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CONNECTING THE DOTS.It is time again to take a note draw some conclusions and ask questions of what we have heard, seen and witnessed of our political leadership from the right isle as we have don when it was time for the political world and Universe rotated counterclockwise and to the left some time back collectively and individually. We have been presented with choices and the differences of the choices and what brought them about with such mastery of oratory and principled content delivery to the point almost where it made our choices as difficult and hard whether to revolve clockwise or counterclockwise with party of the left or the right, for there was no ill intent on either side as we were able to learn from many distinguished speakers of the week time and again as to what our final product ought be, but differences only in the production methodology. Though we know that both GM and Ford produce cars, one produces Lincolns and the other Cadillacs, it is a choice we can live with and be proud that we have, We more than any time in the past were able to see the fundamental contrasts of the methodologies and beliefs of getting to a point and place in time for a better end product with a more efficient and expedient ways. We were able to witness the motives and intentions of the other party not questioned, but its beliefs and the methodology it employees in its attempt to attain our well being a common objective deeply held at heart. Politics have been refined, fine tuned and polished to clearly reflect the choices and the differences between the choices not empirically as it was customary, but as a formulated unified theory that encompass every venue of political life according to which every stride forward, sideways and back has to be measured against and conformed to. It has been made more than ever that we can hold the theory and the formula and insert the variables and write our elected officials right and wrong on everything one of their move every step of the way from election day to convention day, for they have given us the rules they play by not where they stand on what and when. Suffice it to say that there were and there will be special circumstances that override the formula and the theory, as exceptions and aberrations are part of nature that we all are tolerant of limited deviance from the norm in the interest of accommodation and greater common good. That politics was not the same classical Darwinian game of survival of the fittest in the acknowledgment of the not only of the importance of the opposite, but the intertwining entanglements them for the viability one for the other and the overall intricate thread that bind the different elements of this entity and many others near and far by destiny, essence and purpose. That there is no island of ill or righteous intent anywhere that will remain un affected or without effect on others by its mere reality of existence, actions and deeds, that the age of reason and rational has put a damper on the harsh reality of evolutionary and revolutionary Darwinism by way of human ingenuity discovery and environmental consciousness both to alter it and preserve it. We were able to determine and learn, Yes, like then now again we were conned and spun to the right and clockwise out of which we have become real stable and symmetrical and say we are indeed standing on our two feet, unmovable and unshakable with out our intent and consent. As we are standing on our two feet on issues of war and peace prosperity and freedom both our left and right feet have been hurting over the war in Iraqi the necessity and legitimacy of it at all. As much as we have heard from able and knowledgeable people of the justifications and the counter agreements that ensue, we wondered if all the questions were asked and if all the explanations were given, it could have been asked and it could also have been answered, but since our knowledge is limited as to what has been and hasn’t been asked and answered, we would ask one rhetorical question and conclude this note. Knowing that the Iraqi has been in a state of war since the Gulf war and bombs were falling in the streets of Baghdad periodically in response to the on going defiance of the inhibitions and sanctions imposed on the then dictator, would there be and should there be any doubt at all that in the world of, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend†and “the friend of my enemy is my enemy†that enemy you are at war with, will not broadly smile at the offensive the other enemy and would not want to coordinate his efforts with the new friend in action ? Would it have been prudent to disengage from the battle at hand and go on a sporadic chase of the emergent enemy? Or finish up with the job at hand in co-ordination with the new? Or perhaps it would have been better wait till we have seen the inevitable marriage of the two known enemies consummate and act? We have no answers, but question, and question we ask, so we did and we will; only hopping that we will find the answers some where in the archives, soon in some one’s work or in the long run .The most stable structure
9/16/2004 . Thus it becomes very important to seek and find an absolute reference point instead of our individual relative positions, though that itself an object of contention and consternation, very much less varied that it helps form larger chunks out of the individuals, sets out of individual elements and grand sets out smaller sub sets, like the pyramids and cones that disperse down wards and build up wards, from the single to the many and from the many to the single, in a bi-directional flow of material, ideas and deeds, forming a truly representative democracy and transparent one, Centralized and democratic, and democratic and centralized. If in any case, it is centralized and not democratic, it forms no cone or pyramid and there fore it is fragile. If it is democratic and not centralized, it forms no cone or pyramid there fore not stable again. Particularly the obsession with the pyramid both in the ancients and relative recent past ancestors could have been both in the stability of the structure and the symbolism it gave to centralism and democracy. From many to one and from one to many, from the infinitely small and simple (infinite singularity & simplicity) to the infinitely large and complex. (Infinite complexity and multiplicity) and vise versa. From the appearance out of smallness of nowhere to the disappearance in to the vastness of everywhere such is the tip and such is the base of a pyramid, a diamond and a cone, unshakeable and un moveable, That is very much in line with the emergence growth and final disintegration of the universal matter as observed in the four common and other paradigms, may be this synchrony has by enlarge to do with stability realized by these structures or may it is simply what mimics nature as it emerged and as it will self destruct. I leave it to any and everyone’s imagination and intuition to figure out and see how the same structure have been very much applied in politics, sports, economics, business and money other organizations and institutions to create stability and strength, centralism and democracy
