Obama's tears, Utopia and Dystopia societies
January 8 2016 By Abiodun Giwa
Anytime the innocents are killed by gun wielding people, observers are moved near tears, aside from relatives of the dead whose loved one have been untimely taken away forever. No one can watch young children of the age of first graders who were killed in Sandy Hook in Connecticut would be without tears, if not in the public, at least in secret. Most men don't shed tears in the public to show strength, especially those in public office, because shedding tears in public is perceived as a sign of weakness.
But on Tuesday, President Barack Obama, the leader of the most powerful country in the world was seen tearful, when he announced his new gun measures. He said the remembrance of the first graders in killed by Adams Lamza in Connecticut always makes him mad, and the use of the gun in the Connecticut's killing is one of the reasons the presidents said moved him to roll out his gun measures. The Wall Street Journal had Obama boldly with the tears on his face, and so were other publications. Some observers have said that tears shows that the president as human and serious about his intention to see increasing death by the guns reduced in the United States.
Others say that President Obama is a man not made for these dangerous times. They expect the president of the most powerful country on earth to be able to control his emotion in public. They say that no matter how emotional he may have become during an official function, it should have been to a level to see tears running down his cheeks. Others talk about political statements hidden in the president's speech and ask why should the president be moving to tears, when his agenda is not only a desire to help reduce death, but one that also has political undertone.
In any case, the president's tears also shows a popular side of the Utopian and Dystopian literature. The Utopian is the type of peaceful society people would like to have, while the Dystopia is the type of violent society that people don't to see. The irony in many people's view is that with all the efforts made to achieve a Utopian society, it is the Dystopian that has turned to be the result of the efforts. These efforts have started way back in Philosophy back to the days of the first Philosophers in Greece, who debated about how to achieve a livable city.
These philosophers were empathic that it might be difficult to achieve livable cities, when the population has become more than the number of people in a city and available resource have been outpaced by the number of people to be provided for. And of course, no country that wants to achieve peace within will go to war in another country in search of lands to conquer. and then take resources for the people to other lands. Examples of what makes a city or country are provided in such books as are provided as examples of what societies must do to achieve the peaceful atmosphere conducive for human habitation.
Therefore, going by the knowledge expanded in Utopia and Dystopia literature, any one aspiring to be a leader ought to know that the current societies vulnerability to a strive that has become the survival of the fittest and the immigration from other places have made peaceful existence impossible. A peaceful and livable society based on Utopian teaching don't need the type of fully armed police against unarmed population.
The existence of armed population in a society where one cannot trust the sanity of many people is another side of the both Utopian and Dystopian existence. How to reduce the dystopian aspects should be matters that must engage the presidency and the legislature. But where the presidency and the legislature don't trust each other and cannot work together is another aspect of Dystopia. Therefore, rather than be tearful, the president should humble himself the way he done not in public but before the legislature from the glare of the public, for the legislature's uncooperative attitude, if there is any as has been mentioned, to melt and for them to cooperate for the benefit of the society.
Where there is stand off between the president and the legislature and the government fails to achieve its objective, the president will carry the blame as the leader.
But on Tuesday, President Barack Obama, the leader of the most powerful country in the world was seen tearful, when he announced his new gun measures. He said the remembrance of the first graders in killed by Adams Lamza in Connecticut always makes him mad, and the use of the gun in the Connecticut's killing is one of the reasons the presidents said moved him to roll out his gun measures. The Wall Street Journal had Obama boldly with the tears on his face, and so were other publications. Some observers have said that tears shows that the president as human and serious about his intention to see increasing death by the guns reduced in the United States.
Others say that President Obama is a man not made for these dangerous times. They expect the president of the most powerful country on earth to be able to control his emotion in public. They say that no matter how emotional he may have become during an official function, it should have been to a level to see tears running down his cheeks. Others talk about political statements hidden in the president's speech and ask why should the president be moving to tears, when his agenda is not only a desire to help reduce death, but one that also has political undertone.
In any case, the president's tears also shows a popular side of the Utopian and Dystopian literature. The Utopian is the type of peaceful society people would like to have, while the Dystopia is the type of violent society that people don't to see. The irony in many people's view is that with all the efforts made to achieve a Utopian society, it is the Dystopian that has turned to be the result of the efforts. These efforts have started way back in Philosophy back to the days of the first Philosophers in Greece, who debated about how to achieve a livable city.
These philosophers were empathic that it might be difficult to achieve livable cities, when the population has become more than the number of people in a city and available resource have been outpaced by the number of people to be provided for. And of course, no country that wants to achieve peace within will go to war in another country in search of lands to conquer. and then take resources for the people to other lands. Examples of what makes a city or country are provided in such books as are provided as examples of what societies must do to achieve the peaceful atmosphere conducive for human habitation.
Therefore, going by the knowledge expanded in Utopia and Dystopia literature, any one aspiring to be a leader ought to know that the current societies vulnerability to a strive that has become the survival of the fittest and the immigration from other places have made peaceful existence impossible. A peaceful and livable society based on Utopian teaching don't need the type of fully armed police against unarmed population.
The existence of armed population in a society where one cannot trust the sanity of many people is another side of the both Utopian and Dystopian existence. How to reduce the dystopian aspects should be matters that must engage the presidency and the legislature. But where the presidency and the legislature don't trust each other and cannot work together is another aspect of Dystopia. Therefore, rather than be tearful, the president should humble himself the way he done not in public but before the legislature from the glare of the public, for the legislature's uncooperative attitude, if there is any as has been mentioned, to melt and for them to cooperate for the benefit of the society.
Where there is stand off between the president and the legislature and the government fails to achieve its objective, the president will carry the blame as the leader.
