We want conversations that inspire us. Nothing so transforms one’s day as engaging in conversations with people in our social circle that move, inspire and lift us, nourishing the spirit, filling the soul with a sweet taste. Words matter, what we encounter in the social space, and what we compose in how we think and talk.
In this society, this lacklustre social space we harbour in the Guyanese nation, we refuse to think and exercise authentic intellectual effort in considering such ideas as the fact that we now live in the Knowledge Age. Today, it’s all about information, ideas, a virtual world clothed in language, words and semantics. But we gloss over the idea of the Knowledge Age with a vague understanding of what the idea is about, what it means: its dynamic significance for us on a personal level.
Our crushing crisis in this society is that devastating brain drain. As much as we blame and lambast others for the ills of the Guyanese society,