Mzantsi's uproar: A demonstration of craze
Freedom! Free to be, free to do, free to live, free to eat, free to love, free to be free! My inspiration for this passage emerged from recent thoughts of Stephen Bantu Biko’s legacy and how we as new generation revolutionaries will pass the baton.
Freedom is carefully defined by noninterventionists as the ability to act without restraint from the government, or more clumsily, and socialistically defined as the ability to have access to particular resources from the government without constraint. Many have chewed and subsequently spat remnants of the term, so much so that they have created a spitting well of ‘knowledge’ and insight into this broad notion. But is freedom really what we seek or is ‘free will’ rather what we desire? I am baffled as to whether, in definition, freedom is to be coupled with ‘governance’. For governance is synonymous with supremacy, domination and power. Where’s the freedom therein? Then there are terms such as good governance, participatory government, service delivery and such. The South Africa nation has hit a deadlock in terms of roll out. Societies are lately scattered by immediate need yet anon affixed through widespread militancy. The residents of Khutsong are not all mentally disturbed. Kliptown has seen better reputation. Just last night Protea was added to the list. Voices have been silenced but our rulers refuse to listen.
My inquisitive, but primary school mentality insists on an enquiry, and wonders what it means for ‘the people’ to govern. What will the government lose if compliant? On the contrary, ‘the people’ lose poise along with their right to free will. Red ants continue to plague us daily in the city while no contingent plans exist. When will WE barricade the streets in pursuit of freedom? Our young Azanian freedom, the culmination of torture, death, despair and ultimately democracy-a demonstration of craze- is perpetually threatened by our thirst to dominate and rule.
As the whole world is on their feet, fighting similar issues of democracy and injustice, we continue to mirror their actions for hope of “a better life for all”. Africa needs an urgent intervention. Our traditional and other, more modern, leadership is ravaged by power struggles and awaiting ill advise from western adversaries. But a powerful black voice still shouts: “There shall be no minority, there shall be no majority, there shall just be people”, father Biko preached. This is not the freedom he fought for.
Quite simply, do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Simplicity complicated! The nature of the human is such that we strive to be above others, and in that pursuit, easily falter by being one another’s enemy. My own journey to happiness and levity in abundance rests upon others’ wellbeing. For it is in vein that we hope to achieve in separation from each other. It begins with one soul, and each one continues to teach one. If we let our inner freedom resonate from within, the whole world rejoices.
Freedom is carefully defined by noninterventionists as the ability to act without restraint from the government, or more clumsily, and socialistically defined as the ability to have access to particular resources from the government without constraint. Many have chewed and subsequently spat remnants of the term, so much so that they have created a spitting well of ‘knowledge’ and insight into this broad notion. But is freedom really what we seek or is ‘free will’ rather what we desire? I am baffled as to whether, in definition, freedom is to be coupled with ‘governance’. For governance is synonymous with supremacy, domination and power. Where’s the freedom therein? Then there are terms such as good governance, participatory government, service delivery and such. The South Africa nation has hit a deadlock in terms of roll out. Societies are lately scattered by immediate need yet anon affixed through widespread militancy. The residents of Khutsong are not all mentally disturbed. Kliptown has seen better reputation. Just last night Protea was added to the list. Voices have been silenced but our rulers refuse to listen.
My inquisitive, but primary school mentality insists on an enquiry, and wonders what it means for ‘the people’ to govern. What will the government lose if compliant? On the contrary, ‘the people’ lose poise along with their right to free will. Red ants continue to plague us daily in the city while no contingent plans exist. When will WE barricade the streets in pursuit of freedom? Our young Azanian freedom, the culmination of torture, death, despair and ultimately democracy-a demonstration of craze- is perpetually threatened by our thirst to dominate and rule.
As the whole world is on their feet, fighting similar issues of democracy and injustice, we continue to mirror their actions for hope of “a better life for all”. Africa needs an urgent intervention. Our traditional and other, more modern, leadership is ravaged by power struggles and awaiting ill advise from western adversaries. But a powerful black voice still shouts: “There shall be no minority, there shall be no majority, there shall just be people”, father Biko preached. This is not the freedom he fought for.
Quite simply, do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Simplicity complicated! The nature of the human is such that we strive to be above others, and in that pursuit, easily falter by being one another’s enemy. My own journey to happiness and levity in abundance rests upon others’ wellbeing. For it is in vein that we hope to achieve in separation from each other. It begins with one soul, and each one continues to teach one. If we let our inner freedom resonate from within, the whole world rejoices.
posted by desbo043 at Friday, October 02, 2009
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