It's 1982, I'm sitting in
front of a TV set at my grandparents home. I then tell them that one
of these days one will be able to pause, rewind etc live TV. Would
they believe me? I go further and tell them about cell phones (I
include the bit about how some of these phones have more computing
power then the computers that took us to the moon). By now they think
that I have lost the plot. I also tell them how in the future we will
be able to buy electricity at a shop. When my parents pick me up the
next day, they tell them about what I had to say – my parents rub
it off as 'vivid' imagination, 'that will never happen' they say and
have a good laugh.
I come across that
statement time and time again, when speaking about a independent Cape
of Good Hope (all correspondence via snail mail now states 'Cape of
Good Hope' and not 'Western Cape') even a few from the Transvaal
Republic agree (most don't)
I am prepared to wait 30
years for a Cape of Good Hope – I would prefer not too. It's like
talking about your favourite bar – you have to talk about it. Plant
the idea that this is the best way of solving our problems. We
certainly do not wish for a revolution – not even a peaceful
revolution (it doesn't exist – there is no such thing as a
turn-the-other-check revolution) what we do wish for is a change of
mind. Big government is certainly not going to help us. We have
observed what happened in China with a natural disaster and seen the
same in the USA – neither country was able to do much. In fact, it
still looks like hell in those countries, years after the disaster.
If anything the people
who truly wish for an end of the current regime must go out their and
talk about it. The concept has to be spoken about. If anything let
that by our MO from now on.
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