Ayo, This is wonderful stuff. Brilliant observation. In death Castro has given us a huge gift. He has opened doors to imaginative and inspiring thought. …
Africa of course holds the key to the future. It has the fast-rising presence, the resources, the folk of fresh and innovative genius/ the great hunger for achievements/ explorations of every kind. It is carrying us forward. It is the force of now and of the future. It has much to abstract from the Castro/ Cuba Presence. And then to place it in Africa Life Experience; and duly to open it to a world that has long been failing and falling under IMF/ World Bank/ Global Corporate Models, which no one who knows bothers/ dares to tell us are long obsolete.
And the Africa Message? It is rooted in an Ethic and Attitude to life that incorporates a good deal of what Castro held close. But then, if you care to think on't it, how much of Castro's Value base had its roots in Africa Life Values going back at least 3000 years? America Values, with nothing but a surface Fantasy Engagement—one which spurned/ treated with contempt, values of those whose land they stole; values with Pedigrees of Evolved presence reaching back 7000 years—is a wondrous high-wire exercise. Its whiz-bang rocketry and fabulous material wonders, have given our life much; and its heritage will persist; and will gain ever further heights. But Fantasy Engagement, with no root, no flow-up of steady nourishment, can have but a limited life. As we all know, but are never permitted to say, the Fantasy High-Wire Engagement of America and the West has broken/ snapped. We in the West are in free-fall. And have been for some time.
My point? I am waiting to hear an Africa voice. A confident voice from Africa that has turned in, has drawn up, has selected and shaped its basic and extended messages, and then put them forward to a world in disarray—nothing new in that—a world that may hear, see and most of all sense, that powerful and exotic force; that Humane and Inclusive Root from which ALL human life proceeds; the root of Energy Release and Actuation that for many decades, behind/ beneath the blankets of meedja and political posturing, has been extending its messages in lives of individual folk in communities world-wide.
There are some, women and men, in Africa and indeed Nigeria who know perfectly the reality of what I say. I look forward to the sound of their voices, to the long with-held release of their advocacy, to the sweet, warm and up-lift of their sense and sensitivity in common sense policy projection.
Africa, such folk, such policies, such uplift, such humane instruments of communal Energy Release worldwide are with us. Let us hear their voices. We need to hear their voices. Now. …
Fidel is nodding his head, laughing, lighting another monster Havana Cigar. …He knows/ he knew from the start that guidance can no longer hope to come from West or East. Their day is long done. Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" brought home this message to Leading Folk and 98ers worldwide. Where man is set loose on the "money-making path," with Guaranteed Rights, and no Required Responsibilities, he sets the seeds for his own demise and that of his fellow folk who inhabit it. …Castro recognised and understood this. …He worked hard for the presence he and his helpers created. …And that was nearly sixty years ago.
Africa's time has long arrived. It has and indeed has long-extended the Ethic and Message from which this modern world as it moves on, needs to and will absorb. Put another way, Africa has arrived at an harmonic/ a lyric moment. When the material/ the mechanistic met its fabulous apogee; Africa was already making its timely entry. All part of the Creator's/ Dame Fortuna's Plan? All we know is that it is slipping the cushion of a humane humanity, between the accelerating descent of the modern Developed/ Western/ Eastern World, and the hard earth of a cruel and savage reality. A reality already experienced by far too many billions—Nigeria's 98ers high-ranking amongst the victims.
Again Ayo. Great stuff on Castro. And an engaging debate. It is so good to "hear" great minds let loose. Such minds, such folk of great intellectual/ creative force, are the very precious fruit of their communities; in larger and smaller Africa contexts. We treasure and celebrate them. All of them.
Pardon my intrusion. And if I got a little carried away. There is a reason. England's Ruggie Team not only has completed an Unbeaten Season (with an unbeaten string of 16 matches). But today they socked the Aussies. Wonderful.
Dear friend; all goes to show. Yes, we are all savage infants at heart. Does Ruggie do more harm than good? Does it merely encourage/ validate/ elevate just the attitudes and behaviours I've indicted by implication in the above? Is not Ruggie merely a substitute for war? Preparation for us to be ordered by our oligarchs, yet again, to kill each other by the millions? …Mmmm.
No snow yet on these Sussex hills. But very chill in my office.
Time for beddies.
Baba m
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