THE UNITED NATIONS IS MISTAKEN. The world is wrong by following the UN's directives and suggestions. If the way humans experience their habitat is to be made better, meaningful, and a proud legacy to leave behind, then humanity needs to raise to the elevated occasion. The problem isn't much about development and the required rate as it is about clinging to ancient traditions in the name of ethnic identity, even to the point of committing crimes against humanity.

The occasion is piled up higher than the highest peak on earth--Mt Everest. And this point has been reached time and again, although with hazardous threats. But we have not even begun trying to scale man-made walls that divide us; huddles that stubbornly block our paths; are not about to harness and mass-produce tools of this demanding age.

With the advent of the new millennium, inherent difficulties abounded. These projections dictated new ways of going about our respective businesses in making a contribution to the HUMAN PROJECT. The German theoretical physicist, Albert Einstein, rightfully taught that confronted with hard problems and the very future of the world hung in the balance, all attempts at solving the problems would be futile if all we did was rearrange old methods of intellectual resources. The more promising activity would be to beat a new path, "a new and a higher level of thinking". To that, I might add a new and a higher level of acting, of believing, of looking at things.

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) do nothing of the sort. A product of UN Millennium Declaration held in 2000, these goals are legendarily far off their intended mark. Reason being that they are predicated on too simple a sociological paradigm. Nations aren't undeveloped because they are lacking a comprehensive program of progress for new challenges. Rather, underdevelopment results squarely from nostalgic tendencies and blind homage we pay to our rural ancestors, and the attendant misplaced diagnosis. These bygone generations were themselves faced with hardships which they fell short to neutralize. Hence they procrastinated, and eventually exited the world's stage. We, the now living, were left on the same plane of ambivalence, yet the ground has shifted from under our inexperienced feet. 

The MDGs only entrench what hindrances already exist in the world. And this theme runs through all eight of them. I am sure the MDGs were meant for some measure of good in the way we live and interact. After all, one nation cannot perish without diminishing the entire system of the standards of living--"I am because you are, for we can only be human together".

The program of the MDGs will cover unnoticeable foreground, if at all. It is no solution to age-old intricacies of man's comings and goings. Blaise Pascal embodied the spirit of the MDGs along way before their time when he said, "man's problems stem from his inability to sit still". What Pascal meant effectively, was that, every things will change, but man must disregard what change he noticed around him. Man's activities should amount to inactivity--him competitive advantage. If he did that, man would lead a fulfilling, non-destructive, and meaningful life.

On the other side of this philosophical coin, the exact opposite is stubbornly true. That, if man stays put, and uses not what is generously available to him, he whole meaning of his existence will let him be. The evidence exists in liberal quantities: civilization of man does not stop. His competitive advantage should be, and he needs must awake to this fact, to never sit still, never to back down, and always seek to advance with the momentum of the change he knows is out there in the world.
              

THE ANALYSIS OF THE MDGs IN TURNS:

1. ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY AND HUNGER. Effectively, promote higher standards of living by championing industrialization of world's economies. What if the same UN prohibits countries from achieving goal #1 by imposing CO2 emissions targets? Will the living standards still elevate?
2. ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION. Meaning, do not stress about the quality of the education your children are receiving, be grateful they are receiving it at all. Also, don't gauge the education about its effectiveness of its power to solve problems in your economy. These things are not easy, you know. Just accept the inevitable. You will be fine, the whole lot of you.
3. PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER WOMEN. UN: Ethnic differences are for the birds. You will do well disrespecting your elders. Womenfolk should not be treated the way your forefathers prescribed. If you do not understand that, you are sick in your head. Tell each one of your own wicked people. LOCALS: women are but just women. They won't tell men what is to be done. What do they know about government, anyway? That's for us men to worry about. Remember, this is a men's world, and men say women belong in the kitchen. 
4. REDUCE CHILD MORTALITY. UN: Life expectance at birth should be improved so that children could grow up like every human being. To achieve this goal, western medicines will be supplied, at some cost of course. LOCALS: Our forefathers used indigenous herbs and spices, and they were strong and healthy. No children died. They live to be hundred years and more. That is what we want for our children. You can shove your medicines up ...  
5. IMPROVE MATERNAL HEALTH. UN: If women are taken good care of from an early age, they will grow to bear bouncing happy children. You people should really look in to those measures from now on. LOCALS: We have not had any problems with the health of our womenfolk. You UN people are just exaggerating. You are simply over-paid. You are actually spoilt bunch of bugger. Our recent census returns show a growing and maturing population. Mind your own business.
6. COMBAT HIV/AIDS, MALARIA, AND OTHER DESEASES. UN: The scourge of HIV/AIDS is really getting out of hand. We need specialist interventions, and fast at that. In Europe, malaria was eradicated long ago. It does not reflect in the modern history of that part of the earth. Anyway, the rate of death even from other diseases is extremely low. LOCALS: HIV/AIDS is the white man's disease by which he intends to wipe the black man from face of the earth. The white manufactured HIV/AIDS. Our forefathers used to have many wives, and no died from that.  
7. ENSURE ENVIROMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY. UN: Humanity has got only this earth to inhabit. Now is the time to significantly take care of it. To stop this spectre of carbon emissions, or else. The environment is getting uglier every day. The nations of the world need to stand up against this pollution trend. Do not worry food security. There is enough food in the world for everyone. Just quit CO2 emissions, okay?  
8. DEVELOP A GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT. Meaningful partnerships in the international space are in demand, indeed. But almost all these partnerships have been forged to carry out some form of atrocities or other. Ordinary people have not been gives "airplay" about their own countries and the directions these are taking. And the UN stops and stares.