Reality is not static. Our people- irrespective of where they live- face a lot of challenges. Some of these are transitional while others will obviously have a far-reaching repercussion.LiquidHYDROGEN wrote:Lamagoodle, you have noble sentiments but those sentiments don't reflect reality. Somalinimo is fake and artificial. In Somalia, every clan sees itself as a nation. You cannot build a nation from such a people. You cannot forge national identity and unity from a group of individuals who cannot see past tomorrow. May I direct you towards the work of Charles Darwin and his theory of natural selection. Somalians are simply too stupid to survive. I predicted that in 30-40 years Somalia will be integrated fully into Ethiopia and Kenya.
Some of the underlying mechanisms are institutional (culture, religion, etc); others involve learning (we have all dosed a one system of governance since we left our nomadic lifestyles); Notice for instance, the vocabulary of somali politics; all of it is inherited and nothing is endogenous.
I don’t usually discuss this issue but I find it fascinating that our people have swallowed tribal nonsense without a grain of thought. We love for instance – blinded by tribalism- to exaggerate reality. Dusty towns are called cities, tribal Baluchistan are called “land” and worst of all we all engaged in a race to the bottom of human intelligence.
We have many school dropouts (my observation) on these boards for instance who cannot engage in a discussion on our plight. Polarisation is at the heart of any political discussion. You have to belong to a camp in order to give your two cents. Where is free thinking? Where are arguments?
Some of us so stupid that the world is laughing at what we write on these boards. (see e.g. the argument about “Somalians vs somalis”. There is an intellectual bankruptcy in our society that shuns common sense, thoughts and education.
Now back to the topic; I sincerely believe that if we look behind the nonsense – the contemporary discourse, we have three kinds of somalis;
1.The political somali who at most is a high school drop out in the west or an urban somali in Somalia who has discovered that the only way of earning a living is to engage in the politics/talks of polarisation; this somali will sniff every nonsense told to him including how great his tribe/land etc are doing
2.The educated fool who does not dare to tell A above that the emperor is naked. Because of personal gains, there is a symbiotic relationship between 2 and 1.
3.The vast majority who are the victims of circumstances; they are hostages to the system. While they just want to live peacefully- and does not care who runs what, but do not have the voice.
In summary, we are victims of the system, the current system of nonsense- the cool aid. There is no difference between somali areas. It is the same everywhere. There are some variations but if you look at the situation it is the same.
BTW, you cannot find the answer to our quagmire in Darwin. Read Herbert Spencer (social darwinism) and his vogue of the 19th century instead.
