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Jawge, you wrote the following today: “Plantocracy has no place in the info age…. Well the plantation owners want Phillips.”
Since, presumably, it is the grassroots who most want Portia Simpson-Miller, are we to deduce then that the grassroots (masses) of Jamaica represent “the info age”?
It’s actually ironic that, on the one hand, you consistently present strong arguments for Jamaica to enter the modern “information age” and utilize all those associated technologies of the developed world while, on the other hand, you feel that a populist leader (and you always use Nanny as a metaphor) is best suited to provide the leadership that Jamaica needs at this time.
The first time (last year) I saw you post that “Nanny P was ahead of her time,” I honestly thought that you were being cynical. I soon found out, to my shock, that you were being sincere in your views! Of course, I realize that you think highly of Portia, and so do many other Jamaicans. But do you understand what the term “visionary leadership,” in the context of twenty-first century developing states like those of the Caribbean, really means?
From all accounts, Portia genuinely loves her people. However, looking around at their sordid living conditions and their dilapidated environment, which has seen little change in the decades that Portia Simpson-Miller has been the representative of that South West St Andrew constituency, I’m wondering how many of her constituents genuinely feel that she is “ahead of her time,” as you describe her? Same goes for her tenure in ministries such as tourism and sports.
This grassroots emotive appeal has run its full course! Personally speaking, I’m not sure if what Jamaica really needs today is another populist leadership. In fact, that’s been part of our social and political problem since independence. Literally!
Rather than repeatedly making your call for leadership from an aging politician who represents an old, obsolete period, wouldn’t it be a better idea to call for young, fresh-thinking, leadership? These young, preferably cosmopolitan leaders, in my view, would fit in perfectly with your constant calls for Jamaica to adopt a modern, information-age model of development.
By the way, why the constant comparison with Nanny, the Maroon leader whose alleged greatness lies to a large extent with stories orally passed down through generations of Jamaicans since the eighteenth century? Surely you must be aware that there is little empirical data on Nanny, thus making her exploits to a great extent legendary but unproven. Surely you can find visionary women from post-1963 modern Jamaica who you can use to draw your desired parallels with Portia Simpson-Miller!
Since, presumably, it is the grassroots who most want Portia Simpson-Miller, are we to deduce then that the grassroots (masses) of Jamaica represent “the info age”?
It’s actually ironic that, on the one hand, you consistently present strong arguments for Jamaica to enter the modern “information age” and utilize all those associated technologies of the developed world while, on the other hand, you feel that a populist leader (and you always use Nanny as a metaphor) is best suited to provide the leadership that Jamaica needs at this time.
The first time (last year) I saw you post that “Nanny P was ahead of her time,” I honestly thought that you were being cynical. I soon found out, to my shock, that you were being sincere in your views! Of course, I realize that you think highly of Portia, and so do many other Jamaicans. But do you understand what the term “visionary leadership,” in the context of twenty-first century developing states like those of the Caribbean, really means?
From all accounts, Portia genuinely loves her people. However, looking around at their sordid living conditions and their dilapidated environment, which has seen little change in the decades that Portia Simpson-Miller has been the representative of that South West St Andrew constituency, I’m wondering how many of her constituents genuinely feel that she is “ahead of her time,” as you describe her? Same goes for her tenure in ministries such as tourism and sports.
This grassroots emotive appeal has run its full course! Personally speaking, I’m not sure if what Jamaica really needs today is another populist leadership. In fact, that’s been part of our social and political problem since independence. Literally!
Rather than repeatedly making your call for leadership from an aging politician who represents an old, obsolete period, wouldn’t it be a better idea to call for young, fresh-thinking, leadership? These young, preferably cosmopolitan leaders, in my view, would fit in perfectly with your constant calls for Jamaica to adopt a modern, information-age model of development.
By the way, why the constant comparison with Nanny, the Maroon leader whose alleged greatness lies to a large extent with stories orally passed down through generations of Jamaicans since the eighteenth century? Surely you must be aware that there is little empirical data on Nanny, thus making her exploits to a great extent legendary but unproven. Surely you can find visionary women from post-1963 modern Jamaica who you can use to draw your desired parallels with Portia Simpson-Miller!
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