Oh my! this is long, but I promise you, worth every second you read of it! It’s not really a writeup, it is in fact a positively triggering dialogue where you will be nodding or / and frowning as you read along, hopefully the former!
In short, I dream of the whole world as one big happy family united by common rule of law, low taxation, tolerance, respect for all cultures, traditions and faiths without any imposition. A world where we all win! Utopia that is, to me, possible! The Rotary 4-Way Test is just one such example of how humans can be united for a good cause…
Why do I even have this crazy dream as some might say? Why did Abraham Lincoln, MalcolmX, Martin Luther King, Gandhi and so many others were ridiculed or / and killed by their own rise to the challenge that is more like a huge elephant in the room no one really wants to see? Because on this planet, in the past, right here, right now, and in the foreseeable future, there is not a single leader, corporation, entity or group that takes ownership of all humans, animals, plant kingdom and the environment (the air we breathe, the water we drink and so forth) – so we, as a human specie are orphans. We have no saviour, we are but disjointed groups of people grouped under tribes, or religions, or nations, or colors, or races and even in there we have our ample conflicts and disagreements – and hence we have left the larger picture to a God. But then we have multiple Gods and multiple doctrines of those “Gods” the world over, the amount of “God conflict” we have even among the followers of the same God is distasteful to say the least!
I am a short films producer and actor, a consultant and a self proclaimed funny guy who always I mean ALWAYS sees the “glass as half full.” and finds reason to laugh and make others laugh too, even if at myself! I was born into a Muslim family in Pakistan as “Syed Muhammad Imran Owais Kazmi” many decades ago on August 5, 1970. I changed my pen name, as a writer, to CrystalHeart somewhere around the late 2000s, and was awarded an honorary doctorate for my services towards women’s global political empowerment so I can be addressed as “Dr CrystalHeart” – not that I wrote a thesis or something, just dreams for women of the world as saviors of this planet. I live in Dubai, UAE, though love America, a nation that holds the First Amendment dear to their hearts, among other nations I call “the enlightened West” despite their problems (minor, in my opinion) including Canada, EU, UK, Australia and NZ and extending to Japan, South Korea and Singapore to some extent.
My journey through life has been marred by severe criticism, injustices, disenfranchisement and discrimination often by my own countrymen (though not restricted to them alone) and those who follow the same religion as I do, Islam (among others too), albeit as a reformer thereof for I, like many, find ample reason for a change for the better, via my own version of “what religions should be like” as described in my philosophical guideline for governments the world over called KoK or KodeOfKonduct.
If you scroll below this blog you will see a lot of information on who I am and what I stand for, but here, let me briefly introduce myself. You can see my profile or Resume online.
I’ve been appreciated by some, the Rotary Clubs of New York where I presented my thoughts with the support and consultation of Rotarian Jim Kushner and others, you can perhaps enjoy Jim singing “Johnny B Good” at the District Governor’s ball. However many had and have left no stone unturned to make my life miserable and insecure. From rampant discrimination often by people of my own (and similar) color and race to vociferous detraction of my calls for equality of all men and women the world over, freedom of speech, and a “no hatred” policy towards every human being regardless of their race, cast, color, beliefs, nationality, gender etc. Many even in this day and age find these logical notions of humanity unacceptable. Hence I’ve been given umpteen death threats and ridiculed by my own over the last few years, especially since the Rotaries showed me love so did many from the EU, US, Canada, UK, Australia, Israel, NZ and Pakistan’s hostile neighbor, India. The fact that people from these, and other nations, understood my quest for global peace, harmony, good governance and that I was and remain completely UNBIASED in how I treat people except for how they treat me! This prompted many in my country of birth (Pakistan) and hate mongers elsewhere to slander me and spread hate against me.
My final recourse was to shun the “First Amendment” I applied on myself and hitherto attain silence for I had no saviors, no Knights in Shining Armor to my assistance, for the power and influence I was blamed to have certainly should have had me fare a million times better than I did, for the past decade I am a freelance trainer on leadership and consultant, earning what may at best be described as “minimum wage” and often dependent on my family members to meet my very basic needs. Don’t get me wrong, my education and experience should have logically placed me in the top 2% of any society but then my blind desire to attempt at changing the seemingly impossible especially in “that” part of the world, where racism, bias, tribalism, corruption, religious hate etc are all en vogue. In Pakistan alone I knew the ex President General Musharaff personally and out of respect wrote a bit for him, some of which was published, the ex PM, Imran Khan called me a “dynamite” but soon distanced himself from me as my rather obvious and very public “pro Western ideals” for good reason as I see it, besides my quest for Pakistan to treat our minorities way better than we do today, have good terms with Israel and so called arch enemy: India (vice versa from their side too!)
