was set up to maintain a discussion of PNG's "attitude problem" and lack of patriotism problem. The events of recent months, from immediately before August 2, 2011 up to the present, have demonstrated drastic "attitude problems" at the top most level by our leaders, and lack of patriotism from all levels--the top and the bottom-most level. We would do well to dissect those fundamental human-element issues, extract lessons and learn from them.

 

I think recent events have given us an ugly insight into a world where ultimate truth is deemed absent and everyone makes their own mind on what is right and wrong. In the greater scheme of things we cannot have a nation -a world!- void of fundamental standards that guide our everyday actions.

 

If anything we should now realise that arguing that "truth is relative" and "everyone makes their own truth" is an ugly philosophy that ultimately leads to chaos and disorder. Morality cannot be left to the whims of every person. Reality, no matter how hard we try to think, cannot not be defined differently, especially in contradictory (opposite) terms, and be truly real.

 

There are fundamental truths. We cannot keep our sanity and insist that we are all CORRECT in our diverging views of any one particular issue. We can't even start discussing if we don't have a basis on which our arguments can find meaning...coherent meaning.

 

I will do the best I can to compile a commentary on the human-element. I think the law still needs to have its say. But I think the human qalities deserve more attention than what we have given it in our debates on the recent events.

 

Ganjiki