DEAR EDITOR—I have been following the debates on this site and I have always thought you were doing a very good job balancing the arguments; but be careful you can easily tip over the edge; especially at this very trying time in the history of our nation. Good thing is you haven’t tipped yet.
The election impasse has caused a lot of pain and grief on each side of the political spectrum and frustrated individuals are looking for outlets for their frustrations. Unfortunately, publications like yours always get caught up in the mix and are often used as scapegoats.
At least after all this you will know who your true friends are and all the ‘dry leaves will have been pruned’.
To all Zimbabweans in the Diaspora, I would say, well let's not get hysterical. There’s not much we can do about the violence at home except debate. But let’s do it maturely.
As Harry Enfield would say: "calm down, caaalm down".
We should encourage free thinking, but not imbalance or too much egocentric ranting, and I should admit although without wanting to be a hypocrite, I often do it also. He he! ...but I try to cut it down a bit these days.
I realise it’s a mistake to pigeonhole people (to a political party or grouping), or identify oneself with the human 'body' (true democracy is not male/female/black/white/African/English/American/Islamic/Christian, so it’s a mistake to fanatically pursue or single out one of those avenues as your life purpose).
I suggest that Zimbabweans read Michael Talbot’s book “The Holographic Universe”. Talbotwrites "… there is evidence to suggest that our world and everything in it. . . are also only ghostly images, projections from a level of reality so beyond our own it is literally beyond both space and time."
Talbot's conceptualisation of the Holographic universe and his proposals got me thinking in the past months; re-enforcing my belief that we are all inter-connected; Black, White, Shona, English, Ndebele.
Blame outward, you blame yourself. Thought manifest energy, manifests your reality (as in the book "The Secret") — there, you don't need to buy the book or watch the film, its all summed up in that sentence) The world, not just Zimbabwe, needs a good old clean up; a Quality Assurance revamp.
Our problems are not terrorists or global warming (both hysteria and manipulative keywords).
But they do include:
1) Arms Trade
2) Drugs trade
3) Human diets
4) Obsession with money/power/hierarchy.
5) Tribal and racial mentality
6) Power hunger
I think number 3 can be fixed first (via education). As well as number 5 (via internet, education and the global village). Then number 2 (via education and the global village again). 1 and 4,6 are the hard ones to crack. It will take a few centuries.
But if you put me in charge I'll sort it out for you as I suffer from none of them. Psyche!
Nova, Edinburgh • na Subject: ZIMBABEANS FIRST Tue, 06 May 2008 09:13:22 • ...re-enforcing my belief that we are all inter-connected; Black, White, Shona, English, Ndebele..
Of course we are all inter-connected, no matter that Omugabe may try and get you to believe otherwise.
If I could afford it I would pay the £500 for my DNA analysis but I think its only a man thing, eh? Proving men are from Mars and Women are from Venus.
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