Logic Course for the Nile Project

 Nile Project = Ethiopia – “nech-lebashoch”= EPRDF

(101 logic course in Autocracy as presented on the 5th of April 2011 by the PM in the Ethiopian parliament /clip/ /Interpretation/)

Elaboration:

Universal Theorem 1; for poli maths:

Dangerous for a minority is the majority.

Universal Theorem 2; for ethnic poli-maths:

Dangerous for a minority ethnic rule is the ethnic majority

Ethiopian application:

1. Contain majority

2. Contain ethnic majority

3. Attack the radical majority section

4. Dismember all majority affiliations

Majority --> Ethnic majority --> radical majority --> all majority --> every member
All Ethiopians--> Oromos --> OLF ---> Legal Oromo-parties --> intimidate every member of the majority

Ethiopia has to get rid of its enemies for its developing existence. In the Nile Project, the Enemies are functionally chained to Egypt as follows.

Enemy EGYPT = A function (variable, Eritrea)

Enemy Eritrea = A function (variable, Terrorism); Terrorists: OLF etc.

Enemy Terrorism/OLF = A function (variable, medrek)

Enemy medrek = A function (varable, opposition parties)

Enemy Opp.Parties = A function (variable, majority Ethiopians)

Enemy majority = A function (variable, Oromos)

Enemy Oromos = A function (variable, others)

Enemy Others = A function (variable, none-eprdfs)

That means in the final analysis,

Enemy Egypt = a function ( variable,none-eprdfs)

That means all none-eprdfs are enemies.

These enemies are called “nech-lebashoch”/ “the third battalion”

Enemies/”Nech-lebashoch”/ have to be made dysfunctional or eliminated for the Nile Project to function.

Nile project = Ethiopia – none-eprdfs = EPRFites = ETHIOPIA

Nile project = EPRDF(1*= ETHIOPIA

Who are the none-eprdfites?  The Anti-meleses.

All these variables have got a name called: "nech-lebashoch" because they all work against the Ethiopian development.
 

And which are the majority of these “nech-lebashoch”, among the population of Ethiopia?

The OROMOS.

Oromos are variables of Eritrea: I.e. Eritrea = Function( oromos).

Therefore if you attack Oromos, you have attacked Eritrea and can consider it as declaring war on Eritrea. Accordingly, if you make them dysfunctional you can remain in power for long and avoid the social contagion of Egypt and Tunisia!

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1*) EPRDF was 30 years ago a function of Eritrea and Egypt. Therefore there can still be some eprdfites, who have still remained “nech-lebashoch”. All those “anti-melese” eprdfites  are still “nech-lebashoch “and enemies.

Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Žižek on Hegel!

„Is It Still Possible to Be a Hegelian Today?“ 
(s. résumé in German)

The Slowenian Philosopher Slavoj Žižek made a lecture on Hegel in Dahlem Humanities Center/ "Free University Berlin"/ "Freie Universität Berlin".

31.03.2011, 19:00 

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The guest philosopher was invited in the "Freie Universität Berlin"/FU Berlin/, by Dahlem Humanities Center...

Even If you don’t fully share his perception and philosophy, listening to this man was a relish!  A relish for the mind! All the more, having in mind the pathetic display, our "philosophers" of his generation are making today; either serving tyrants or disseminating their gospels of hate and vengeance.

The man is a display of authentic thought in action, on stage for demonstration; speaking with all his body and temperament. He reminded me of one young philosopher, - killed by the military regime in the 80s struggling for a better Ethiopia, who was fugitive while talking and discussing; may be an attribute of real philosophers!

Audi Max (Henry Ford Bau, the biggest hall of the university ) was full of young people and some old University-staff; tight including the Foyer upstairs. It looked like one of the teach-ins in the troubled days of the 70s… I would guess 500-700 men and women. There were hardly any guest public intellectuals during the recent past, who were visited by such a mass of young people! Even the South African Nobel peace laureate, Archbishop Desmond Tutu during his University “Award for Freedom”  (clip) could not attract as much attendee as Slavoj Žižek did.

http://www.fu-berlin.de/campusleben/campus/2011/110401_zizek/index.html

Slavoj Žižek appeared in his accustomed T-shirt/Pullover. After a short unspectacular greeting in German, he said in a joke...to make his position/”Weltanschauung”  at the outset clear, 

" Sorry my German is insufficient, I have to use the language of Imperialism"...

