If we have our own firm footing, like back in Tibet, then regionalism is solved, for the system of governance based on regional to central entities and the relative agency of performances. The ruling party doesn't stand for any regions, as each has its own government. But how here without a square foot of land of ours? How it has gone to such a high illusion like we have ours here?
Notwithstanding PT's own words on the importance of the administration rather than the figure, it is coming about as just figure-oriented. In a performing democracy on a firm footing, figure-oriented is a normal case like extolling to the sky to hurling shoes, eggs at him or her. For the latter case of hurling eggs or pouring down a packet of grain flour on to the highest political leader, as the case is normal in France, a Tibetan recounted me about his witnessing such as something unbelievable, and at last held it as a sort of thrill. When I countered him saying it stands for liberty and right, he was immobile and mute with a sour expression.
“What befalls me, if I happen to do so to our sikyong, now LS? Can I be lynched by a lurking group, or branded as something so abnormal so ready on our lips in blackening others?” said I.
He was all mute and disported as being unable to digest my countering remark.
“You’re right.” He blurted out at last.
In essence, regionalism, especially here in exile, is stark futile and undoing to our great cause at hand. In an alien land, when standing out as of our incommunicado and thereby excommunication, our floundering gestures, our gawking in quandary, our taking everything silently, our state of being crestfallen and downtrodden, how we can’t come up to it, the simple sentiment, we are the same, the fated ones?
Such narrow sense of protection or belonging is like a blind one, having no sense of ratiocination and understanding but just a blind fancy. And it leads into further derangement: from a narrow sphere to a narrower one to one’s family to one’s loved ones to one’s lover to oneself at last, sad and forlorn and breathing in a rarefied air.
And so sadly, PT’s own way of countering is rather rash. He could have done a thorough investigation on it before coming out so. Sadly, it can be said as yet another rash after the last one. The crucial need of voicing against but with a firm ground of understanding. As His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s words like one should get the law down to word by word to break it in a clever way.
Vive Le Tibet!
