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What is the essence
of a world class city? It is world
class citizens and residents...
And what make world class people, citizens,
residents?
Persons who, among other things, are fit,
fair, educated,
trained, cultured... and doing their
duties to self, family, friends,
others... nature...
Persons are fit to live in a city when they vote,
respect laws, promote
their own, and the public,
good. Fit means filling a suitable spot in a larger situation.
Persons are fair to themselves when
they do not harm their own well
being; and fair to others
when they do not harm their persons,
reputation, property...
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Persons are educated when, among
other things, they constantly make sound,
sensible and informed,
choices in matters of survival,
inner peace
and recreation...
Cultured people engage in artistic,
admirable, civilized
and natural activities...
So the essence of a world class
city is in the hands,
hearts... and heads of its
people..., not mainly in things...,
however huge, fast, comfortable, numerous, old...
It is making fitting and sound
judgments constantly in day
to day matters, both short and long term and acting
on those judgments on time and with much skill.
Its leaders are to reflect, exemplify,
promote this essence.
Best leaders are not power, wealth
or publicity, lovers! These latter
types of leaders are like baskets that citizens, without end, have
to fill with water, pepsi, saki, and gin!
Best leaders prefer what are publicly fair, lovely and sound in
everything, especially practices.
Do you know: That one of the best mayors of Toronto, Frederick
Clark, was never a councillor before mayor?
That people who do not vote treat themselves in a way almost similar
to how some past governments in other places treated slaves, outsiders
and idiots?
That voting for a candidate on the basis of name and face recognition
was mostly suitable for voters who were largely illiterate, and
bamboozled by some media charlatans?
Do you also know that registered voters who do not
vote should be fined about $15 - 20,
the amount it could cost to process each voter, from registration
to counting of ballots?
Do you know that a favorite did not win the Kentucky Derby for the
past 20 years?
That good sense is not a gift conferred just on so-called 'major
candidates' by some self-appointed experts in the media and in some
halls of power who just pontificate?
Do you know: that some candidate publicly shed tears for the homeless
only just before election?
That so many people are sleeping on the street largely because so
many indifferent people have empty rooms for ghost
guests?
That so many people lack bread, milk, limes... mainly because so
many have too much for conspicuous waste?
That the cows and trees give more to needy
strangers than to their own calves and seeds?
That the visions of any mayor(s) are hardly worth a fig?
That when a leader says something dumb, or does something disastrous,
the person to blame is not just
the unfit leader, it is mainly the
voters who put him/her
to lead , and it is also the many non-voters
who permit those voters to elect a malingering
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