We should change our Education system. Lack of oppurtunities must be supplanted by education regardless. Politics, system and governement are our creation. Ignorance led most of us to make wrong decisions in the most important times of our country. Politics should be cleansed of nepotism, corruption and monopoly, which is virtually impossible in today's time. Old politicians ousted will bring in new politicians, and given the current impoverished state, there is no promise of a new morning. However, the reformed psyche could turn a few pages of our history into a newer and better tomorrow. System is what government creates for the better of the people, and people misuse it. Yes, we misuse the system for our benefit. Not only politicians, every oppurtnist in us will misuse that loophole, only complicating the system and rendering it as inefficient as unpleasant.
Foremost, we, Nepalese people should learn discipline and stop destroying our own public properties over the furors and rumors. We should stop blaming the king, the prime minister and the extremists. They are mere oppurtunists who are taking advantage of our ignorance and lack of self discipline. They were here a hundred years ago, and if the same state remains; they will be here a hundred years later too. That is if Nepal is not already a state of India.
We should make history mandatory in our curriculum. Science and other vocational skills help you run operations, thus a country. But history, in my frank opinion, teaches us how to run our country. It is a collective process. The maoists should be taught Maoism for Dummies and should be taken to field trips to countries like Cuba, China, Combodia etc.
The most important step, we should stop verbally hating India. A truth we lie to ourselves, there is no Nepal without India. Our development and all the enthusiasm depends upon the co-operation of India. If they do the NAKABANDI, we will only see a long line everywhere with a gallon and a knapsack, for kerosene and salt and sugar. Our pride is not as great as our hunger. If we are not hungry, we can always fight for our pride. And by fight, I don't mean protests and riots; I mean co-operation and proper usage of tools that we have, that is our biggest strength.
The development in Nepal, I think, is a faraway distant dream. But it is not unachievable. Our GDP is one of the least in the world. The strikes and riots will only push it further in the abysmal pit of abject poverty. We should learn why America is the most powerful country in the world, even if Bush is the most hated person in the world. America is not great because of Bush, it is because of the oppurtunity a common person has. And that oppurtunity is created by a common man. Just like you and me. Lets learn from others and from ourselves, for a dream of a new Nepal.
PS: I agree my pointers are eccentrically clueless, and more out of a moral textbook. But I think that is where we should start. Becasue that is where we start the journey of knowledge, the book. And of course, a mature and informed decision just about matters that might better or hamper our progress.
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