The Why and Because
By
Naba Lamoussa Morodenibig
For centuries, the human being has been struggling to prove to himself that he is not that animal, that barbarian, that oppressor, that savage, etc. that we all fear. He is fighting to present himself as the liberator and the friend of human beings; but every time he acts, he says a word and he presents a message, his profound nature is exposed. The worst nowadays is that he is asking us to believe in his intentions instead of his actions. My ancestors taught me that there is nothing cheaper than an intention; intentions do not need a lot of effort and they can change at any moment according to the reaction of the environment that is affected by our actions. We say in my village that only idiots are convinced by the arguments of intention: "The paths that lead to hell are paved with good intentions."
All the philosophies that have led to genocide and the slavery of people now became those who are pushing us into giving more value to the intentions than the actions. This should not surprise any person capable of thinking; with so much blood poured and so much suffering caused throughout history, if a human being became intelligent enough to judge every doctrine and faith through the marks they leave throughout history, we will be forced to ask them to "shut up" their message of love and peace.
But our problem today is not on that side. It is about the human being that has been already convinced by the message of intentions of these doctrines; the human being that believes in the good intentions of his enslaver. The victim that thinks the oppressor is right. It is the victim that is so fatalistic, that he sees a liberator in his oppressor. We must understand the difficulty of this equation. A lot of people found themselves in the position of these orphans that have been raised and educated by the same people that killed his parents. The criminal will educate the orphan to be in his own image. The orphan will find himself as a carrier and protector of the same message that has destroyed his own parents; he will go to the point of believing that his own parents deserved the destruction etc.
This is why the evils of this world exist; the children of todays victims will be educated and raised to feed the same monster with their own blood. They will serve the monster and they will sacrifice themselves for the monster if this one succeeds in making them only judge him based on his intentions; and the children will be gently led like a herd towards a slaughterhouse if they stay convinced that the history of the monster is not part of the monster
The disoriented and the confused individual will proudly preach the goodness of the monster and every time he is presented with the portions of the history of the monster, he will say that it was peoples fault and never the fault of the message; knowingly forgetting that people are born and that they die, and in 2000 years of holocaust, slavery and colonialism on people of color, we have continued producing children that ended up victim of the carriers of the message of the monster. Maybe the butcher may have died many times, but his descendants have inherited his knife what difference does that make to the victims?
Our situation of people of modern society is not easy. Our will to make the difference is real even in our dream to change the world. But we can see around us and in us that the system of destruction has done all to guarantee its survival; it has made us so dependent on it to the point that we can not really imagine ourselves in any world other than the one it presents to us. We cannot imagine ourselves in any other place than the place it set for us just like animals on a ranch surrounded by a fence. The only territory that is allowed is the one of faith and belief because the human being that believes does not know, and the world that we believe does not resemble in anything to the world that our intelligence can see.
The human being that believes resembles a military person a lot; ready to kill and die for his convictions, ready to "defend" against the enemies but refusing to accept that him and the enemy are in reality just he products of the monsters locked in the power game.
My grandfather always said that nobody can kill the devil to be able to kill the devil, you have to be worse than him, and if you reveal yourself capable of killing the devil, you are the devil. This is why closed minds and big mouths always go together. This is why ignorance and violence are twins. This is why the religious clergy employs passionate orators. This is why the messenger of death, oppression and slavery is at the same time the one singing the glory of their God and their love for people
The messenger of destruction has no face; he will find himself on the side of the oppressor with the face of an oppressor, on the side of the victim with the face of a victim, on the side of the warrior with the face of a warrioretc.
For the individual in search of the self, we say in the school of M'TAM, that the human being tells what he believes he is but his history proves who he is. Luckily the memory reaches further than the eyes can see.
Meda ase' Oju for this! The wisdom here is so matter of fact and to the point!
QuoteMy grandfather always said that nobody can kill the devil to be able to kill the devil, you have to be worse than him, and if you reveal yourself capable of killing the devil, you are the devil. This is why closed minds and big mouths always go together. This is why ignorance and violence are twins. This is why the religious clergy employs passionate orators. This is why the messenger of death, oppression and slavery is at the same time the one singing the glory of their God and their love for people.
Double talk, emotion and passion used to bring a person of a rational thinking mind. This reminds me of Sharpton, Jackson and other church-house pimps.