As soon as he begins with his thoughts, in his brilliant fugitive way, he just takes control of your attention so that you have to participate in the process of his thoughts, developing his lecture on the move; out of the notes he seems to improvise in the air and at the moment.  Any "gentleman „ even  if he happens to be  uncomfortable in the non-elegant appearance of the "professor", looking  at Zizek's accustomed  T-shirt-Pullover,  may be forced to take part immediately in this process.  - He would say; a demonstration of the Hegelian dialectics of content and form, here, with content taking over the supremacy!
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After more than 60 minutes uninterrupted discourse on the Theme; " Is it still possible to be Hegelian?"; declaring or interpreting almost every philosopher or artists he mentioned  to be in effect a Hegelian in disguise,  including spiritual leaders like Jesus and "god" himself in absentia, incapable of saving his own "Son" from suffering,  delegating the problem to humanity etc. etc.  even with a reprimand that Hegel himself was not “Hegelian” enough; and interpreting  Marx for not "inversing" Hegel but accusing him of being less "Hegelian" than he could have been, but a condition Hegel couldn't help.....living in the era of small manufactures, without the development of science  as we know it today  and "Capital" just  in the period of its initial birth....leaving the challenge for Marx to help him later in  political economy...and we today are left with the legacies  of the Adorno’s  etc...to reflect more on "globalization"....

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I would say, He, as a materialist, even went so far to conclusively declare the supremacy of "thinking" to "action" in post modernity!

He said, „Still placated in the Humboldt University today, we have to inverse that famous message of Marx, "Philosophers have interpreted the world, the point is to change it”. A point which made us too keen for action has to be reversed again: "politicians have changed the world; the point is however now, to think it all over again and make it better.” (Paraphrased)
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For him, it seemed that,

THE CONTEMPORARY NEW HEGELIAN amounts to be:

“THE CLASSICAL HEGEL x THE SECULAR INTERPRETATION OF CHRISTIANITY (love your enemy etc.) x THE INCLUSIVE DOCTRINE OF ISLAM x THE YOUNG MARX x KIERKEGAARD’S REPETETION + DELEUZE’S DISGUISED HEGLIANISM COMBINED TOGETHER WITH A FURTHER REFLECTION OF THE RIGHT EMERGING OUT OF THE MANY WRONGS; ALWAYS RESULTING IN THE BEAUTIFUL "UNKNOWN" – THE NEVER EXHAUSTED CONTINGENCY OF NEW REALITIES” (take x as interacting with).

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The man is simply a demonstration of thinking per se. I enjoyed every second!
Just for your imagination to anticipate the scope of his proceedings...I would simply note (unstructured) some of the concepts, ideas and persons which crossed his mind and lips (hoping that the lecture will be available sometime in the future, at least in Audio to share it with the internet-public).

Adorno, Schoenberg, Music
Heinrich von Kleist
Kierkegaard, existentialism

Repetition

Dosteyevsky

Jesus, god, contingency
Nature, culture, nurture, education....
Imperialism
Terrorism,
Starbucks and African solidarity,

Even our solidarity sold in the commodity
Congo,
Catholicism
Deleuze, who didn’t know that he is a Hegelian.
Wagner, Tristan und Isolde
Adultery Love and marriage,

Sexuality, psychoanalysis

Freud

Kant,
Brecht,
Heisenberg
Bohr and Quantum Physic, the split experiment
Stephen Hawkins, searching for the Absolute
God
Hegel and the Absolute, negation of the negation etc.
The French revolution, Jacobins,
terror - antiterrorism,
the wrongs - and its cherubs the corrects etc.
Kafka,
Rabbis,
children games, battle games with the unknown end etc.
The Russian Rabi and Communism - two reasons to leave-(joke)
the Japan disaster; Atomic reactors, environment, ecology...
and  what not..
The right out the wrong, , emergence etc.
Russia and communism
our past, the present ...
etc.

