My existence in the virtual world
Facebook President?
Have you voted yet?
On the French television, this morning, they presented the French candidate. I learn to know more about him so I voted for him. Would you like to do the same thing?
Would anyone dare to be the Mauritius candidate for the president of Facebook? It would be good publicity for Mauritius I guess.
Cancer seems to be nibbling away the health of a number of people close to me. Last Saturday, my dear friend, a co-founder of Toastmasters in Mauritius told me that his wife Suzanne has relapsed in her illness; they are rushing to Singapore for help. My wife mahjong’s mate’s husband is suffering from cancer. A second degree cousin Nicole married to my university mate is undergoing treatment for cancer in Singapore. Nicole & Maurice being away in Singapore keep a blog to log in their experience. A friend broke the news to me yesterday: Philippe Chan Tin, a primary school mate may be dying soon of this dreadful and painful cancer. Is it because of my age period that the occurrence is getting closer to my entourage? Or is it the style of living the cause? Is it the polluting environment we are living in? What ever it may be, it is worthwhile taking advices to run away from this disease. Prevention should be the name of the game. I take this opportunity to salute the wonderful work done by a group of volunteers to alleviate the pains of Cancer suffers in setting up a palliative care center which operates at couvent de Belle rose.
There is a hoax email circulating the internet. As is the case very often all is not hoax, all is not true. I do believe that a more healthy living style should help. Nicole is undergoing an alternative cancer treatment in conjunction with the traditional chemotherapy.
What ever may be the case, when faced with an incurable disease, anybody would attempt any available cure. For us who are apparently free from cancer what should we do to save us from catching the evil?
The hoax mail
*** Cancer Up-date ***
AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY (TRY THE KEY WORD) AND ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHN HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY.
Cancer Update from John Hopkins
1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.
2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person’s lifetime.
3. When the person’s immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumours.
4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.
5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.
6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastro-intestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage , like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.
7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells , tissues and organs.
8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size .
However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.
9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.
10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.
11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply
CANCER CELLS FEED ON:
a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells . Sugar substitutes like Nutrasweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts.
Table salt has a chemical
added to make it white in colour. Better alternative is Bragg’s aminos or sea salt.
b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soya milk cancer cells are being starved.
c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork.
Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.
d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day.
Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).
e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties. Water- best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.
12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines become purified and leads to more toxic build-up.
13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body’s killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.
14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the body’s own killer cells to destroy cancer cells.
Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body’s normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.
15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, unforgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.
16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.
(PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO PEOPLE YOU CARE ABOUT) CANCER UPDATE FROM JOHN HOPKINS HOSPITAL, U. S)
L’UNIVERSITÉ POPULAIRE c’est :
L’UNIVERSITÉ POPULAIRE DONNE SES COURS
À LA SALLE DU CONSEIL DE LA MAIRIE DE PORT-LOUIS
« Ouvrir la connaissance à tout le monde, démocratiser la culture et développer l’esprit critique. »
Pourquoi pas ? Je suis émerveillé de cette initiative de créer un lieu ou la connaissance s’adresse a tous, sans condition d’age, ni de diplôme et ce gratuitement. Saurions nous d’entrevoir le paradis sur terre à travers une fissure de bonne volonté et de générosité ? Est ce une coïncidence que le sponsor du projet soit le groupe CIEL ? Enfin une bonne nouvelle et de quoi s’en réjouir. Je remercie le ciel.
Ainsi donc à partir de ce mois d’octobre, le plaisir d’apprendre et de réfléchir est à la portee de tous. Bravo pour l’idée et surtout bravo pour la mise en place. Mes plus vives félicitations a l’initiateur du projet Joseph Cardella.
«La réflexion et l’esprit critique sont donc essentiels, car ils (me) permettent d’envisager les problèmes sous différents angles, angles qui sont constitutifs de la réalité. Il n’y a pas une réalité. Mais la réalité est ce qui est perçu sous un angle particulier. C’est donc l’angle de vision qui fait la réalité, et il est donc important de savoir qu’il existe différents angles de vision, ce qui permet de ne pas s’enfermer. »
La réussite du projet ne pourra se mesurer d’abord par l’affluence au cours. Ce n’est que par la communication que nous attirerons les gens. Ainsi je me fais un devoir d’en parler sur mon blog et à toutes les personnes que ce rencontre. Cher lecteur, veuillez donc parler autour de vous.
