Papua New Guinea an artificial state!

From TONY FLYNN

Wau

Morobe Province

 

Democracy?

This is a corrupt society from the base.

Papua New Guinea is built from the top as an artificial democratic state.

All real democracies have a stable farming community.

You may wish to look back through history at the viable nation states, smallest to largest.

They all had some form of farm tenure that allowed the farmers and artisans to support the entire society, the leaders recognised this in the way they ran the state.

The state was based on the production of its people. Leaders were nowhere without the economic support of the people.

The farmers and artisans may have been treated badly, but they were always the support of the state.

The Papua New Guinea state is based the support given by aid agencies and the production of the resource exploiters.

The production of the people does not have much impact on the influential leaders.

Because of this little consideration is given to the people; our leaders do not have to look to the people to support the state.

 The purpose of the people is to be misled once every five years; they are then of no further use apart from being used as a cover-up for the leaders in their self-aggrandisement.

The people have no effective voice after the election; at least until shortly before the next one.

The people can safely be ignored while our leaders deal with the people who really matter; the aid givers and the exploiters of the resources of PNG.

 In PNG most of our politicians are joined at the hip in their greed for aid money and the money from the external exploiters of PNG resources.

To promote sustainable farming and assist the formation of a stable state

Slash-and-burn agricultural system is the result of thousands of years of isolation. Sustainable farming can only be built on a permanent and stable farming system.

From this base we may, as others have, develop a stable government.

Until there is a big change in the farming system away from shifting agriculture, the entire state is based upon exploitation.

Developers exploit the minerals, fisheries and forests.

 They exhaust the resource and move.

The PNG farmers exploit the soil; they exhaust the soil and they also move on.

In general PNG politicians exploit the people, if successful they are re-elected, otherwise a new exploiter takes his place.

 Rarely do we see a true servant of the people succeed.    

  This is the situation that has to change before the majority of our population (our farmers) can improve our society to the betterment of our ordinary citizens.