If the whole world was listening to you, what would you say?
Last night I was lying in bed thinking about this question and with each possible answer I came up with in my mind I shot it down as petty or stupid. The internet has allowed us to look into the conscious of people all over the World and it could be argued that we have a good idea of what the World is thinking. What is amazing to me is that if someone from Darfur, Bahrain, Brazil, China, Canada, Belize, Burkina Faso, Swaziland etc tunes in and listens and reads up on the collective conscious of humanity the message is surprisingly different from what the leaders and governments of the World tell us it is.
The World over people are starting to appreciate the human factor and feeling that indeed that the artificial barriers constructed such as nationalism, religious differences, ethnic superiority and even political thought are quickly becoming see through veils imposed by those in power.
Ever heard of the strategic term, divide and conquer?
I’m not one for conspiracies but no doubt there are shady players in the public eye who do bad things. As a voice of people who live in the Middle East and have strong ties to it, this site and others like it are doing a great service for the people of the World who cant express themselves.
I think we owe it to the millions of people who are silenced for different reasons to speak out and stay focused on issues that affect us all as humanity.
Am I going to try and answer the question that is listed as the subject? Umm…someone else go first! =-P
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“Eat my shorts!”
No, sorry! I don’t want to humiliate your nice post, but this was my first intention. And after rethinking it, I would say, it wasn’t the worst one.
I don’t want the world listening to me in the believing that I know all the answers of their questions and I know a solution to solve all of their problems. Thus the above mentioned statement might help me out of this gigantic burden. Perhaps it would also leads the people to rethink their mental bondage towards other persons. You might compare this with Karl Popper’s warning against false prophets or with Goethe’ Faust II:
“And on presribed ways the masses are trolling through a corridor; they are following the uncoiled banners of lies! – A nature of sheeps!” (A try of a translation of Goethe’s statement)
But we should give suppressed persons a voice; the possibility that they can express it by themselves.
so long,
Marten
Marten,
I read Faust in college and loved it. Here is an essay I wrote.
If the whole world was listening and I had only one sentence to say it would be this:
If you were as one human being, you would be a delinquent teenager with serious behavioral issues, wait till you have kids of your own!
I would say this…
We are far more alike than different. We want food on the table, a roof, and a future for our children. We want a world without war or tyrants. Good news! The world is capable of supporting ALL these needs for EVERY single one of us. The only obstacle is poor governance, either corrupt democracies or outright hostile dictatorships. For the people to achieve these needs, we MUST take a stronger control of our own governance.
That’s my 2-cents.
gary
Goethe is a lousy source for anything worthwhile to say, since as a Romantic he only fueled the notion that an elite should act as a vanguard for the people [just like that other poet, Osama Bin Laden, likes to think]. Eventually Goethe paved the way for a Brussels-based, European welfare-statist elite to rule by way of pseudo-historical patrimony. In other words, a socialist aristocracy, of sorts.
“Eat my shorts!”
A much better retort to the world. It doesn’t expect any communal sympathy, and challenges the world’s grasping attempts to co-opt human behavior in regards to socially acceptable treatment of undergarments.
If people were anywhere near normal, I would’ve said something insanely naive like “do to others what you want done to you” (I forgot the fancy version which had “dust” and “thou” or whatever) but then I realized that half of us are secretly suicidal, which would completely make the statement backfire.
Maybe I would just declare myself a Prophet and start a cult. I wonder how many millions I could fool.
There have historically been hundreds of people throughout history who have claimed to be divinely inspired. It appears as soon as one does, the challenges and opposition begins. From insults of madness to egomaniac, a vast majority are. =-)