What do we need? Samaritans or Politicians?
Irreessaa.com Editorial - December 16, 2007
The fact that we tend to grasp our problems so differently has indeed brought to fore such a lavish amount of different conclusions that made most of us, here and there, stumble without unity and without any viable perspectives. It seems as if our commonsense is disappearing, meaning that we literally are about to stop sensing commonly, losing the thread of the knowledge we held and supposed to hold in common.
Losing commonsense for us right now means the death of vision. If we don’t have vision, we don’t aspire. What is the value of life without aspiration?
So, what is going on?
Are we in a deep, visionless political quagmire?
Are we experiencing the brutal reality of being engulfed by some individuals or political entities acting like Samaritans who want to give rather confidential and emotional treatments to their followers than political leadership?
In a world full of biased and one-sided political realities and devastating double-standards, you cannot help your people by being a Samaritan. It is not enough to register a breakthrough by only sharing the cries and agonies of the victimized people, and by describing their situation emotionally. Neither can one help by being isolationist. Isolationism in politics belongs to the past. The isolationism one observes in the mainstream liberation politics of the Oromos is indeed crippling the potential and the energy of Oromo political power. More than that, we do think, it is producing illusion among the agencies and the faculties of the struggle of the Oromo people to get rid of injustice ...