All order must come to pass. It's not a when, but an if. The truest solutions from my observatio
n are home grown. Ultimately
, our cultures are very different and the only thing we should focus on is borrowing best practices from others, but within the confines of our own environmen
t.
Even what is commonly labelled democracy is not word for word what the Greeks had in mind. It has been tailored for the people applying it. I don't fault Mwalimu Julius Nyerere of Tanzania and his Ujamaa philosophy
, essentiall
y a Tanzanian interpreta
tion of the Marxist principles he so admired. While it proved a bit deficient economical
ly, it still left his nation strongly united as a society. That to me counts as a success story. It is what experiment
s, of which Western-st
yle democracy is one, should be.
I also pray that the Arab world gets the kind of progressiv
es that will help change those societies, just like Kemal Ataturk and his Young Turk revolution following years of Ottoman rule in Turkey. I too hope any such solution will take cognizance of the Arabic heritage, diverse as it is, and the strong value system it has, without forgetting it's enormous contributi
on to modern human thinking.
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