We have now reached a point where third-worldisation has caught up with all of us - rich and poor. A billionaire is frustrated by faulty traffic lights on his way to a board meeting, just as the poor use candles during load shedding.
In a third-world country, a government exists purely for politicians and bureaucrats to earn salaries.The truth is that nothing would happen if the bunch we call"politicians" were to disappear for five years. Chances are that they would find a better country on their unwelcome return. The irony is that they need our votes in order to destroy our country. It is not a democracy; it is a destroyacracy.
It simultaneously exudes contradictory attributes of modernity and backwardness, very much like Leon Trotsky's"law of combined development". Backwardness is so overwhelming a force that, in almost all the settings where it duels with progress, it is able to throw mud at its enemy.
Insightful.
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