Anti-heroes and amoral progress

The pregnant chaos is experienced intensely It hangs over the country like a cloud. Real alternatives to the current systems of power such as the formation of anti-messianic parties do not exist, because their possibility dies within the fathomless cynicism. If behaviour really were to become anti-heroic, anti-charsimatic, and honest it would be perceived as naive, idealistic, doomed to failure with only a handful of idealisitc and supposedly naïve intellectuals as a support. Such hopelessness and immobilised despair in the face of the chaos that comes from a known corner, is not unique to Jamaica. Chaos only ever threatens from a particular perspective. That perspective sees a society with a specificified purpose. That purpose is imprisoned in strange and elusive words such as "development" and "technological progress" which supposedly stand for values which we hold high: order and measurement, geometrical simplicity, "doing" as a moral good rather than "being", collective discipline in the destruction of the environment, riches and power as the highest rewards, doing more in less time, and doing  without questioning that doing. These are values that cannot withstand cynicism unless one presumes that technological improvement forces an ethical and moral perfectability. And that is rubbish. Technological progress is amoral. Movement, requires symmetry.