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Damn it, it is true….

It is not betraying any big secret (even if it had to be a secret) that the Belizean order of things is bankrupt (I don’t mean just money), both political parties and the major ideological identities associated with them are part of the problem and the regime that prevails in government is the enemy of the Belizean people and of its historic social and political order. They are the same as the political dullards in Washington-New York-Hollywood. The problem today is not how to conserve that social and political order. The problem today is how to persuade more people that it ought to be -- and can be – changed!

Self-actualization seems to be the typical goal of most of our people and our culture has turned into an utilitarian expressive individualism, which means we are all out to get as much as possible for ourselves. The dead end of this radical individualism is the prevailing ethical relativism, or the loss of any objectifiable criteria for choosing one value over another. What this spells IS moral chaos, the loss of meaning and coherence in society. The survival of a free people depends on the revival of public virtue that is able to find public expression. Systems can be unjust, but only men and women can be evil! Ultimately evil is a personal matter.

Since it is a personal matter we need to understand ourselves and the systems in which we live. Is anyone trying to do this?

Understanding ourselves is not only knowing what we think and how we feel about things, but more importantly it is knowing WHY we think and feel that way. What prejudices, hurts and biases are operating within us to prompt a particular decision? An honest look within ourselves can tell us why we are making any particular ethical judgment, what it is doing to us, whether it is ennobling or debasing us, whether we really need what we are so determined to get, or whether this is just another tired expression of immature self-interest. And then we must accept the fact that this is the way we are, whether we like it or not. The failure to do this is called self-rejection, and is one of the most serious causes of misunderstanding, bigotry, hatred and men and women’s inhumanity to each other. A simple psychological truth is an enormously important ethical fact: we hate and reject others because we first hate and reject ourselves. Understanding and accepting ourselves as we really are, that is, coming to love ourselves, is one of the basic clues to the emotional maturity, which is self-fulfillment, and the expression of our best selves. It is the wellspring of mature ethical decisions.
Without these mature ethical decisions we fall into corruption.

The corruption of the contemporary Belize order and the regime that rules it takes us all under its influence. We have lost an “anchor” to hold us fast in storms! Soon we shall lose the boat!