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Between modernity and poverty

It's been so long since my last visit to Citraland Mall, one of the biggest mall in my city, Semarang. My main reason went there is to apply and follow some tv news presenter selection being held there (I know that from newspaper and several billboard). After have a little walk around the mall, I finally realize that the contest is being held at Auditorium RRI, close to that mall. Ouch !!!, big TV station like them shouldn't make a mistakes like that. That was out of their compentence. I hope I was the one who make a mistakes. The writing on the billboard show that the contest being held at two place, but I don't know if the contest are only held at one place.

But that's fine, I've got several lesson at the mall. After hanging around at the mall, I went home through the outer side of the mall. At a sidewalk, I saw an old women, perhaps her age around 50 - 60 years, he sell a local javanese food call Mendut. Mendut is a sweet snack consists of sugar (javanese sugar), flour, and coconut. The sugar and coconut were mixed together and wrapped by thin layer of flour and banana leaf as an outer wrapper. Finally, they were cooked over hot steam. I won't make a further explanation about the Mendut, but I'm very impressed with the contrast between the old woman who sell "cheap" local snack near the mall.

What the hell a condition ?? Nobody doesn't seem noticed the old lady at all !! Many people were passing her, but........

Poverty and modernity are two conditions that completely unseparatable. And it's much much more contrast at capitalist and 3rd world country (negara dunia ketiga.., I don't know the translation in English). There are many traditional market in my country who had a conflict with mall developer, especially in sub urban area. Government rule are conduct contractor and developer not to make any mall at least 2 km away from traditional market. But anybody in the world know that almost anything could be done here if u have money, yes, money, God Damn f***ing MONEY...!!!!

I need money just like anybody else in the world, but I do hate them if they were used as an amoral means. If this condition still happen, I'm sure, definitely SO SURE that my country is close to doomsday. How many "another old woman" just like that who is gonna scutinized by big massive developer, how many traditional food which will be extinct if they were treat like that (marketed like that..), how many people will raise their narcisstic and egoism by acting like nothing were happen about their country conditions ???

Hope someday I'll make my place, this world become much much better country to lived in. I don't care about people who had an egoism and developer or contractor who had nothing about social sensitivity. Perhaps they should begone from this world, and another more, CORRUPTOR !!!!!! they shall die, DIE !!, DIE!!!!!!!!!!! at no exceptions ! no more mercy to them !

posted by polosjacket @ 5:51 PM