Concept Garage

Know this EPRDFites what you are fighting is human evolution, the development of consciousness is purely evolutionary and on a cosmic time table and it’s not in the jurisdiction of earthly political establishments to stop it. Just like gravity it’s a force to be recognized and harnessed not retarded. The law of thermodynamics dictates that every bit of the senseless energy EPRDF is spending to stay in power shall be reciprocated. If your so called “genius” leader could follow the trend he would have packed up his quat and gone. Time is running, you guys should make up your mind. Since when did taking refuge in some idea you don’t understand guaranted existence?

I don’t know how many times it should be stated to herd mentalities at home that all proper associations should formed by individual choice and on conscious intellectual grounds philosophical, professional, political etc and not on physiological or geographical accident of birth, and surely not on the ground of tradition. There is a crucial difference between a legitimate association and a tribe. Just as laws, not men, rule a proper society, so as a proper association is united by ideas; not by men, and its members should be loyal to the ideas, not to the group. EPRDFites please get this through your head. This of course requires a high degree of conceptual development and independence, which many of you are desperately struggling to avoid. But I assure you that this is the only way men can work together justly, benevolently and safely.

One way or another, we are fast approaching the tipping point of the already gathered political storm and once again you are given the chance to elevate from poverty of reason.

The disenchantment of the modern world and the disappearance of spirits, as foretold by westerners, has not taken place, either at home or in other parts of the world. In Africa as well as in Europe, many spirits and their mediums are part of local as well as Transglobal cultures. Thus, we find Christian spirits named Hitler and Mussolini or King Bruce Lee, the kung-Fu actor, in a pantheon of new Christian holy spirits in Northern Uganda, who are waging war against the government (Behrend 1993). And, In central Africa, we find spirits of aero planes, engines, guitars and angels(see colson 1969,Luig 1993), while thunder, snakes and rain as well as playboys and prostitutes are in habiting the spirit world in west Africa(see Rouch1978:1010).

One intriguing experience of modernity is that spirit possession cults are proliferating the word over, not only in African, Asian and Caribbean countries (see kapferer 1991,Ong 1987, Little wood 1992) but also in the midst of New York (McCarthy Brown 1991), Toronto(Boody 1995) and various towns in Europe.

Perhaps we should wake up and smell the coffee ah?

In f.. credible!

I think its necessary to understand the global situation we find ourselves, the way scientific progress is heading and in retrospect what we Ethiopians were and still are doing!

“Western nations have achieved in mere span of four hundred years what we have not been able to do in four thousand years. Because our planet has become too small for them they are now moving in to the wide world of outer space. While we were dragging ourselves behind our donkeys to cover a mere seven kilometers a day, they cruse comfortably through thousands of kilometers in matter of hours. Whereas we fail to observe what is obvious and tangible they persistently investigate and probe in to the microscopic. While we purchase arms and weapons manufactured by the west to wreak havoc amongst ourselves, as if in celebration of death, they are relishing every bit of joy that life provides” prof Mesfin Weldemariam, whither Ethiopia, Vision 2020.