Some of you may be wondering what has happened to me and my blog. Silence Radio! Turned sour since the last blog? True! I have been silent since the 22nd September. I even got a call from Nazlee a regular reader of my blog, who inquired about my absence on the web and my blog. As a matter of fact, the sourness mellowed as prior to my departure I had an apology from the person mentioned in my last posting. Great it was a good omen for my holiday.
I have been on holiday, may be. I have been through a period of‘re-creation’ as we use to call similar break period during my primary school days. “Recreation” is a lovely word. Indeed all the homosapiens of this world need breaks to recreate themselves. We do indeed recreate ourselves each time we go back to sleep, our nightly break. Our medical FRCP doctor could explain to us: ‘How much our body needs to repair itself during our daily sleep of some 6-8 hours of apparently inactive period.’ Our brain specialist would tell you how important this apparent inactive period of our body is active to our brain and allows us, so to say in computer language, to reset the programmes and sort out the memory files to get ourselves ready for the next reboot.
Viva my recreation period! I had a span of physical regeneration with sessions of laser poncture @ La Chapelle Montlinard. For a week we were in a French gite in company of my wife, daughter Stephane and grandson Jake who both flew from Montreal for our family reunion holiday and my wife’s brother, Clement and his son Nicolas. With the gathering it was Fiesta.We had excellent weather, Indian summer, every meal mouth watering french food, and tasty French wine of the region, Pouilly Fume. I gave a break to my usual fat controlled diet, Ahoy charcuterie! Ahoy fromage de chevre!Oh la la Crotin de Chavinol from the region of Cher! We collected fresh walnuts and enjoyed their freshness. I basked in bliss.
The second week was an intellectual regeneration week. First I met with one of the official of ‘La Caisse des depots et des consignations’ who was involved with studies of “La Prospective des entreprises”. We spent time discussing about the future of entreprises and the world. Pure joy! One of my favorite topics! He gave me his working document. I was again basking in bliss. The week carried on with a conference with Alain Comte Sponville: “Le Sens du Travail” with my friends from APM Reunion and Mauritius. The crowning of the week was the 20th celebration of APM at a cocktail to meet all the friends of APM and a convention of the clubs of APM with an attendance of 2200 entrepreneurs magnificently organised at Le Palais des Congres. The speeches and forums were music to my ears. I basked in bliss.
I took a lesson last night at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Regency Square Syndic meeting. Perhaps, it was a well learned lesson in humility and a trim to my overlarge ego. It took me some time to get to sleep after I climbed on my bed, my mind kept running like an engine. I could not stop myself from reflecting on the 3hours and a half session with my fellow co- owners. I was drained and felt non resourceful after attending to two of the co-owners. I really had to make a very special effort to contain myself from busting my temper. I applied my turbo brakes. My self- esteem dropped. My feelings were hurt. I sensed the reptilian portion of my brain flashing lights to start off. How is it possible that I have landed so low? I had two cases to deal with.
CASE 1
To be accused of incompetence, I readily accept, as nobody is perfect. But to accuse the Conseil Syndical under my chairmanship of cooking the books with the Syndic in public, ( which of course is false and unfounded)and taking us to task on a transparency issue, just because he was refused the right to take a copy of the accounts was really too much. Especially after the steps taken last year to change the bye- laws to give the Conseil Syndical additional powers to control closely the Syndic, we felt that our good faith was targeted. This was beyond my understanding! I could not read the motivation that drove such actions, in spite of all the supposedly knowledge & competencies (NLP) I have acquired in human behavior. The night through, in my mind, I scanned back to the past scene many times to identify signs and markers that I could possibly attribute to this unexplained behavior. I could not find a sensible answer. What has made this grieved soul so sour to accuse us? Is it possible that we inadvertedly caused him some pain? What has triggered such a foray to my integrity as well as that of the Conseil members? From my previous dealings with this fellow owner, I could only term him as eccentric and full of ego. I had the intuition that the AGM would be a tough one. (Refer to my previous blog on co-propriete).Luckily, I took the precaution not to chair the AGM and to avail of the possibility of nominating a meeting chairman. In the end, the incomprehensive behavior got the other owners to rally against him to bully him: I felt sorry for him.Why would somebody otherwise so intelligent get himself in such a predicament?
CASE 2
The second ache was caused by another co-owner who, according to me, was easy to deal with. From my past interactions with him, I had read his recurrent motives and have remedies for his unwanted behaviors. He only needs to be in the limelight and for this; he would take the floor on any subjects. Any experienced chairperson knows how to deal with over bloated characters with a voracious need for recognition and how to give them a rope to hang themselves. In addition,my impatience grew to break point level last night because the appointed chairman did not act fast enough to contain him.He souped up the precious time of all and got every body bored with his trivia. In hindsight, I have to admit that I should have briefed the acting chairperson beforehand.
