In Search of Our Humanity

Mar 28, 2019 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,

Dr. Henry Jeffrey’s Future Notes of Wednesday, 27 March, once again touches a nerve, however isolated from so many others. His argumentation probes, without being intrusive, and one is left to recall, in these tides of March, the treatise on ‘Emotional Intelligence’.
On the other hand, for the past three months, there are those of us who have been flooded with the passion of so many intellectuals as articulate as Dr. Jeffrey. Unlike him, however, they only rouse. They offer little or no soothing of the nerve. It is more a loud daily pounding on a table of confrontative sensitivities so endemic in our society, and which too reach out beyond our shores.
But in the distance, one sees nothing more than the natural drought which the weather now indicates.
One is overwhelmed by questions, while having difficulty finding answers. There is the endemic dilemma of divisiveness some fifty years now, multiplied by the disproportionate number of citizenships of contentious duality.
Even in the case of the latter, their morality makes a distinction between the eligible ‘duality’ of voters, and the ineligibility of those for whom the former can vote.
And yet, not totally irrelevantly, this ‘dual’ morality did not attend to the very human imbroglio involving an investor of distinctive foreign citizenship, who brazenly and illegally imposed sanctions on employees of pure Guyanese citizenry, albeit in an isolated community upriver; and of the coastal of vocalists only the representative Union raised objection – an evocative exception amongst the cacophony of vociferous intellectualism.
One keeps searching for the healing process, for the medicinalists who will design a programme of reconstruction, for the complainants who would recant into a collective that would organise a strategic plan which would culminate in numbers like 63 and 64, and eliminate division.
For many of us, there is so little time left.

Yours faithfully
E.B. John

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