Evil or Stupid

The choice seems simple, but the consequences are very grave. Are our leaders evil or are they stupid? Is the police force really just a bunch of bumbling idiots, or are they cantankerous and evil? Is the inability to find missing children as a result of criminals being smarter than the police and the existing public, or do the police know things that they are not sharing? And even worse are they withholding this information for personal gain or profit, while our sons, daughters, brothers, sisters and cousins, nieces and nephews, godsons and goddaughters...while our children pay the price?

Were our politicians really unaware that the Brian Lara Stadium was being filled with condemned steel? Or has someone's pocket been lined with more coins and dollar bills than we can possibly hope to count in what lifetime?

If our leaders are this stupid then we are truly lost and our best bet is to endure our time under the direction of the dunce class. If they are stupid, then we should market ourselves as the world's greatest spectacle. Because that's what idiots do, make a spectacle of themselves. I can think of a catchy slogan, something like 'The Greatest Show on Earth' perhaps. It has a nice ring to it, something marketers seem to like.

If we are a nation led by idiots, then we should spend our money on entertainment, we should all be drinking and forgetting so that this terrible times passes quickly. If any one of us is harmed by the stupidity, a helpful word, a pat on the shoulder and a hot rum should fix the offendee right up.

If our leaders are evil then we need to speak up. The blood of dead children is not just on their hands but all of ours, since we as a society of a MILLION plus, sat by and did absolutely nothing.

We elected to spend time in church, filling buildings with our voices instead of filling streets with our love, concern and anger. We continue to treat our politics and its developments as soap operas, our politicians as favourite actors, and ourselves as shit.

If our leaders are evil, then they have been created, and continue to be nurtured by this very society. If our leaders are evil, we are responsible whether we voted them in or not, for they are a product of us. If our leaders are evil and we are unprepared to act to address this, then it's best that we accept our fate since we seem impotent, a body of people unwilling to struggle for anything better.