Writing this blog now and sharing my heart, I feel, is my therapy for soothing the sour taste of last night.
Does the name Pacelli ring a bell to you? Pacelli brings back to me a horde of souvenirs of my childhood. I still can see in my mind’s eyes, up to now, the copies of Paris Match magazine clued to the wall of the class room in the attic of my primary school where I used to attend classes with Monsieur Laval. There was this picture of Pope Pius XII born Pacelli in company of the famous celebrities of the day and head of states. He was dressed up with his papal tiara and seated on his throne.
With great pomp and reverence, Monsieur Laval told us that the pope had passed away and we were given the details there of and procedures that had to be followed by the church for the election of the new pope. I must have been very impressed by his story as up to now I can relive this moment vividly and with very great details. The cardinals will be assembled in a conclave in Vatican to pray, to discuss, and vote for a new Pope. After each meeting, if no consensus was reached a dark smoke will be released from the chimney of the Vatican. White smoke would be released only if the new Pope was elected.
There are many reasons to my very special interest to the life of Pope Pius XII:
-Pope Pius XII was born on the same date as I did: 2nd March;
-He was made Pope on the 2nd March 1939;
-The Pope of my early childhood and post 2nd world war reconstruction;
-He moved for the church to allow the moral use of family planning through the rhythm method;
-and was an energetic proponent of the theory of the Big Bang.
Pope Pius XII leadership of the Catholic Church during World War II and the Holocaust remains the subject of continued historical controversy. Before election to the papacy, Pacelli served as secretary of the Department of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, papal nuncio and cardinal secretary of state, in which roles he worked to conclude treaties with European nations, most notably the Reichskonkordat with Germany. After World War II, he was a vocal supporter of lenient policies toward vanquished nations, including amnesty for war criminals. He also was a staunch opponent of communism.
Pius is one of few popes in recent history to exercise his papal infallibility by issuing an apostolic constitution, Munificentissimus Deus, which defined ex cathedra the dogma of the Assumption of Mary. He also promulgated forty-six encyclicals, including Humani Generis, which is still relevant to the Church’s position on evolution. He also decisively eliminated the Italian majority in the College of Cardinals with the Grand Consistory in 1946. Most sedevacantists regard Pope Pius XII as the last true Pope to occupy the Holy See.
Got this one from Bulldogreporter.com and thought to share it with you guys. Guess some of you do not give a damn to the impact of your postings. Is it true? I do want to keep track of my readership.
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There’s an old business adage that if you can’t measure it you can’t manage it.
Most marketing campaigns have some sort of measurement and ROI parameter built in. But social media marketing is so new and ’wild west’ that in many cases measurement goes by the boards.
Michael Brito, Senior Marketing Manager at Yahoo! offers some ideas on how to measure a social media marketing initiative:
These are the yardsticks for general engagement
In addition he advises you look at these statictics:
And here are a few more ways you could measure the buzz created by your social media efforts:
My curiosity today had its fill. Whilst doing some research on the internet, I discovered the rebirth of Le Cernéen. Yes! Indeed the news paper which was created in 1832 and disappeared a decade or so is back. I could feel again the same spirit that used to glow the flame of the soul of this paper which has taken the modern digital medium for publishing. Le Cernéen in its last days as a daily newspaper was edited by Jean Pierre Lenoir who was in a way the mouthpiece of the Franco community or at least he then defended the opinions of the community. He is a very interesting outgoing person, very independently minded, creative and quick-witted and more importantly writes very well in French. I had the opportunity to have spent some of my teenage years rubbing shoulders with him. Together with Denis Piat, another critical author of Le Cernéen, we were juniors working for the same boss. Jean Pierre took from his father who was a very cultured man who used to run and owned “La Libraire le Trefle” in my younger days.
I am all for the multiplicity of opinions, of ideas and of perspectives. It is important to confront the reading of my reality to the realities of others, to enhance my vision of things. After all, is not my reality only an illusion of true reality corrupted with my blindness and my imperfect knowledge or understanding?
Living in Mauritius, in such a diverse society, we are blessed to be able to see, if we so wish, in multicolour shades through the eyes & understandings of multi-social norms. It would be wasteful not to draw benefits from “la societé Arc en Ciel”.
