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By Samuel Estefanous
Before the world is done processing JD Vance’s epoch defining speech at the Munich Security Conference, for the first time in the entire history of the UN General Assembly and SC sessions, the United States and the Russian Federation stood in solid unison against the EU.
It kinda reminded me the sense of loneliness Churchill had felt at Yalta peace conference where Roosevelt and Stalin were calling all the shots at the expense of Europe. In desperation the Briton had demanded that the French should be represented among the victors. ‘Why,’ Stalin is said to have wondered in icy mockery, ‘because they were in a lot of hurry to surrender and collaborate with the Nazis not even out of faith but fear?’
Churchill had nothing to say in defense of the French but there was no way he was going to sit alone at the Conference taking notes while Roosevelt and Stalin were dictating terms. So he stood his ground adamantly and bellowed that he wanted the French represented. They say it was Stalin who had prevailed over Roosevelt to grant Churchill’s wish. That is why the vanquished France has become a member of the Security Council without being in any of the famous Conferences of Yalta, Tehran or Potsdam for that matter. We all remember the pics from our high school history text books that feature just Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill.
For now, the pic that is going to remain seared on our minds for the foreseeable future is the one featuring Britain’s Woodward looking in disbelief at US’s Shea when the latter kept her hand to her side refusing to condone the motion declaring Russia as the aggressor.
Meloni endorses Vance’s speech; Truss declares Britain is a failed State
In its half a century existence, I don’t think the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) has become so valued and celebrated. Italy’s Meloni makes a 180 degree turn from her position vis-à-vis Russia and makes it abundantly clear that at MSC Vance spoke for all of them, European conservatives included. Truss, Britain’s former Premier, sets the record straight telling the whole wide world that Britain under Kier Starmer is a failed state by all standards. The part of her speech that raised eyebrows even among us Ethiopians who had issues with Biden was her characterization of the former President as a dark menacing cloud that was hanging over America. I was afraid she was going to go further and demonize him as a disgusting slimy old lizard who had helped defile the moral foundation of the world. But she almost did, I mean under the circumstances.
What is in it for us, we may legitimately wonder and dismiss the whole idea as irrelevant and inconsequential to Africa. It certainly does have relevance. Particularly for the overwhelming majority of urbanites who are rooting for non-ethnic based opposition parties it makes the opaque scale fall off their otherwise wide opened eyes. Sometimes the way and the context they draft their programs, if any, make one cringe. Their political programs are defined by text books. I swear to God I am not exaggerating. Almost like elementary textbooks define concepts for school children. You know something like living things are divided into vertebrae and invertebrates. One such local opposition party declares it is a liberal democracy. Another says it has adopted the Northern European brand of social democracy. I know yet another toying with the idea of becoming a libertarian.
They assume they need to become erudite political scientists to found and lead a political party and choose an ideology and a category which they believe is indispensable according to their learned opinion. That is one reason they have remained ‘unrelatable’ to their potential constituents. In part it is the lingering hangover from the Communist trend that believes in a system of dogmatic precepts to which the cadres take unwavering allegiance. In the context of communism you learn to become one. It is no less significant than Christian baptism. In the multi-party democracy you are given a name on account of what you stand for. In modern multi-party democracy the debate between Ato Meles and Gidey Zeratsion is hilarious if not altogether laughable. Back then it was epic, because the ‘truth’ was beyond the cadre and the people.
A simple example- what kind of political rhetoric bends the ears of a native of Addis Ababa? A declared or otherwise stand regarding topics like the veritable question how to make Addis and major regional cities scot free of any ethnic political association or vice versa, patriotic or accommodative foreign policy, setting priorities of economic development, maintaining and protecting the religious and cultural values and rites of the society etc. It doesn’t matter if you go allegedly ‘liberal’ on questions about land ownership and go archaic conservative when it comes to social values. No one cares to know if the bourgeoisie is a strategic or tactical ally of the proletariat. But everybody has a stake when OFC and OLF say they intend to take over Addis. They might even suggest, in this case, let Addis serve as a rotating capital of all regions.
The days of dogmatic ideological parties are long gone. Who cares about dogmatic purity these days? For the most part, political parties are now defined by the social values they espouse. Inter-regional relations they advance, the power sharing mechanism they devise.
In the event we are missing it, that is what got Trump and Putin in the same band wagon. We might as well join the party and I see no wisdom in the way Ethiopia chose to cast its vote at the General Assembly.
Prayer at the opening of the first Cabinet meeting
The Lib Dems pushed their luck very hard when they went around tearing up ten commandment posters in a country that trusts in God only to hoist all sorts of God mocking banners in its place. They were mortally offended by prayers at school only to witness one at the Cabinet. Now just like he had promised, Trump brought order to the house and had the first cabinet meeting opened by a beautiful prayer- delivered by the new black secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
I am not saying an agnostic or an atheist is a bad person. And I am not suggesting religious folks are invariably good or something. Incidentally Abeto Eyasu had ruffled many egos and established customs back in his days. Ras Emiru writes that when he tried to ‘advise’ the Heir to the Abyssinia throne not to neglect Christianity, the Prince took a deep breath and noted ‘Christianity is a troubled religion, my friend, in my heart I am drawn to Islam better still to atheism.’ That doesn’t make Eyasu a bad person, rather enigmatic if not a philosopher.
But no one denies the fact that in the very least it is human excellence and the unrelenting pursuit of higher ideals that evolved religions. That is why here in Ethiopia we tend to say ‘ሃይማኖት እንደሌለዉ’. Apparently it doesn’t really matter if it is Islam, Christianity or Waq’efena.
God Bless.
