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Thoughts regarding this rather loose poem/drivel began forming around about this place, pretty much the most remote that we stayed on the whole trip.
I have a dream
I have an expectation
I have a task for governments
I have a direction
A command
This is what the world expects of you
This is what so many of you are not
Very few are
The ones in countries where everyone wants to go
Those are the ones that are
This is the dream
Although it's not a dream
It can't be
It must be reality
It already is here and there
This, then is not a dream
These are the instructions
Now we are all connected
Despite your pesky borders
Emailing
Liking
Tweeting
Commenting
Sure, harassing, trolling, distracting sometimes
But amidst this torrent of crap
This waste of time that is the general internet
Amidst all of the endless baiting and whinging and pathetic criticism we chuck about like froth on the waves of an angry ocean of procrastination
Amidst this endless time wasting every now and again we interact meaningfully
Every now and again we see through the cultural mist
And we emerge upon a vista of the unknown
We from our vantage point of cherished beliefs, practiced practices
Familiarity, expectations
Sporting traditions, the whole cloak of culture
We see another world
Or 8
In our daily travels on the internet.
We are one world
On the internet
We clash
With every word
We are anonymised
In every word
We are nothing
We are one
We just have words
And they are just text
Typing
In one font
The font of one website
We are that website writing itself
We are nothing of our culture
We are nothing of our traditions
We are the internet writing itself
Humanity expressing
Without borders
Intermixed
And we are seeing things
No matter borders
No matter countries
No matter beliefs
No matter our traditions
Our identity
Out piece of land
The same website is accessed
From all of these locations
Physical and cultural locations
Mental and emotional locations
The same website sucks them all up
Puts them all before all
We are digitising cultures
Digitising societies
Digitising the results of millenia
Of separation
Of experimentation in our little nation states
We are digitising
Digitising
Digitising
Digitising
And, occasionally, looking at the result.
This global map of human cultural variation
Collected on Facebook, Youtube and Twitter
The three horses of the global apocalypse for governmental abuse
Government? Any form of population control
The group of people that holds the reigns to the societal horse
Some would deserve the title government
A lot would not
Our, humanity's, current global social interaction
Many to many
Millions to millions
Billions to Billions
All of the time 24/7
Every waking hour
And many that should be sleeping
Is us all checking each other out
What have you got that we don't have?
Why do you have that and we don't?
Why can't we do that and you can?
Why aren't you doing that like we are?
Wow look I can do these things on the internet,
Finally
That can't be done usually round here
We are all
Midst this supposedly casual
Idle
Chatter
Gradually seeing a common framework for goood
And it's simple
If you're a government you have some set tasks
They are to fix the people
Make them healthy using evidence based medicine
Make them knowledgeable and skilled using secular, systematic education of children of both sexes
Govern through a system called democracy
Where everyone must vote
Every few years
On candidates who can come from the gutters
Or the gilded halls
It doesn't matter
Just make sure we get to select the best from the bunch that show up
And this is the simple
Role
For governments of these precious pockets of people
Held in these archaic little patches of land
Described by those old old borders
Herding their populaces into these strange groups
We call nations
And have somehow decided are meant to be fixed
It's time to fill history with leaders
That use evidence based policies
Who have the strength to face a democracy
Whose only function is bettering society
Not their status
Not their bank balance
Whose only desire is to
Educate with the best knowledge
From the globe's researchers
Make strong with the best medicine
From the globe's researchers
Their small portion of the global populace
Then leave them alone
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harryabroad Come on Will... Where is the next instalment....you cant leave me hanging,. Don't you realise your travels are my escape.... BTW looking to head over to Cambodia to buy a river boat!! Cruise from Laos to Vietnam.