The story which retained my interest today was:
THE IDIOT’S GUIDE TO UNDESERVED WEALTH:
HOW TO BECOME A MILLIONAIRE IN PARADISE ISLAND.
Psst! Wanna make a fast buck whilst doing next to nothing? Read these instructions carefully and if you follow them to the letter, you too can become a millionaire many times over and simultaneously add a thin veneer of intelligence to what is essentially a dull and insipid personality. The instructions are very easy to follow, so easy in fact that government advisers who, as we all know are not blessed with the greatest intelligence or wit, have no problems at all to implement them fully whenever the need for personal advancement that is not based on merit or qualifications becomes necessary.
First of all, physical looks do not seem to matter at all as it is generally assumed that even the ugliest person will somehow compensate for his shortcomings in the appearance department by projecting the aura of authority and commanding physical presence that he believes automatically follows any job provided by his political master. Some people will venture the rather cruel opinion that personal advancement based entirely on political patronage is inversely proportional to physical looks and intelligence, and the uglier and dimmer you are, the higher the chances of finding yourself parachuted into a position that provides no great benefits to the country but which is guaranteed to enrich you immensely. I do not subscribe to this uncharitable view as I am sure there must be some rare exceptions (oh, all right then, some very, very rare exceptions)that somehow struggle to be the exception to the rule…
So, armed with a face that only a mother could love and an intelligence level that consistently fails to register anything of note on numerous I.Q. tests, the next step on the road to riches and faux grandeur is to embark on a symbiotic relationship with a politician who seems destined for high office after a general election. Here again you must choose a politician who matches you in the looks and intelligence department, i.e. as ugly and as stupid as you are. One note of caution though : never, ever allow your monstrously huge ego to overshadow that of your political partner in crime. This is an absolute no no, as apparently no Mauritian politician will ever tolerate the possibility that there may be numerous people out there who are far more intelligent than the specimens we regularly send out to servi nou pei. The cardinal principle that you must never deviate from is simply this: the politician is never wrong and any pronouncement by your master, irrespective of the new depths of inanity that are reached with every successive statement, must always be met with an innocent look of astonishment at the sheer genius of the man; if, for example, he tells you that he has a son who is a medecin and a daughter who is a medicine, you must suspend disbelief and marvel at the surprisingly procreative abilities of such a stupid man.
Now that the basic qualifications of intelligence and good looks (or lack of) have been met, you must learn to match bullshit with bullshit. That is not as difficult as it seems. You must always assume that the politician will voice rubbish of the bovine variety every time he opens his mouth, and therefore all you have to do is have a small number of made to measure replies to anything that he says; as long as you remember to say ‘Yes, minister, that is such an intelligent move on your part’ to any crackpot ideas that emanate from a febrile head soaked in last night’s booze at the almost daily manz boir event that is a must for anyone proclaiming to serve the nation, you will be ok, and that may even add another 10% to the mandatory 25% annual salary gratuity that is given to any lick spittle irrespective of actual performance.
The only other qualification that is most prized apart from arse licking is the ability to stab friend and foe in the back; this usually manifests itself in telling blatant lies to your ministerial godfather about the political affiliations of friends, rivals, and enemies. The minister is, of course, too stupid to differentiate between a bare faced lie told solely to deal with deep, personal, psychological problems and genuine information that will help the minister to do his job with a modicum of efficiency. The robin has a natural ability to flaunt its red breast of jealousy and innate inferiority complex and will do anything to worm its way into any position that it believes will serve its purposes exclusively, and will therefore forego any of the notions of loyalty, friendship, and faithfulness that binds most ordinary mortals into a common bond of shared purpose and sincerity.
Of course, you must make the potential minister believe that you ‘carry’ a large number of votes, and this is best achieved by appealing to the nasty, casteeist,communalist instincts that unfortunately still afflicts so many of our citizens in this apparently civilised democracy. If, for example, you happen to be a Rajput, you convince the minister that you can guarantee him the votes of all the Rajputs at election time; it does not matter that everyone apart from the putative minister know that this Rajput represents only himself and nobody else. If you happen to be a Moslem, then claim complete allegiance to the Holy Quran and vociferously condemn any proposed legislation on anything to do with the private sex lives of our citizens whilst spending every Friday and Saturday evening getting blind drunk in the distinctly ungodly atmosphere of our nightclubs. The crucial tactic to maintain here is to feed the ministerial delusion that his political future lies in your hands which contains the votes of all those who happen to share the identity conferred on them entirely by the accident of birth.
