World leaders and heads of states attended a commemoration last week for Nelson Mandela and delivered many speeches on how they understood the revolutionary figure. This was accompanied with a fake sign language interpretor just making up hand movements as the great leaders talked about the importance of “action” and “ideas” and how well they understood Madiba. While these proceedings are quite important in remembering the man and his legacy (though not enough to discover him), I can’t help but think about the interpreter’s hand gestures where we stand. are still in the dark. There are few of words, fewer ideas, many signals and lots of noise. We are in dark, with no one we can trust. No one to believe in.