The writer can be reached at : estefanoussamuel@yahoo.com
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“A Fresh New World Order…”
A never ending practice, where every ‘hegemon’ creates his own ‘World order”, this time on the funeral of the unspoken “Rules based’ ( with no known content & ‘guardrails’, ever shifting in its application) , that took its last gasp along with its authors.
Well, there are two ‘worlds’ but one is unrecognized, is an after thought, though everyone and everything is wrapped around in it and lives its entire existence in it never stepping out even a millimeter (if it did, we associate with ‘death’).
The other that is recognized by all (humans) is never in ‘order’; it is not created to be in order, but in constant change.
It shouldn’t even be considered a ‘world’, but language limitation make it so, while it is a collection of ‘reactions’ from those in the other (you, me, the plants and animals on the planet).
To make it easier to understand, take the plant Mars (any of the others) the way we know about it today; it is simply aa empty space, a ‘stage’ with no ‘life’ (both plant and animal) to create the ‘reactions’ we here call ‘world order’, Mars appear to have none.
Second example, I heard about ‘Henry Kissinger no longer with us…’ the other day, and in my understood it seemed to be as a current occurrence and googled it to get some detail, and only to learn that he died long ago, but in my experience the last picture I had of him was his meeting with Xi in China a (a short time ago in my mind…).
Meaning, what goes on out there (actions/reactions)) are not in our experience in any shape or form, we just observe them if we so inclined or are in the theater…
Observing a child birth is not an experience for the looker… but we seem to obliterates the difference and assume they are one and the same…
In the same way our thoughts and emotions (mental) and physical experiences are our intimate and private ‘life’, no one has access to, vice versa. Even our ‘touch’ that bring us closer or In touch with others or to the outside object ( even our own body) does NOT tell us anything about the other, but collect the signal back ( worm / cold, hard / soft…).
Though, our observation of nature clearly shows us its evolving nature, even in our own ‘birth’ and ‘death’ (body wise) experience ( we come with ‘nothing’ (not-thing) and exit with nothing ), we are conditioned to latch onto the learned ‘narrative’ all social-natured ( ever changing with the time we exist in) but not existential (inner) and go along with it and spend our whole life time struggling for survival (even after amassing huge amount of ‘wealth’ (trap/bondage) that could last many lifetimes… and exit without realizing our true nature.
As the old Book states, “At first there was nothing… (not-a-thing”.
And in our observations & experience everything comes from nothing, including the ‘ideas’ for all the things we have created, for our comfort and conveniences.
So, if we step back from the socially created ‘narratives’ the slogans (some of them) listed in the article ( rules, ideologies, religions,… all the cascade of social norms) that are entangling humanity even before recorded time… has lead to nothing but tragedies after tragedies with no end, and will continue to do so, until our focus shifts from the ‘reactions’ (outside world) we observe & participate in at times, in a very limited manner, to the (inner) one we individually & intimately experience ‘within’ 100%, 24/7 till the day we go back to ‘nothing’ leaving our body (the food we ate) behind; the endless strife & confusion will continue collectively, and individually for the 99.99% till the experiment we know as ‘creation’ (‘God’s experiment’) runs its course and comes to its end.
So, one may ask, ‘where is ‘God’ in all this ?’
Well, we could say literally in the nothing ( not-a-thing) or is the nothing itself.
Creation comes out of ‘nothing’ and goes back to ‘nothing’, therefore all- there-is (‘Source’) is ‘nothing’ , so are you & me and all the living things that are evolving along with us .
Only those who have ‘realized’ the true nature of existence, have untangled themselves or not in bondages with anything or anyone, but are ” in the world but not of it”, the ‘world-order’ (reactions) are just that ‘dance’ intellect (memory (the dead ) of life in creation (originated form “intelligence’) , nothing more.
Outside world (reactions) produces memory which is tuned into ‘intellect’…and helped build the technologies we have been using, but it has been slowly becoming extinct by the day due to the emergence of ‘smart phone’ that can store the enter world library in it and give out info instantly, and now with AI ‘intellect’ is becoming archaic before our eyes.
Where as in the inner-world ( the creator locked in within) the ‘intelligence’ that created the universe (the cosmos) that is giving us hints in bits and pieces (in the form of ‘ideas’) is fully opens up for anyone that ventures in , in ‘steeliness’, which is the only way to access it.
It is beautifully explained here:
Link = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9P54sPWa6Y
By this, I didn’t mean to disagree with what is stated in the article… ( I read them all any chance I get with great interest, to learn about the ins & outs of our beloved…)
And my comment on the subject is not from firsthand ‘experience’, but picked up from those that have…
Be well
The author of this article appears to be pro-gender politics: wokist. In order to look enlightened and feel super, one has to exhibit anti-religion and wokism in his article. “Now just like he had promised, Trump brought order to the house and had the first cabinet meeting opened by a beautiful prayer delivered by the new Black secretary of Housing and Urban Development.” “God bless President Trump.
Back in the 1960’s and early 70’s, to see articles in the journals of Ethiopian Students Associations about making money in general presented as evil was common. You would see articles written with headlines as ‘Some Notes’ this and ‘Some Notes’ that, ‘On the Question of’ of this and ‘On the Questions’ of that in lines with Marx, Lenin and Mao’s writing styles. The target was market economy and the free enterprise that drives it. USA was unfairly singled out as the one that controlled the Ethiopian economy since the mission led by Skinner in 1903. My contention was some one to tell me a single American company that controlled the Ethiopian economy but to no avail. That accusation went on for years and then came the squabble among those accusers on so-called theory of ‘two-world and three-world’ that send the associations to go belly up beyond repair. Deacons/darasaas of Marx/Lenin/Mao split into two hostile camps and moved to the old country slinging mud at each other. The rest, as they say, is history, the saddest and most destructive part of our history.