may be almost all philosophers and intellectuals are in his minds, all like what he coined  in a joke as:
All "from Plato to NATO..."
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HIS MESSAGE WAS MORE OR LESS:-

Think!  Think! Dare to Contemplate! And “THEY” will be afraid of “YOU”! High Time to think! Up to now, we were too keen to change the world...
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After an hour and a half, accompanied by an uninterrupted applause, he left with the comment,

"Save your Applause for later. Don't worry, we will force you to applaud too, when we radical leftist come to power!" suggesting "think before you applaud"!
I.e. we can never be perfect.  The point is to be open for all contingencies; i.e. the unknown is beautiful
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In a Word,

-the man has A beautiful MIND, worth attending and contemplating on what he has to say and convey!

-the man conveys some hope of the “second” wave of enlightenment coming to salvage our contemporary troubled humanity!

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Just for the intermediate period (the video/audio publication of his speech) here is a related Reference:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5WNcRoCXCM

And
Reflections on the North African and the Arab Spring

THE NEW SOCIAL-REVERSE-ENGINEERING

“Make it simple but not less simple” (cf. Einstein)

THE NEW SOCIAL-REVERSE-ENGINEERING (SRE)

The “War Rhetoric” is only a medial playing ball thrown to occupy the mind of the opposition! Medial SRE Diversion campaign!

Please think of the hard fact, that Melese is not so stupid to make a real war against Eritrea, unless the threat of a mass uprising against the autocratic rule of Isayas becomes immediately real in Eritrea! This is just how dictators dandle eachother in reciprocal solidarity, even if they are apparently enemies!

Nonetheless it has a purpose. The purpose of the war rhetoric is

1- Provide dictator Isayas with a "beautiful" pretext to crash any social uprising against his rule, as an intervention from Ethiopia

2- Stifle all potential sources of the social “tsunami”s, which threaten the region; he has "secured" his own region

3- Save his own autocratic rule from any possible mass uprising in Ethiopia by damping the source of the social “fire” in “his” periphery region.
4- Discredit any social uprising against his own regime with his campaign that it is "designed from Shabia"

That is the New SRE, possibly designed in the Saudi courts, the refuge of all dictators.

1- Medial diversionary attacks, campaigns and manipulations

2- Preemptive security measures, like  threatening or declaring wars.

Measures against ”weak” dictators to save the “big” dictators; or

Ultimately armed occupation or support with armed forces direct intervention just before a mass uprising unfolds  …

Their lessons from the neighbor of Saudi Arabian, the “Bahrain” uprising, to prevent “NEW TUNISIAs”!

The Success Story has no end...

The success story reported again,

Saudi Billionaire Plans to Invest $2.5 Billion to Build Ethiopia Rice Farm

"Addis Ababa, March 23 (WIC) - Saudi Star Agricultural Development Plc, a food company owned by billionaire Sheikh Mohammed al- Amoudi, said it plans to invest $2.5 billion by 2020 developing a rice-farming project in Ethiopia.
The company, based in Addis Ababa, leased 10,000 hectares (24,711 acres) in Ethiopia’s western Gambella region for 60 years at a cost of 158 birr ($9.42) per hectare annually, Chief Executive Officer Haile Assegide said "  

(http://www.aigaforum.com;24.03.2011 )

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Let us make a simple arithmetic of our investor and contract dealers:-

A simple middle-class apartment in an average European city may cost $9,42 per square meter in a month, and annually this would be 12 times $9,42 per square meter.


That means, annually you would pay 12x more for the square meter than the Saudi investor does for the hectare in Gambella.  In other words with the annual-amount you pay for the square meter apartment, the Saudi investor gets 12 hectares; these are 120,000 square meters (1ha = 10,000).

If you can afford an apartment of 100 sq.meters, you would get a lease of 1200 hectares.

If you come together with 10 other Ethiopians under the same conditions, you would get a lease of 12000 hectares; 2000 hectares more than the Saudi Investor (10 000 ha.) would get.

