Not Just Cursing the Darkness

Sri Lanka's in the BBC World Challenge again, with a project initiated by a person who literally lit a lamp, and a safe one at that, instead of cursing the darkness. I just cast my vote and thought I'd put up a post so that there's one more link pointing to the entry.

Everywhere you go you can now see people working towards the same goal, doing something productive to try and make the best of the opportunity we've been given to improve ourselves and Sri Lanka. At the same time I do honestly feel that almost everyone from every community is enjoying the freedom to go out and attend an international cricket match or a public exhibition without fear, because it's not one language that you hear being spoken at any of these places, it's all three!

There are a bunch of people that I feel aren't doing enough to make amends for helping start and exacerbate the war and are directly responsible for the plight of the people who's lives have still not returned to normalcy. I'm talking about entire countries here, that trained, armed and funded the terrorists to achieve their own objectives, be it destabilizing a friend-of-an-enemy or gaining access to fishing grounds and oil reserves.

I'm sure a majority of the citizens of these countries are fairly decent human beings, so all I can hope for is that these people take the initiative to help undo the damage that their politicians did and maybe stop the really rabid fanatics that are trying to attack us again, using different tactics this time.

Given the choice, I would jump at the chance to replace all the politicians everywhere with benevolent, hyper-intelligent Minds, but since we have to wait for the first true AI to start the ball rolling, writing this post is all I can do for now.

Oh yes, I'm reading every Iain M. Banks novel I can get my hands on and can't wait for the technological singularity!