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 By Definition    

 Whose definition of what?

 In the grand relativistic world of ours, everything is what it is relative to a reference point, condition and time; as such everything is in a dynamic state of change of its relative reference according to its own newly acquired relative position. If there exists any permanence it is the permanence of change itself against all drag and resistance that often works to resist change in any form, content and direction. Grand moments of human experience create grand fixation in the memories of great number of people that it remains the grand reference point regardless of the great strides made and great relativistic positional changes, because a grand moment held with great esteem for a long time tends to becomes a tradition and a culture than a rational principled position. A culture and a tradition is to be followed, adhered to and practiced by the generations of the offspring’s of the initial practitioners of the belief and experience of the grandiose moment. Some of us care to reason out and rationalize the meaning, symbolisms, essence and content of the observance and the practice and participate in love and in reverence to what it is and it stand for while an equal part of us careless for what it really is and for what it stands for, but do it any way for that is how it has been done by generations before us and we belong to that tradition and class of people. As traditions are fixated in our calendar, they get fixated in our biological clocks and get programmed In to our genetic makeup, after all what is in our genes is what is in the environment we are exposed to for a considerable time. I wonder though if what is programmed in our genes is always the rational thing with all the genetic engineering that goes on in the great labs of this nation and many others to remedy the runaway genes in us and the rest us living things. In restraining myself not to go amok, I shall limit myself to tradition not science otherwise I would have accomplished nothing, but grab and let it go off everything there is to grab that would have me as very untraditional. Traditions are stronger than reason and rational they persist even when the rational and conventional wisdom dictates otherwise because they tend to be part of once identity, a birthmark of a sort that can’t be washed away. Often for going against it or break away there is a price and a debt to be paid in kind and other forms that the gravitational pull keeps one in orbit. It is in adherence to tradition and cycles of recurrence some traditionalists and some not so traditionalists flock to a city to dethrone and enthrone, to condemn and adulate, if nothing else by their intent and wish what has been, what is and what is to come in a self assured boisterousness and confident audacity. Even in the absence of refreshments, the very presence of those who have gone the path and made success stories and those that are to follow in their footsteps and the exchanges of the formers experience with the aspirations of the latter is so intoxicating that most are elated to point of hysteria with emotional out pouring of love and commitment to a cause and a course of action to maintain the tradition and take it even to the next generation and the generation after. It would be more than safe to conclude that by in large the participants are following in the footsteps of their adoring parents and they in turn intend to pass the tradition and the truth as defined by the tradition to their adorable little ones, as that is what every tradition calls for. Will the little once leave the tradition when they grow up to take the banner? Only with a debt and a price to pay!!! For a distance, and me I have observed and continue to observe the spectacle from afar from where and when one could see its beauty and its shortcomings UN obscured by emotions of belonging. Even if I wanted to belong I could hardly crack the glass ceiling with 5 ft 6” height in a place where 6ft 8” and 9”s roam. Some and most of the answers to the questions I started out have been answered and I seem to have found by whose definition of what the world revolves counterclockwise and clockwise. It seems to spin as they spin it and it sure spun counterclockwise last night and only the truth remained stationary and in its original and permanent position. I have come to realize that politics is about the make belief, the masterful illusion, and the beauty of delivery than the dry narration of numerical, historical, statistical, political, and diplomatic or any fact anything to do with politics. I have seen some meander around all the afore mentioned facts with smoothness of a tone, beauty of linguistic art and mastery of oratory without bumping in to any curve of resistance or opposition to sheepishly lead the flock to the point and destination they have long determined they ought go. As all is readied and prepared to enhance the make belief and illusion of the master illusionist in an effort to shift the truth to a point and position of desired co-ordinate, so it will and it might have “ as the way you look at the truth changes so will the truth.“ So by their definition of what who and where we have been conned by some as it ought to have been and we remained unmoved by others in spite of their hard tried efforts         

Literary flares

 If anything history witnesses to the fact that when time is segmented in two centuries, decades, years, months and weeks it is often tagged with descriptive adjective that is particularly expository of the most notable accomplishments of the period in question. Often a phrase or word either crepes up from obscurity or a new one is coined to particularly fit and describe in audacious and vivid forms what is to be highlighted of the time segment. “Literary flares” was one phrase that one phrase that was at the tip of every person notable at many television notable syndicated shows in tribute may be to some literary candle that burn itself to give some illumination to the literary penumbra that we have come to cress-cross in our daily written and spoken language. I would have cared much if the truth about the subject matter was as glittery as the celebrated literary masterpiece produced, yet I have come out to celebrate the beauty of the language and rectify the truth to mach it, for it is often the elegance and refined beauty of the language that is a turn on to search for the truth than it is the contrary. The truth shall set you free, yet a beautiful literature is an enticement to walk the long walk in the trails of jungles of the written world in the search for the truth. To stretch the imaginations of the readers and take them to the stretched horizons of his work may be in order from any of the literary candles, yet if their light surpasses them it should understood that they wouldn’t have traveled at the speed of the light they helped to generate but others after them will walk the illuminated path. It has been that way since the times, Homer, Socrates and the rest of them all notables of the past and present, many has walked the path they help illuminate to get to the truth and untruth of their literary masterpieces, even to get to the untruth it took an enticement of a literary beauty. However far from the truth and however unrealistic an event and a reality it was, that generated such a response, it has generated an admiration and an acknowledgement of mastery of a language and capability of producing a respectable literary work in the very opposition and rejection that put the word “literary flares” in the mouth and on tip of the tongue of everyone who rose to speak about it. It may not have been science but thanks it sure is an art and as such it has achieved what so many could only dream, it has generated a criticism and an acknowledgement.

Ayele Teklemariam+

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