If you have as much capital as you would pay for your apartment, it is an easy game.

If not and If you go to a bank to get the amount of capital what the Saudi Investor needs, this would amount to 10,000 x 9,42 = $ 94,200 a year. If you pay an interest of 10 % for this, it will be $9,420 per year. If you spare the extra 2000 ha. (to remain at the simple calculation),  you have enough savings to finance the interest for two consecutive years.  2000 x 9,42 = 2 x $9,420.

And at last all you need is the starting operative investment capital. A Start Capital, what a healthy nationally oriented commercial bank would be obliged to grant to its citizens. – Citizens, who are ready to work for themselves and the national development of their country.

To play with the round figures; How much?

"$2.5 Billion to Build Ethiopia Rice Farm." ...$2,500 000 000…This can make an investment of $250 000 each for 10 000 share-holders. The duration of the investment is 10 years, until 2020. In other words every shareholder needs to invest $25 000 per year on every hectare of the total of 10 000 hectares. Or one can make it cumbersome or a state-project with private holdings and a lot of combination-models are possible (1*. Given that 60% of the investment can be financed by a national development bank, the proprietors capital necessary for investment would be only $10 000 per year from each share-holder (10 000 share holders).

If you look behind the curtain; what the “big” investors are doing, is essentially nothing more than this calculation provided in all details by their canny-greedy consultants and accountants. They don’t perform miracles to get their capital out of the blues; and our big investor presumably collects also his investment capital, that he manages and administers,  from his 10 000 Saudi friends and citizens, who would employ all their influence of their King Abdullah to enforce  the protection of their investment in times of crisis, like what they are doing upto employing their armed forces in Bahrain these days - the days of social movements for Human Dignity.

Summa sammarum:

If there is the good Collective WILL, is this difficult for any state and government to organize and encourage its own citizens, to operate along this line; instead of going abroad in all directions of the globe, with “Land for Sale/ Ethiopia for Sale (clip)” shield, unless there is some hidden strategic agenda of domination etc.  – the new brand of Neocolonialism (clip).

BUT to be clear, the above narrative is only out of the perspective of the "investor and investment". The perception from the perspective of developing prosperity in coherence with the objective of sustaining nature and culture (the indigenous culture of the people) as a quality of life may however produce a very tragic story (clip).

 

In the context of the moment, it remains to say:

What a Success Story? 


Gambella/ Ethiopia for Sale-


During the last 20 years, every Ethiopian knows that the “melese-world-acclaimed/" "democratic election" by the ruling clique in Ethiopia has not taken place for the first time in 2010. As far as I remember this has never been traded by the Melese ruling clique, as "a five year contract with the people of Ethiopia" etc..  Moreover, the academic discourse about "Democracy" as a form of contract etc. is four centuries old, so that no one would hardly come on the notion to make this a theme of a press conference.


So why is "contract" a subject of discussion for Melese!


These days, I think when Melese is talking about "the contract“, be it remembering the crash course he made on the "Hobbes" and  "Locke’s” State;  or pedaling between "The state, is it me"?  "the king" or "the rule", there are  rather some other facts which are haunting him in his subconscious.  The contracts of the land grabbing and similar projects scattered for out-sales into the globe of investors around India, Saudi Arabia, China, South Korea, until recently even Libya and Egypt or Nigeria or  Djibouti etc. !


The subconscious, as diligent as it is in every creature makes the simple arithmetic like the above, without consulting him or his "Excellency",  and gives the notes to the conscious designated  as  a life-threatening fact, since any Ethiopian is more or less aware of this. It would thus look for a survival justification with the consequence of prattling some stuff, which would take every normal citizen by surprise:

"The five years contract I made with the people"; "I can do and leave what I like during these days!";
 

And the witty sub-conscious suggests further the soothing internal remark : 

„Don’t worry;  you will be relieved from the specter in five years; to win the next election again and again... and the contract is for your and your children’s whole life time ….-60 years and more!"