. “The shortest path to the heart is through the stomachâ€. Created by Ayele Teklemariam
9/17/2004Many have tried to approach it through the head and often had little or no success; unlike many it was too late a realization for me, but a realization important enough to take a note and a notice nonetheless. I was naïve enough not to have known that the energy that drives both the head and the heart has to be first and foremost fed in to the stomach and off course the lubricants that oil the joints for a smooth movement as a by product wouldn’t have come from any other source. One might as well call it the gateway to the heart, mind and body. Thus over the years what has gone in through the stomach has swayed thoughts changed minds and smoothened movements and even made friends out of enemies and enemies out of friends. The rich and the rich, the poor and the poor, the rich and the poor often dined and wined literally and figuratively together to find compromise and accommodation and smoothen the tensions between and amongst them. What coronation was a coronation with out a lavish party, what wedding was a wedding party that does not culminate in an extravagance of drinks and eatery, what party is and was a party of social, political or religious significance that did not and does not satisfy the human appetite for drinks and delicatessen to bring about happiness, jubilation harmony and celebration all at once by the power of the consumption through the stomach. As it is often a culmination of an upward movement in the social ladder, a change of status in an individuals or group political, social, economic or religious standing or an accomplishment of significance that instigates a party as an occasion to assert and get the acknowledgement from the others and smoothen the relation ship there off, that could have been roughened on the path to the climax, by reaching to the heart and mind of each other through the stomach. It has always been and it still remains the most direct path to the minds of many and all. If there remains to exist causes to accomplish and celebrate parties would be inevitable, and at parties while dining and winning the plasticity of the arms would change in to flexibility and the rigidity of the mind changes to elasticity and could stretch beyond what it normally reaches. What is discussed over dinner or lunch makes it to the heart and mind while what is discussed in the office or conference room often remains at the ears unless it is of particular importance and significance not to the narrator but to the audience. May be some body wise have said it long ago and the ‘shortest path to the heart is through the stomach “ may be then the heart will pump it to the head whatever it is that has to get there. To be candid enough about it, formally and informally, overtly and covertly, with intent and with out intent, deliberately and inadvertently that has been how business is done over centuries and that is and remains how for a foreseeable future. Call me a late bloomer, I just got the realization if it could do me any good and hope it serves as a lesson to some who needed an early awakening. .
The past that was and the future that will be.
It is one of those incidents of mix-up where the old new becomes new and the new news really is an old new. Not only the story is upside down time is reversed, logic is inverted even the low seems out of place and a little bit out of time. Is it lagging or is it ahead? It seems to be moving in a circular motion and it can some times be difficult to know what is in front and what is behind in a race around a circle if one does not keep the proper perspective. Year 2000 have been a year around a circle where the looser is the winner and the winner is the looser, the one at the back is affront and the one affront is at the back. American electoral democracy which has been leading the way in democratization of the world particularly since the end of the cold war have been tested to its limits, Yet passed the test with some questions of its imperfection lingering in the minds and hearts of many. Those questions raised during those times and the ones that are being raised again and again are questions that are going to come up repetitively as long as they remain fully un answered not to change the outcomes of what has been decided wrongly or rightly, but for the satisfaction of intellectual curiosity and academic discourse and finally settle and correct the discrepancies that may come of our investigation. Though it is expected to raise questions and lament and regret about how the world treated us and we treated the world in the past, when the intent of the raised issue is to undo what has been an irreversible process may be the effort is wasted and should be re directed to prevent it from happening all over again and pay our dues where and if it is owed. We can not possibly ask and try to undo what Newtonian mechanics have done to our civilization to have failed to comply and satisfy the laws of quantum mechanics, but only make an effort and adjustment to our understanding of Newtonian physics and update it to comply with what is known and acquired of Quantum mechanics, like wise should it not be an absurdity in logic to try to undo an event that has been accomplished in accordance and compliance with the knowledge and law on the ground at the time? Yes if only we had the know how and the understanding we have today I wonder how many yesterdays we would have liked to eras and how many we would like to have repeated many rounds over? But that dreadful thing called time that have given us yesterday and took it back never to give us back yesterday again, but only and only tomorrow. by |
