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Saturday, July 26, 2025

Change from within

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Last week, I up­loaded a video to the In­ter­net with a very sim­ple mes­sage: every cit­i­zen has with­in them the pow­er to change this coun­try.Hu­man be­ings al­ways con­ceive of change as ab­stract, sinewy con­cerns over which the or­di­nary in­di­vid­ual has no per­cep­ti­ble in­flu­ence. The pur­pose of the video was to help peo­ple see how ad­just­ments to the way we live our lives can have the cu­mu­la­tive ef­fect of al­ter­ing the way our so­ci­ety func­tions to­day.

I was touched by the re­sponse to the video. Some of the com­ments sug­gest there is a fun­da­men­tal un­der­stand­ing of the heft of our ac­tions and omis­sions in our sphere of in­flu­ence. These short­com­ings, when mul­ti­plied, paral­yse the so­ci­ety and worse, in­ure our peo­ple to the reper­cus­sions of our pas­sion­ate­ly-de­fend­ed ap­a­thy and law­less­ness. It now takes tru­ly grue­some acts of vi­o­lence or a shock­ing­ly high death toll in a road wreck for us to be moved, and even so, ex­pres­sions of grief or out­rage have a lim­it­ed shelf life.

In the wake of the video, there were even some can­did ad­mis­sions of guilt! A hand­ful of folks sheep­ish­ly ac­cept­ed re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for be­hav­iours such as park­ing il­le­gal­ly on the road while in­hal­ing a dou­bles.There were, of course, some fool­ish re­marks but in this coun­try, more of­ten than is prefer­able, al­lowances must be made for de­fi­ant­ly stu­pid peo­ple.

http://www.guardian.co.tt/dig­i­tal/new-mem­bers


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