"You can do and leave what you like during these troubling days of year 2011; Moreover every social movement is a question of terrorism, security force, - or you can call it  - law and order; like every one of your genre does...Go ahead; tell them that you would chop their fingers (clip), if they don't  fit in the row...like the royal houses of the investors do it"!


And so the sub-conscious would delegate the conscious to spit out the context-less concepts in the realm of confusion to play the parody of the wise leader - the wise tyrant, to claim the  "honor" of the late Mubarek, who was being praised for his wisdom until very recently by almost all politicians of the "pragmatic school" from the west, the East, the Far East , Middle East and the whole Arab world as well, except his own people, to leave the polit-arena for good on the day of the "account" – 11.02.2 011  - The Dignity Day of Egypt – 

WHEN IS THE ETHIOPIAN DAY of HUMAN DIGNITY ???

--
ከመቃብር በፊት...
ሰው ለመስራት ብቻ ከፍቀደ አየሩ
ክህነት ካላችሁ አሰቡ መርምሩ
ተራ  ከገባችሁ ዘክሩ አስዘክሩ
ያልሆነው እንዲሆን ምከሩ ሞክሩ~~~
ሽቀጣና ሽቀት እንዳይሆን ሃገሩ
አንድ ቀን እንደሆን አይቀር መቃ-ብሩ።

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"Move, Click and Tick" in the aquarium!

*** collective
** interactive
* sovereign

(1*. 

Area/share(ha)	Operating capital ($)	Share-capital ($)	Shareholders’ number	Investment duration/year
1	2,500 000 000	250 000	10 000	10
1	2,50 000 000	25 000	10 000	1
0,1	2,50 000 000	2 500	100 000	1
0,01	2,50 000 000	250	1000 000	1
0,001	2,50 000 000	25	10 000 000	1

           

A Rationale and Guide for Nonviolence

This Post is reproduced (from Monday, 18 January 2010)

here again to help the social movement of the youth, which has correctly deserved the name - SOCIAL Tsunami - shaking all tyrannies around the globe. -Tyrannies, which don't refrain  to employ all the means and the violence at their disposal, like what we are witnessing these days in Libya, Bahrain or Yemen, to extend their defunct survivals; whereas JAPAN is standing up to its challenge as one Nation, to save every single man/woman of its People from the NATURAL Tsunami and partially man-made disaster it is facing. 

May ALL HOPE and OUR EMPATHY move to JAPAN !

AND

May ALL tyrannies come to their downfalls!

Hoping that JAPAN can cope with all the challenges and severe days it is facing today, it is now high time that Humanity has to reflect to the utmost to question the vulnerable trajectory  civilization has taken so far, negating  the very fundamentals of its future existence!

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A Rationale and Guide for Nonviolence

".... life, from its beginning more than three billion years ago, did not take over the planet by combat but by networking."....Fritjof Capra /

http://www.ecoliteracy.org/essays/new-facts-life

Revolutions and wars are exceptions to the rule, coup d'etats are perversions of the rule....And the rule seems to be evolution embedded in creativity/emergence, whose existence becomes apparent in due time and space to initiate a fundamental change..... That is, I presume, the Kernel of human experience in history . 

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Nonetheless, it has to be noted here that Year 2011 has given us the opportunity to witness that there are good and bad exceptions.  EGYPT and the nonviolent youth movement for FREEDOM all over the Arab World and North Africa are testimonies of these good and beautiful phenomena liberating the MIND of every soul! (16.03.2011).

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_evolution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociocultural_evolution

What is the inter-relation between social structure and collective consciousness ?

What is the role of structure and collective consciousness in our future human development...?

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Following is an aspect which I think is very relevant in our context and helpful for our community's political dead-lock:

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Chapter Twenty-Two

A rationale and guide for nonviolence
as a basis for conscious evolutionary activism.

Hier reproduced in summary in accordance with the permission of the author:

http://evolutionaryactivism.com/wagn/Copying

In any situation or system, seek ways

to replace force with consciousness.

...

Force, in this context, refers to the use of coercion or

overwhelming strength or power to dominate, control, or otherwise

get one's way, often against resistance. The power used

can be physical, economic, social, intellectual, emotional, military,

psychological, technological, etc. The more force used,

the less we take into account the nature or needs of the Other.

