Thursday, August 26, 2010

Time to open our eyes to what we’re seeing in front of us

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Carlton ... all I can say is BRAVO to an articulate view of what is on the St Lucian horizon.

Your article makes me want to DO SOMETHING ... but what? In time, it will come to me, and by then, I hope CHAOS will still be at bay.

August 27, 2010 at 5:55 AM
Anonymous said...

A very convoluting and disorganized ramble of thought but there are many points and threads that could be expanded. The writer would do well as with most St. Lucians if he realizes that HE is the problem because he follows too many politically correct black viewpoints that are destroying our societies.

The writer notes many of the symptons of a failed society but does not understand the root.

The problem is that black societies do not follow a conservative philosophy based in Judeao Christian society.. They follow a liberal/socialist mindset ( I can assure you the writer himself is a liberal/socialist)that combined with the issues of slavery has destroyed our cultures and many counties. Look at Africa, look at the Caribbean, look at African American and British black societies.

Liberalism and the victimhood culture tells or black breatheren it is all someone elses fault.

Caribbean governments and parties on both sides (SLP/UWP in St. Lucia's case) continue vast expansion of government power, intrusiveness, and DEBT because we see govt as the new MASSA to be depended upon for everything. All we end up with is throwing money at problems -money we do not have.


We continue to laud single motherhood because we do not want to take the personal responsibility of a stable marriage when all the evidence is that the biggest factor in delinquency in black societies is the absence of the father in the home.

We continue our love affair with the Jamaican "rude bwoy" attitude. Everybody in St. Lucia is a king with no acceptance of responsibility.

These and many more are the truths we do not want to face and no amount of lamenting in the Voice will help.

August 27, 2010 at 6:21 AM
LLL said...

Mr. Ishmael, your article have me (or rather my eyes) looking through a prism. What I can't figure out is which colours I'm I suppose to focus on.

I'm truly hallucinating in the mix of your drama; so could you please help me focus.

August 27, 2010 at 6:55 AM
Anonymous said...

Moral relativism is another problem with our liberal/socialist mindset promulgated from our training at UWI and other liberal institutions.

We refuse to believe that there is any objective truth and in order to give ourselves as much leeway to do what we want - we are all moral relativists. We pledge that we believe in the Ten commandments but in fact we murder, steal, covert our neighbour's wife with regular abandon.

We think that truth or falsity of moral judgments, or their justification, is not objective or universal but instead relative to the traditions, convictions, or practices of a group of people. So single motherhood is promoted as "we ting" when all evidence points to its destructiveness. We associate with known criminals as long as they have money but no character. We see a crime committed in front of us but report nothing.


We think that "since there is no universal moral standard by which to judge others, we ought to tolerate the behavior of others even when it runs counter to our personal or cultural moral standards."
In Trinidad for example they are so "tolerant" of every deviancy that if Christ and the Devil came down tomorrow they would not know which is which.

We in St. Lucia vote for individuals with known criminal connections over others with impeccable credentials and we will call the latter a member of "God's Squad" then are surprised when criminality abounds.

There are so many truths that we have to face up to as a nation and until that revolution comes then forget about clamouring for CHANGE.

August 27, 2010 at 7:03 AM
Anonymous said...

Yes we can say that Mr. Ismael as a true moral relativist sees things through a moral haze, drifting in and out of coherence !

August 27, 2010 at 7:06 AM

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