Several posts ago, Ruel Johnson wrote:
Let me put that proposition out into the open. I am willing to edit and seek publication for essays on “The Feared Generation” – we aren’t looking for wide international circulation here, except perhaps in the Diaspora but what the publication can serve to do is provide a picture of the thoughts of a group of people who in a couple of years are going to be critical in charting the course of Guyana’s future. You stayed here for a reason – engage in this exercise and in thirty years you future business magnates, tenured academics, presidents, and (ahem) Nobel Prize winners can look back and measure the progress you and this country have made. Who’s with me? Eh, who’s with me? Who did I have from “It wasn’t me”? Interested persons can e-mail me at ruel[dot]johnson@gmail.com.
So what happened since then? No takers? None of the addressees bothered to put down some of their best thoughts on the condition of Guyana and send them to Ruel? What's the matter with them? They're scared to write? They're scared to be criticized? Scared to see on paper that some of what they're thinking is actually quite brilliant? Huh! Maybe they should be renamed the fear-FUL generation!
(And by the way mister you-know-who-you-are, this writing project would most certainly be considered grown folk's business.)
