HALF SMART VIEW OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA

I feel the need to defend Papua New Guinea from a half smart and unkind report on PNG Attitude by one Susan Merrell BA MA whatever. Please click:

Democracy, custom & the elasticity of the Melanesian Way

She has written on the dichotomy in Papua New Guinea between the big man syndrome, democracy and the Melanesian Way.

She seems to want the Melanesian Way to be disbanded and replaced with some foreign model.

Surely this is not an anti-family and anti-culture message. The nation has had enough of that at the hands of foreign lesbians.

She writes as if she has only just discovered the phenomenon in the whole wide world.

There are inconsistencies in Papua New Guinea as there have been in every developing nation and enshrined in various forms in every developed nation.

From the Middle Ages and before, we saw the rise of Christianity, burning of witches, torture of heretics and slavery. These show dichotomy across the Christian world.

There is more blood and cruel inconsistency here than anything the Melanesian Way could muster. There is also kindness buried not so deep in Papua New Guinea.

With the rise of parliamentary democracy in England, we saw the continuing genocide of the Irish and hunting down of Catholic priests for hanging, drawing and quartering.

That is most dichotomous. Not to mention slavery in a Christian country. Indigenous people in far lands were slaughtered.

In the Christian world, we find same sex marriage. Moslem nations led by the peace of Allah witness killing of the innocents by suicide bombers.

All such events make the Melanesian Way, big man syndrome, democracy and Christianity seem like a Sunday picnic.

Susan, please give PNG a fair go. You are making the rocking chair warriors of PNG Attitude excited. It is not good for their dicky tickers.

Some of them like to think that PNG has declined because they left.