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Post by cjm on Jan 8, 2024 7:11:07 GMT
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Post by Trog on Jan 8, 2024 7:48:52 GMT
I think that these researchers are peeing into the wind. Autocratic authoritarianism is the natural mindset of the youth. Throw a bunch of them together and you will have an instant pecking order with the top dogs demanding total obedience. This is as a consequence of young people's desire to fit in and to conform. It is also the source and the enabler of cancel-culture, which only became possible with the advent of easily accessible social media. So although a 'revolution' of the youth is maybe perfectly possible, it is emphatically not going to change the status quo from autocratic authoritarianism to something else. Quite the contrary, in fact - it will merely replace it with one possibly worse. Furthermore, autocratic authoritarianism is at the very centre of the African soul. They would not know how to exist, otherwise. This will never change. People who know nothing about Africa should stop trying to write research papers about it. |
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Post by cjm on Jan 8, 2024 7:59:11 GMT
I think that these researchers are peeing into the wind. Autocratic authoritarianism is the natural mindset of the youth. Throw a bunch of them together and you will have an instant pecking order with the top dogs demanding total obedience. This is as a consequence of young people's desire to fit in and to conform. It is also the source and the enabler of cancel-culture, which only became possible with the advent of easily accessible social media. So although a 'revolution' of the youth is maybe perfectly possible, it is emphatically not going to change the status quo from autocratic authoritarianism to something else. Quite the contrary, in fact - it will merely replace it with one possibly worse. Furthermore, autocratic authoritarianism is at the very centre of the African soul. They would not know how to exist, otherwise. This will never change. People who know nothing about Africa should stop trying to write research papers about it. I also found the article (despite its tantalising headline) a disappointment. My reaction was/is that it does not explain the inaction of the youth. Your comments actually do illuminate the inaction of the youth: They embrace authoritarianism! |
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Post by Trog on Jan 8, 2024 9:13:49 GMT
I also found the article (despite its tantalising headline) a disappointment. My reaction was/is that it does not explain the inaction of the youth. Your comments actually do illuminate the inaction of the youth: They embrace authoritarianism! There is this woman on Quora who argues that Russia always was, and always will be, a patrimonialist state. I believe that this is also inherently the African way, and that it is part of their genetic heritage - that they cannot change that. In fact, I suspect that it is the default condition for the entire world apart from the one derived from the western Indo-European one. That their entire history, and the reason for their enormous success, results from their constant drive to decentralise power, to undermine and devalue political power, and to distribute power throughout society in many alternative forms other than the political. And that they are the only ones who did/do that. This has become something of a preoccupation of mine, and I see evidence for this wherever I look. Even the Roman Caesar (who was probably the most powerful person ever in western European society) could not willy-nilly just kill off someone he did not like - he either needed the approval of his peers or he had to do it clandestinely. In feudal Europe there were many limits on what the king or the lords were allowed to do, (droit du seigneur never existed, and was apparently a propaganda exercise originating with people such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau) and most of Europe's history derives from the tension between the royals, the nobles and the commoners. Compare this with Chaka or Dingaan, who could kill, maim and rape as many and as often as they wanted to. |
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