Concept Garage

Ethiopian State system is filled with inept personalities whose contemporary policy dilemma is comparable to not knowing whether earth is round or flat. At the heart of the destruction of the Ethiopian socio-cultural fabric, it is the long-term cultural implication EPRDF may be leaving behind that is worrisome. All voices of reason are squashed either are in prison or seeking refuge else where around the world. The very creative forces that could have redeemed the nation are fleeing leaving, such a wonderful historical country to the dictator and his cronies. Legitimate individual effort is plundered by corruption and the state institutions are used to amass personal wealth by those at close proximity to authority. The election itself can be sited as how EPRDF destroyed legitimate effort and competition in many sectors showing by example that day light robbery is the only means to success. Opportunism seems to be the only means to survive to the majority who are left to fend for themselves amidst the thrones of mafia state and subservient business forces, where in all other institutions of reason, peace and faith such as universities, religious establishments and the like are marginalized by tight surveillance and control by illiterate good for nothing Weyane cadres.

It should be noted that democracy is an ingrained need by complex adaptive human systems to ensure continued evolution and survival. It is not a luxurious enterprise for the rich or unaffordable luxury for the poor. It is a mechanism that allows for global search for an optimal solution to multitude of societal problems through the individual agent; in a way it’s our biological destiny in our obligation to endure as conscious beings. It is indeed unaffordable especially in modern times of great environmental, economic, social and political emergency to disregard the experience, the intelligence and the wish of the individual and to continue to pedal along the lines of collectivist authoritarian State dictatorship.