The more we take the Other into account, the less force and

resources we need to accomplish mutual ends.

Consciousness, the capacity to be aware, in this context,

includes all the interior dimensions and capacities of life that

can—among other things—help us deal successfully with

our changing world by sensing, understanding and creatively,

collaboratively relating to the conditions in us and the entities,

interactions, and contexts around us.

This evolutionary moment challenges us to bring the power

of consciousness to bear on the process of self-reflective evolution

itself to replace the creative violence of supernovas, lifeand-

death struggles, and wars with highly aware intelligence,

wisdom, and care.

So as evolutionary activists, we seek to replace force everywhere,

• in every entity (every individual, group and

system);

• in every interaction (every conversation, exchange,

conflict, and engagement with nature);

• in every context (every situation, culture, gathering,

community and urban design); and

• in every form of consciousness (in all sensing,

learning, visioning, morality, and all other forms

of thinking, feeling and experience).

.....

...

Our consciousness then evolves

towards true collaboration, where we—

you and I, us and our adversaries,

humankind and nature—help each

other get what we each need and want—in cooperatives,

family conversations, in deliberative democracy, in Nonviolent

Communication, in permaculture.

...

This shift from force to consciousness is the fulcrum of

human evolution at this critical time—at individual, collective,

and systemic scales.

As we reach our planetary limits, the downsides of force,

violence, and control become increasingly obvious. Our

technological and social capacities to generate harm through

our efforts to force, impact, and control people and life—no

matter how well intended—threaten our extinction.

...

The more fully we understand, the less force or energy

we need or want to use. The less energy we use to serve any

given need, the more efficient and elegant our systems and

behaviors become, making them favored by natural selection

and the general directionality of evolution.

..

Guidance concerning evolutionary means:

..

• A addresses the role of conversation.

• B talks about creative use of diversity.

• C explores how to handle dissonance.

• D discusses deep, inclusive simplicity.

...

..

Guidance concerning realms of evolutionary action:

...

..

• 1 deals with the health of the systems themselves.

• 2 deals with contexts and systemic awareness of them.

• 3 deals with the systemic capacity to effectively respond

to complex, changing circumstances.

...

1. Cultivate healthy self-organization.

..

• Cultivate healthy behavior

• Cultivate healthy power

• Cultivate healthy flow

2. Cultivate healthy systemic contexts.

..

• Healthy social context.

• Healthy contexts that govern meaning

• Healthy physical contexts

• Healthy natural contexts

3. Cultivate healthy systemic responsiveness and collective

evolvability.

..

• Cultivate collective intelligence, learning, and

memory -

• Cultivate collective self-awareness, integrity,

and humility -

• Cultivate the collective capacity to generate and

pursue shared intentions -

• Cultivate systems that embody collective compassion

and mutuality -

• Cultivate the collective ability to make wise,

creative decisions -

• Cultivate collective co-creativity and evolutionary

sensibilities -

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This is a section/chapter from Tom Atlee's " book :

"Reflections on Evolutionary Activism"....

(Tom Atlee & friends : ....These are....interesting intellectual and activist circles of our generation...with a lot of new insights and ideas)


http://evolutionaryactivism.com/wagn/Get_involved

More: See if you like:

http://nonzero.org/reviews.htm
http://nonzero.org/index.htm

http://socio.ch/evo/index_evo.htm

Toxic Notes from ...A Prophet of Regionalism

Toxic Notes from the unpublished diary of a Philosopher
- And a prophet of Regionalism (*

I am a prophet. -Not only a prophet, but also a philosopher of regions1) and regionalism. There used to be a region – an old region called Utopia. This region happened to be an empire. An empire has in the rule an emperor and it is the case with this one too. The emperor wanted to be modern and brought some of us into school. Three of us, among the youth were outstanding; outstanding specially in revolting against the emperor, whom we took to be a proxy for our authoritarian fathers. We were good at teaching; we did that a lot and lead the youth to oust the emperor, because we thought we could make it better, in the project of being modern. 

