Saturday, February 23, 2013

Making that paradigm shift from reactivity to proactivity in Saint Lucia

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nothing happens in St. Lucia until tragedy strikes, then everyone and their mother will come out and criticize the situation which caused the tragedy, although it existed for many years. We will always be a reactive society because we don't care. We don't care for each other, we don't care for country and some of us, don't even care for ourselves.

February 25, 2013 at 6:41 AM
Anonymous said...

Man, are you that out of touch with our reality?

How much proactivity will there ever be in a collectvist society which emerged from Africa, a continent which EVIDENTLY and even today is struggling with ... TRIBALISM?

Having chosen their respective tribal leaders, with the SLP lately removing any vestige or semblance of a challenge for the existing tribal leader for life, Saint Lucians follow like sheep and lemmings to the slaughter, by buying into whatever their so-called leader would say. And without question.

Should he or she be a complete idiot, it matters precious little.

Saint Lucians as low information processors, swallow everything from their tribal leaders: hook, line and sinker.

Try getting proactive behaviour from such mindless followers, if the leader himself or herself does not in any way show even the slightest acquaintance with the notion of proactivity.

The all-powerful and conquering Ceasar demi-god from St. Vincent, "Veni, vidi, vici" saw the signs on the horizon with Geest leaving the failing plantations. Couldn't read them. And so he did nothing. That was proactivity for you.

He preferred to be comforted by the pollyanna stories repeatedly being fed by a very confusing ambassador to London regarding the future of the local banana industry.

Success has many fathers; failure is an orphan.

"Veni, vidi, vici" was so proactive that when the bottom fell off the banana market eventually, as it was threatening to and had to, a very proactive John Compton dumped the failed economy into the lap of Vaughan Lewis.

When in abject supidity and apparent creeping senility he paraded his tribal power and ascension at that game-changing meeting in Soufriere, he again went right back to the failed banana solution as the way forward for Saint Lucia. Proactivity? Talk about proactivity.

Proactivity comes with individualism and strategic perspective.

But with the entrenched collectivism of our two political tribes, namely the UWP and the SLP only seeing their perpetual objective as being that of unseating the other tribe as tribes do in Africa, the motherland, to capture the spoils of the next election, please don't hold your breath.

We have a cultural legacy of collectivism and "power distance" as part of our tribal and slave-master accommodative social milieu.

Please try to read beyond the romanticism of the trivia that passes for history in these parts. Please do.

February 25, 2013 at 1:28 PM
Anonymous said...

"Success has many fathers; failure is an orphan" I like that, hadn't heard it before. So true.

February 26, 2013 at 6:45 AM

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