By: Sylvia Davila MM
Bogotá
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Many years ago, I travelled to Japan on an official invitation. The agenda had many interesting places to visit including Tokyo’s Centre of Competitively. There, when the official got through with his speech, he opened a session of questions. We were an interdisciplinary group of ten. Questions rose. I have to confess that during that questions session I got lost in the expectation of the next step of the agenda: Kyoto, the old capital, the huge silent wooden temples, gardens… Lost in my mind, the question dropped: “Sylvia San, do you have a question", asked a smiling man standing before me. No mind trick was enough to jump from Kabuki to competitively but a dozen pairs of eyes were staring, so I ended up murmuring: “People talk about the Japanese miracle…how was that miracle made?” At pronouncing the last syllable I knew I had just asked the most idiotic question that would force the poor man to explain me life since the Palaeolithic. For answer he asked me a very oriental question: “Have you ever drop a stone in a calm lake? As the stone falls, a little ring comes up, then another bigger ring, then a bigger one, and so on until they all become, again, the lake. We began by a house, then a neighborhood, then a town, then a province, and then a state until we talked everybody into changing". My math’s handicap still prevent me from understanding the Japanese miracle – unless it refers to the cherry blossoms which is the nearest thing to a miracle I’ve ever seen– but I found the methodology interesting.
Here, in our country, we care only for electing a President. When that election comes, everyone gets informed, participates, votes, wins or looses. But when it is time for the election of those other rings - Congress, Governors and Majors - we don’t even know when it is going to take place. Nobody talks about it, very little information can be found. That is why, those posts fall in the hands of people that use them for their exclusive interests. The problem with that is not so much the stealing, the cheating, dishonesty, but the rings… rings that extend upwards and downward. The boss giving example… What country can prosper? What ruler can rule? Who can live in that swamp? Those who believe that they can live happily in their little world, that none of that is their business, that those waves of corruption, incompetence and dishonesty will never touch them, forget that it is the nature of the rings – physics I believe – to expand until they become… the lake. Next year, those posts will have an election. It’s up to everyone to start getting informed, to participate and to decide who is going to hold those posts. SILVIA DAVILA MORALES®(Photo Google)
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