Who feels it knows it

Jan 25, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,

There exists a coterie of wise men in Guyana whose fantasy is to secure victory at the next election, take control of Guyana and set it on the right path.

This group is comprised mainly of intellectuals, and business men. They are for all intense and purposes middle class with all the appurtenances and trappings of class.

For the most part these gentlemen enjoy a comfortable lifestyle and delight in intellectualizing the pain and suffering of the masses but can never really immersed themselves sufficiently in the lives of the rank and file to truly feel their pain.

Their vocation is to meet regularly and wax ad nausea on every possible solution to the “Guyana problem”. These experts would spend hours talking to each other, but would hardly spend a minute talking to the “man in the street”; the maids; the gardeners…the sans culottes.

Increasingly, their obsession with change is being reduced to an intellectual exercise designed to enhancing their “wise men” reputation at cocktail parties.

With each passing day as these gentleman sit in the valley of indecision, the masses Martin Carter’s “lumbering giants” are left to fend for themselves, and to eke out a living on less than a mere pittance.

Nevertheless, these gentlemen have a plan they say, some refer to it as the “Chilean model”. This approach they claim once unveiled will resonate and capture the hearts and minds of the masses enough to afford this group victory at the next elections…. Perhaps….maybe. For me the words of Brother Bob are far more instructive “Who Feels it knows it lord”.

John Falstaff Haynes

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