I think we should try to decentralize the decisions as low as we can, even way below state and/or community level to level of municipality or other local levels so that most of the day to day decisions regarding someone life is taken at that level. Sure there are some efficiency losses with that system. But we should tolerate this efficiency loss in the time being until we become Cypriot first then Turk and Greek.
Thanks for your comments, Turkcyp. I agree with you that decentralizing down to the level of municipalities does make a lot of sense for the same reason that u also point out: at the community / municipal level, people tend to think more independently and de-attach themselves from their "traditional" political and possibly (?) ethnic biases. No reasonable person should have a problem electing a mayor or a councilor form another ethnic background if this person was suitable for the job.
There can be found numerous example of decentralization in every country mostly from USA. Decentralization is good because it brings politics to a more local level, eliminate so called political elites, provide more scrutiny over finances and fraud.
I tend to agree in principal with this even though the "scrutiny over finances and fraud" part still sounds too idealistic to be true in the real world.
We do not need a big government. Nothing good comes out of big governments. We do not need a senate and separate house of rep. One is enough. (If you ask me even that is unnecessary.)
Like it or not, a government will always be necessary if a place (in this case Cyprus) is to function as an independent state in the international community.
Ask any TC, even the most progressive ones, you'll see that we don't want to a mere minority in GC society. We want our own local zone (whatever you call) where we can feel safe and secure. We need it not because we're brainwashed but because of our past experiences (however little you might think they are) along with the current mentality of GC society that we observe everyday.
The way I understand it is that bizonality as metecyp describes it is in conflict with the equality concept that turkcyp has presented earlier.
In the event of a solution, GC individuals are to be denied the right to return to their ancestral lands, not because of their involvement in any past inter-communal violence but only because they are Greek. Not only I believe that this approach conflicts with the whole equality idea as this was described earlier by turkcyp, but it is also near racist.
Past experiences you say, metecyp? Why don’t these experiences as well as current GC mentality have an effect when thousands of TCs cross in the free areas to work every day, to visit the hospitals etc? Trying to solve the problem by dwelling on the 1960’s or on 1974 will probably take things nowhere better. Trying to solve the problem while dwelling on the past
selectively will definitely take us backwards.
This brings me to another question: what is the priority of the TCs when it comes to a solution?
1) A local
zone where they will feel safe and secure while the human or civil rights (and equality) of other Cypriot citizens may be compromised depending upon their ethnic background? Or
2)
Equality on the personal as well as on the communal level in the way turkcyp has described it earlier?
O.
"Big boys" of TCs prefer to make "business" with "big boys" of Turks instead of Hellenistic masters.
