tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7745785272753572871.post7257188271188565689..comments2023-11-01T04:14:15.636+12:00Comments on Intelligentsiya: A postscript to musingsChiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01291952121795963341noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7745785272753572871.post-91798250055417530942010-03-25T13:20:03.462+13:002010-03-25T13:20:03.462+13:00Croz Walsh has an interesting quote on his website...Croz Walsh has an interesting quote on his website from Bergen Evans opining that "Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think!"<br /><br />One can only wonder what he is trying to imply by this as his heroes in the Fiji Military obviously have zero freedom to think (and very little ability to do it at the upper echelons, either).<br /><br />But I'm guessing that he is taking a typical neo-colonialist slant with this and implying that Fijians are not free to think by dint of their backward culture. So the post-coup, "make-it-up-as-you-go" disaster of the Bainimarama regime presumably needs to be looked at in the light of an attempt (however unsuccessful, costly and damaging), at throwing off that yolk of backwardness.<br /><br />The problem is of course, that you have many, many forward-thinking liberal types who are also implacably opposed to the regime and its methods! So opposition to the regime clearly has nothing to do with either backwardness, or forwardness.<br /><br />I suggest therefore that if Croz is going to pin up throwaway lines like that on his website, perhaps the best thing he could do in light of it is to try and demonstrate his own freedom and ability to think usefully first!<br /><br />He might like to start by offering us a thoughtful and useful "way forward" for Fiji in light of either one of Wadan Narsey's recent articles!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com