Changing Our Nation

International development is not a place where I can help people.

People generally do not need my help. And I cannot help them. I am better at changing structures. I cannot change their structure, unless this is their implication of me in such change, or if we are together and there is no they. I can change the structure that allows me to belong to it.

The structures that I can change must allow me to belong to them, must be the ones I'm immediately apart of, those of my community, my country, my cultures. I can change these structures in a way that reduces their interference in the emancipation of other communities, countries and cultures.In this way, I have helped myself, my community, my country and my culture because it lessens its interference with others, and therefore achieves greater harmony, equality and justice. Equality and justice exist in relationships between those who have more and those who have less, those who have power and those who don't. Injustice and inequality bind both sides, and the opposites liberate the two poles when equality and justice become the foundation for societies, and create relatively just inequalities.

In such societies, the quality of life of the most disadvantaged is the first concern. International development is really about changing our nation.