I was the philosopher and the prophet on regions and so, as true as my prophecy, it happened that regions emerged out of the blues in the region of the emperor’s empire. Out of the three outstanding children of the empire`s region, I was the only one who survived to make it to the top, one year before "the end of the world" in 2012; according to the prophecy of the Mayas –in my capacity as a prophet, perhaps my genetic ancestors. 

I made it to the top in year 2011,  in one of the two regions, which emerged after 1991 – the bigger region,  which is highly contested by other regionalists to construct as many regions as possible in the region, where not less than a hundred regions, with innumerable conflicts, were living together during the era of the emperor.  The bigger region, where I am infamous as a philosopher, managed to exist for 20 years, containing the emergence of other regions; apart from the northern region, which was lost 18 years back, in favour of one top regionalist, who succeeded to outsmart one of my outstanding comrades in arms.

Yes, two of my outstanding comrades in arms, who went astray, counter to my advice have not survived to see the fruits of my project – regionalism. In those beautiful visionary days of my youth, the first outstanding comrade of my youth had an illusion, which he called a vision of social transformation. He wanted to achieve his project by trading on the might of the military for a while; in a similar precedence, like what the military, managed to do in ousting the emperor by undermining our youth movement. The second one promoted, by all costs, persuasion & force, the liberation of the northern region, in a tandem with the top regionalist from the northern region, with the purpose of liberating the rest of the empire’s region thereafter. But he, as well as the other was captured and killed by the military. -The military, which claimed to have the will of saving the region of the lost empire, by all means of brutality; -the military, whose "brave" leader, fled abroad just before my "heroic" regionalists invaded his region. 

So I am the only ONE, of our youth movement, who survived to make it to the top. I am not the biggest but I am embodied to the top and under the tight grips of the biggest in the new region; the southern region.  I.e. south of the independent northern region, which has maintained its own regionalist leader too, for all the years I can recall, beginning from our youth movement up to liberation and after liberation. It may be his life time project.

All to the dismay of my second comrade, who didn’t survive to see the debris of his project, and the betrayal of his tandem ally, this northern region, under its regionalist leader, has become independent -true to my prophecy –and there are therefore two independent regions in the lost region of the empire. And by the way, the biggest leader of the southern region is also said to be outstanding in his way. He was an inconspicuous young nationalist from the north, later a converted regionalist summoned by fate and wit to lead the bigger southern region. He made it to the top, mainly due to a coincidence of political events with international significance, when the military lost its international allies (the breakdown of a political block, which called itself socialist), by winning new friends from the west abandoning all his earlier ideological commitment. He has the hearsay of being outstanding by his supporters - but outstanding in his brutality too, according to his opponents, with a tick for -"chopping fingers"- of all those, who differ to his thoughts. This one has ruled the southern region for the last 20 years, by force and corrupting his opponents, including myself. Nonetheless, may be afraid of my intellect, he resisted the temptation of my advice…refrained  for so long  to call me to the higher realms of power and influence, until today, though he exiled me to the center of my lost passion, education & the youth, where I feel at home. Of course, I am grateful for that bit too.  But at last, he decided now - to summon me to his immediate proximity – to the center of his realm and region, in search of my advice - my expertise- which my last two comrades in arms neglected, to be condemned not to survive their projects. I am the survivor – the survivor prophet of regionalism, who can help, advise and teach the art and philosophy of survivalism.

Alas and at last, I am the recognized advisor of survivalism, who can help all tyrants in danger to develop a cunning instinct of survivalism. Actually the “leader of the south from the north" has enough of this capacity. But thanks to the movement of the youth in 2011, which is ransacking all the tyrannies of our continent in the north and the rest of the Arab world, this leader of the southern region is somehow shaking too, with the consequence of looking for my support.

My expertise-stocks have never been as high as today- as an old guard of the youth movement, who might know the internal dynamics of such a social movement. What an irony! If only they knew that I am more scared than the tyrants themselves deep down to my bones; because of the very three facts, I know in advance: 

1. According to my philosophy of regionalism, all regions are not immune to the dynamics of the youth. It really deserves its new signification: a social Tsunami, not less powerful than the natural tsunami Japan is suffering these days (see Maya Calendar). The last emperor could have a lot to tell on its momentum, if he had survived this dynamics.

