Sunday, March 4, 2012

WHY THEORY AND PRACTICE ARE POLES APART IN POLITICS

Modern High Speed Train - -- two engines of the recently...
Feeling like hijacking a train?
SURELY SOCIETY WILL HAVE DONE
SOMETHING QUITE DRASTIC TO MAKE YOU
HARBOUR SUCH DANGEROUS THOUGHTS!




Theory is per definition static, while practice is always in a flux.




"There is no such time as when any society halts en masse to say:

"'Stop the clock for one moment! We have a new idea to adopt and an old one to jettison!'  


"As such, all ideological changes are in many respects at least acts in the unwarranted staff-riding of a train;




"or, at most, such ideas evince  notions of the more revolutionary acts in the hijacking of the self-same, perpetually-moving, twin-coached train of Time and Society.



"The lesson here is, in order to obviate hijacks, one is to get involved and engaged with one's society by all means at the  individual's disposal all in order to improve the lot of our species.  Failing which, the raw animal in the human being will always return to bring death to our civilization."  That quotation of course, from the thoughts of  the inimitable Goodman Manyanya Phiri!
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Now I thought about this on my own this morning sizing up the frightful edifice South Africa is standing at with Mr Jacob Zuma at the helm and at his devil-may-care stance and attitude...Does he know what he's doing? I have all the doubts!




Yet, if you consider Phiri's comparative idea of  hijacking trains too violent, think about men who, in the world's second largest democracy (USA), spoke in more stark terms about violent revolutions!



J.F. Kennedy, for example, exactly 51 years ago this month (March-13-2012), is reliably quoted as "having" prophetically told Jacob Zuma's 2012 South African government the following words of stern warning: 








All of this Kennedy wording while Phiri was still a toddler!


So, next time you think America is playing the police of the world, think again! Maybe they have seen it all.


And above all: AMERICAN CITIZENS HAVE SEEN PRESIDENTS WHOSE EARS WERE GLUED TO THEIR POPULATIONS RATHER TO THE SELF-SERVING INTERESTS US SOUTH AFRICANS HAVE SEEN IN LEGACY-HUNGRY NELSON MANDELA, THABO MBEKI AND NOW, APOCALYPTIC JACOB ZUMA!!!



Towards the close of 2011, a World Conference was held in Durban to discuss Global Warming and its effects.  Views opposed to Zuma’s (through the mouths of fellow-South Africans who pictorially seemed to be of Asian or European origin) were, in the presence of a self-same Zuma , palms vigorously applying to each other some sadistic, barmy nothingness and face wearing a cadaverous  sangfroid while the pummeling and assaulting of  dissenting participants went on to the point of driving the victims out of the Durban hall where 100%-Zulu-Zuma’s voice only was supposed to be heard in a  South African democracy...even heard by force Zuma's Zulu yobs!  Not surprisingly, Zuma defended the ruffians with the words [“they were provoked by the dissenters who did not show respect to me as the president”].  Hence one of the questions one asks himself on Zuma or TO Zuma is: Before others can respect you, Sir, do you, as Zuma, go about with your life with any measure of self-respect, human dignity or even holy Zulu dignity for that matter? And, where  the signs are so clear that the trivialization of female sexuality in your government is rife, what are you doing about it?  What are you doing about the sexual commercialization women state employees at your government level? Why are you apparently accepting sex in government offices as fair tender in  exchange (of course with your fellow-Nguni-Thembu-Zulu men placed in powerful positions  through unfair discrimination of non-Xhosa-speakers-and-now-Zulu) for the ongoing corrupt elevation of at least one female self-prostituted individual (rather than the more deserving hard-working ordinary South African women)? Why do you think it is your constitutional duty to abuse the courts (litigating against Phiri without paying for his lawyers) in victimizing Phiri for blowing the whistle on this clear act of corruption?































































































































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