Something different
I havent wrote anything inspiring the past posts except for news. I was just thinking about that plus other hundred things at once when I came upon this very interesting article. Like it or not our world is coming to a turning point in modern history. The life of technology, medical and science are changing so fast that it overwhelmed apparent human existence and adaptation. In Honiara we are also experiencing rapid changes, mainly in social and culture arena more than ever in our peoples history. As Islanders we are penetrating into the unknown realms of dominant Western culture while unconsciously modifying our traditions with our current social experiences. But one thing for certain, technology and medicine are very slow in development for us. We depend very much on the changes and discoveries of the outside and powerful countries who can afford to pile resources, land and money into these sciences, for us to even take a plunge into a small change that can improve or burden us. With the recent hikes in prices of two of the most vital human need, Food and Fuel, maybe we should be not be frustrated becuase of slow technology changes but be glad that we have not come to depend on them as much as some our brothers and sisters of earthly inhabitants have come to be. For example the bicycle. We might not discover the power of the most fastest and efficient vehicles ( im talking about the second hand and cheap cars congesting Honiara) but we can improve on the ever present bicycle for our health, budget and attitude towards life. I mean we are getting lazy people, wanting to seat in a machine to get to some palce as soon as possible just to go and sit down and waste time again. Check this article Popular Vehicle in the World Today should give you another perspective… a better Solo Pespektiv maybe…That not all is worse off. We are still slow on treading the wheel but then it might be for the good. For our rural neighbours this idea of using bicycle to power water pump is not bad too. Pass the word okay, thats what we do, there is no telephone, mobile or email to reach them. Go on.
