Gediminas Rutkauskas
Vilnius OTRA

I regret having had limited time to respond and comment more often to your very good, most often relevant and timely, Lithuanian affaires put on the Lord's Daily Table.

Re. the Good/Evil theme I would like to point back towards the tragic but not less majestic history of my country:

Starting from the bloody indoctrination of Christianity (that also heavily violated many Cultures of the World),

then sequent wasting wars appeared due to fighting of different Euro-Asian ideologies and political powers, the Live Tree of Lithuania (as part/ edge of Europe) basically was bifurcated: two dominant parts of it became (and still remain) predominant:

1 - Positive and creative one (PC), that accumulated all the best brought to Lithuania by all the arrivals and invaders;

2 - The one driven by natural resistance and aggression that was developed due to natural needs (according to the German historian that investigated destiny Prussia).

Hence, the bifurcate Good/Evil is the very natural anthropological/Socio-psychological consequence inherited by our nation.

I do not worry about the equilibrium of those two as I believe both are driven by essentially human love and trust.

What I worry about is another Two:

1 – The mental sickness of our politicians (kind of mental-moral insufficiency): absence of fair, clear and really brave policies (corruption, myopia, lack of self-criticism/ analysis, open-mind-ness and, consequently, respect to the citizens - most of it fits perfectly to current Mr. Kubilius' government and back to even Mr. Brazauskas' one);
2 - Impotence of the political "leaders" - none of them have fair disciples or followers!!! (not even Landsbergis!).

And I presume this negative situation is not due to the specific Lithuanian Good/ Evil misbalance, but rather due to the fundamental negativisms of human nature that appears and are sustained as a socio-political consequence by global economic powers in their invisible battle fields - geopolitical cross-roads of Europe and Asia; US and Middle Asia, etc.

Yours friendly,
Gediminas Rutkauskas
Vilnius OTRA