2. I know that intellectuals and tyrants are not compatible. I am not the happiest with my new advisor post and the proximity to a tyrant. My first comrade in arms could have a lot to tell, if he had survived the region of the military regime.

3. I know that the new youth movement has learnt a lot from history – the art of non-violence. My late second comrade in arms could have a lot to tell, if he had survived the violence he himself had ignited in our youth movement of our region.

Therefore, if only they, specially my critics, knew, as bony as I look like; that I am scared down to my bones, they would have a pity with me. Oh people of regionalism save the philosopher of regionalism, I am condemned to living in A Bottle. –In a bottle, by the bottle and for the bottle; abandoning all the project of my youth - for the people, by the people, to the people of my region!!!  

One last note, for those who took me for a genius and wonder on my conscience and intellect, at face value: - This is just the face value, behind which I was a victim of my innate feeling, “I feel, therefore I am” – and not “I think therefore I am”- with my unconscious somatic-markers and neural mirror systems, not free of prejudice and bias, with a long history of personalized evolution, working against the mastery of my intellect. - An intellect which once in a while, can make and write beautiful lectures and speeches but a body which resists to live at the level of the rational principles of my intellect, negating – abandoning the higher reality of life, guided by the universal rationality of human reason. Thus, I am not an exception to all those lives driven by their basic instincts!

A very last note: You know philosophers are survival artists. There have never been philosophers who lost their lives in battle fields. If they lose their lives it is mostly because of their fingers, working for the Truth. In my case though, I am sure, if my survival art fails, it is not because of the fingers (threatened to be chopped by the leader of the southern region) but the bottles. -Fingers which I, particularly saved for the toxic bottles. – Bottles which are negating my life in a curious Hegelian dialectics of the bottles and the fingers, to elevate me to the higher realms of the Hegelian Absolute- the Absolute BOTTLE! -The toxic absolute bottle, which ends my life sooner or later. -The sooner the better, before I too, witness the debris of my life project – Regionalism. The New Youth, seem to work hard to turn its illusion of The NEW UTOPIA into a vision of reality, which, I must admit, would sooner or later come true –the only truth I dare to admit, when I am alone with my bottles!

THE END of the story…

1) I apologize for the exhausting reiteration of my concept "region"...This is one of the subtle methods we regionalist philosophers employ to subscribe you to  our creed & breed!
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(* A fictitious parody!

Merry Christmas in Memory!

In a previous post of this blog, "Holidays in Horror", (with Tilahun's "Wai Wai Silu" still ringing in my mind) just as a matter of fact, I spontanously mentioned the "fourth mind-set" in the following context, to resist all the temptations, which try to erase from our memory the misery of the social-order prior to the Ethiopian 1974 revolution.

"Is there any difference between the "three" forms of mind-sets: The crimes of Dergue, the horror in the dungeons of Melesse's Regime, and the execution-calls of the "professor"? (As the fourth mind-set, not to depict the cause of the tragedy - the social injustice/famine, destitution & poverty/ of the previous social order, which brought us in this mess, as a "crime of a different caliber".) "

By a stroke of accidence to reinforce the fact of the latter, I came across an impressive historical expression of Love for the Ethiopian People by the late B/G Mengistu Neway, who could witness the fourth fact with all the moral and authentic legitimation he had...

Celebrating our Ethiopian Christmas in memory of all the authentic Heroes and not the preachers and professors of "Hate", please share the following document of Love for the Ethiopian People with me!
And this is, to put it in a nutshell, with all awareness of all the political "mess" our community has encountered thereafter.

The Late B/G Mengistu Neway's "Plaidoyer" (1953 ETC) to the Ethiopian People & NOT to the Imperial Social Order!

IN MEMORY OF
all who suffered and lost their lives for the well-being of Ethiopia!

Long live Ethiopia...&...Happy New Year!