Utopia is defined as: A place in which social, legal, and political justice and perfect harmony exist.
The perfect country does not exist. Some believe that there are countries that come close but I don’t agree at all.
This is not a post about defending SA in the face of irrelevant comparisons. This is a post asking you what you fight for? Asking you if you would want to live somewhere that has nothing to fight for?
I have a clear answer to some questions in my head that I keep in storage. One is an answer to the question about SA going the way of Zim, would I leave? No. I wouldn’t. I would fight whatever needed to be fought.
My point is simply that I like to have something to fight for. Whether it’s a fight for survival, contentment or wealth or a fight against an opposition party, a ruling party, a travesty or anything. I like to fight for or against something.
Imagine what it would be like living in Utopia. No problems, no questions, no concerns and nothing to fight for. The way I interpret that is nothing to live for. I couldn’t do it. And my opinion is that South Africans like to fight. We like to bitch and complain. We are melodramatic and serious but we love the drama. I love it otherwise I wouldn’t run this blog.
If I had to choose Utopia or South Africa it wouldn’t be a very tough decision. When South Africa becomes a powerhouse in Africa and the problems we face have been rectified I wonder if I’ll even have the willingness to stay in a place that is content.
We need to fight because it shows what sort of a passion we have for our country.
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January 11th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Yes, for most SAns in SA, life anywhere else will simply be too boring. There will not be that dynamic to everyday life that we are used too. The same could probably be said of people in Baghdad, Iran, India, Pakistan, etc. It is difficult to explain to people that this is the type of life I want to live and why I would never, ever fit into life in any “developed” country inthe world.
January 12th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
Ammm yeah, my Grandfather fought for a free Ireland and not one of his children or grandchildren live there, my Father fought for a “Free” Rhodesia” and non of his children or siblings live there anymore, he lives in Australia, what a depressing waste of time and youth for both of them…..And white South Africans bitch and moan more than the pommies,we are unbelievable moaners…
January 12th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
P.S. Moaning is not fighting, is just fooking moaning, not solving nothing….
January 13th, 2008 at 10:03 am
What absolute twaddle! How do you propose to do this ‘fighting’? How do you fight a system where the police don’t even take statements after attempted murder; where the roads are infested with maniac taxis; where you can’t get a job because you’re the wrong colour; where you are unsafe anywhere; where tax money evaporates into poor service delivery; where mass action is threatened if a court case doesn’t go the right way?
Do you propose to form a liberation movement and open offices in London and New York and then find some tame politicians in the west to support you? Do you see yourself as a character in a Robert Ruark novel? Do you intend to go ‘underground’ and sabotage power stations (no need really with the number of powercuts) and attack inneficient policemen? Or will you do your fighting around the dinner table and pontificate about how great everything is? Tell us how to ‘fight’ and we may join you.
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