I was reading late afternoon today about the history
of how knowledge and how it was shared around the world through the many
centuries of travelling and political mobility.
Human beings have a normal tendency to travel or in the book of Fukuyama
it is termed as mobility. Mobilization
of humankind around the world is inevitable since the start of civilization. Thus, politics and governance of civilization
is part of the evolution of humans as the world is becoming more complex not
only in political ideas but the whole scientific imagination and
knowledge. Reading the historical literature
of Joyce Appleby enlightened me as a reader that knowledge since the time of civilization
are already mobile in nature. Many Kingdoms
before not only change their goods in terms of business agreements and the
economics but also knowledge sharing. To
sum up all these G2G relationships needs a good thinking leader who can decipher
the diplomatic negotiation not only in a bilateral negotiation and agreement
for example but to all the countries who are deemed partners in economics and
political affairs.
Leaders of the
country must consider all the aspects that one partner country will agree for
example, but if the other will not agree that sometimes it will end up to an impasse political
negotiations. Accordingly, during the
time of Christopher Columbus when he traveled to the new world, the galleon of
Christopher Columbus did not carry themselves guns and goons but also
scientific men and scholars to study the new land being founded called the
Americas with a permanent base in the US La Isabela named after the Queen of
Spain at that time Queen Isabela under the Kingship of King Ferdinand II. With the promise of Christopher to find new
worlds across the vast ocean many academics are also wanting to study the
different habitats around the world.
Charles Darwin for example founded his study of the theory of evolution
when he travelled around the world and the development of animal species differ
in terms of the geographical area considering the landscape, climate, and the environment
as a whole. What excites me the most is
the thought that leaders since before civilization became complicated and when
political ideologies like capitalism and communism came to existence, political
negotiations among Kingdoms before are vital in terms of preventing war and
improving international trading among countries. As such, I came to rationalize
that being a leader of a country is not an easy task and moreover it is not
only a popularity contest. The fate of
the country depends upon the overall negotiation of the leaders of the country
considering not only the head of state but also the other government constituents. In my country for example (Philippines) one
senator that I always admired is the late Senadora Meriam Defensor Santiago.
Her job in the senate portrays the untiring job of a lawyer to analyze fully a
given bill considered in the tables of the many senators who are involved in
voting either to accept the bill or not.
This job in creating laws that will stay in the rule book of the land
that will be followed by the general public must be unbiased to the people at
large.
But those are the past, how about the new breeds of
senators in the Philippine government? Who are the senators who are willing to
study the bill and give their untiring hours weighing the pros and cons of the
bill when it will finally approve as the law of the land. Many new Senators are good in the senate
legislative body today in the Philippine government but one Senator who
interest me the most just like Senator Meriam is the young and vibrant SENATOR
BAM AQUINO. His new bills passed and
proposed in the senate are almost all related to education and science and
technology that I conceived that Senator Meriam and also the late senator Dr. Juan
Flavier are in accordance in terms of the inclinations of similarities of bills
passed in the senate. WHY EDUCATION AND SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. Just like the explorers before the new world,
it is not the military that conquers the new America in the hands of Columbus but
the scholars behind the team of Columbus who orchestrated the political and economic
penetration in the new world. As
Philippines will face many International challenges in terms of the diplomatic
negotiation. Philippines do not need
senators who can only dance in front of the voters but senators who can defend
our country in terms of business and politics across national borders. If Columbus before is so concerned with
academic study how much more in our modern world today.
One inspiring program of SENATOR BAM AQUINO
that will enhance our science and technology is the “BALIK SCIENTIST PROGRAM” (http://www.bamaquino.com/sen-bam-balik-scientist-act-one-signature-away-becoming-law-boost-countrys-rd/).
This program will allow our own scientist to
be utilized by our government instead of giving their highly intellect services
in other countries. Come to think of it
in NASA USA how many immigrants are working in NASA and most of the scientist
and engineers in NASA are immigrants from China, India, and some are
Filipinos. According to Michio Kaku the
celebrity Physicist that THE GREATEST WEAPON OF AMERICA IS NOT THEIR HIGH TECH
MILITARY WEAPON BUT THE H1B VISA. A visa
class only given to scientist from around the world to work for American
government. In parallel to the concepts
of the navigators long time ago education and science are the key in the dominance
of world politics. Even the knowledge of
Da Vinci is in demand of the Roman government itself.
The knowledge of Davinci advances the military
science and technology were the roman government respect the expertise and the
knowledge of Da Vinci. In fact the
knowledge of Rome in terms of politics and civilization travelled from Greece
(Joyce Appleby, 2013). Most of their
governance technique are from the Greek style of governance. Indeed, Senatorial work is not a common work. It is a high responsibility to formulate laws
to be followed by the general public.
But then again it is up to the people if we select the good lawyers who
can analyze the real political issues of our land in terms of national and
international political and trade relationships. Sometimes we can gauge the intellect of the
general public according to the choices of our public servants. We vote them
and that is who we are. But just like
Senator Defensor and Senator Dr. Juan Flavier, Senator BAM AQUINO is a senator
who is more concern in terms of science and technology for the overall
improvement of the country and its relative effect in the overall international
relations. For more detailed blog
articles of SENATOR BAM AQUINO please follow the LINK: http://www.bamaquino.com/
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