For to me, together (India and Pakistan) were both enslaved by the English and post freedom (misnomer as I see it) we should have united and grown together, but alas! By creating a wedge in the name of Islam and Hinduism this beautiful family was divided! Just think about it, if Islam was an issue there is not a single Muslim nation in the world which has bad terms with India! and India has perfect relations with all Muslim nations, so why this hatred against each other? A military spend of 90bn USD by both (12 Pakistan, 77 India) in 2022 is simply mind boggling! Now NGOs (non profits), Rotaries, the Lions and so on are bending over backwards to help these below the poverty line nations with ridiculous per capita incomes and huge differentials in earnings and today as a Pakistani I am treated as a criminal if I even want to VISIT India and vice versa, whilst we and the Indians crack the same jokes, watch the same dramas, sitcoms, TV shows and movies, love the same music even! The language is the same the script a little different! Why this hate in 2022? It beats any sense of logic or rationality. I think our differences should be amicably resolved and religion shouldn’t be used as a tool of hate.
Hence my desire to see India and Pakistan go for an EU like coexistence which is win/win for all, more tourism for both, economic benefits it’s literally a no-brainer, created umpteen enemies for me who are not able to see things rationally and logically using the UN or any other reputable global conflict resolution agency.
That said, I have not stopped my quest for ideals, places where freedom of speech is valued and upheld be it the US, Canada, UK, EU, Australia, NZ etc for these “evolved” societies value the human being and individual freedom, rights, and respect more than the rest of the world combined and that too by many folds, leaps and bounds!
Which brings me to my thoughts on immigration and migration the world over, thoughts that have added more to my kitty bag of hate and ridicule, but the sane find them as sane as they are and the insane find them a blind reason to further detract and despise me. So, well migration and immigration is a pretty straightforward phenomenon in the 21st century. People from poorer often with the misnomer of “less developed countries” (a long list including the billion nationals of South East Asian India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, the below poverty line Africans, drugs and poverty stricken South Americans, the residents of the Caribbean, the Philippines, Iranians, poorer Arab nations like Syria, Palestine and so forth, and even the Chinese and Russians, supposed super powers) migrate to the developed “West” (which does include their Eastern brethren such as the Kiwis and Aussies and to a lesser extent South Korea, Singapore and Japan) those who cannot “make it” migrate to the oil rich Mideast and live glorious lives either amidst plenty of SUVs and supercars or as glorified laborers.
Such then is the state of immigration on planet earth today, where any with the brain the size of a walnut or more from the “less developed countries” as described above yearn to migrate to the West either as refugees or as “skilled labor” in IT, nursing, or via their Children, Spouses, Siblings or Parents, or as hefty investors. My personal experience with immigration was nothing to write home about, Norway as a tourist and Canada as an immigrant both left a lot to be desired for no fault of mine but of the raging influx of migrants, often disguised as “tourists” or those who would lie and cheat to gain the right to live in the “free West” that they would often be nonconformist to the values therein. Sadly, to this day, none from the Government officials of either Norway or Canada apologized to me, or corrected the rather obvious mistake they made in my case. A Norwegian media outlet did interview me in days gone by to highlight the legitimacy of my claim, to no avail though.
The fact remains that immigration is a one way street; I don’t see Germans, or Canadians or Australians taking up passports or nationality of Pakistani or Indian or Russian or Chinese or Brazilian or Philippines or Nigerian or Kenyan or the rest of the 100+ nations. Why so? Some would blame colonialism or the fact that the developed nations place the scum of the earth as leaders in these countries (where they can), something I do agree with to some extent.
So what we see is a tide of people who feel powerless to change the system or leadership of their nations and provided they fit the criteria for immigration, or even as refugees or stowaways, as they say “by hook or by crook” they explore and graze the greener pastures of the more idealistic Western nations as I described above (US, Canada, EU, UK, Australia, NZ). In doing so they disown the mess in their own nations that led to them fleeing, something I cannot be blamed for if one looks at my articles the Australian News Blaze has been publishing over a decade, or at BlahBlah.info among others where I constructively criticized Pakistanis society, army, culture, hypocrisy and insensitivity to the poor, minorities, women & LGBTQIA communities. I didn’t flee my country for more money; I owned the problems my nation faced. To what avail? Death threats, slander as described above and much more. Disillusioned but not giving up for I realize the problem is larger, bigger and encompasses at least 90% of humanity, not just one country. Even the “free West” today is infested with people who call themselves “immigrants” but are in fact glued to their ex home countries in every sense of the word. I know such people in my friends and family and I ask them the same question without a satisfactory answer “why did you immigrate than put in your blood and sweat to improve the lot of your nation?”
So the net result is the silos of Manchester’s and Birmingham and others in the “West” where communities and people that never really belonged there are aplenty, they contribute to those societies somehow but remain a misfit. A dear Bengali friend of mine who’s a Doctor for the NHS in the UK once narrated how his brief education at a Pakistani School in the Mideast helped him learn Urdu, and how that language helped him get a job as a Doctor in the NHS! For according to him, there are many immigrants in the UK who carry British passport but cannot speak English! Hence the Brits hired Doctors like him to help such people when they visit healthcare facilities so communication can lead to diagnosis and cure!
As of today we witness the Ukraine crisis, a needless conflict handled in the most bizarre manner by all concerned. If the Russians wanted a “no NATO zone” whatever stopped them from putting that across to the Allies and in a stone age like manner invade Ukraine? Isn’t this an appalling situation that we witness in this planet? If you agree, which few will, for most live either a clichéd or selfish existence believing the fodder of thoughts given to them by their leaders and media, shunning critical thinking, or simply caught in their responsibilities to even bother thinking any further?
