We, Man Would Mourn

We, Man Would Mourn

  

As I remember, said si Buyung, Jakarta ranked number three as the city that’s most polluted in the world.  There was a warning ad of one full page in our foremost paper with a picture that should depict a girl or was it a woman with a snout, or a short trunk of an elephant with feet of a horse. She was the consequence,  result of air pollution in time, so it said. It was so ugly that I never want to keep it. The first thing I thought when I saw her, was, there wouldn’t be any man who ever would court, more over ever marry her.

                                         

I don’t know which city, where people parked their cars vertically as the city was flooding with cars. I’m tempted to challenge the imagination of our engineers to create a car that’s not just “one in  one”  but “more than one in one” to  cope with problems of parking space, traffic jams, and pollution.

The cover part of the car opened, seats folded it becomes a pick up.  Wheels drawn up into its body, the fan placed behind, the car becomes a motor boat. By taking out its body as a match box it could be used as a movable home, …

   

More over, if the car could run on just plain water. No pollution. While raising our reputation in the world.

But still better would be the decrease of our population, as not to have our children, our grand children , … flooded, drowned by cars, pollution, trapped in traffic jams, cramped in flats  as chickens in giant batteries in dreary surroundings, without gardens, warbling birds, without wild life as they’re extinct.

Why have our population grow so large towards hell, while we could create a heaven on earth by lowering this with family planning.

Hi, you dream girls, fairies of this age, we man would mourn when you would become unsightly as the result of pollution. We implore you: “Just one child, for the good of our generations to come, to have them still lovely, handsome, healthy, happy and … never feeling too old to be young.” That was his address.

Bisnis Indonesia September 24, 1991

Jayakarta August 16, 1993

May 2011