Amazing Bro,

For a longest time, I thought our politicians and nobody else are to be blamed for all the things that have gone bad.

Of late, it has dawned on me that that’s not true.

Two clues led me to it.

One, no matter how political pundits criticize this or that events, there is not really a single blunder on part of our politicians that can be traced back as a “big bang” of our bad days. Everything is a continuum of the past. They just could not break that continuum.

Then-- this one is subtle but very serious-- who are the politicians anyway? I mean in terms of idea and action.

They are us.

Our politicians are functional extension of, let’s connect the dots, professional intellectuals like whoever we want to give as example and amateur intellectuals like I, you and BathroomCoffee.

(Of course BathroomCoffee is going to deny any role and responsibility because he has done nothing except badmouthing in Sajha his entire life. But here is the thing. Bathroom’s nears and dears are his functional extension and our politicians are functional extension of them in turn. Admit it, we all are part of our corrupt and lazy system.)

So, I think vision is not what is lacking. If it was vision, King Gyanendra had a great vision.

I even dare say we don’t need vision. We don’t have to have politicians with vision. A stable political framework and stability is sufficient. Nepali people, without a single paisa and help from the government, can and will change Nepal. Nepali people’s proven entrepreneurship (just look how hard they are working in the country and wherever they could go) and the leveling effect of free competition will do that.

So stability is the key. When and if we could reach there, all the good things will follow. Or so I think.

Nepe