I was listening to my parents and their cousin talk one afternoon. Sitting in the lounge, quietly and unobtrusively in the corner, absorbing all their views but expressing none of my own - because that's how it's done in the Indian households: children must be seen and not heard (I don't think the fact that I'll be 19 in two weeks attests to much). And I began to think, that the world is full of people who talk all the time but don't actually say anything at all.
People in Parliament talk all the time of alleviating crime; of reducing interest rates; of creating more jobs and building more schools; of uplifting communities and growing the economy. Talk, talk, talk, and that's where it ends.
The amazing thing is, we have the ability to do all these things. We are more than capable: yet the reason human trafficking still exists, the reason Somalian pirates have the gall to board an oil tanker with 20million barrels of oil, the reason drugs is still one of the most lucrative backwater businesses and organ trafficking has now infiltrated the Net Care hospitals which we thought were oh so safe...is because there is always someone - usually one of those people up there who go, 'we will stop these atrocities' - who benefits.
That is the Achilles heel in todays politic: agenda's - everyone (or nearly everyone) has their own.
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