<< Changing the whip to different hands

Around 1946, George Orwell, the brilliant British writer gave an interview. In it, he warned us that violent conspiratorial revolution, led by unconsciously power-hungry people could only lead to a change of masters.

This brilliant remark, written in the introductory text to his book Animal farm (that I had the joy of  spending some time with last weekend) is filled with wisdom as current and factual then as it is now. 

All around the world we see constant strife and violence. Caught in the middle as usual are well meaning people and citizens that rightfully desire better lives and conditions for them and their families. They almost always seem guided though by opportunistic individuals or politicians of dubious record; that, sooner rather than later sequester movements and political power for their own gains.

As a group however we hold a major responsibility on this: our tendencies to look for messianic leaders that hold the key to the solution of our problems, inevitably ends up causing much more problems than we originally had.

Activist groups, political parties and different members of society all enamored with their own individual perspective of reality, charge forward and ultimately end up doing more harm than good. 

That’s the danger of the ideology: It blinds you. 

As the saying goes everything’s a nail for a hammer, we rush into one size fits all solutions that ultimately lead to nowhere. 

We hold a moral responsibility as members of society and as human beings to use our critical capacities to think, visualize and demand (within the context of possibilities) that which is right (in whatever approximation we can make). 

Caution is advised though, for as this beautiful piece of literature warn us of the pigs who wanted to lead the farm: 

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

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