Keep Promoting

Within the comedy of errors that is our world, Myanmar has become a theatre of evil.  Presently, there is an art exhibit at the Bangkok Arts and Cultural Centre, showing the tragedy that Myanmar has become under the weight of the greed and lust for power of the few.  

One may rightly state that Myanmar does not stand alone.  What about Syria, Yemen, Libya and so the list goes on?   For me, the difference is that Myanmar is right next door to where I live and I know many Burmese as good people, friends and colleagues.  

This exhibit reminded me of a classic movie in my life, "Apocalypse Now", starring Marlon Brando as the rogue US military officer, operating alone and isolated within the jungles of a war torn Vietnam.  His crime was that he had taken waging war too far.  He had to be stopped. 

The point of the movie was that extreme evil could thrive in the harsh, far away jungles of a Vietnam because it first exists in the fine streets of major cities in the civilized world.  Evil begins with us.  

As Lia, who runs SEAJunction, said to me, while visiting this exhibit, "Keep promoting".  Keep promoting what is good; keep promoting human dignity; keep promoting peace.  Viva la revolucion del'amor!