Finally, when the votes are counted, make sure you are there when your man is hoisted on the shoulders of his supporters to welcome his victory; it will help if you have one or two nephews shouting your name within his earshot so that he is now convinced that his good fortune is entirely due to your hard work and your influence within his constituency. When he hugs you in public to show his gratitude for your so called hard work, whisper gently the magic names of any of the numerous parastatal organisations that litter Paradise Island and look forward to an astronomical salary and expenses package that has no bearing whatsoever to your qualifications, experience, or aptitude for the job; and you will also get a 25% gratuity of annual salary irrespective of your performance, and which is paid whether you work well or to the abysmally low standards that have characterised your work record so far. This should guarantee you a salary of around Rs1 million for the month of December alone and a total annual salary package of between Rs 3 and Rs 4 millions a year. Not bad for someone who could barely write his name before polling day…
But if you want to be really clever, you should capitalise on an atmosphere of friction between yourself and the Board of directors; if you are really lucky, you will be invited to resign and you will be able to go home with a cheque for around Rs2 millions which astonishingly contains a gratuity payment for a future performance that cannot be evaluated as you no longer work for that organisation! If your name is Dan Maraye, you must look at yourself in the mirror every day and thank your lucky stars that you live in Paradise Island where your political masters are experts at creating paradise for the chosen few.
Of course, if you had a conscience, or if you really loved your country, you would not follow the route planned above and will instead do whatever you can to create the wealth that this country desperately needs. But how many of us are willing to take that road?
We all know that on average we shall live much longer than our parents. The question is how will we coop with old age and possibly restricted physical movements? Would there be need to be taken to a nursing home or not?
The Europeans are launching a pilot project under the name of MonAMI to study this issue. With technology they intend to make older people more autonomous within their own home. I found that the technologies deployed were clever and ingenious.
The overall objective of MonAMI is to mainstream accessibility in consumer goods and services, including public services, through applied research and development, using advanced technologies to ensure equal access, independent living and participation for all in the Information Society.
The MonAMI project will demonstrate that accessible, useful services for elderly persons and persons with disabilities living at home can be delivered in mainstream systems and platforms. This will be done in close cooperation with users and by involving key mainstream actors throughout the whole process.
Previous European projects have shown that technological augmentation of the living space can help elderly people and people with disabilities to carry out daily living tasks increase their quality of life, thus reducing the need for institutional and other care. Unfortunately, the results of these projects have often stayed in the laboratory or only been implemented on a small, local scale. MonAMI will build on these experiences and aim for large-scale mainstream deployment.
Could we have some of the technologies imported to Mauritius? Entrepreneurs there could be an opportunity to exploit?
My last week’s blog on Joseph TMK and Chinese culture got me back on the track on my studies of East & West culture, East & West thinking and their founding philosophies. Over the last few days, after a brief discussion with a reader of my blog, I was prompted to go back to my memories to revisit my observations of the similarities and differences of the East & West. It definitely helps to write down my thoughts to crystallize them.
These steps recall me of my teenage years when hungry for learning and knowledge; I enrolled to a philosophy introduction course given by Jesuits fathers at Centre St Ignace in Rose hill. For weeks on, I religiously attended the Saturday lectures and studied with all my might to increase my knowledge of the subject. These efforts in a way opened up my curiosity & brain and gave me this impetus to keep on learning. Ever since, I stayed a keen learner.
I recall the lectures of Father de Roton on Socrates and Plato who were the forefathers of Philosophy and how they founded the western mode of thinking.
The last few days then I went back to my books to read up about both Socrates and Plato to refresh my memory. Socrates himself although a great teacher did not hand over any writings, his immense contributions were through the works of his disciplines Plato, Xenophon, Aristotle and Aristophanes.
Perhaps his most important contribution to Western thought is his dialectic method of inquiry, known as the Socratic Method or method of elenchus, which he largely applied to the examination of key moral concepts such as the Good and Justice. It was first described by Plato in the Socratic Dialogues. To solve a problem, you would ask a question and when finding the answer, you would also have an answer to your problem. This led to the beginning of the Scientific Method, in which the first step says to name the problem in the form of a question. For this, Socrates is customarily regarded as the father of political philosophy and ethics or moral philosophy and as a fountainhead of all the main themes in Western philosophy in general.
Could we teach the Socratic Method to our youth of today? Could we bring Socrates and Plato back to life for our population of Mauritius? I would wish that the authorities of Education in Mauritius could hear me.