Insanity at the birthday party

Apr 26, 2016 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

If any country is morally and social degenerating at breakneck speed, it is Guyana. The citizenry may not be able to endure more of the social bestialities that are taking over the society. Can this country avoid imminent societal breakdown and eventual dissolution in the next thirty years? Incredible inhumanity that lacerates the very fabric of civilization is destroying this nation.
A mother and son were robbed and the mother burnt alive. A gang that couldn’t get the loot from the bedroom where the elderly couple had sought refuge burnt the house down with the couple inside. A drug addict murdered his seventy-five year old mother. A robber slit the throat of a businesswoman and her two sons, age 6 and 18 months.
In a recent brutal murder in Ohio, the killer(s) didn’t harm the children. There are teenagers moving around the city in uncivilized hours killing homeless people sleeping on the pavements. They brutalized them by inflicting severe wounds either with huge bricks or large pieces of wood.
How can a poor, agricultural society with less than 800,000 people produced such nihilistic monsters? Where can we locate the causes for such horrific social decay? But this is just part of the self-inflicted terror. Our road fatality rate and suicide statistics, per capita, may be the highest in the world. With such a small population we have a frightening percentage of child molestation, incest, rape, women-killers, sociological murders and robbery related-murders.
Can this country’s population remain what it is in the next five years or will it decrease drastically when one looks at the rate of death and rate of migration? More importantly, can the society remain viable in the next 20 years?
Something eerie and evil has devoured this nation. We have the worst drivers in the world. Guyanese can witness two persons killed on a daily basis from vehicular accident but that would not deter the uncivilized use of the roads by drivers. There isn’t a country, even those in the throes of civil war that has produced the dangerous minibus driver as Guyana has. The minibus culture is a social negativity that is desecrating this land.
In which other country, you find a distorted picture of a bus stopping to pick up a passenger and the driver brakes up on the road itself while there is a huge parapet for him to park and wait for his passenger? Hire-car drivers are not far from the mess that characterizes the mini-bus culture. What is happening to Guyana? What are the root causes and what can be done to save it? Can mainstream sociology adequately explain it? Can the psychology text book adequately explain it?
Sociology and psychology have to explain it. If these areas of knowledge cannot offer a framework for comprehending this insanity, then maybe our curse is unique and we all have to wait for the final moment of societal disappearance. For my part, I have to say I am completely baffled at what is taking place after the 2015 historic elections.
My feeling was that given the breakdown under the PPP, Guyana became violently nihilistic. After 2015, I honestly thought with so many no-nonsense former soldiers in the highest echelons of power, the criminals would have been deterred.
I think it is fair to say that most criminals would not want to take on a strong no-nonsense government whose leaders appear as persons who would not tolerate lawlessness. Mr. Granger and many of his former military colleagues have that kind of ambience. But crime has gone out of control since the May 2015 elections.
I honestly don’t have the answer. One can attempt some explanations but would they portray the whole picture? I would cite the extensive levels of unemployment among young people. Secondly, there is the complete alienation of rural youths.
Thirdly, there is the perception that crime pays for the upper classes, so why we the dispossessed shouldn’t try our hand at getting money too by any means necessary. Fourthly, Guyana appears to its citizens to be a hopeless country so people’s psychology becomes one of depression and desperation.
I think this explains child molestation and incest and suicide. Fifthly, there is a seething anger among people that Guyana hasn’t worked, isn’t working and will not work so they live a life without meaning just doing anything even if it is immoral or illegal.
All this degeneracy, violence and anomie are taking place at a time when the county will be spending a $300 million to celebrate 50 years as a sovereign nation. The birthday party will be a big bash but the chief guest will be Mr. Insanity.

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