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GUARDS WITH KHAKI SHORTS

I recently had an interesting discussion with a friend. Both of us are in Mozambique for some commissioning work at a mine site, and on our way to the market after knocking off for the day, we started having a random conversation about Mozambique and South Africa. The talk was started when we observed on the side of the road some juveniles ploughing the soil. I had found it quite odd that there were guards, in  khaki  shirts and pants, watching over this “workers”, and my colleague quickly pointed out that they were actually inmates. He then remarked that it is not like in South Africa where inmates are treated like royalty as they get free food, a decent shelter and free education, to name just a few of the perks. He then said he doesn’t like South Africa because of the crime. And that all of this wouldn’t be an issue if the government simply was more violent in punishing the perpetrators and also bring back the death penalty.      Now the conversation went on for a length o

VISIONARY LEADERS

The hardest thing in the world is being a Visionary Leader. Not just a leader, but a visionary leader. Recently I have started a new business project with some couple of friends of mine, and as we seek to expand our business I have notice something quite strikingly prevalent in so many people; most people they don’t believe. Not that they don’t believe but what I mean is they don’t believe in dreams or the goodness of life. They don’t believe it can be possible to live the lives they want to lead and so they find any means and reason to support that belief of lack of belief. Most people want to play it “sane”; they don’t want to be seen as delusional or as Dreamer. That is a relatively highest persecution or indictment that they perceive they can receive, so they bland out and try to be reasonable in their aspirations. They gather facts and opinions and try to mould their ideals to those facts. Most people don’t dare to be wrong and to mess up or try because of one common ment

Alan Watts breaks down what's wrong with the world (1970)