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Towards Political Development And Nation Building
FINAL PART, By Emmanuel C. Morgan
Published: 20 March, 2008
Consequently, if these goals and objectives for which we were formed be our guiding principles, then our success and failure should be measured by these goals and aspirations. An object is considered good if it performs its intended function for which it was made. Similarly, Liberia will never be a perfect state until its intended goals and aspirations are achieved and its intended spirit is properly sought! Its citizens must know the reason for which they do pledge allegiance to their nation. Indeed, Liberia must recognize once again its mission and intended aspirations. That should be the hallmark of both the citizens and their government! The principle or the adherence to the principle of modernization should be another basic concentration for political development and nation building. Modernization is the process of profound social change in which tradition-bound villagers or tribal-based societies are compelled to react to the pressure and demands of the modernized, industrialized and urban centered world. It can be simply termed “world culture” a world culture bound on advanced technology and the spirit of science, on a rational view of life, secular approach to social relations, a feeling of justice in public affairs; above all else, on the acceptance in the political realm of the belief that the prime unit of the polity is the nation state. True, the state should develop such mindset of such world culture especially in the dynamic arena of technology! Such modernized spirit would not only bring political development but also attract additional social forces that would build our nation, Liberia. And the sum effect of being part of the nation states as a prime unit, according to the concept of modernization, is being part of an international system. And such international system would help rebuild our nation as it is now evident partially in this regime!!
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