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Watching The Constant Gardener with its rural African background made me incredibly sad. This is not the first movie I had seen portraying the lives of people in poor miserable tormented countries, but this flick managed to capture the black mood and atmosphere for the cruel facts on how the superpower acts towards such country. It struck me that my beloved great nation is not that different from the bleeding Africa.
How can that be?
We have one of the biggest, buziest (and also polluted) cities in the world. We somehow managed to build Monas and hundreds of shopping centers. But still, the slums are gettieng dirtier, the poor and sick are not getting better, and corruption has become a big fat joke.
This may be coming from the adult realization on the true face of the so-called world we live in. However, the term "developing country" now sounds more pathetic than ever before, since not one with that title ever raised to being developed in my life time. Instead, each of them is getting worse and worse, used up by those developed nations with their own agenda.Indonesia's human development and education are both ranked 110th in 177 countries (source)
With those figures, it seems ridiculous to dream about prosperity that the founding father spoke so proudly back then. We may be rich, but could not manage what we have. We may be large, but that is more of a burden than a potential strategic advantage. And here I am, expecting to be a highly respected professional in international standard.
Of course, I believe I can do that. But that is fighting for one person's benefits and not minding the other 225 millions. Selfish? For me, it is just sad that opportunity is a very unjust kind. Development plans and strategy compiled so far never succeeded to reach out to those in most need. Then, how the hell could we get out of this dark pit?
While hell could be found in many corners around the world, heaven is apparently still high up in the seventh sky. The fight for world peace is a just a joke with the reigning Veto rights while volunteer forces are often helpless in the face of commercial priorities.
Like I said, it's sad..
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Posted by: ndin | 03/29 2006, 04:32
