The Community Security System is dead




Letters from a great grandfather

Dear my grandson. I am thrilled to know that finally you are reading my letter. I hope and believe that you will share with other young people. You should. Perhaps its contents may heal our community. The community I so much loved and cherished. As my fleshless bones, what remains of my fingers, coil around the imaginary pen, I writhe with pain from the greaseless friction. Yet I have to write, regardless of the pain and suffering. I have to write. It’s a duty I have to the human race, to my grand sons and daughters and to God. The Community Security System is dead.

My grandson, the human head has lost its wisdom and that has made our communities vulnerable. I look at what you call advancement with sad eyes. How you now secure our beloved communities with lock and key. How you trust physical substances with your life and invest in material inventions to secure your lives, your health, your being. Your generation has lost it son. Have you not leaned that we are smarter than that. Anything material is short of perfection. Have you not leaned that anything material is subjective to weathering. Not weathering in its literal sense but metaphorical perspective.

We used to secure our lives with something more profound than what is material, more solid than stone and more fluid than any liquid. We secured our communities with values and virtues. These were inert components that were bound to our hearts and transferred to the brain and parts of the body through the veins. We were secure. Your great grandmother would leave your grandmother with the next door neighbour’s son for a month and nothing would happen. I wonder what will happen if you were to be stuck alone in an elevator with a girl for just few hours son. I’m sure you would first curse the fact that you didn’t remember to take a pack of condoms with you more than you will curse the elevator company. What is wrong with your generation son? You have lost your community security system.

The human race is at risk. You have become infected and your loose sexual tendencies are a symptom of your sickness. No wonder you have pandemics of Sexual Transmitted Infections, Child pregnancies, drug abuse, child prostitution and murders. Your community security system has failed. I see and all your grand fathers and mothers do too, that your generation tries to curb the threat to community development but your focus is wrong. The answer is not physical no, not material. The increase in policemen won’t stop the wrong doings. The invention of protective sheaths won’t secure you for life. The vulnerability gaps are considerable enough for one to invest his or her life. The answer lies in the very core of what we call a person. That’s how we secured our communities. There were insignificant numbers of murderers not because the lawmakers outnumbered the people no. Neither were there any material barriers to always carry around ourselves, no! Communities were secure because people were driven by internal controls. The values and moral obligations which always reminded and cautioned someone before any wrong doing.   These controls kept me alive and all your grand-relatives.

If there are other forms of life equally or even more intelligent than you, am sure they are looking at you with the same perspective and questions. As long as I am allowed and empowered, my son, I will continue to write and accompany you towards regaining your wisdom. 

Yours 

Great grandfather

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