the other day I heard one of my favorite songs – Tell me why? by Genesis.
Here is how it starts…
Mothers crying in the street
Children dying at their feet, tell me why, ooh tell me why
People starving everywhere
There’s too much food but there’s none to spare,
Tell me why, oh tell me why
...
If there’s a God, is he watching
can he give a ray of hope
so much pain and so much sorrow
tell me what does he see
when he looks at you
when he looks at me
what would he say
cos it seems there’s no-one listening
...
Then I thought what was the defining insight from a major conference in a little Swiss village – inflation of commodity prices. In other words, food prices are going up. OK after many days of parties, that was the declaration!
You know we can do better than this! So what is the solution: the solution, my friends is when everyone starts making small changes in their lifestyles and starts to think about others. Think about it, income disparity is increasing. Unemployment & Hunger by themselves are not the root cause of revolution and destruction. Revolutions happen when a few control wealth and continue to grow richer at the expense of other. When the powerful neuter any dissent. Then the pressure builds up and the lid is blown up. For peace and prosperity, we need to change ourselves. How can we do this? We hope to present a small step forward on the 14th of February, the majamba beta version.