To me, democracy is a misnomer in many nations excluding the West and a few others, that is exploited by their leaders and ruling elites to enslave the masses. While skillfully presenting themselves as the “chosen leaders” that the people caste votes for! Hiding their election frauds, even crimes, including murders and financial corruption, eating away the taxes or resources of the people, grabbing land and properties, desecrating the bodies of the poor or middle class women and children they can exploit, while treating their men as bonded labor. And yet with their Ivy League education they proudly go to the UN and Western leaders and say “we are the elected leaders of our countries.”
If you look at the lives of people who live in South America, Asia minus Oil Rich Mideast, the Philippines, Iran, Africa, North Korea, even many in China and Russia, you will see the abject hopelessness they face from an economic and justice perspective, their human rights are next to zero and access to opportunities is riddled with a biased class based system whether via religion or culture and their access to law and order is nothing more than a pipe dream, for which reason I created the template for a Global Police Force that in my dream world would operate all over the globe. Few even understood the gravity of my thoughts there, sometimes intellect can be an unholy curse for to get to the level of people who can’t see beyond their own or their family’s here and now, or are fixed minded in national “pride” to defend the indefensible their societies and leaders do, ultimately leads to heartbreak and disillusionment.
Hence I have reached the conclusion that democracy, in its present form, can only be applied with decent results in the developed West (in terms of good human values they have evolved to practice), unlike most of the rest of the world which is still pretty much autocratic in its approach and doesn’t really care about ideals, so it exploits democratic ideals by coercing or buying the votes of the majority illiterate poor to self serve the oligarchs who claim to be the harbingers of democracy’s selfish interests and leaves the populace high and dry with nothing but empty slogans, promises for a better tomorrow that never comes, burdening them with inflation and rising debts, all in all creating and sustaining hopelessness that leads to what? More immigration to the West OR rising corruption, terrorism or crimes at home!
I proposed a model to counter this with OMMV (One Wo/Man, Many Votes) which would ideally allow votes ranked by education. If you look at how Governments anywhere in the world work, private or public sector, each one of them relies on education levels to assess, select and place people in their organizations. A large firm’s CEO is usually not some illiterate guy or even a high school graduate, unless it’s his or her own business which is very rare unless it’s a family owned.
Whilst in the US in 2015/16/18 period I saw the rise of Trump and his $22bn wall on the Mexican border, an impoverished nation who’s citizens like the rest are disgruntled with bad governance, drug cartels and what not, had Trump announced a survey asking for how many Mexicans would like Mexico to become another State of the US I am sure an overwhelming majority would have opted for the US in favor of their current nationalism that yields them heartache at best. In Montreaul I met a well to do Mexican family who happily gave me a Peso note in exchange for mine as souvenirs, and I had the exact same discussion with them as I narrate to you and they chose, with much happiness, the same end that I propose here. Why then do the US and Allies NOT pursue a benevolent agenda of helping the world with a better system of governance. I am, to this day, shocked at how, after trillions of dollars spent on Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, the Americans left Afghanistan to the Taliban last year and Libya in a state of perpetual civil war. If instead the Americans declared all these three as US States I am 100% sure each one of them would have become a role model for the people of those regions.
So my question has been that when we hire a Clerk, a Janitor, a Financial Analyst, a Lawyer or a Doctor, we scrutinize their academics and relevant experience in depth, however when it comes to our leaders all we care is their popularity! Will you fly in a plane where the Captain is the “most popular guy or girl” whether or not qualified to fly the plane, in that Airline? Or would you go for a surgery with the “most popular Surgeon” in the hospital whether or not with a degree or experience? However when it comes to our nations we just give away unlimited power, budgets and resources to individuals who are at best charismatic and certainly not competent for there is no University that actually teaches how to govern a nation! Yes it’s subparts but not the whole nine yards. A principle we apply to all other situations in life, relying on education and experience is conveniently flouted and ignored when it comes to choosing leaders! So in the short run education and in the long run perhaps a minimum qualification in governance may help us with better leaders the world over.
These are some of my thoughts that have earned me less friends and umpteen enemies; I am unsure which side of the fence, you, the reader shall choose?
Your choice can make a difference for this planet. I think we need to quickly evolve to a better version of democracy that future proofs the worlds from it’s ills with the active support of the enlightened West as I call it, and at the same time focus on treating the world as one whole unit which espouses equality and respect for all humans, low (10%) flat tax rate, low cost governance, focus on sustainability, governed by a common law and systems that removes duplication, inefficiencies and biases, technology has proved to us that such a system is possible, whether we use Apple or Google or Facebook or Instagram or TikTok or Twitter or Clubhouse and so forth we accept their Globally Mandated Rules upon us that ultimately commercially benefit them; so why not a global system that benefits us, the people? Wherever we may be on this planet beautifully described by Dire Straits in “Brothers in Arms”, which I leave you with.
Merci/ Dangke/ Thanks/ Shukran for reading this far…
A better world 
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